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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 c
by 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 agoZero 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.