Update May 6: The campaign continues apace, and now has 42,000 signatures
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The tides of online outrage have turned on the bullying leader of a controversial SJW movement at Oxford University, with calls mounting for him to be stripped of his scholarship.
More than 35,000 people have demanded that Ntokozo Qwabe have his Rhodes Scholarship revoked after he reduced a café waitress to tears in a cruel stunt in his native South Africa.
Qwabe has been widely castigated after glorying in the “typical white tears” of a 24-year-old whom he and a friend insulted instead of tipping after she served them.
He rose to prominence as chief agitator in the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which is trying to force Oriel College, Oxford, to pull down a statue of Victorian imperialist and benefactor Cecil Rhodes.
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The campaign caused a tsunami of public hand-wringing before Oriel decided to leave the statue in place.
Qwabe was also accused of hypocrisy for taking a Rhodes Scholarship to fund his study in Oxford, endowed by the very imperialist whose image he wants to shatter.
Now a Change.org petition is seeking to relieve him of the scholarship, worth more than $100,000, in light of the encounter, which he boasted about on Facebook.
Qwabe recounted how he and a ‘radical non-binary trans black activist’ decided to skip tipping when they realized their waitress was white, instead writing “WE WILL GIVE TIP WHEN YOU RETURN THE LAND”.
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The woman, Ashleigh Schultz, burst into tears and asked for help from a colleague, who was treated to a political lecture before Qwabe and his friend “chase him back to do his job”.
His account was picked up by the media, and caused a huge backlash, which also resulted in “tips” of several thousand dollars being crowdfunded for Schultz.
Even the South African government weighed in, with a party spokesman for the ruling ANC calling his actions “borderline criminal”.
Some petitioners calling for Qwabe’s scholarship to end also called for him to be barred from the UK altogether, saying that his behavior amounts to inciting hate crime.
