Students at University of Sussex, acting immaturely & engaged in a kind of modern witch burning, should be deeply ashamed.
But even more ashamed should be Professor Stock's colleagues, who should have rallied to publicly defend her & principle of open discourse at a *university*
For views like this “I feel very worried for teenagers who are now foreclosing reproductive possibilities and their future... based on an idea that they may come to relinquish at a later date” students at Sussex engaged in a kind of modern witch-burning. theguardian.com/education/2021…
"Three of Stock’s four fellow professors of philosophy at Sussex told me that they supported her academic freedom, but none would say so publicly." newstatesman.com/politics/femin… via @harrytlambert This is how witch-burning happened. It's worth publicly defending principles.
I wholly agree with @fromTGA “Whatever your views on her views on gender and sexual identity, every civilised person must condemn this harassment... It’s discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination, harassment in the name of anti-harassment.”
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I recently learned of these written records regarding the father of Agamemnon. The myths, and the history, and the archaeology are all so moving — stretching across time (almost) immemorial.
Blow by blow of appalling administrator behavior via @TheFIREorg: 'When Colbert hadn’t apologized, Cosgrove sent an email to Yale Law’s entire second-year class to “condemn in the strongest possible terms” the assertedly “pejorative and racist language.”' thefire.org/how-yale-law-s…
Such a public email, at odds with the facts, is indeed an administrative sanction of the student, and was unwarranted. This indicates the falsity of the claim by this elite law school that 'nothing was done' to the student.
I am confused because Yale Law School says "at no time was any... disciplinary action taken in this matter" but the deans required meetings and they sent an email to all of the student's peers falsely claiming his email was racist and "condemning" him and "addressing" his actions
MIT cancels geophysics lecture by @DorianAbbot about the climates of extra-solar planets after some people are outraged re his unrelated views on the harm arising from certain kinds of diversity initiatives. Prof. Abbot reacts with grace. newsweek.com/mit-cancels-ge…
There is no right to be invited to speak at a college. But, once a person is invited, a college should never yield to demands to withdraw an invitation. People can protest if they want. But honoring demands for disinvitation is incompatible with the mission of a great university.
Love at first sight is such a fascinating scientific (and not just literary) phenomenon. cnn.com/travel/article… It's possible to imagine evolutionary origins for this experience. Its often reciprocated nature is an important clue.
Here is another recent example in the news (among many "Woodstock" couples; here Judy and Jerry Griffin): people.com/human-interest…
I think there are important environmental triggers to the love-at-first-sight phenomenon (including a heightened sense of expectation), and not just biological underpinnings, of course.