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"DEI ideology attacks three fundamental values of Western culture: equality before the law, freedom of expression, and due process. We must fight this ideology forcefully if we want to preserve a free and just society."

The DEI Trojan Horse Is a University Leadership Failure

Identity politics is pushing our culture off a nihilistic cliff. We must fight this ideology forcefully if we want to preserve a free and just society.

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MIT polled it's faculty: -83% say their and their colleagues' voices are increasingly in jeopardy - 60% feel their and their colleagues' voices are constrained on an everyday basis at MIT

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Many of our current problems are the result of people reading Kendi when they should be reading Sowell.

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In this Op-Ed we argue that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs are unethical and detract from a university's principal mission. We propose an alternative framework: Merit, Fairness, and Equality (MFE).

The Diversity Problem on Campus

Viewed objectively, American universities already are incredibly diverse.

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I am proud to have had the opportunity to collaborate with Bari Weiss @bariweiss the courageous on this essay.

MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me.

Let’s make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob.

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This is the speech I gave to the UChicago Council today opposing the creation of a Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity. My objection: it is predicated on a CRT perspective and would not allow full inquiry into the subject from other perspectives.

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My cancelled lecture will be hosted by @MadisonProgram at Princeton on the day it was scheduled to be given at MIT (October 21, 4:30p Eastern). It will be free to the public via Zoom and can be registered for below

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"We’ve gone from the campus as the only place where discussion must have no limits, to the campus as the only place where free discussion isn’t possible."

The Decline of Higher Education

In the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, academic-freedom disputes routinely took a particular shape. In a small town, somewhere in the heartland, there would be a college campus on which a...

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"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. These offices aren’t what they purport to be. They’re radical political organizations indoctrinating students and training activists. They act as the campus thought police." Testimony by Daniel Bonevac

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"It's not a right-left issue. It's an authoritarianism vs. free society issue. All Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, who support the free society should be in support of academic freedom and opposed to cancel culture."

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Getting rid of the SAT and GRE because you don’t like what they reveal is like ignoring your blood pressure and cholesterol because you don’t like the numbers.

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This slide is from a talk in my field. There is no such thing as "decolonial feminist science." Science is communal, universal, disinterested (not for personal gain), and skeptical.

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PK has dark skin and has experienced real racism. He runs a large laser lab but may not be able to continue because his grants keep being rejected without review because he promises to "hire the most qualified people based upon their skills and mutual interests." #SaveScience

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I forgive the activists who led the campaign against me. Please do not attack them personally. They are fish swimming in a sea of moral confusion. Some of the responsibility for their behavior rests on their elders, who have not helped them form properly.

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Prof. Klainerman takes the gloves off: "Eisgruber’s view of social justice seems to be... the redistribution of jobs and honors on the basis of skin color and self-assigned identity groupings—and the overt censorship of anyone who disagrees..."

Princeton’s Mixed-Up President Discards Free Speech and Demonizes Its Defenders

Christopher Eisgruber’s attachment to contradictory high principles is turning academic life on his Ivy League campus into a farce

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This quote lays out what is at stake here: “This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated.” We are confronting a fundamental attack on the idea of a university.

M.I.T.’s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel. (Published 2021)

Dorian Abbot is a scientist who has opposed aspects of affirmative action. He is now at the center of an argument over free speech and acceptable discourse.

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EAPS at MIT is a great department full of excellent scientists who I admire and respect. The department chair ultimately made the decision to cancel my Carlson Lecture, not them. The chair is a good person, but made a bad decision under pressure in this case.

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"For Concordia University Wisconsin to punish Professor Schulz for engaging in a public discussion of matters of church principles and university governance would have a profound chilling effect on open discourse... "

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Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz of Concordia University Wisconsin wrote an article critical of the university's culture of "wokeism." Now he has been suspended and barred from campus. Our letter:

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"The refusal of the adults in the room to speak the truth, their refusal to say no to efforts to undermine the mission of their institutions, their fear of being called a bad name and that fear trumping their responsibility—that is how we got here."

