Video: they scold a university professor who, in the middle of the class, calls homosexual relations “shit” | the Chronicle

Students of the University of Veracruz, situated at Mexico, publicly denounced a professor of the Faculty of Accounting and Administration, condemning the homophobic and misogynistic comments that the teacher was recorded speaking in one of his classes. The video was posted on Instagram, and caused outrage in the student community.

During the minute and a half that the clip lasts, the teacher identifies as Marcelo Pavon attack homosexual relations: “Now they allow them man to man, woman to woman, I totally disagree with these sows, they are dirt, dirt. It’s simple“Delcaró the educator, who justified his words with a verse from the Bible.

Not satisfied with his statements against the LGBTQI + community, Pavón started talking about “another controversial topic“:”Now someone gets pregnant and has the right to kill. Why did you get pregnant? Why did you start to spread your legs? You would have injected yourself, you would have taken your little pills, if you wanted to go through these atrocities. Look, I speak to adults, because it does not seem to me that a being, who cannot defend himself, is slaughteredThe teacher testified about abortion.

Pavón’s lyrics were published in Instagram, as well as private browsing messages accusing the teacher of to intimidate to women in her class. The post gathered more than 10 thousand interactions, and when the offending clip has been replicated in Twitter it didn’t take long to accumulate more than 22 million views. The students and other teachers in the faculty came out to condemn the professor’s actions, demanding an appropriate response from the faculty.

The university’s response

The rector of the house of studies, Sara Thief of Guevara, disapprove what he called the misogyny, homophobia and hate speech issued by his teacher: “Our house of studies is the house of all expressions, even the most radical. That has no place at the University it’s misogyny, homophobia and expressions of hate“, said during a dialogue with The universal.

But the outrage of the student body did not end, even after the Universidad Veracruzana released its official position in a statement. The faculty where the professor works has published a response to the controversy disengage from hate speech of the teacher, but instead of taking legal action against the teacher, they indicated that he would act only if the student community presented a Formal complaint.

“We categorically reject any act of violence in the community, the institutional values ​​that have been designed for peaceful coexistence in our house of studies must be respected», Indicated the Direction of the Faculty of accounting and administration of the UV in a press release.

The statement did not speak of sanctions for the teacher, as if the students demanded it, limiting itself to urging the student community to file your complaint in accordance with the Protocol to Combat Gender-Based Violence at Universidad Veracruzana. The Faculty said it would support the community by facilitating “the necessary tools In the process“.

Estela Casados ​​González, member of the UV Center for Gender Studies, said that “Since this was made public and transcended the walls of the University, the Faculty has the power to initiate proceedings for the teacher to be sanctioned, because, in addition to what has been made public, what the teacher has said is serious because violates human rights… The Faculty must show increased commitment and attachment to a gender perspective“.