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Dec 23, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Professor Lee Jussim (@PsychRabble), who has agreed to be on the Advisory Council of the Free Speech Union, has written a Medium post drawing attention to an ongoing academic mobbing:

medium.com/@leej12255/hel…
In this case, a group of academics who subscribe to trans orthodoxy have started a petition calling for the retraction of a peer-reviewed paper from an academic journal because it challenges that orthodoxy. The petition already has almost 1,000 signatures.

Please read Lee's
post and, if possible, write to the editors of the journal in question expressing your support for their decision to publish the paper – and your horror at the possibility it might be retracted for ideological reasons.

Once the FSU is up and running in the New Year we'll be
taking a much more active role in combatting this type of mobbing.

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We are continuing to support Linzi with her case, which you can find out more about below.



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1/ THREAD: West Yorkshire Police Force has now dropped its investigation against an autistic girl arrested on suspicion of a hate crime for telling a female officer: "You look like my lesbian nana." Good. We wrote to the Force's Chief Constable today, outlining our concerns...
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1/ "Over the past three years, the Free Speech Union has supported more than 2,000 cases of people who’ve lost their jobs or been disciplined at work for lawful #freespeech." Great to be mentioned by Equalities Minister @KemiBadenoch in @thetimes today!
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1/ Following the de-banking of former UKIP leader Nigel Farage by NatWest subsidiary Coutts, more NatWest customers are now coming forward to say that "political posts on social media" may have been behind the bank's decision to shutter their accounts.
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3/ If you suspect you may have been de-banked, then the FSU has just published some FAQs about the steps you should take, including how to submit a Subject Access Request (SAR) and a template SAR you can copy and adapt.
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1/ When Yorkshire Building Society asked longstanding customer Rev Richard Fothergill for feedback, he politely queried why his local branch was festooned with Pride flags. Four days later the UK's third biggest mutual closed his savings account.
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