By Adam Clark | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

All James Livingston wanted, apparently, was to go to Harlem Shake and get a burger without seeing any white people.

When then didn't happen, Livingston, a white Rutgers University professor, launched into a Facebook rant, condemning "little Caucasian a--holes" and announcing: "I hereby resign from my race. F--- these people," according to a published screen shot.

Now, Livingston is under fire and the university is investigating whether he violated its policies for discrimination and harassment.

Sound familiar?

Livingston is the latest in a series of New Jersey college professors to land in hot water for controversial remarks made in the classroom or posted on their social media accounts.

Here's a look at how seven cases have played out:

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'Beyonce' professor blows up after Trump's win

After Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, Rutgers University adjunct professor Kevin Allred wasn't happy.

The professor best known for the popular course "Politicizing Beyonce" posted dozens of anti-Trump tweets, including tweets showing a flag burning and comments about gun control.

"Will the 2nd amendment be as cool when I buy a gun and start shooting at random white people or no ...?," Allred tweeted, according to screen shots published by other media outlets before he deleted it.

He was picked up by police, taken for a psychological evaluation and faced death threats, he later posted on Twitter.

Though Allred said his tweet was meant to expose a double standard, he was put on administrative leave until his contract expired.

He later claimed another tweet about Trump cost him a job at Montclair State University, but the university insisted it wasn't going to hire him anyway.

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She went on Fox News, then she got fired

Last spring, the Black Lives Matter movement decided to host a Memorial Day celebration in New York City to which only black people were invited.

Essex County College professor Lisa Durden went on Fox News to defend the decision.

"You white people are angry because you couldn't use your white privilege card to get invited to the Black Lives Matter's all-black Memorial Day Celebration," she said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Durden said even though she didn't mention her affiliation with Essex County College on the show, she was forced to cancel her classes and abruptly suspended two days later, a process she likened to a public lynching.

The college fired her and defended its decision.

"The college was immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students and their families expressing frustration, concern and even fear that the views expressed by a college employee (with influence over students) would negatively impact their experience on the campus," President Anthony Munroe said.

Durden has since filed a lawsuit over her firing.

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Adolph Hitler, the "great European leader"

A secret recording last year showed New Jersey Institute of Technology lecturer Jason Jorjani talking about the return of concentration camps and foreseeing a future in which Adolf Hitler is regarded as a "great European leader."

Jorjani condemned the video as "deceptively edited to make it appear as if I am advocating genocidal extreme right-wing policies."

He was placed on administrative leave and no longer works at the university.

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Hacked? Or anti-Semitic?

Anyone who looked at Michael Chikindas' Facebook page last year saw racist cartoon images depicting Jewish people and a link to conspiracy theorists claiming the 9/11 attacks were planned by Israel and American Jews, according to accounts in the Jewish press.

In other posts, Chikindas referred to Israeli and American women, including first lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump, as "sluts" and "bitches."

The veteran professor at Rutgers University's food science department claimed he was hacked.

"As a result of my account being hacked, I cannot say with confidence that everything on my page was shared by me," he told NJ Advance Media.

Rutgers removed him from teaching and sought further disciplinary actions through its collective bargaining agreement. The university said the disciplinary process is confidential.

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'F--- your life'

Howard Finkelstein had heard enough from a conservative student in his sociology class at Brookdale Community College.

When the student insisted in April both men and women can be victims of sexual harassment, Finkelstein blew up, slammed his fist on a table and shouted "f--- your life," according to the student.

Another student caught the incident on camera, and the college issued an apology, saying the veteran professor "acted in an uncivil manner"

The college said it would investigate the outburst. It did not immediately respond to questions about Finkelstein's current status with the school.

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Students walk out over N-word

Veteran Princeton University professor Lawrence Rosen had a question.

"Which is more provocative: A white man walks up to a black man and punches him in the nose, or a white man walks up to a black man and calls him a (n-word)?" he asked students, according to a report by the university's student newspaper.

Some students walked out of the class, and the incident set off a campus-wide debate about the use of the N-word. Then, the course was canceled.

The university defended Rosen, who had already retired and was teaching as a professor emeritus.

"I respect Professor Rosen's decision about how to teach the subject in the way that he did by being explicit in using very difficult words, and they are very difficult words," university President Christopher Eisgruber said.

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'OK, officially, I now hate white people'

That's how Livingston began his Facebook rant last week after his disapproval of white people at the burger shop, according to a screen shot published by The Daily Caller, a conservative website.

He continued to say the burger shop was "overrun with little Caucasian a--holes who know their parents will approve of anything they do."

"Do what you want, nobody here is going to restrict your right to be white," Livingston wrote.

He then added: "I hereby resign from my race. F--- these people."

Livingston's post was later removed by Facebook, he said in a subsequent post.

"I just don't want little Caucasians overrunning my life, as they did last night," he wrote in a post the following morning. "Please God, remand them to the suburbs, where they and their parents can colonize every restaurant, all the while pretending that the idiotic indulgence of their privilege signifies cosmopolitan--you know, as in sophisticated 'European'--commitments."

Rutgers is investigating the incident and said in a statement "there is no place for racial intolerance" at the university.

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