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The president of George Washington University has said it was a mistake to have posters on campus critical of the Chinese government taken down, but the artist who made the posters said that’s not nearly enough.

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The president of George Washington University has walked back his condemnation of posters critical of the Chinese Communist Party. But his instinct to lash out at the activists responsible for the posters the moment students cried racism is a failure of leadership and an indictment of the current state of higher education.

A student group backed by the Chinese Communist Party pushed university leaders to remove posters that depicted Chinese athletes in imagery related to human rights abuses by the Chinese government.

"Offensive."

George Washington University admitted it was a mistake to remove political posters on campus in favor of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Presumably, being a professor is hard. But avoiding the use of the N-word when teaching an anti-racism course should not be hard.

Interim University President Mark Wrighton delivered an address at the event, stressing that officials will continue strengthening diversity at GW.

The posters are the work of Badiucao, a popular Chinese dissident political cartoonist whose work appears in Australian papers and who was profiled on 60 Minutes.