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Unreal. The follow up tweet is also quite amazing. "Update: The professor who was asked to suspend his course on Dostoevsky resigned. The University told him t

by johng 5y ago

Unreal. The follow up tweet is also quite amazing. "Update: The professor who was asked to suspend his course on Dostoevsky resigned. The University told him that he could reinstate the course if he included Ukrainian authors. He said he wasn’t an expert on Ukrainian literature, so he decided to teach Dostoevsky elsewhere."

BitwiseFool 5y ago
>"so he decided to teach Dostoevsky elsewhere." I feel like it would have been better for him to stay and fight for his principles. Now the administration is just going to fill the professorship with someone who will toe the line and the university will slip further into this insanely partisan groupthink.
- DyslexicAtheist 5y ago
  the only way I can make sense of this (and I'm probably wrong maybe some Italians can help me) is that Italy is extremely divided in their politics (see Salvini[1]) ... and so the university overcompensated by trying to "stick it to Putin" while being totally ignorant about Russian literature. It's a long shot but it's all I've got. :/ [1] https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1501200808976728079 https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1501200808976728079
  - ilSignorCarlo 5y ago
    it's honestly much simpler than this. Who took the decision of cancelling the course was just thinking they were doing the right and sensitive thing. This time we can be almost 100% certain that there were no politics or politicians involved. Just a dumb move by someone that clearly has no idea how things go
    - DyslexicAtheist 5y ago
      "Hanlon's razer" I agree it makes more sense
- watwut 5y ago
  He was not university profesor, so there was no way for him to stay. T
DyslexicAtheist 5y ago
the outrage this cancellation has created luckily made the university peddle back on this, but no info on if the Prof got his job back, or if the university apologized for their behavior. It's incredibly difficult to fire people in Italy but somebody should at least apologize because this is a terrible look. Certainly would think twice before studying literature, or philosophy at such a place. (triple skull emoji)

by johng 5y ago

BitwiseFool 5y ago

>"so he decided to teach Dostoevsky elsewhere." I feel like it would have been better for him to stay and fight for his principles. Now the administration is just going to fill the professorship with someone who will toe the line and the university will slip further into this insanely partisan groupthink.

DyslexicAtheist 5y ago
the only way I can make sense of this (and I'm probably wrong maybe some Italians can help me) is that Italy is extremely divided in their politics (see Salvini[1]) ... and so the university overcompensated by trying to "stick it to Putin" while being totally ignorant about Russian literature. It's a long shot but it's all I've got. :/ [1] https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1501200808976728079 https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1501200808976728079
- ilSignorCarlo 5y ago
  it's honestly much simpler than this. Who took the decision of cancelling the course was just thinking they were doing the right and sensitive thing. This time we can be almost 100% certain that there were no politics or politicians involved. Just a dumb move by someone that clearly has no idea how things go
  - DyslexicAtheist 5y ago
    "Hanlon's razer" I agree it makes more sense
watwut 5y ago
He was not university profesor, so there was no way for him to stay. T

DyslexicAtheist 5y ago

the outrage this cancellation has created luckily made the university peddle back on this, but no info on if the Prof got his job back, or if the university apologized for their behavior. It's incredibly difficult to fire people in Italy but somebody should at least apologize because this is a terrible look. Certainly would think twice before studying literature, or philosophy at such a place. (triple skull emoji)