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2020-11-30 -PC Follies

Cancel Mob Attacks U Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Abbot For Questioning Diversity Hiring Dogma

[LI] Grad Student Demand Letter seeks to strip him of access, resources, and teaching responsibilities for advocating "against ... setting up systems where group membership is a primary aspect of a candidate’s evaluation. I believe we should avoid discriminating against anyone for any reason."

"Cancel culture" is a plague that has infected academia and campuses for a long time, and has moved from campus to the general culture. But it has been particularly prominent in the news in 2020 over issues of racial politics, particularly the Black Lives Matter Movement and Critical Race Theory (sometimes called "antiracist") indoctrination.

Cancel culture is not criticism. It’s the use of mob dynamics to silence debate through threats to career, employment, and reputation:

At a conceptual level, the difference is clear. Criticism marshals evidence and arguments in a rational effort to persuade. Canceling, by contrast, seeks to organize and manipulate the social or media environment in order to isolate, deplatform or intimidate ideological opponents. It is about shaping the information battlefield, not seeking truth; and its intent—or at least its predictable outcome—is to coerce conformity and reduce the scope for forms of criticism that are not sanctioned by the prevailing consensus of some local majority.

It’s a subject that is of interest to me for obvious reasons.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-30 03:36|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 We saw an example down in Miami a couple of years ago of diversity building a bridge.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-11-30 08:54|| 2020-11-30 08:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The same shitheads are pulling down statues of Lincoln and Grant.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with "racism." It's just intimidation and extortion.

Posted by Graimp Phavish1737 2020-11-30 09:47|| 2020-11-30 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 We need to get the name straight for these guys. Biden is now the official leader of the DNC. The cancel culture, Antifa and BLM are all arms of the DNC, led by Biden. Since Hitler had his brown shirts, Biden deserves his. We should call them all Biden's Black shirts.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-11-30 10:35|| 2020-11-30 10:35|| Front Page Top

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