Being somewhat involved in one bad thing doesn’t justify cancelling someone. To my knowledge Dean was essentially doing post-hoc damage control for what one of

Being somewhat involved in one bad thing doesn’t justify cancelling someone. To my knowledge Dean was essentially doing post-hoc damage control for what one of the middle managers in his org did. Even if they did want Timnit gone (as others mention, you are getting only one side of the story in media) they did it in a bad way, for sure. At the same time I don’t think one botched firing diminishes decades of achievements from a legitimately kind person.