Delaware Professor Fired For Slamming ‘Spoiled’ Otto Warmbier
American student Otto Warmbier was imprisoned in North Korea for over a year. Image by youtube
(JTA) — An adjunct professor at the University of Delaware who said American Jewish college student Otto Warmbier “got exactly what he deserved” will not be rehired to teach at the university.
Katherine Dettwyler, who teaches anthropology, criticized Warmbier on social media and in the comments section of an article published on the National Review website.
Warmbier was detained in North Korea for over a year and died shortly after returning home in a coma.
“Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women,” the professor said. “Not so much in North Korea.”
She also posted that Warmbier behaved like a “spoiled, naive, arrogant U.S. college student who never had to face the consequences of his actions” while he was in North Korea.
Throughout negotiations to return Warmbier home, the family did not disclose that he was Jewish so as not to antagonize North Korea, which believed he was affiliated with the church.
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