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An art historian accused of racism for referring to the Duchess of Sussex as ‘the dreaded Meghan’ has warned that academics must be able to express their opinions freely.
Dr Anne Anderson, a 64-year-old honorary associate professor at the University of Exeter, was disciplined over her opening remarks before a Zoom lecture on design to the Arts Society of Truro.
She was discussing the Sussexes’ TV appearance with Oprah Winfrey when she made the comment about Meghan and referred to the tide of media comment in the interview’s aftermath from ‘people of a colourful disposition’.
The academic, who is dyslexic and technically disabled, said the panel went through her entire record for evidence to support the racism claim. ‘In the end, I held my course. The outcome was that I didn’t make a racist remark but it could be interpreted as being a racist remark
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An academic who used the phrase the dreaded Meghan while discussing the Sussexes Oprah interview during a Zoom meeting has been hauled before a disciplinary panel and suspended.
Dr Anne Anderson was accused of using racist language and an inappropriate remark about the Duchess of Sussex during an informal online chat ahead of a lecture.
The 65-year-old was chatting with members about Harry and Meghan s sit-down with Oprah Winfrey days earlier and, referring to media coverage of the interview, noted: You couldn t turn the television on without some person of a colourful disposition having a moan about something.
Days later she received an email informing she had been removed from the society directory for using racist language and was told she had to face a disciplinary panel and hand over a copy of her lecture.