Professor Dorian Abbot
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.
Everyone please re-read that ... it's very well-stated.
Many hopelessly clueless conservatives & Republicans are still scratching their heads: How did the senile puppet Sleepy Joe & Laughing Kamala win the election, especially given that, in January 2020, the successful, popular President Trump was virtually assured of reelection? How is the extreme far-left Democrat Party Cabal (DPC), including RINOs, totally dominating the national political discourse? How did the DPC win the White House, hold onto the House, and win the Senate? Why does the national discourse constantly revolve around "Black Lives Matter," Diversity, the Black National Anthem, and Critical Race Theory (even though Black people comprise just over 10% of the population)? How did the senile puppet Sleepy Joe (who twice miserably failed to get the Democrat nomination in 1988 & 2008) somehow defeat the successful President Trump? Why is every corporation & organization in this country bending over backwards for the Marxist, violent Black Lives Matter? Why are a huge number of Democrats (and RINOs) absolutely certain that President Trump is a "treasonous," "evil," "sexist, homophobic, racist, xenophobe?" Why is virtually all of academia, at every level, requiring one or more Diversity Training classes as part of its curriculum? What in the world is going on?
For the answers, re-read the quote: "Their [woke ... cancel culture] politics is their religion. It is what gives them meaning and purpose in life and they will not tolerate any heretics." I had to quote it and highlight it again because that's your answer to all those questions. It's exactly why the Democrat Party Cabal (including RINOs) dominates the national discourse, the language, the electorate's emotions, government, academia, the MSM, all pro sports leagues, the corporate world, etc., etc.
As Chris Plante likes to say, “Libs don’t understand irony.”
“… Inclusion initiatives driven by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Coordination Team (EDICT).”