Harvard graduate sobs on being fired from dream job for threatening to stab ‘all lives matter’ supporters
A Harvard graduate sobbed after being fired from her dream job for sharing a video where she threatened to stab ‘all lives matter’ supporters. Claira Janover announced Wednesday that she was dismissed from her role at advertising giant Deloitte less than two months after graduating amid a furore over her original video.
The first of two clips about her firing saw her sob: ‘I know this is what Trump supporters wanted because standing up for Black Lives Matter put me in a place online to be seen by millions of people.
‘The job that i had worked really hard to get and meant a lot to me just called me and fired me because of everything. Even though they claim to stand against systematic bias, racism and unequal treatment.
‘Im still not going to stop talking about and defending Black Lives Matter. You can’t take away my spirit and devotion to human rights.’
Janover then posted another video where she continued to sob about being fired, before attacking Deloitte for their ‘cowardice’ – and vowing to use her online platform to make an ‘indelible’ change to the world.
She said: ‘Trump supporters just took my job away from me. I have gotten death threats, rape threats, violent threats. And now my future’s entirely compromised because Trump supporters have come for my life. God this sucks.
‘It sucks, but it doesn’t suck as much as systemic racism.’
Janover, who studied government and psychology at America’s top university, spoke just days after posting the TikTok that ended up costing her the job. That clip – which has since been deleted – saw her say: ‘The next person who has the 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.”‘
After the story was picked up by media outlets, Janover claimed her words were a ‘satirical analogy’ and that they shouldn’t have been taken ‘at face value.’ ‘All lives matter’ has become a retort to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice across the United States. It has been criticized for being racist and unsympathetic towards the difficulties faced by people of color.
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