GWU president 'personally offended' by art slamming China's human rights record, removed from campus

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The newly minted president of George Washington University said he was "personally offended" by art posted around the college's campus condemning China's human rights abuses. 

"Please know that I am personally offended by the posters. I treasure the opportunity to work with talented people from all over the world, including China," George Washington University President Mark Wrighton wrote in an email. 

"I, too, am saddened by this terrible event and we will undertake an effort to determine who is responsible."

A screenshot of the email was posted to Twitter by the artist behind the posters, known only as Badiucao. He is a China-born political cartoonist who frequently uses his work to criticize the Chinese Communist Party. 

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The art took aim at Uyghur genocide, oppression in Tibet and Hong Kong, the coronavirus and China’s surveillance of its citizens. 

Photo of Xi Jinping and Dr. Mark Wrighton of George Washington University  (Getty Images/ George Washington University )

In one poster, the words "Beijing 2022" are surrounded by depictions of Chinese athletes, including one snowboarding on a security camera, another participating in a curling competition with an image of the coronavirus molecule, an athlete holding a shotgun aimed at person wearing the Uyghur flag, and an athlete ice skating through what appears to be blood depicting Hong Kong's flag.  

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The posters were designed as a "a full scale campaign to boycott Beijing Olympics,"