Valentina Azarova’s cancellation by UofT last year also generated massive pushback. Yet Cathy had no trouble treating that response as typical, and on that basis, playing down the Right’s threat to faculty free speech.
cathy.arcdigital.media/p/israel-and-t…
cathy.arcdigital.media/p/israel-and-t…
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1447323419851247618
The same thing happened when Emily Wilder and NHJ were cancelled. The pushback was enormous, but was it typical? After all, they are very high profile!
Cathy says yes, so how bad can the danger really be?
cathy.arcdigital.media/p/cancel-cultu…
Cathy says yes, so how bad can the danger really be?
cathy.arcdigital.media/p/cancel-cultu…
Invariably? Invariably academics rally to their Leftwing colleague under fire? Tell that to Nathan Jun, whose life this past year was absolutely annihilated. What, beyond a few supportive tweets, has any pundit Left, Right, or Center done on his behalf?
https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1445419596136263687
Suppose I said that Shor’s soft landing suggests that lower profile “dissident” libs have nothing to fear from the woke Left. How would you respond? I hope you’d respond in a similar fashion to this.
https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1401224209259405320
NHJ, Azarova, Shor, and Wilder are all extremely high profile or were well known within their particular profession at the time of their cancellation. That ought to affect how you evaluate the meaning of their respective fates. But be consistent about it.
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