California professor under fire after telling students that Trump is a ‘white supremacist’

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An Orange Country professor of psychology has come under fire for remarks made during her human sexuality class suggesting that president-elect Donald Trump is a “white supremacist” and calling him and his supporters “terrorists.”

In a recording secretly mad in Olga Perez Stable Cox’s class, Cox can be heard not only calling Trump a “white supremacist” but also calling vice president-elect Mike Pence “one of the most anti-gay humans in this country.”

“And so we are in for a difficult time but again I do believe that we can get past that,” she continued.

“Our nation is divided, we have been assaulted, it’s an act of terrorism,” she added. “One of the most frightening things for me and most people in my life is that the people creating the assault are among us.”

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The video was made public by the school’s College Republicans club, which objected to the fact that she seemed dismissive of other viewpoints and exclusionary in her language.

“First of all, we are the majority. More of us voted to not have that kind of leadership,” she says in the video. “We didn’t win because of the way our Electoral College is set up, but we are the majority and that’s helping me to feel better.”

The union that represents Cox said that she is a popular professor known for addressing controversial issues, and they expressed their disappointment that only the remarks a student disagreed with were recorded and published.

“Unfortunately, rather than take the opportunity to openly discuss the issues that Professor Cox raised in her lecture, a student chose to secretly videotape the comments they disagreed with and publish them on the internet,” they said in a Facebook statement.

The student who recorded the video might be in trouble, too, because most campuses have strict rules about recording in classrooms, especially as lectures may be considered the intellectual property of the professors.

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