After the University of Waterloo professor said it was a gender studies class, the man shut the door, took out two knives, and attacked the professor.
that, according to a student in the class, “a man of about 20-30 years of age” entered the classroom and “asked the professor what the class was about.” After the professor answered, the attacker closed the door, took out two knives, and began attacking the professor. A different student told the student paper that the assailant missed the professor and “ended up attacking one or two other people,” who were students.“The guy basically walked in and asked the teacher if he was the professor.
Canada’s CTV. “I ran out, and after we went outside, there was a kid that was stabbed. He was bleeding [from] his arm.”receiving texts from friends warning them about a man seen wielding two blades “going around and attacking people,” prompting some students to barricade their classrooms during the attack.
the assailant was a student at the university, but said that she couldn’t “speak to motive at this time” because the police were still investigating.Still, the attack appears to have been specifically targeted; the class title, according to the student newspaper, was Philosophy 202: Gender Issues. The stabbing comes at a time of
in some online spaces and among the weaponization of gender identity issues by rightwing politicians.on Wednesday evening that if it’s found that the class was indeed targeted because of its subject, “then this is an ideologically driven hate crime. And it will need to be addressed as such.”reported that other Canadian professors have also responded to the attack with concerns about its motivations.
Jennifer Koshan, a law professor at the University of Calgary, said she was motivated to enter academia after the 1989 École Polytechnique
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