if that’s the most generous interpretation you can think of, then you must not be thinking very hard
like it turns out if you consider it for more than a tenth of a second, there are possible meanings of “martyr” that are actually well attested in this context, and scolding anti-genocide demonstrators over their optics is shitty behavior on a monumental scale
this is the kind of thing you do if you *didn’t* want open inquiry in science unimpeded by political pressure
the tagged ppl are: a politician, an activist, a blogger, a journalist, ex-spider biologist/activist, a lawyer, and a popsych author who is publicly aligned with zucker’s conversion therapy approach. they are offended by a letter by zucker’s peers that finds his work substandard
those expert peers are exercising their right of free association, a core tenet of academic freedom, to cease associating with a journal that has demonstrated that it is unable to execute its mandate for unbiased peer review and produces unscientific work asbopenletter.com
there are 1.5 million faculty in the united states, which puts your likelihood of experiencing a “cancellation attempt” at some point over 23 years at a whopping 0.072% chance. scared yet????
145 attempts in 2022 would mean 0.009% chance. and even if you’re one of the unlucky few to experience a “sanction attempt,” you’ve got a ridiculously good chance of keeping your job anyway lol
3/4 of the attempts were on untenured scholars?? ah well then @TheFIREorg you must be laser focused on labor protections, precarity, adjunctification, that kind of thing.
oh what’s this? are we out of touchy? no!! it’s the children who are wrong!
today i am thinking about the time jerry coyne and richard dawkins argued against viewpoint diversity
you see, when the available evidence overwhelmingly supports one side and not the other, you don’t have to invite the incorrect idea onto your campus for everyone to hem and haw about, obviously!
jerry coyne and richard dawkins: you see, proponents of invalid theories are trying to get legitimized by appearing in educational contexts despite their lack of substance. we shouldn’t allow them a platform lest people be fooled into thinking they’re worth considering!
we’ve spent nearly a century telling cons that liberal profs r indoctrinating students into marxism, that they’re unable to recognize facts bc their ✨feelings✨ are too strong, that they’ll discriminate against cons. anyway my big plan is for con students to listen to lib profs
how about you work on your contempt for your students and colleagues first!
a master class in self-victimizing deflection, truly he is the best to ever do it
no mention of the many accounts of jamie reed lying to patients/prospective patients to prevent them from accessing healthcare. just a bunch of whining that people made jokes about why he deactivated that didn’t strictly comport with his earlier statement!
i won’t be rebutting the criticisms of my reporting and behavior because the people making them are ghouls
it doesn’t matter how much academic work christa produces, how many pages and pages of evidence she pores through and shares, in full context, as long as she commits the ultimate sin of talking about it in public they will always act like this about her
whatever format her analysis takes, they always pretend she’s just attacking them for no reason
and let’s be clear, the phrase “people she views as morally impure” are people who publish extreme claims by unvetted whistleblowers, people who advocate child conversion therapy and then pretend not to, and people who publish private medical information of minors without consent