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We should name every white supremacist. Name every writer, blogger, YouTuber, and politician that inspires them. Plaster their faces in public. Fire them from their jobs. Hound them from restaurants. Expose them and those that fuel them for the hateful pathetic wretches they are. https://t.co/ozZe0atuJ1 — Matthew A. Sears (@matthewasears) April 28, 2019

But Sears toldNewsweek he isn’t against free speech but was referring to right-wing conservative groups like Turning Point USA (TPUSA.)

The academic told the magazine he should have been more specific in his meaning when he was talking about “free speech activists.”

In the tweet rant, Sears added that the media should be calling out any political party that creates “the environment in which Jews and Muslims are murdered.”

But the virtue-signalling hit a brick wall when Sears was taken to task by Kaveh Shahrooz who likened his comments to the censorious mullahs of Iran.

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Shahrooz replied: “Everyone who goes on about free speech should be driven out of town?”

He added: “I come from a place where people literally die for free speech. The fact that you’d say this without understanding the value of that right just goes to show what an utterly arrogant dimwit you are.”

Sears said Shahrooz was “weaponizing” his race.

Sharooz then wrote: “Incredible how quickly the super-woke veer into racism when a non-white person challenges them. How dare I have an opinion on free speech *on North American campuses*? I guess non-whites should only have opinions on best ethnic restaurants.”

“I’m sorry to have to constantly remind you that non-white people don’t all think the same and many are sick of your patronizing bullshit.”

The University of New Brunswick told Newsweek that Sears’ views are his alone.