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A professor and 2 students were stabbed during gender studies class at Canada's University of Waterloo, police say. A suspect is in custody | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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A professor and two students were stabbed during a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo in Canada on Wednesday, and one person is in custody, authorities said.

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[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Terrible. And while we don't have enough details at this time to do anything but guess, I wonder if incel and anti-feminist rhetoric had an impact here. Gender studies as a subject is heavily loathed by those types, sometimes to the degree of wishing violence on them.