We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out With Courage

A lot of people want to convince you that you need a Ph.D. or a law degree or dozens of hours of free time to read dense texts about critical theory to understand the woke movement and its world...

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"If students walk out on speakers discussing unrelated issues, where does it end?... what does it mean for American patients, if their future doctors cannot sit through a speech by a beloved professor who has a different view on abortion?"

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"The letters informing on colleagues and classmates. The denunciations of professors to the authorities... The rehabilitations following abject confessions... Any student of the totalitarian regimes of the mid-20th century recognizes all this..."

I'm Helping to Start a New College Because Higher Ed Is Broken

Institutions dedicated to the search for truth have ossified into havens for liberal intolerance and administrative overreach.

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"I write on behalf of the Academic Freedom Alliance to express our firm view that this disinvitation represents an egregious violation of the principles of academic freedom and an abnegation of MIT’s own stated commitment to freedom of thought."

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Here is a funny email I got after going on CNN this morning.

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A large number of people from underrepresented groups have reached out to me and said they want to be treated as individuals and judged by the same standards as everyone else. When they say this out loud they are attacked by the activists.

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Trying to ban speakers you disagree with and intimidate everyone else into silence is a bizarre strategy if you are trying to convince people that your ideology has absolutely nothing in common with the totalitarianisms of the 20th century.

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“We wanted to see in this case if [it] would be possible to publish a paper in an elite journal when the paper is full of blatant and clear statistical errors.” Spoiler: it was!

Academic Journal Publishes Hoax Paper Alleging Right-Wing Donor Influence in Universities |...

The academic journal Higher Education Quarterly published the hoax paper.

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"The Mission and Vision Statements trample on the fundamental role of the university: to facilitate the creation, curation, and dissemination of knowledge. Under no circumstances can ideological activism be the primary purpose of a public university."

Open Letter by CSM Faculty

To the University Community, We are faculty of the College of Science and Mathematics, and we are writing to you to express our extensive concerns about the first public draft of the Mission Statem...

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This is a presentation given by Lee Jussim ( @PsychRabble ), a psychology professor at Rutgers, recently at UCSD. In it he reviews extensive data demonstrating the ongoing radicalization of academia, as well as presents a model for the process.

The Radicalization of Academia

Lee Jussim

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her mother would have lost her job if the government had found out. A freedom isn't a freedom if you are severely punished for using it.

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Science and democracy require skepticism of authority and open debate. Censorship is destructive for both, whether it is done by the government or by social media corporations.

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"He has academic freedom. He is allowed to say whatever he wants to say, and he has, but that doesn’t mean that he’s free from consequences.” The Soviet constitution provided for religious liberty, yet my wife was baptized in secret because...

After lecture is canceled, free speech debate roils science academia

Some academics are pushing back against what they see as personal politics that overshadows scientific work. Others stress that actions have consequences.

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This important post by @Mark_J_Perry outlines practical steps you can take if your university is engaging in discriminatory practices.

Let’s Work Together to Challenge the Selective Double Standard for the Enforcement of Title VI and...

by Mark J. Perry, @Mark_J_Perry

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"That appalling Congressional testimony served to blow the lid off of an increasingly dysfunctional culture on campuses, which have become, sadly, not places where truth is sought, but hotbeds of woke ideology. Donors, parents, alumni—wake up."

Ivy League Presidents and the Collapse of Moral Reasoning - Word on Fire

Wake up. Do we want to be sending our kids to schools whose presidents cannot muster the intestinal fortitude to resist calls for genocide?

www.wordonfire.org

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With permission from an email I received: “You will survive. I was destroyed by academia. I want you to remember those of us who never got, and will never get, our own headlines, but who suffered much worse than you will.” I agree 100%. Never forget the silenced.

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"But perhaps the most alarming aspect of Social Justice, as far as its effect on a liberal society, is the extent to which this ideology provides a justification for pervasive, quasi-totalitarian policing of speech, thought, and private behavior."

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Punishing faculty for their speech and removing items from their syllabus is an outrageous affront to academic freedom, and at a public university, an obvious violation of the 1st amendment.

WSJ News Exclusive | University of Washington Professor Sues School Over Alleged Free-Speech...

The computer science professor faces punishment for his take on a university statement that the campus is located on Native American land, the latest clash over speech rights for college faculty.

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Prof. Gordon Klein is suing UCLA and his dean for breach of contract, violation of privacy, retaliatory discrimination, etc. This may be an effective strategy for altering the cost-benefit analysis of administrators when an outrage mob strikes.

Klein Complaint (Filed).pdf

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Harvard disinvites speaker for wrongthink. Claims it is not for her personal views on "controversial issues," but for daring to express them publicly. This ridiculous argument is becoming more common and needs to be met with the opprobrium it deserves.

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"Much of the woke agenda on campus works because it is employed covertly...Here are three proven tactics for resisting academic wokeness from within: 1. Confirm the Instructions in Writing, 2. Ask for Legal Review, 3. Ask Hard Questions in a Public Forum"

Fighting Behind Enemy Lines: Three Tactics for Resisting Wokeness from Within — Minding The Campus

Author’s Note: While I am a lawyer, I’m not your lawyer. Nothing in this article is intended to be legal advice from me, my firm, Minding the Campus, or anyone else. If you have a specific legal...

www.mindingthecampus.org

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"The perspective that scientific research is causing undefined harms and must therefore be prevented on ethical grounds has become widespread. It marks a significant departure from an academic culture that celebrated the open-ended pursuit of truth."

Social-Justice Restrictions on Research Harm All of Us — The James G. Martin Center for Academic...

Recently, one of the departments on my campus invited an academic “expert,” who, among other specializations, “advise[s] on the ethical aspects of telescope siting,” to give a talk entitled “How …...

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On the Berkely pogram: "Any students who took part in the violence should be expelled. As for the students who organized the shutdown but did not participate in the violence, they should be punished."

If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech, It Will Expel Its Rioters

Campuses must have the highest tolerance for expression, but no tolerance at all for violence like that exhibited by an anti-Israel mob this week.

www.thefp.com

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"The new allegations range from missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim. The full list of examples spans seven of Gay's publications—two more than previously reported."

Fresh Allegations of Plagiarism Unearthed in Official Academic Complaint Against Claudine Gay

Harvard University on Tuesday received a complaint outlining over 40 allegations of plagiarism against its embattled president, Claudine Gay. The document paints a picture of a pattern of misconduct...

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Thank you President Zimmer!

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This is a presentation Professor Pat Kambhampati gave to the department of Chemistry at McGill last month. It outlines issues he has with EDI and discusses alternatives. ?

EDI in STEM. Time for an open discussion?

by Pat Kambhampati

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When the activists say "I choose to believe underrepresented people," what they mean is "I choose to believe underrepresented people only if they express the 'correct' ideology."

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According to Rabbi Sacks, “arguing for the sake of heaven” means arguing in the pursuit of truth, rather than for dominance or power. When we argue for the sake of heaven, we win when we lose because the process brings us closer to truth. When we don’t, we lose when we win.

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"I propose giving faculty the power to investigate, sanction, and fire diversity officials if they undermine free speech. Administrative abuses will continue as long as bureaucrats can punish speech... without any consequences."

Professors Need the Power to Fire Diversity Bureaucrats

Scholars should drive out overzealous administrators, not vice versa.

www.theatlantic.com

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"I believe that every human being should be treated as an individual worthy of dignity and respect."

Opinion | The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT

I believe academic hiring should be based on merit and that hurt feelings are no reason to ban opinions.

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185 Stanford faculty signed a letter urging their president and board of trustees to adopt the Chicago Principles. Efforts like this are very important for preserving the integrity our universities.

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This is a practical book by @wokedissident that will help you understand Woke tactics and develop strategies to respond in your department or workplace. I read it when it was a series of blog posts and learned a lot. I highly recommend it.

Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond

www.amazon.com

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"...this position is restricted to candidates who self-identify in one or more of the following groups: Indigenous persons, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, and persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity."

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"What started a few years ago as outrage over “controversial” speakers deemed unfit to talk on university campuses has evolved to targeting distinguished academics who are prevented from speaking on their area of expertise..."

College professors have a right to provoke and upset you. It's a part of learning.

Whether from the right or from the left, calls to silence faculty voices on America’s campuses are inconsistent with the values of a university.

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"In the Stasi college-campus era, students live in fear of saying something that may offend someone for expressing a non-approved opinion and then being blackballed or expelled."

As colleges become more Stasi-like, students live in fear of being rep

Will institutions of higher education end up being instruments of oppression or places where free inquiry can liberate the mind of man?

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"Dorian Schuyler Abbot, associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, has been recognized as a Hero of Intellectual Freedom by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)."

University of Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Schuyler Abbot Recognized as a 2021 Hero of Intellectual...

WASHINGTON, DC—Dorian Schuyler Abbot, associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences […]

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U of Waterloo Assistant Professor Faculty of Environment ad: "This call is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit." This blatant discrimination would be illegal in the US.

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"I need to emphasize that this is not hypothetical. The censorious, fearful climate is already affecting the content of what we teach."

An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science

What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja.

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In response to the videos I published over the weekend, the University's Title IX office is investigating the practices I objected to. I proved my point about free speech, and we will have a department reading group on tolerance and academic freedom this winter.

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National Science Foundation money should be used to fund science, not "cultural transformation." Even if it were appropriate for the government to try to transform culture, science funding would not be the appropriate instrument.

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community (CTGC)

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Did you ever notice that the term “social justice” is only invoked when an excuse is needed to do some sort of injustice to an actual human being?

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"A university is a community of scholars. It is not a kindergarten; it is not a club; it is not a reform school; it is not a political party; it is not an agency of propaganda. A university is a community of scholars." -Robert Maynard Hutchins

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The University of California system is moving to requiring a political indoctrination course as a prerequisite for admission. Here is a letter opposing this:

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"Students of color are invited..." This UChicago event violates Title VI’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race and UChicago's Non-discrimination Statement. I notified the Title IX, etc. coordinator. Be on the look out for events like this.

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Apparently my offense is not so much holding heretical beliefs, it's having the temerity to express them publicly!

MIT to discuss academic freedom after canceling prestigious lecture over professor’s views - The...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was set to hold a faculty forum on Wednesday in an effort to resolve an intense dispute over academic freedom after the cancellation of a speech by prominent...

www.bostonglobe.com

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In this Op-Ed we argue that academic freedom is only possible if universities themselves maintain strict neutrality on social and political issues.

The Political Problem on Campus

Administrators threaten academic freedom when they advance their own social and political agendas in the name of their institutions.

www.newsweek.com

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Today is Holodomor remembrance day. The Communists killed ~6 million Ukrainians for refusing to collaborate and join collective farms.

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"The totalitarian tendencies of Social Justice are even more evident in its demands for the submission of everything to ideological diktat, from everyday language to personal life."

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Almost all of us who are Americans in the year 2022 are among the most materially privileged people who have ever lived. If we are unhappy, it is due to non-material causes that we have the power to address.

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"What’s the alternative to intellectual debate and rigor? Superstition, personal preference, and, ultimately, sheer power. It’s the latter that the woke critics of Western reason believe they can wield to crush their enemies, facts and logic be damned."

Rationality Is Not a White Male Thing | National Review

Intellectual debates based on sound reason? Women and people of color need not apply, say woke academics.

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"The Stanford blowup shows how the culture of DEI, and especially its accumulation of power in the bureaucracy, has become a threat to free speech. Rather than promoting diversity, DEI officers enforce ideological conformity."

Opinion | The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy

Diversity, equity and inclusion offices become weapons to intimidate and limit speech

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This chem faculty job ad contains 317 words about diversity and the required diversity statement, but only 86 words on the academic qualifications sought. Diversity is important, but academic excellence needs to be the central focus of faculty hiring.

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"Harvard received a 0.00-point free speech ranking on a 100-point scale — a full 11 points behind the next worst school. FIRE says the dismal score was “generous,” considering Harvard’s actual score was a -10.69, according to their calculations."

Harvard is named worst school for free speech — scoring zero out of...

Harvard comes is last in new rankings from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The school is in a "crisis time," according to one professor.

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"It is no secret that ever-growing fleets of administrative bureaucrats—many operating in the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” but in fact promoting conformity, inequality, and exclusion—have taken over America’s educational institutions."

Princeton University's Freedom of Speech Problem

Princeton University has a freedom of speech problem under president Christopher Eisgruber, proven following a case involving professor Katz.

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"This study is the first of its kind to investigate authoritarianism and political discrimination in academia... ... a significant portion of academics discriminate against conservatives in hiring, promotion, grants and publications."

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"Totalitarian tendencies in a political movement can be dangerous even when that movement does not run a dictatorship...This is especially true when that movement wields massive influence in the media and the educational system and is embraced by numerous public institutions... "

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"There was no legitimate justification for canceling the Carlson Lecture... MIT’s commitment to academic freedom and the free and open exchange of ideas will be tested and judged by the university’s response to this outrage."

ACTA President Michael Poliakoff Sends Letter to MIT President Harshly Criticizing University for...

Washington, DC—The American Council of Trustees and Alumni President Michael Poliakoff today sent […]

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“A university... must embrace, be hospitable to, and encourage the widest diversity of views within its own community. It is a community but only for the limited, albeit great, purposes of teaching and research.” -Kalven report, #UChicago

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"Students and faculty should challenge university leaders who... put forth subjective assessments and notions of what everyone else thinks or “must” do. These administrators... harm everyone’s ability to inquire and to learn from one another."

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"I have worked hard at generating and asking probing questions, and it’s a valuable skill. Yes, speaking up can take an emotional toll—but staying silent would be so much worse."

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"The consensus, based on 17 studies: Trigger warnings do not alleviate emotional distress...trigger warnings actually increased the anxiety of individuals with the most severe PTSD."

Opinion | The Data Is In — Trigger Warnings Don’t Work

A decade ago, there was little research on their effectiveness. Now we know.

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@DorianAbbot

3 years

"Your letter implies that no serious loss of academic freedom occurred in this incident because the department has expressed a willingness (for now) to host Professor Abbot at some other less public event...This is quite misguided..."

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"Stanford Business School professor Ivan Marinovic said the bias-reporting system reminded him of the way citizens were encouraged to inform on one another by governments in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China."

Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech

A group of Stanford professors is pushing to end a system that allows students to anonymously report classmates for exhibiting discrimination or bias.

www.wsj.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

"...many self-described “allies” are themselves deeply racist and simply use the Black cause as a convenient vehicle for shoring up their own power and influence."

Opinion | What the reactions to Clarence Thomas post-Roe reveal about white liberals

Soon after the court handed down its decision, some pro-choice advocates began hurling outrageous and overtly racist remarks at the justice.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

Apparently the fact that 73% of young people are white and 72% of undergrad degrees go to white people is evidence that white supremacy is shaping degree granting. The American Physical Society is now publishing complete nonsense.

Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study

Whiteness shapes many practices in physics classrooms that are often thought to be neutral.

journals.aps.org

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@DorianAbbot

3 years

Hard work pays off: “I enrolled in my community college as I worked for two years, and restored my grades. Last semester, I decided to give it another shot. My enthusiasm has increased after hearing there is someone who is standing up for the values you have discussed.”

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

5 months

"Gay is a tireless advocate of the DEI movement. It is the link between her disheartening unwillingness to protect Jews from antisemitic threats of violence and her disheartening disregard for the standards of academic dishonesty."

Claudine Gay’s way with words

The main thing, besides plagiarism, that Harvard president Claudine Gay shares with Adam Wheeler, is vaulting ambition

thespectator.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

"The winners are (a) the university leaders who can loudly proclaim their woke credentials and (b) the diversity-industrial complex whose clients they are. The losers are the staff and students who expected to give or get education not indoctrination..."

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

"I would like to thank everyone who has attacked me... Without your tireless Twitter activism, your meticulously crafted letter of denunciation, and your lovingly organized Struggle Sessions, I most certainly wouldn’t be standing here today."

My ACTA "Hero" acceptance speech

by Dorian Abbot

hxstem.substack.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

3 years

Cost of current academic climate: “When I first came to college I quickly realized my ideas were not welcomed. After two years of keeping my mouth shut and just trying to get through classes, I dropped out. I was mentally drained, and I didn't believe I had any academic promise.”

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

6 months

Diversity Advisory Committee reverses ranking of candidates made by faculty on the basis of race at the University of Washington. This is sort of thing is not uncommon, they just got caught red handed.

University of Washington Violated Non-Discrimination Policy, Internal Report Finds by John D....

www.nas.org

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

This is the paper recently canceled by the Emory Law Journal. Reading it is an act of protest against a censorious totalitarian ideology.

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

Science is universal and available to everyone. There is no such thing as "anticolonial" science.

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

3 years

"The activists who got Abbot canceled at MIT are human beings... They deserve our compassion as much as the luckless people whose careers they try to ruin. But that doesn't mean we don't fight back where they're wrong."

Geophysicist Dorian Abbot Loses MIT Lecture Thanks to Twitter Mob

University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot was disinvited from giving a lecture on exoplanets at MIT because of his outspoken opinions about how [...]

www.patheos.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

3 years

"It is normal to feel discomfort when someone contends against your strongly held beliefs. But in a truth-seeking atmosphere, you must master this discomfort and either confront opposing arguments rationally or accept their validity."

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

The Kalven report commits the University to refrain from making collective statements on social and political issues in order to promote rigorous debate and protect dissenting scholars. It is an essential component of academic freedom at UChicago.

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

"Too many of us are cowards in the modern academy. We are afraid of the wrong things. We are afraid of being called a “-phobe” or an “-ist,” but somehow we are not afraid of failing in our duty to inquire openly and to teach honestly."

Courage Award Speech

by Dorian Abbot

hxstem.substack.com

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@DorianAbbot

2 years

"When the purpose of history changes from knowledge of the past to political power in the present and future, historians become mere propagandists. Academics who succumb to the sugar rush of activism lose their sense of balance."

Opinion | The Unmaking of American History by the Woke Mob

Progressive scholars increasingly abandon the past to focus on present-day politics.

www.wsj.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

3 years

This short presentation outlines the argument for keeping the GRE as part of graduate admissions. Feel free to use it if the issue comes up in your department.

GREs.key

drive.google.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

2 years

CalTech is insisting that student-invited speakers adhere to "Caltech’s values of diversity, equity, and inclusion." This shameful ideological litmus test is probably illegal, and certainly undermines the purpose of a university.

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

1 year

"In a short time, DEI imperatives have spawned a growing bureaucracy that holds enormous power within universities. They now take part in dictating things like hiring, promotion, tenure, and research funding."

How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities

An obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion threatens students, professors, and the very credibility of higher education in the U.S.

www.thefp.com

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Dorian Schuyler Abbot

@DorianAbbot

3 years

In “Who Stole Feminism?,” Hoff Sommers documents and analyzes the transition in feminism in the later part of the 20th century, which she saw as a move from practical legal advocacy to counterproductive war against an imaginary system of oppression.

Who Stole Feminism?

In Who Stole Feminism?, philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed how a group of zealots are promoting a dangerous new agenda that sets wo...

www.simonandschuster.com

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