Harvard graduate, fired by Deloitte over viral TikTok BLM video says 'I’m still standing'
Clair Janover's said she has received death and rape threats.
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Janover also took to Twitter to share her side of the story. (Image: Twitter/@clurajan)
A Harvard graduate, whose video supporting the Black Lives Matter movement went viral, has now revealed that she has been fired from her dream job at Deloitte. "Trump supporters just took my job away from me. I've gotten death threats, rape threats and violent threats," a crying Clair Janover said in the new video, posted earlier this month.
Janover, who graduated with a degree in government and psychology from the Ivy League in May, had earlier posted a TikTok video calling out people who have the “the nerve, the sheer entitled Caucasity to say ‘All Lives Matter'."
The video shows Janover angrily exclaim, "The next person who has the sheer nerve to tell me All Lives Matter... Imma stab you.
"Imma stab you and while you're bleeding out, imma show you my paper cut and say, "my cut matters too."'
Janover has said that the message a "rhetorical argument which drew an analogy between All Lives Matter arguments undercutting the severity of others’ suffering by drawing attention to their smaller-scale struggles", and not a serious threat. However, the video led to some people demanding that she be fired.
After she lost the job offer, Janover also called out Deloitte for 'cowardice'.
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The controversial 'All lives matter' slogan has been criticised for erasing and dismissing the racial atrocities faced by African-Americans and black communities across the world.
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