by like_any_other | 2025-07-20 19:26:54+00:00
Over 4 in 10 US and Canadian academics would not hire a Trump supporter, and 1 in 3 British academics would not hire a Brexit supporter.

In the US, over a third of conservative academics and PhD students have been threatened with disciplinary action for their views while 70% of conservative academics report a hostile departmental climate for their beliefs. - https://www.cspicenter.com/p/academic-freedom-in-crisis-puni...

Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What; Public health experts decried the anti-lockdown protests as dangerous gatherings in a pandemic. Health experts seem less comfortable doing so now that the marches are against racism. - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-corona...

Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. - published in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000306512110085...

‘American Political Thought’ course at CU Denver removes all white men from curriculum - https://www.thecollegefix.com/american-political-thought-cou...

Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.” High-school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.” - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-walz-brings-liberated-ethnic...

Guidance aims to encourage ‘anti-racist’ teacher training to maintain diverse educator workforce - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/25/teachers-taught-...

The Biden-Harris administration has been conditioning funding at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine (STEMM) on “diversity statements” and equity requirements in what academics are calling a “politicized litmus test.” - https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-admin-requires-co...

Masters course renamed as academics worry term suggests ‘nationalist narratives’ - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/31/anglo-saxon-canc...

University of South Carolina Requires Students to Affirm Value of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ - https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-of-south-carolina-r...

"treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity" - Harvard University professor Noel Ignatiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev

Abolish the White Race - Harvard Magazine https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/abolish-the-white-ra...

Mega-Study Finds That Minorities Don’t Receive Harsher Criminal Punishments, But That Academics Said So Anyway [..] A prior meta-study looking for racial bias in juvenile criminal sentences, for example, also found no statistically significant evidence of racism. Yet the Northeastern University professor who was its lead author, writing in the Journal of Criminal Justice, did not make that finding the paper’s takeaway. Instead, he disputed his own evidence, writing: “However, simple claims that race does not matter are also not supported by existing knowledge,” concluding the situation was “nuanced,” because, in certain sub-categories, the numbers differed slightly by race—even though if racism were actually to blame, such factors would be across the board, and all in one direction. - https://www.dailywire.com/news/mega-study-finds-that-minorit... (If you think that the Daily Wire is unreliable, have a look at the studies themselves then: Study from the title of that article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13591... Study referred to in the quote: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

Gee I wonder why academia is under attack.. must be because they're so principled and objective, speaking truth to power. And the explicitly ideological purges, sorry, hiring decisions, are never referred to as "attacks" - if they're referred to at all.