(Newswire.net — May 16, 2016) — Students and professors at Scripps College in California protested Madeleine Albright holding the commencement speech at their graduation ceremony, explaining that they are enraged by the war criminal speaking at the ceremony, reports RT.
Some of the professors refused to sit on the same stage as Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State.
The professors have published a letter in which they stress that Madeleine Albright, as former U.S. Secretary of State and UN ambassador, has shaped the US intervention policy in a number of conflicts, and had supported policies that led to the suffering of millions of people.
That letter was signed by 28 faculty members and published in the student newspaper.
Scripps is a private liberal-arts women’s college with almost 2,000 students, most of who do not approve Albright’s statement that there is a place in hell for women who do not vote for Hillary Clinton.
Members of the teaching staff at the college are also offended by the Albright’s now infamous comments from 1996 that the death of more than half a million Iraqi children as a result of sanctions, was worth it.
They also criticize Albright for not taking action that would have prevented the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and the decision to bomb former Yugoslavia.
Reacting to the protest, Madeleine Albright told the Los Angeles Times that students are obliged to listen to people with whom they disagree with before using feminist arguments. She added that there are many places in the world for mediocre men, but there is no room for mediocre women.
This is not the first time that students in the United States have objected to Albright holding lectures. In Syracuse, students protested to Albright holding a lecture on ethics, stating that it is an absolute insult to the meaning of the word ethics.