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Cancel Culture In Academia

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IcakethereforeIam · 09/09/2023 18:16

Interesting and sobering, article in the Critic that names names. It won't be as widely read as it should be.

https://thecritic.co.uk/cancel-culture-in-academia/

A lot of it echos stuff I've read on here and elsewhere. The ignorance that the genderists have in the terms that they use. Deliberate ignorance because they know but can't admit that the terms are baseless.

I thought of pasting this article in one of any number of existing threads but thought it links to so many, all the cancellations, all the threats and violence, that it deserved its own.

I haven't seen an existing thread, apologies if I've missed one.

Cancel culture in academia | Umut Özkırımlı | The Critic Magazine

Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro…

https://thecritic.co.uk/cancel-culture-in-academia

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Katbum · 11/09/2023 13:40

North American, I think. Either US or Canada.

Hopelesslydevotedtoshrews · 11/09/2023 13:50

I know it's not the point of this thread but this has sent me down a rabbit hole of pre-Roman Britain looking for its first peoples. It looks like an absolute mess with everyone tearing lumps out of each other. Anyway, here's looking at you Catuvellauni tribe (although they might be Belgian in origin...).

FigRollsAlly · 11/09/2023 14:34

Needmoresleep · 10/09/2023 18:50

It's a depressing thought that so many of these academics that are screwing women over are women themselves.

I get depressed for the students.

The less than rigorous thought being offered by academics like Sally Hinds worries me. Good luck to the grifters if someone is willing to pay them large sums on money, but those kids taking on large loans to study gender studies at Sheffield are being cheated. For most employment they should be learning about critical thought, about gathering evidence and coming to a conclusion. That there is not one truth and that things are not black and white. You can agree or disagree with Laura Favaro but her research, if carried out properly should be subject to academic interrogation, not just smear.

Ditto the "Latinx" students at UCLA. Fine have a job advert that says we have done very well to attract a large number of students for minority and less affluent backgrounds. Now we need staff who will help make their dreams (and investment of time, money and lost wages) into a reality. Not by puffing up your DEI credentials but by proving that you are a hard working, capable academic who is able to get the best from this particular demographic. Surely the aim is to enrich and to teach skills rather than to indoctrinate. I suspect that the advert puts off more capable young academics than it attracts.

And as for the first peoples of St Johns Wood. Is it something you can identify into?

One of my great aunts used to identify as living in St John’s Wood when she in fact most definitely lived in Kilburn.

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