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>facing mild criticism from your peers Demanding that someone loses their job seems a bit more than mild and quite mobbish. Would you not agree?
by DeWilde 5y ago
>facing mild criticism from your peers
Demanding that someone loses their job seems a bit more than mild and quite mobbish.
Would you not agree?
- Jacqued 5y agoI mean the guy lost "a major honor" in his field, not his job. A lot of people deserve honors for their good work, and don't write trash articles comparing enrolling a few more Black students in college with literally nazi germany. For all his veneer of rationality the guy is wandering into nut-job territory here.
- acdha 5y agoDid he actually lose his job? There's a big difference between your boss or, since he's an academic, someone on the promotion panel saying that and some internet stranger who has no impact on his career. Contrast that with the Germans in question where “cancellation” had best case outcomes like economic ruin and fleeing the country. I'm not saying I support calls to have him fired — although I don't see people getting this lathered about about, say, all of the retail workers or service reps who get worse for even pettier reasons — but these are simply not remotely comparable situations.