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Cancel culture IRL

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I'm not sure if this lawsuit belongs in this thread or the 'Critical Race Theory Thread' (Although I really dislike the term 'Critical Race Theory', the reworked 19thC underpinnings of much of what is called 'Critical Race Theory' are painfully apparent.)


The lawsuit is made by a former member of NYCs Legal Aid service who comitted the crime of disagreeing with the holders of 19th Century ideas like collective racial guilt...


https://www.fairforall.org/content/pdfs/profiles/2021-07-12-maron-sdny-complaint-full.pdf
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Losing his job in a spectacular boomer-tirade is probably not doing much to prove his daughter wrong.
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He's the most Boomer-sounding name -- Howard Zlotkin. Everything about the interaction reads like parody. But, yeah, those woke liberal teachers cramming their ideology down the throats of wide-eyed youngins.
 
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From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education an ongoing saga.



McMinnville, Ore., April 29, 2021 — A university embroiled in sexual abuse scandals has abruptly fired a tenured professor who criticized the handling of those controversies and alleged that the university’s president and chair of its Board of Trustees made anti-Semitic comments. In the process, Linfield University shamelessly conceded that it afforded the professor no due process, claiming that “termination for cause” does not require due process if the cause is not “related to their responsibilities and duties as a professor.”
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https://www.thefire.org/tenured-pro...tic-speech-by-linfield-universitys-president/


As the fallout continues over Linfield University’s summary termination of a tenured professor — with no process whatsoever — the Chronicle of Higher Education’s new story on the controversy is a must-read. As FIRE detailed yesterday, Linfield University’s senior leadership abruptly terminated Daniel Pollack-Pelzner after he criticized the university’s handling of sexual assault and harassment allegations against board members, and alleged that Linfield president Miles K. Davis had made a remark about “Jewish noses.” Davis has, until now, denied that claim.

The Chronicle conducted interviews with Linfield’s dissembling leadership as they frantically grasp for any credible explanation for why they terminated a tenured faculty member with no process — a severance so quick that the professor learned of his termination because he got an auto-response from his own email address explaining that “Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is no longer an employee of Linfield University.”
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https://www.thefire.org/linfield-un...-of-tenured-professor-daniel-pollack-pelzner/


A frozen laptop screen, an error message, then an automated reply from his own university email account announcing that he was no longer employed at Linfield University. That’s the total process — a generous description — that Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor, received after criticizing Linfield’s senior leadership, who summarily terminated him in what they called an “extraordinary step.” Now he’s suing.
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https://www.thefire.org/linfield-un...-of-tenured-professor-daniel-pollack-pelzner/
 
A naïve researcher published a scientific article in a respectable journal. She thought her article was straightforward and defensible. It used only publicly available data, and her findings were consistent with much of the literature on the topic. Her coauthors included two distinguished statisticians. To her surprise her publication was met with unusual attacks from some unexpected sources within the research community. These attacks were by and large not pursued through normal channels of scientific discussion. Her research became the target of an aggressive campaign that included insults, errors, misinformation, social media posts, behind-the-scenes gossip and maneuvers, and complaints to her employer. The goal appeared to be to undermine and discredit her work. The controversy was something deliberately manufactured, and the attacks primarily consisted of repeated assertions of preconceived opinions. She learned first-hand the antagonism that could be provoked by inconvenient scientific findings. Guidelines and recommendations should be based on objective and unbiased data. Development of public health policy and clinical recommendations is complex and needs to be evidence-based rather than belief-based. This can be challenging when a hot-button topic is involved.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033062021000670
 
US Senator from Oklahoma has opinions about free speech.

What a difference a day makes:

yesterday said:
Biden thinks free speech is dangerous. Oklahomans don't need the Biden thought police telling us how to think & feel. We can understand information w/o their help. I'm more concerned w/ DC controlling speech than I am of some people passing wrong information. Let people speak.
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https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1417469349619658756

today said:
We should immediately block the sale of all #Benandjerrys in the state and in any state-operated facility to align with our law.
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https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1417813412395077632
 
d4m10n said:
I imagine both sides will feel fully justified in their respective boycotts.
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Yeah, but are both sides actually justified? One is plainly unconstitutional, and the other is 1A protected speech, so both sides are not actually the same. Turns out the right wing that can't stop crying about cancel culture has no problem wielding state power to silence dissent.
 
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//I thought we had a thread about product name changes already, but I can't find it.//

The MLB American Baseball Team Cleveland Indians are changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians starting next season.
 
d4m10n said:
In performing boycotts? I mean, sure. Free minds, free markets, etc.

(If you're talking about the Oklahoma anti-boycott law, that's another matter.)
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Yes, the thing I explicitly brought up as an example of cancel culture hypocrisy is "another matter".
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Yes, the thing I explicitly brought up as an example of cancel culture hypocrisy is "another matter".
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Yes, it is another matter.

I was responding to the poster who said "It's only wrong when the Democrats do it." But "it" cannot mean passing laws of the sort you're talking about here, it must mean something more generalizable such as boycotts.
 
JoeMorgue said:
//I thought we had a thread about product name changes already, but I can't find it.//

The MLB American Baseball Team Cleveland Indians are changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians starting next season.
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OUR PRECIOUS HISTORY.

Why even go to ball games if I can't see racist caricatures? The wokescolds strike again
 
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Seriously, who are you even talking about with this post? Which "wokescolds"? You're railing against an imaginary opponent.
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"Why does MLB hate Indians?" asked Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

"I will NEVER call them the Cleveland Guardians," right-wing TV host John Cardillo tweeted, adding: "It's moronic."

Much of the animus seemed to stem from the fact that the "guardians" referred to by the team are local icons that are not well-known outside the city — four New Deal-era statues, the "Guardians of Traffic," that overlook a bridge near the team's stadium, Progressive Field.

Even former President Donald Trump got in on the action, releasing a vitriol-filled statement that called the name change "such a disgrace," among other things.

"I guarantee that the people who are most angry about it are the many Indians of our Country," he said. "A small group of people, with absolutely crazy ideas and policies, is forcing these changes to destroy our culture and heritage. At some point, the people will not take it anymore!"
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https://www.salon.com/2021/07/23/right-wingers-really-care-about-the-cleveland-indians-all-of-a-sudden-following-name-change/

Seems the usual set of dumbasses are pretending to be upset about it.
 
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