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Over 4 in 10 US and Canadian academics would not hire a Trump supporter, and 1 in 3 British academics would not hire a Brexit supporter. In the US, over a thir

Over 4 in 10 US and Canadian academics would not hire a Trump supporter, and 1 in 3 British academics would not hire a Brexit supporter. In the US, over a third of conservative academics and PhD students have been threatened with disciplinary action for their views while 70% of conservative academics report a hostile departmental climate for their beliefs. - https://www.cspicenter.com/p/academic-freedom-in-crisis-punishment https://www.cspicenter.com/p/academic-freedom-in-crisis-puni... Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What; Public health experts decried the anti-lockdown protests as dangerous gatherings in a pandemic. Health experts seem less comfortable doing so now that the marches are against racism. - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-corona... Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. - published in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651211008507 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000306512110085... ‘American Political Thought’ course at CU Denver removes all white men from curriculum - https://www.thecollegefix.com/american-political-thought-course-at-cu-denver-removes-all-white-men-from-curriculum/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/american-political-thought-cou... Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.” High-school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.” - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-walz-brings-liberated-ethnic-studies-to-minnesota-radical-decolinization-election-44a267ca https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-walz-brings-liberated-ethnic... Guidance aims to encourage ‘anti-racist’ teacher training to maintain diverse educator workforce - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/25/teachers-taught-to-challenge-whiteness-in-schools/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/25/teachers-taught-... The Biden-Harris administration has been conditioning funding at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine (STEMM) on “diversity statements” and equity requirements in what academics are calling a “politicized litmus test.” - https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-admin-requires-corrupt-dei-ideological-litmus-test-nasa-innovation-funding-scientists-say https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-admin-requires-co... Masters course renamed as academics worry term suggests ‘nationalist narratives’ - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/31/anglo-saxon-cancelled-to-decolonise-university-courses/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/31/anglo-saxon-canc... University of South Carolina Requires Students to Affirm Value of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ - https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-of-south-carolina-requires-students-to-affirm-value-of-diversity-and-inclusion/ https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-of-south-carolina-r... "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity" - Harvard University professor Noel Ignatiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev Abolish the White Race - Harvard Magazine https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/abolish-the-white-race-html https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/abolish-the-white-ra... Mega-Study Finds That Minorities Don’t Receive Harsher Criminal Punishments, But That Academics Said So Anyway [..] A prior meta-study looking for racial bias in juvenile criminal sentences, for example, also found no statistically significant evidence of racism. Yet the Northeastern University professor who was its lead author, writing in the Journal of Criminal Justice, did not make that finding the paper’s takeaway. Instead, he disputed his own evidence, writing: “However, simple claims that race does not matter are also not supported by existing knowledge,” concluding the situation was “nuanced,” because, in certain sub-categories, the numbers differed slightly by race—even though if racism were actually to blame, such factors would be across the board, and all in one direction. - https://www.dailywire.com/news/mega-study-finds-that-minorities-dont-receive-harsher-criminal-punishments-but-that-academics-said-so-anyway https://www.dailywire.com/news/mega-study-finds-that-minorit... (If you think that the Daily Wire is unreliable, have a look at the studies themselves then: Study from the title of that article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359178923000927 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13591... Study referred to in the quote: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004723521630023X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472... Gee I wonder why academia is under attack.. must be because they're so principled and objective, speaking truth to power. And the explicitly ideological purges, sorry, hiring decisions, are never referred to as "attacks" - if they're referred to at all.

