Posted on 10/23/2021 4:24:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Cancel culture is everywhere. A celebrity might be canceled over a tweet made decades ago. A picture of a politician at a party might trigger a demand for his resignation. Using the wrong pronoun can get a person fired, sued, even arrested. The hardest hit are universities, where the love of learning has been replaced by an obsession for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The diversity on display may be slavish conformity to progressive thinking and values, and there is certainly no inclusion for anyone who questions progressivism, but no matter. The individuals devoting themselves to DEI are different colors and espouse the theory of gender being a matter of preference rather than biology, and that’s what counts.
In such times, it’s heartening to observe an instance of successful pushback against cancel culture. Geophysicist Dorian Schuyler Abbot was invited to lecture at MIT. That lecture was canceled after Abbot criticized DEI, claiming that it “entails treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century.”
Strictly speaking, DEI is not within Abbot’s area of expertise. He’s a research scientist at the University of Chicago. He studies climate, paleoclimate, ice, habitability, and exoplanets. His lecture at MIT was supposed to be the John Carlson Lecture on climate and the possibility of life on other planets. Abbott is a recognized expert in this field. Nevertheless, Abbot has an opinion about DEI and concerns about how it is affecting academic life, and he expressed himself. The First Amendment gives him the right to express himself.
Student activists who were horrified at the thought of actual diversity and equity promptly demanded that MIT cancel Abbot’s lecture. MIT obliged.
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The student buy in to cancel culture is just like what happened in communist China that killed millions who were not pure enough in their beliefs or had some thing in their past to gain the attention of the mobs.
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Can a Libtard be cancelled for shooting and killing a crew member of the movie set?
They can cancel this 🖕
Don’t call it DEI....use DIE instead. That’s a more accurate reflection of the ultimate goal.
So it’s a victory that his lecture was canceled, but he got an award later?
So the cancel mobs get MIT to cave and that’s victory?
If that’s victory, I’d hate to see what defeat looks like.
Most universities are nothing but a play ground where mom and dad aren’t around and few if any rules and they make it harder for those who have the love of learning.
Far to many people age but never grow up now days they only leave the universities with is a stupidity award to hang on the basement wall at mom and dads house.
Their bonus round is it the hang around until the folks die off they get a free house.
I’d say Trump opening his own social network is a victory.
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