Tenured female economics professor is fired for saying Black Lives Matter 'destroyed' Mount Royal University in Calgary so much she 'doesn't recognize it'

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 20, 2022 | James Gant

[Morgana]

A tenured economics professor in Canada was fired for saying Black Lives Matter destroyed her university to such an extent she 'doesn't recognize it anymore'.

Frances Widdowson, who also taught justice and policy studies, was sacked from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada last year.

The academic is now calling for an open arbitration hearing with the school to have it out with the institution next January - but bosses are yet to agree.

Widdowson was fired in December for saying BLM had destroyed the college to such an extent she 'doesn't recognize it anymore'.

Activists rounded on her and called her a racist for claiming Canada's residential school program offered Indigenous children chances 'they wouldn't have received'.

But the lecturer launched her fightback this week as she pledged to take university bosses to an arbitration.

Meanwhile the institution refused to be drawn on any hearing, adding it 'will not be providing specific details on this personnel matter'.

Widdowson called for it to be held from January 16 to January 27 next year in which she can air her issues with her treatment, Fox News reports.

She told The College Fix in an interview recently: 'All of my grievances are going forward together at this time.'

The associate professor, who studied indigenization for 20 years, said she wanted it to be open so journalists could attend and report on the case.

She added: 'Without upholding academic freedom, we have no ability to explore ideas and pursue the truth.'

Widdowson is being supported by the free speech group the Society for Academic Freedom, which claimed some of her old colleagues also backed her.

[Mark17]

Maybe it really is true, that in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

[libh8er]

I thought the whole point of tenure was academic freedom. They cancelled a tenured professor for expressing an opinion !

[Alvin Diogenes]

This is true intersectionalism, combining

•  Canada (which is worse than the US in wokeness and in cancel-culture bullying),

and

•  academia (which we've already been lost to the extreme left throughout the Western world).

Paging Jordan Peterson....

[Alvin Diogenes]

This Daily Mail article doesn’t mention it, but the fired professor is a Marxist! They’re eating their own now. (Left-wing revolutions inevitably turn into internecine battles for purity — look at the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the cultural revolution in China, etc.)

[zeestephen]

Some readers may not realize that Jordan Peterson was born, raised, and educated in Canada.

Other readers may not know who Peterson is.

Peterson is a PhD psychologist and professor who relentlessly and passionately attacks the political Left and Woke culture, in universities, and in every day life.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“But she said it at a time of heightened tension after unmarked graves were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.”

Last I heard the “unmarked graves” of stolen Indian kids turned out to be just a community cemetery.

https://tnc.news/2021/07/12/six-things-the-media-got-wrong-about-the-graves-found-near-residential-schools/

[Paladin2]

Tenure is not ironclad?

[kearnyirish2]

The unassimilated non-white far left is targeting the white left; they latter have things the former could never procure legally. Gibsmedat!

[Jewbacca]

Depends on the contract.

There are always exceptions.

[LouAvul]

Heck, scam artists like naacp, blm, democRATs, Repugnants, et al, have destroyed my country. Get used to it.

[Ge0ffrey]

There is no free speech in Canada.

[Alvin Diogenes]

Jordan Peterson was a professor at the University of Toronto; he resigned a few months ago. He had tenure, but he wasn't able to work around the wokeness any more.

Here's a link to the article Peterson wrote at the time: "Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto / The appalling ideology of diversity, inclusion and equity is demolishing education and business."

This new Frances Widdowson case is worse, since she didn't resign -- she was fired. Tenured professors can't normally be fired; that's what tenure means. I hope she sues Mount Royal University and wins.

[Alvin Diogenes]

It’s not just the non-white far left; the white left is much more prominent (and not just in academia — look at all the white BLM supporters).

But they have the never-ending task of proving their purity; they’ve chosen to go through life with jackals who are always primed and ready to pounce.

[kearnyirish2]

Same thing happened in the French Revolution, and continued until they killed the architect (Robespierre).

[Alvin Diogenes]

Absolutely.

In fact, I mentioned the same thing in post #5 above! "[They’re eating their own now. (Left-wing revolutions inevitably turn into internecine battles for purity — look at the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the cultural revolution in China, etc.)]"