The US has its own Kathleen Stock - Dr Buckley deplatformed by Harvard

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DomesticatedZombie · 22/04/2022 10:06

It's interesting to see this all start to play out in the US.

Dr Devin Buckley is a feminist and board member of WoLF (women's liberation front, a feminist organisation). She had been invited to talk on the subject of Romanticism at Harvard, but was disinvited after someone read about her feminist views.

It's worth reading these letters to recognise 1. the abject and craven behaviour of the (unnamed) person from Harvard and those who decided to 'cancel' Dr Buckley and 2. Her clear-sighted, eloquent and honest response.

www.womensliberationfront.org/news/dr-devin-buckley-deplatformed-by-harvard

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Blogblogblogblog · 22/04/2022 11:19

Fantastic reply. Love the last paragraph. Love the fact she is a biologist and an English Lit expert. True intellectual.

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DomesticatedZombie · 22/04/2022 11:15

Sometimes it does seem to be such an uneven match, doesn't it? I wonder if all the enthusiasm for groupthink and mass censure sometimes stems from sheer inadequacy and jealousy?

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MrsOvertonsWindow · 22/04/2022 11:08

Fantastic, articulate intelligent woman.
Such a pleasure to read in contrast to fake facts, flat earthism along with a dose of bullying and threats uttered by so many misogynists pushing this very special ideology.

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DomesticatedZombie · 22/04/2022 10:47

I also like this, although I have to say this woman is making me feel quite inadequate even from the other side of the Atlantic:

'I shouldn’t have to mention here that I have a degree in biology (neuroscience to be exact) but I will anyway just to drive the point home. Not only do I have a degree, but I attained highest honors in that degree and a record of straight A’s from cell biology through computational neuroscience, to say nothing of the fact that I studied human and animal genetics at Stuyvesant High School of Math and Science while working part-time in a microbiology lab at Columbia University. I am confident about my definition of a woman–an adult human female.'

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DomesticatedZombie · 22/04/2022 10:46

I don't know enough about US politics to comment on the left/far left positioning of any of this.

That paragraph was excellent:

''If it is unacceptable for me to speak at Harvard on British poetry and philosophy because I am a feminist, then I invite Harvard to purge its libraries and museums of all those who hold views unacceptable to Harvard. If I am to be silenced, then why do the tomes and treatises of history’s innumerable sexist, racist, homophobes still sit on Harvard’s hallowed shelves and continue to be cited with reverence? Harvard should cleanse them all and leave nothing but the purity of empty space'

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Redshoeblueshoe · 22/04/2022 10:21

Thanks for posting. That was an excellent read.

Abhannmor · 22/04/2022 10:21

Dr Buckley is a wordsmith indeed. But I wish this crazy cult was not described as far left all the time. Perhaps that's how it looks from the USA , where some dripping wet centrist like Layla Moran might be seen as a commie. Astonishing that Harvard of all places cannot stand against this censorship. As Dr Buckley says , will they now purge their library of all books deemed offensive?

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