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Consider this a bookend to the story I wrote earlier this week about a professor who asked a question during mandatory white fragility training and then faced 9 months of investigation by her employer. The incident we’re focusing on today happened at UVA back in 2018. A medical student named Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya decided to push back during a panel on microaggressions led by a UVA professor. Here’s how the discussion began:
During the event, UVA Professor Beverly Colwell Adams, Ph.D., gave a roughly seventeen-minute presentation about her research on microaggressions, and
Bhattacharya asked Adams some questions. Id. The exchange began: