Posted on 10/06/2021 12:15:55 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
A prestigious lecture at MIT which was set to be delivered by a University of Chicago geophysicist was canceled due to pressure from ‘woke’ students because the professor argued for ‘academic freedom and merit-based evaluations’ rather than 'equity.'
Dorian Abbot was denied the opportunity to give the Carlson Lecture, which is devoted to ‘new results in climate science’ and hosted by MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
The lecture was scheduled to be delivered on October 21, but Abbot learned over the weekend that EAPS would be canceling his talk.
'I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter,' Abbot writes on Bari Weiss' Substack newsletter that was published on Tuesday.
'My crime? Arguing for academic evaluations based on academic merit.' Many progressives now argue that equity - equality of outcomes - is more important that equality - giving everyone the same opportunity.
Abbot writes that he has been a target of ‘woke’ students since last year when he posted several videos on YouTube denouncing the rioting in Chicago that erupted in the wake of the police-involved killing of George Floyd.
The professor writes that he was normally averse to speaking out about politics, ‘but the street violence of the summer of 2020, some of which I witnessed personally in Chicago, and the justifications and dishonesty that accompanied it, convinced me that I could no longer remain silent in good conscience.’
Abbot posted clips on YouTube in which he ‘argued for the importance ‘of treating each person as an individual worthy of dignity and respect’ and ‘giving everyone a fair and equal opportunity when they apply for a position as well as allowing them to express their opinions openly, even if you disagree with them.’
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What can I say? The inmates have taken over the asylum.
Bad parenting...
Youth Soccer
MIT was once the dream school of every young tech geek. Is it now anything more than a politically correct diploma mill?
Why should anyone with anything to offer stay in the U.S.? Talented men must do the work for the entire diverse team, then share the credit with the diverse teammates -- and smile and pretend that everyone deserved to be on the team.
MIT kind of surprised me a bit with what happened, personally it getting tiring of organizations bowing down to a offended minority of people who punish people for wrong think.
I guess it goes to show you, intelligence does not equate wisdom.
Yesterday’s posting on same; https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4000880/posts
This is how we got to where we are, by appointing Leftists to positions of power because they were competent, whereupon they would not themselves use the same criteria, but would ONLY approve Leftists.
Tolerance of the intolerant is a losing strategy.
Notice how the two titles are completely different? I did 3 searches before I posted, using the full title and just the words “Twitter” and “lecture” and the searches came up empty. When there is a situation like that there isn’t much you can do to avoid posting duplicate articles.
Maybe Abbott could lecture at Trump rallies. His audience would be more intelligent, too.
(No, I’m not being sarcastic, facetious or derogatory. The audience really WOULD be smarter — Trump supporters, as opposed to woke students.)
Oof, ease off there FRiend, no criticism intended here! You are ABSOLUTELY OK in this posting. My humble intention was only to allow readers to see the comments in the earlier posting.
Dunno, but I saw it as stunning all those profs lining up to do the academic lynching.
The few voices of sanity are being targeted for suppression. Today, you can murder, if you’re the right color, but the unforgiveable crime is saying the truth about minorities.
so much for campus diversity and free expression.
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