wwsaaa 1y ago
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apical_dendrite 1y ago
It's reasonable to criticize the excesses of academics. But let's be really clear about what's happening. The vast majority of federal funding for research goes to medical science and the hard sciences. Relatively little goes to the social sciences. The vast majority of the foreign students and researchers are going into STEM fields. So when the Trump administration makes huge cuts to research funding (something like a 40% cut at NIH and even bigger at NASA) there is a huge, huge impact on scientific and medical research that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the topics that you listed. Same with the arrests and threats to foreign students. The tenured left-wing social science professors will be fine. The young Chinese computer scientist will probably just stay in China and China will get the benefit of their work. The young American neuroscientist will just not have a career in the sciences because funding isn't available and so instead of working on curing brain cancer, they'll be working on data analysis for a marketing company. Cutting research on ovarian cancer because you don't like the fact that the researchers used terms like "women's health" is stupid. Cutting brain cancer research because you don't like the fact that some completely unrelated people at universities are "woke" is even more stupid. You don't like something that Noel Ignatiev said? OK, fair enough. But do you really want to kill the careers of young apolitical cancer researchers because you don't like something that a guy who died in 2019 said 20+ years ago?
wredcoll 1y ago
> n the US, over a third of conservative academics and PhD students have been threatened with disciplinary action for their views Hmm, what views do you think those might be? Do you think they're views on whether or not the capital gains tax should go up or down by 1%? Or maybe they're... other.. views. I miss when I believed that conservatism meant making slow but effective changes to society. It was a simpler life. On a slightly related note, someone linked this article a little while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Braden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Braden Let me quote from it: > In 1954, directly confronting the practice of rigid racial segregation of residential neighborhoods, the Bradens assisted an African-American couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, who wanted to buy a suburban home but had been unable to do so due to housing discrimination [...] > White segregationists immediately lashed out – initially by throwing rocks through the windows of the house, burning a cross in front of it, and firing gunshots into the home – and then bombed the house (setting off explosives under the bedroom of the Wades' young daughter while the home was occupied), driving the Wades out and destroying the home. As a result of their actions, Carl Braden was charged with sedition. Although housing discrimination was illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling specifically on a case in Louisville, Buchanan v. Warley, in 1917, charges were brought against Braden for hatching a communist plot to stir up a race war. This was in NINTEEN FIFTY FOUR. Like, yes, that is now 70 years ago, but all of our recent presidents and a significant number of politicans are older than that. They were literally alive and party of the society that allowed these things to happen. I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that things are in fact better now, we've improved on a lot of things, but that really isn't some kind of excuse to pretend that none of these awful things happened OR that they aren't still affecting us right now. It's not the only thing by any means, but just imagine the difference it makes when your grand parents bought a cheap home in a nice neighborhood that you're now inheriting in 2025 and is worth millions, compared to the black people denied that opportunity, and had to rent this entire time. (Could every white person buy a nice home in 1950 and leave it to their grandchildren? Obviously not. Were they denied this chance specifically because of their skin color? No.)

wwsaaa 1y ago

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apical_dendrite 1y ago

It's reasonable to criticize the excesses of academics. But let's be really clear about what's happening. The vast majority of federal funding for research goes to medical science and the hard sciences. Relatively little goes to the social sciences. The vast majority of the foreign students and researchers are going into STEM fields. So when the Trump administration makes huge cuts to research funding (something like a 40% cut at NIH and even bigger at NASA) there is a huge, huge impact on scientific and medical research that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the topics that you listed. Same with the arrests and threats to foreign students. The tenured left-wing social science professors will be fine. The young Chinese computer scientist will probably just stay in China and China will get the benefit of their work. The young American neuroscientist will just not have a career in the sciences because funding isn't available and so instead of working on curing brain cancer, they'll be working on data analysis for a marketing company. Cutting research on ovarian cancer because you don't like the fact that the researchers used terms like "women's health" is stupid. Cutting brain cancer research because you don't like the fact that some completely unrelated people at universities are "woke" is even more stupid. You don't like something that Noel Ignatiev said? OK, fair enough. But do you really want to kill the careers of young apolitical cancer researchers because you don't like something that a guy who died in 2019 said 20+ years ago?

wredcoll 1y ago

> n the US, over a third of conservative academics and PhD students have been threatened with disciplinary action for their views Hmm, what views do you think those might be? Do you think they're views on whether or not the capital gains tax should go up or down by 1%? Or maybe they're... other.. views. I miss when I believed that conservatism meant making slow but effective changes to society. It was a simpler life. On a slightly related note, someone linked this article a little while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Braden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Braden Let me quote from it: > In 1954, directly confronting the practice of rigid racial segregation of residential neighborhoods, the Bradens assisted an African-American couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, who wanted to buy a suburban home but had been unable to do so due to housing discrimination [...] > White segregationists immediately lashed out – initially by throwing rocks through the windows of the house, burning a cross in front of it, and firing gunshots into the home – and then bombed the house (setting off explosives under the bedroom of the Wades' young daughter while the home was occupied), driving the Wades out and destroying the home. As a result of their actions, Carl Braden was charged with sedition. Although housing discrimination was illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling specifically on a case in Louisville, Buchanan v. Warley, in 1917, charges were brought against Braden for hatching a communist plot to stir up a race war. This was in NINTEEN FIFTY FOUR. Like, yes, that is now 70 years ago, but all of our recent presidents and a significant number of politicans are older than that. They were literally alive and party of the society that allowed these things to happen. I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that things are in fact better now, we've improved on a lot of things, but that really isn't some kind of excuse to pretend that none of these awful things happened OR that they aren't still affecting us right now. It's not the only thing by any means, but just imagine the difference it makes when your grand parents bought a cheap home in a nice neighborhood that you're now inheriting in 2025 and is worth millions, compared to the black people denied that opportunity, and had to rent this entire time. (Could every white person buy a nice home in 1950 and leave it to their grandchildren? Obviously not. Were they denied this chance specifically because of their skin color? No.)