Sheffield Uni forced out diversity adviser for supporting Kathleen Stock

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/13/university-forces-diversity-adviser-supporting-bullied-professor/

Can't go through the paywall. Could you respect the legal niceties and put speech marks around the 'forced out'? Sounds like they are reporting one person's interpretation.

You can read the whole article on the archive sites. Do you think that being removed from his post is not the same as being forced out?

The equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) adviser at the University of Sheffield had been employed for more than two years working on LGBT+ inclusion and a race equality action plan.

But in October last year, his colleagues from a trade union complained to managers about him signing a “statement of solidarity” with Prof Kathleen Stock, the philosophy expert who quit the University of Sussex after a lengthy bullying campaign by trans activists.

Within a month, the adviser, who asked The Telegraph to protect his identity for fear of reprisal, was told he could no longer work in LGBT+ and race equality at the university as his views “created friction with key stakeholders”.

He was swiftly moved to different work in the human resources team, without any formal investigation, and his appeal and request for an apology through whistleblowing procedures were rejected, documents show.

'...creating friction with key stakeholders'. Hm. I wonder who they mean. Looks like penalising him for holding and expressing his views. Those 'stakeholders' could be being used as an excuse - besides are they the ones creating friction in the first place? And drawing in 'race equality' looks like a make weight. What has that got to do with solidarity with Professor Stock?

As a general principle, an employer can't rely on prejudices of other employees or customers for example, to justify unfair treatment or victimisation in the workplace that would otherwise be illegal.

This is very bad news, its coming from trade union members. Trade unions should be against this kind of ideological harassment.

When will this stop?!

I raised on an education thread yesterday and was told that my view of a university education involving critical thinking and debate was 'old fashioned'.