Posted on 10/07/2021 3:23:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dorian Abbot, an associate professor of geophysics from the University of Chicago, was scheduled deliver the prestigious Carlson Lecture at MIT on climate and the potential for life on other planets
Everything seemed in order until an insane mob began banging at the door.
The mob had discovered a Newsweek piece that Abbot co-wrote back in August where he argued that diversity efforts at universities violated equal treatment. The article proposed that “university applicants be treated as individuals and evaluated through a rigorous and unbiased process based on their merit and qualifications alone.”
Previously Abbot has also posted videos on YouTube denouncing the rioting in Chicago that erupted following the killing of George Floyd.
Decades ago, condemning riots and asking for merit-based enrolment at educational institutes was so obvious that there was no need to state it in plain words.
But those days are over.
For the anti-riot videos, Abbot was targeted for cancellation by a group of graduate students at his University. However, the President of University of Chicago issued a strong statement in support of faculty free expression which emphatically resolved the matter.
The mob emerged again in another form, upon learning of Abbot’s scheduled Carlson Lecture at MIT. This MIT Twitter mob, comprising of students, post-doctorates, and alumni, vehemently demanded that Abbot be uninvited because they disagreed with the contents of his Newsweek article.
This time it worked.
This isn’t the first time that a prestigious university yielded under pressure and it will not be the last if remedial immediate actions are not taken.
One wonders what could have been accomplished if the innovation and drive that is shown towards cancelling people were to be applied towards something meaningful.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is true 1933 nazi brown shirt or 1922 communist tactics.
If you control speech and thought, you control the population.
Lenin, marx, hitler, pol pot or today's American college brats, the game is always the same.
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Universities have been “capitulating” to Leftist mobs since the 1960s. Isn’t it time we recognize that they don’t capitulate? Instead, they have been and continue to be in total agreement with the Left, so they only appear to give in while doing what they wanted to do all along. Mobs just give them cover.
Merit, qualifications, and rigorous debate. Such quaint notions.
The follow on is that Princeton has invited him to speak. So there’s at least some pushback and a glimmer of hope.
Reminds me of the old LI’L ABNER comic strip from 1966 when the Hippie SWINE(Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything) struck fear into the University administration.
They were so afraid of the SWINE they sold the University to the Mafia.
Here came the SWINE in protest.
I still get a thrill remembering how the sparks flew when the Hippie SWINE attacked the Mafia enforcer’s brass knucks with their front teeth!
## The article proposed that “university applicants be treated as individuals and evaluated through a rigorous and unbiased process based on their merit and qualifications alone.”
The horror! how can he possibly say such things?
Not like today
My university....leftist today
Was still conservative in the 70s
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