Academic Free Speech Controversies

This is one: https://x.com/JohnDSailer/status/1883648993974169641I have friends in faculty positions at well-known universities who were very unhappy about these practices, but could not publicly discuss it fearing repercussion, prior to these events.TBC, I am not supporting any of the things happening. I do think the DEI thing went too far, but what the new a

This is the professor's response to the incident, https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-an.... It was posted here previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28757882, but was flagged afterwards.

Apparently you’re not the only subordinate he’s loaded off in academia. https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Free_Speech.html

Yes, this story is about a mainstream US academic quitting his post, making serious allegations of anti-intellectual behavior against a mainstream US public university.That appears to be obviously appropriate for HN, and is not about "politics"; it's about institutions of higher education.Mods, if you are reading: does it not look rather as if a contingent of HN readers are abusing the "flagged" link to flag content that they don't agree with (as opposed to fl

Cornel West's resignation[0] seems to lend credence to your viewpoint.[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015632217/cornel-west-has-an...

A quick Google suggests the author was subject to a bit of adverse publicity for tweeting "Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth" and continues to publish and teach at the same institution after making his excuses and apologies and getting a formal warning.It's a sad irony indeed if it's people frowning on that comment that's lead him to lecture everyone else

tl;dr: professor tweets statement university disagrees with and gets fired, professor writes open letter rebuking them

I've already cited examples. You dismissed them because they don't fit your arbitrary narrow criteria.Want another? Stephen Hsu. Forced to resign for discussing research that found no racial bias in incidents of officer-involved shootings.Another? After more than a decade at Harvard without complaints, Roland Fryer had several complaints filed against him shortly after he published research showing that Black and Hispanic Americans were no more likely than white Americans to be

Moderators: Can we please have a different link which attempts to provide more context?Maybe a news article like https://www.wilx.com/content/news/MSU-Vice-President-of-rese... or <a href="https://statenews.com/article/2020/06/asmsu-advocates-call-to-remove-stephen-hsu-as-

Interesting counterpoint: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/11/professor-quits-because...