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Well, as a professor there's almost nothing this guy can do to endanger his future employment at Berkeley. There's another professor who is, arguably, responsib
by jeffbee 3y ago
Well, as a professor there's almost nothing this guy can do to endanger his future employment at Berkeley. There's another professor who is, arguably, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people via decades of HIV/AIDS denialism, and he's still on the payroll. You can be whatever monster you want to be and they won't be able to get rid of you.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 3y agoThis is where the classic rhetoric of "the professor is creating a hostile environment / is making people feel unsafe / caused irreparable harm to underprivileged groups" will come in. I'm not justifying what he said in any way, but he touched a sacred third rail which is going to make people not want to be associated with his name in any way, at least for a few years until everybody forgets this ever happened. Possible he will resign due to pressure or ostracism.
- etc-hosts 3y agoThat would be really sad. Shewchuk is a great professor and cares deeply about teaching undergraduate and graduate students.