1/ Common dismissal tactic here. No, I will not share private emails sent to me by department chairs in confidence, or out those who I've spoken with on the phone. I don't care if you're convinced. I know what I went through.
2/ Unfortunately it's a lot easier to cancel someone by poisoning their reputation to the point where they have difficulty receiving job offers than it is to outright fire someone in a spectacle.
I can't prove how many interviews or job offers I DIDN'T get because of it.
3/ I can only say that my CV was extremely competitive for my career stage, and in the 2 years and 150 jobs I applied for, I only received 3 phone interviews. Meanwhile woke colleagues with substantially worse CVs received many interviews and job offers.
4/ This isn't definitive proof that my public views and essays were the cause, but it's not exactly a secret that hiring committees scour applicants' social media. And activists spreading lies about me that I'm a transphobe and "race scientist" certainly didn't help.
5/ There was a concerted effort to get me blacklisted. That was clear. How successful was it? Impossible to say, since NOT getting interviews or job offers don't leave a trace. But given the current political environment in academia, it's absurd to suggest it had no effect.
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