Professor Dorian Abbot
Posted on 10/05/2021 12:10:58 PM PDT by DeweyCA
And judges are their High Priests and Priestesses.
U. Chicago is generally very good about academic freedom. As the article states, U.Chicago President Zimmer wrote a letter to incoming freshmen warning about “cancel culture.”
So this did not come from administration. This is all from a group of disaffected graduate students - whose names, ironically, were not allowed to be shown.
He is right, merit is the only non-racist way to judge. MLK said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Zimmer should have EXPELLED ALL OF THEM upon receipt of the first letter, College is for Adults not whiney little children.
“the needs of the many (dramatic pause) outweigh the needs of the few”
A recall a few year back, the chancellors at the U of C decided they were going to be some kind of bulwark and defend speech freedom in the academic setting. They put it in writing. They warn prospective students if they are easily triggered they should probably go somewhere else.
Base reviews on merit??!! What are you, some kind of radical psycho?
“These zealots don’t believe the freedoms in the First Amendment apply to the rest of us.”
Luckily for us, it’s the Second Amendment that will probably decide this cultural struggle, and that amendment applies to everyone even if they don’t believe in it :)
Excellent points but there is a deeper and more insidious factor here. Note the demographic of Professor Dorian Abbot's attackers; undergrads, graduate students, teaching assistants etc., aka young adults, cradled and taught in the LEFTist Academia milieu. Make no mistake, this is the same young adult that populated the revolutions of the past and populates Antifa now.
They, being the current 'woke mob', have little life experiences but have the zeitgeist of being on the cutting edge against their version of the 'Ancien Régime' in academia and everywhere else! Given their head, they will be happy to trot out the carts to take their opponents for 'deserved' haircuts!
A picture of the good professor. Likely to be, OR, have been, leaning left but also like mugged colleagues of recent note, Evergreen State College EX-Professor Bret Weinstein & Yale Professor Nicholas Christakis & Wife, now seeing what a mob can do. Ugly, is it not Professor?
An online tool to decide who to vote for?
Guy sounds like a moron. Just like those precious “undecided” voters.
The University of Chicago? Very disappointed in my alma mater.
Now he knows how Jewish academics were treated in Germany in the 1930s.
He uses an online tool to decide who to vote for.
God gave him a brain and he can’t use it....hence climate change based on what a computer tells him.
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