On Sunday, The Washington Post reported on two geography professors who wrote a paper arguing that their colleagues should not cite the research of white men, because white men are overrepresented and quoting them contributes to a racist society.

“To cite only white men… or to only cite established scholars… does a disservice to researchers and writers who are othered by white heteromasculinism,” wrote Rutgers University professor Carrie Mott and University of Waterloo professor Daniel Cockayne in the July 11 edition of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.

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According to these racist college professors, “white heteromasculinism” is “an intersectional system of oppression describing ongoing processes that bolster the status of those who are white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.”

This “white heteromasculinism” results in the “marginalization of women, people of color, and those othered through white heteromasculine hegemony,” the pair asserted. “Particular voices and bodies are persistently left out of the conversation altogether.”

In an interview with Campus Reform published last week, Mott doubled down on the position that race should be a factor in determining citations — in a field of scientific study.

“When it is predominantly white, heteronormative males who are cited, this means that the views and knowledge that are represented do not reflect the experience of people from other backgrounds,” she said. “When scholars continue to cite only white men on a given topic, they ignore the broader diversity of voices and researchers that are also doing important work on a that topic.”

Just days after the publication of Mott and Cockayne’s tirade, the dean of King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Patrick Leman, announced that the school is removing portraits and busts of the school’s founders and those who made crucial contributions to its development — because they are white.

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“We’re trying to reflect the diversity in terms of students we have, but also trying to be more intercultural, more international in terms of how we develop the science,” Leman told U.K. newspaper The Telegraph. “A great deal of medical, psychological research has been of white, male, North American or European students… so increasingly we try and broaden it to include more recent research from Asia, Africa, and from other parts of the world.

“[We are] making sure that the space in which students learn… doesn’t just have the busts of the bearded 1920s men, but also has pictures of people from different ethnic groups, different cultures.”