Drexel professor reprimanded for "white genocide" tweet claims it was satire

A Drexel professor whose tweets about white supremacy sparked an uproar on social media says his words were misinterpreted satire.

“All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide,” associate professor of politics and global studies George Ciccariello-Maher wrote on Christmas Eve.

He then wrote on Sunday: “To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed.”

Not long thereafter, Ciccariello-Maher’s tweets were picked up by the Daily Caller, Breitbart and other conservative news sites. His tweets are not public, or at least weren’t as of Monday morning. It is public, though, that he has over 10,000 followers and has tweeted over 16,000 times.