Posted on 04/18/2023 5:04:35 AM PDT by jdege
Her study involved 50 individual interviews with academics in gender studies who identified as feminists, a representative survey of social scientists with 650 responses and hundreds of documents and tweets.
Scholars told her that they had threats of violence in the gender debate, hostility from colleagues, and others said they felt their careers “can’t survive that sort of backlash”, and that they have to have “secret conversations” to avoid reprisal and because “we are all so afraid”.
Her final work has not been published, as it was derailed by complaints about an article for Times Higher Education in which she warned that “a culture of discrimination, silencing and fear has taken hold”.
Following this, she says, her line managers told her that the study had “become an institutionally sensitive issue” and that “City considers my data to be dangerous” and is “frightened of making it public”.
A research participant who “did not like the findings” and academics sympathetic to trans issues were among those who complained. One, Dr Sahra Taylor, a City lecturer, claimed it was an “attack piece on trans people [and] our existences” that has “clearly caused harm to many interviewed”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The data show that trannies actually are mentally deranged whack jobs.
BTTT
“One, Dr Sahra Taylor, a City lecturer, claimed it was an “attack piece on trans people [and] our existences.”
These people are absolutely insufferable.
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Our culture’s thousand-year old university tradition has become corrupted. It’s now part of the problem.
Exactly. But if you say that now, you’re in trouble.
It’s telling that academics can announce they are afraid and that is considered admirable.
I’d be interested in knowing what is meant by ‘blocks’ in the headline, but the article is paywalled.
Probably with violent tendencies. Universities are no longer trust worthy.
These people have become murderous unguided missiles aimed at normal people everywhere.
“Block”
I expect that she’s prevented from publishing to prevent trans backlash against the university.
If she’s got sand, she’ll abandon tenure and publish on substack, considering the institutional bias against truth.
Won’t hold my breath.
So, let’s see if I understand this correctly. Studying a current social trend can be dangerous if it identifies truthfully the serious impact of such a trend? Therefore, it is better to stifle the results of the study than to read about it or to study it further?
“Studying a current social trend can be dangerous if it identifies truthfully the serious impact of such a trend? Therefore, it is better to stifle the results of the study than to read about it or to study it further.”
Pretty much.
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Yep, we can now start applying Voltaire’s quote about knowing who are rulers are by whom we are prohibited to criticize.
I do remember reading elsewhere a remark by someone who lived under Communist rule: that we have silenced ourselves more effectively than the Soviets were able to silence their people.
She’s been “dismissed.” Unfortunately, the university locked all her accounts, including the one she used to communicate with test participants, so she may not have access to anything. (Which may all be work product and thus the property of the school).
No paywall!
Transgender activists use the bullying and oppressive tactics of Chairman Mao. What a coincidence.
‘Blocks’ from her research seems different from being prevented from publishing. But who knows ...
Thank you!
It sounds like all her data may be stored on University servers, from which she has now been blocked. But like others, I haven't been able to read beyond the paywall.
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