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In most contexts that's how it is, which is great. But it's going way too far on college campuses, where professors can get crucified on social media and then f

In most contexts that's how it is, which is great. But it's going way too far on college campuses, where professors can get crucified on social media and then fired for saying the tiniest "problematic" things.

sverona 7y ago
I know there were a couple of incidents of this that were cited in [1]. The only other time something like this happened that I can call to mind is [2]. I haven't heard much of it at all since the last election, though. Maybe there are better, more visible targets now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salaita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salaita
- tootie 7y ago
  I don't think of anti-Zionism as a symptom of PC culture. If anything, it's the opposite. Woke kids support Palestinian sovereignty.
  - sverona 7y ago
    I agree, but I would be short on examples otherwise.
- desertrider12 7y ago
  I just googled "PC professor firing" and found these examples right away. What's especially bad is that the departments publicly denounce the person. In [1] a committee of deans said he was "uncivil, illogical and damaging to rational thought" which is just not true (he anonymously tweeted opinions that can be debated and aren't objectively true or false). This is still going on, [4] happened a few months ago. [1] https://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-culture-gets-booted-from-classroom/ https://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-c... [2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/pc-hysteria-claims-another-professor https://www.thedailybeast.com/pc-hysteria-claims-another-pro... [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/stripping-a-professor-of-tenure-over-a-blog-post/385280/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/stripp... [4] https://quillette.com/2019/05/02/cambridge-capitulates-to-the-mob-and-fires-a-young-scholar/ https://quillette.com/2019/05/02/cambridge-capitulates-to-th...
  - tootie 7y ago
    Zero of those cases were over lack of political correctness. First guy created a sock puppet Twitter account and was caught and requested a leave of absence and was later accepted back. Second one used the n-word in class. Third one named and shamed a student publicly on his blog. These all stemmed from them expressing their regressive beliefs but action was only taken after they committed an action beyond expressing an opinion. And you've got 4 examples stretching back 6 years. This just isn't a widespread issue at all.

sverona 7y ago

I know there were a couple of incidents of this that were cited in [1]. The only other time something like this happened that I can call to mind is [2]. I haven't heard much of it at all since the last election, though. Maybe there are better, more visible targets now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salaita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salaita

tootie 7y ago
I don't think of anti-Zionism as a symptom of PC culture. If anything, it's the opposite. Woke kids support Palestinian sovereignty.
- sverona 7y ago
  I agree, but I would be short on examples otherwise.
desertrider12 7y ago
I just googled "PC professor firing" and found these examples right away. What's especially bad is that the departments publicly denounce the person. In [1] a committee of deans said he was "uncivil, illogical and damaging to rational thought" which is just not true (he anonymously tweeted opinions that can be debated and aren't objectively true or false). This is still going on, [4] happened a few months ago. [1] https://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-culture-gets-booted-from-classroom/ https://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-c... [2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/pc-hysteria-claims-another-professor https://www.thedailybeast.com/pc-hysteria-claims-another-pro... [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/stripping-a-professor-of-tenure-over-a-blog-post/385280/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/stripp... [4] https://quillette.com/2019/05/02/cambridge-capitulates-to-the-mob-and-fires-a-young-scholar/ https://quillette.com/2019/05/02/cambridge-capitulates-to-th...
- tootie 7y ago
  Zero of those cases were over lack of political correctness. First guy created a sock puppet Twitter account and was caught and requested a leave of absence and was later accepted back. Second one used the n-word in class. Third one named and shamed a student publicly on his blog. These all stemmed from them expressing their regressive beliefs but action was only taken after they committed an action beyond expressing an opinion. And you've got 4 examples stretching back 6 years. This just isn't a widespread issue at all.