about me. the nation should care about all of us being able to express our opinions openly. and in particular that we have academic freedom. because that s going to help in the search for truth. and then ultimately developing new scientific technicques and new theorys that will improve society. dr. abbott, thanks for being here. okay, thank you very much. what are your thoughts, tweet me @smerconish. go to my facebook bepage, what we have? from twitter, depends on how you view cancel culture positively or nothing tifl, as most of it is driven by the left. i agree with dr. abbott. we re not talking hate speech. hate speech needs to be done away with like potter stewart, we know it when we see it. there are other things getting looped into that category that need to be part of our discourse.
that involves personal politics overshadowing work. the head of the department is stepping down from that position because the university refused his choice of guest speaker on climate science because of the speaker s political views. romps explained his resignation, saying quote, it became unclear to me whether we could invite that scientist ever again, let alone now. excluding people because of their political and social diminishes the pool of scientists with which members of the basc, and more broadly such exclusion signals that some opinions are forbidden. the guest, geo fizzist university chicago professor dorian abbott had previously been disinvited from speaking at m.i.t., following complaints. last year, abbott posted several
equity so completely that was willing to fire the same upper middle class volunteers that it relies on for charitable donations. in other words, the blue hairs are out, as tour guides, notwithstanding that they spent 18 months getting trained. and they don t even get paid. the diversity issue also somewhat bizarrely led to the resignation of the head of the uc berkeley atmosphere center. physicist david romps who was unhappy when a colleague from another university, dorian abbott, you ll meet him in a moment, was not invited to give a lecture about climate change because he s voiced opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion programs and had been already cancelled by the twitter mob from m.i.t. of course, the biggest recent story in the cancel culture war is blowup over dave chappell s netflix special the closer. chappelle provocatively wrestles about the trans community and
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