US Merchant Marine Academy official under fire for tweet on 'white, male' roots of racism, misogyny

Members of the House Anti-Woke Caucus demanded answers from Merchant Marine Academy Superintendent Joanna Nunan regarding tweets from the school's SASH prevention director.

"We don’t have forces who do right by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence because we don’t have forces who don’t abuse Brown and Black people," Tripolskii wrote in the controversial tweet. "Same forces, same reasons. Misogyny and racism grow from the same white, male root." Misogyny and racism grow from the same White, male root. Jon Brown is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to jon.brown@fox.com.

The Anti-Woke Caucus is now calling on the academy's superintendent to demand answers on the Twitter activity of Tripolskii, who was installed in September.

The letter – signed by Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Mary Miller of Illinois, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina and Brian Babin of Texas – comes amid allegations from some midshipmen that the service academy under the authority of Superintendent Vice Adm. Joanna Nunan and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has become increasingly "woke."