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> Comments such as "research is only allowed to conclude .. " etc. are not supported here The ability of people to refuse to understand that which they don't w

> Comments such as "research is only allowed to conclude .. " etc. are not supported here The ability of people to refuse to understand that which they don't want to never ceases to amaze me. His colleagues abandoned him, and his institution disavowed his work. That on rare occasion academics are famous, foolish, and stubborn enough to get their work out despite such disincentives does not mean such threats are not effective for the vast majority. They hear the message loud and clear: If you go against the zeitgeist, you better be ready to weather the storm that'll bring upon you.

defrost 4y ago
> If you go against the zeitgeist, you better be ready to weather the storm that'll bring upon you. Sure, Leopold Kronecker shat on Cantor from a great height .. welcome to the entire history of acedemia. In this case things came good a lot faster than they did for Cantor. Happily, I was able to repair it. Four fresh historians—including one dissenter from the Centre for Global History—stepped up, three of them, as it happens, wearing slightly darker-than-pink skins. And since 2019, the three annual conferences have attracted more than 40 historians from Oxbridge and elsewhere in Britain, and from California to the Netherlands. “Ethics and Empire” will complete its work in the summer of 2023. So, that story has a happy ending: The attempted cancellation failed, albeit not for want of concerted trying. ( oh, and the "cancelled" book was published on the second attempt with another publisher )