The President of @Princeton, Christopher L. Eisgruber, has condemned this piece of writing by their professor, Joseph Katz, & the administration is apparently "looking into the matter further" https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter/status/1282289675395313669?s=20">https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWh...
Another member of the Princeton faculty has claimed that the declaration we published has lead to death threats (unverifiable, of course) & she is calling on the President to censure Katz for "reckless endangerment"
The report in the Daily Princetonian unfortunately repeats a egregious & libellous claim made about Quillette in a dishonest attack piece in the @nation, written by a writer who openly sympathises with antifa
It& #39;s disappointing to have to defend ourselves from charges of racism, etc. We& #39;re political moderates who abhor racism. We support individual rights & civil liberties. We& #39;ve published thousands of articles if you want to comb through & find evidence of fascism, be my guest...
Back to the Declaration by Katz. Another Princeton faculty member--Chair of African American Studies described his writing as "triggering" and made him feel like he wasn& #39;t a person (?)

Hyperbole, much?
Not surprisingly, at least one student has said the declaration "merits a formal inquiry," however she doesn& #39;t believe that Katz should "lose his tenured appointment" (how gracious)
In a week in which many discussions about Cancel Culture have been taking place, I would argue that this is a perfect example of how Cancel Culture operates.
Step 2. The writing is widely praised in the larger academic community for its courage & attracts positive comments & tweets from well known scholars around the world. Goes semi-viral.

Step 3. It is denounced in the professor& #39;s immediate academic community.
Step 4. No counter-argument is sent to Quillette for us to publish. No op-ed response is written. No debate is entered into. Aggrieved faculty & students mobilise internal administrative mechanisms to formally censure him.
Step 5. A petition is set-up that is signed by dozens of students.

Step 6. In reports on the episode, only aggrieved students & faculty are interviewed. Supporters are ignored or erased.
Step 7. In reports, the publication in which the professor& #39;s writing appears in is maligned with 2nd-hand defamatory accusations.

Step 8. The professor is rebuked by students, faculty, the university President & university newspaper & he may be subject to a formal inquiry.
Step 9. Although the professor can& #39;t be fired (tenure), he may be stripped of administrative roles & formally censured.

Step 10. Other academics who are watching realise that if they want to defend their principles in the face of activist demands, a similar fate awaits them.
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