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The only solution to this sort of thing is if institutions only accept formal, in person complaints from members of that institution. To do this they’d have to specifically recognize the problem of mob cancellation and decide to listen only to their own members.
Based on what little I’ve read about his situation, and general academic conventions, I don’t think MIT should’ve cut the author’s speaking invitation. But him getting dragged on Twitter? Yeah, that’s going to happen when you write an op-Ed in Newsweek that oafishly compares DEI efforts to the Nazi purge of Jewish students and scholars: https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-16... > Ninety years ag…
What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob. There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you. You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”. That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.
This is a sad state of affairs where one can't even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines. In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood. In either case, it's not a good thing that one may not seek science…
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Based on what little I’ve read about his situation, and general academic conventions, I don’t think MIT should’ve cut the author’s speaking invitation. But him getting dragged on Twitter? Yeah, that’s going to happen when you write an op-Ed in Newsweek that oafishly compares DEI efforts to the Nazi purge of Jewish students and scholars: https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-16... > Ninety years ag…
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What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob. There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you. You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”. That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.
What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob. There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you. You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”. That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.
At this point crying cancellation is just a marketing ploy that specific people do before they launch their next book.