Stephen Hsu: “These horrible people will stop at nothing.”
“These horrible people” are faculty at the uni where he is VP Research.
“These horrible people” are graduate students where he is VP Research.
He doesn’t have their trust.
He is in a leadership positions over them.
“These horrible people” are faculty at the uni where he is VP Research.
“These horrible people” are graduate students where he is VP Research.
He doesn’t have their trust.
He is in a leadership positions over them.
They wrote a petition.
A VP Research at a public research uni in the US is threatening a lawsuit against graduate students over a truthful petition.
@michiganstateu, let him go.
Let him sue when he is no longer VP Research.
statenews.com/article/2020/0…
A VP Research at a public research uni in the US is threatening a lawsuit against graduate students over a truthful petition.
@michiganstateu, let him go.
Let him sue when he is no longer VP Research.
statenews.com/article/2020/0…
Please, #highereducation let it sink in how twisted this situation is. Hundreds of faculty members and graduate students sign a petition--with evidence and good reason--calling for the removal of the VP Research & Innovation at their institution, a public research university.
They write blog posts with more reasons. They write tweets with more evidence. By signing the #petition calling for his removal, they express their collective distrust in his leadership. #genrestudies
He is their leader. He is in a position of power over them. He has a vote on everything serious that concerns their file at his university.
In a #highereducation world less twisted than this one, what would you expect a top-ranked leader in a public research university to do?
In a #highereducation world less twisted than this one, what would you expect a top-ranked leader in a public research university to do?
Would you find it an acceptable response if he goes public calling these faculty and graduate students "the Twitter mob," repeatedly?
Would you find it an acceptable response if he, THEIR OWN VICE PRESIDENT, calls them "these horrible people" in his blog?
Would you find it an acceptable response if he, THEIR OWN VICE PRESIDENT, calls them "these horrible people" in his blog?
Would you think that is acceptable as part of a defense for the charges--well-evidenced--in their petition?
One cannot lead a university in this way. No.
An honourable person in #StephenHsu's position would either work hard to rebuild the relationship with the faculty and students who are expressing their distrust. They would show their humility, their ability to listen and learn, and their willingness to work together.
Or, they would resign.
Stephen Hsu is doing the opposite of both options.
He is publicly attacking and discrediting--from his very high perch--those who have taken the risk of bringing evidence for their distrust in him as their VP.
And we hear, he might also be threatening them with lawsuits.
He is publicly attacking and discrediting--from his very high perch--those who have taken the risk of bringing evidence for their distrust in him as their VP.
And we hear, he might also be threatening them with lawsuits.
I find it hard to imagine how one could lead, in the spirit of faculty governance, with good will and good faith, a group of faculty and students against whom one threatens lawsuits.
If #StephenHsu wishes to attack the uni's students & faculty in this way, he should step down.
If #StephenHsu wishes to attack the uni's students & faculty in this way, he should step down.
Please note that in this thread, I have concentrated on #StephenHsu's reactions to the petition quite aside from the serious questions that the petition and accompanying documentation raise about his qualification to be vice president.
Whether you agree or disagree with the reasons the petition raises for Stephen Hsu to be dismissed from his VP Research & Innovation post, you now also need to consider his behaviour following the petition. That behaviour is also reason for his dismissal. #FireStephenHsu
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For evidence of Stephen Hsu threatening lawsuits against those who speak on Twitter against him continuing in his role at @michiganstateu as Vice President, Research and Innovation, see @jpjjr1961 excellent blog post.
altrightorigins.com/2020/06/16/hsu…
altrightorigins.com/2020/06/16/hsu…
John introduces the legal threat with similar argument as the one I make in this thread:
"This is a sure indication that he is unfit for his office and that the talk about 'free inquiry' is merely posturing for his poor behavior."
"This is a sure indication that he is unfit for his office and that the talk about 'free inquiry' is merely posturing for his poor behavior."
John's blogpost gives you more explanation for why Hsu's serious abuse (or deep misunderstanding) of the concept of #academicfreedom disqualifies him from the position he holds as one of the highest administrators at @michiganstateu.
"The letters, and Hsu’s own defense, do not understand the nature of free inquiry and academic freedom. Relieving Hsu of his position as Senior Vice President of Research and Innovation is not a *violation* of academic freedom it is the *fulfillment* of it."
This man votes on tenure files in all areas of research: "Hsu, by his actions, has shown he cannot tell the difference between real scholarship & its pretender. He cannot tell if the person he sits down with to discuss genetics and race is a true scholar or a white supremacist."
