"On 27 August 2018, Ron Unz published a long essay in his 'American Pravda' column endorsing Holocaust denial."
"On 16 May 2019, #StephenHsu hosted his friend Ron Unz on his podcast holding him out as a brilliant person & allowing Unz to promote his 'American Pravda' column..."
"On 16 May 2019, #StephenHsu hosted his friend Ron Unz on his podcast holding him out as a brilliant person & allowing Unz to promote his 'American Pravda' column..."
"...allowing Unz to promote his 'American Pravda' column at unz.com as a good place to start awakening Americans from their 'slumber' (Hsu’s word) brought on by the mainstream media."
#FireStephenHsu
#FireStephenHsu
"Imagine #StephenHsu explaining to Holocaust scholars how giving a Holocaust denier platform means Hsu is qualified to judge their research, to have a role in their funding, to have a role in promoting & tenuring them. Imagine him in the room with them telling them these things."
"Imagine #StephenHsu doing this against the images of the bodies stacked high...the children’s faces as they were marched from their homes. Imagine him telling them that promoting a man who denies all this makes sense because he made a lot of money and...has an IQ of 214."
And then imagine #StephenHsu telling the Holocaust scholars at his university that he "is the real victim in all this because promoting someone who calls their scholarship a lie and part of a vast Jewish conspiracy is part of 'free inquiry.'"
#FireStephenHsu, @michiganstateu.
#FireStephenHsu, @michiganstateu.
"#StephenHsu, of course, has not tried to explain or apologize and...he has ignored this entire, awful thing. So have the letters of his defense. Whoever is soliciting those letters for Hsu...is lying by omission. None of them, save that of Hsu’s podcast co-host, address Unz."
"I wonder how many of them will regret supporting Hsu once they know of Hsu’s promotion of a Holocaust denier. I also wonder why Hsu is leaving his defense to others. Hsu fully knows what he did, unlike his supporters, why has he not explained his thinking?"
Very big question:
Why is #StephenHsu, VP Research & Innovation, thinking that a heap of other people's letters, letters which do not even mention his alignment with racist and white supremacist positions, can defend his alignment with racist and white supremacist positions?
Why is #StephenHsu, VP Research & Innovation, thinking that a heap of other people's letters, letters which do not even mention his alignment with racist and white supremacist positions, can defend his alignment with racist and white supremacist positions?
"Instead of engaging with his critics in an intellectual manner. Instead of trying to explain or apologize for his actions, Hsu resorted to trying to bully and intimidate his critics."
Yes: "If nothing else, this action alone shows Hsu does not understand scholarship, does not understand intellectual inquiry, does not understand academic freedom, and does not understand free speech."
#FireStephenHsu
#FireStephenHsu
"#StephenHsu has betrayed the mission and values of Michigan State University. If he remains in his current position, then the leadership of Michigan State University has betrayed those same values." @michiganstateu
To sign the open petition calling for #FireStephenHsu, see here: firestephenhsu.github.io
The Associated Students of @michiganstateu have voted on a resolution that calls for the university to #FireStephenHsu.
statenews.com/article/2020/0…
statenews.com/article/2020/0…
"There are 460 signatures in the open letter petitioning Hsu's removal that reference current affiliation with @michiganstateu ...
In the open letter urging that Hsu remains at his post, about 90 signatures reference any affiliation with MSU."
statenews.com/article/2020/0…
In the open letter urging that Hsu remains at his post, about 90 signatures reference any affiliation with MSU."
statenews.com/article/2020/0…
Yes, exactly.
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