{"id":5104,"date":"2020-12-05T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:33:23","slug":"university-of-chicago-refuses-to-punish-professor-who-opposed-anti-white-diversity-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"University of Chicago Refuses to Punish Professor Who Opposed Anti-White &#8220;Diversity&#8221; Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\tFANTASTIC: A WHITE PROFESSOR STANDS UP: A VICTORY: UChicago refuses \nto punish professor protested for criticizing diversity, equity and \ninclusion efforts\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historyreviewed.best\/index.php\/fantastic-a-white-professor-stands-up-a-victory-uchicago-refuses-to-punish-professor-protested-for-criticizing-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts\/\"> 4th December 2020<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/historyreviewed.best\/index.php\/fantastic-a-white-professor-stands-up-a-victory-uchicago-refuses-to-punish-professor-protested-for-criticizing-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts\/#disqus_thread\">0 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(001709.97-E004822.34NNORLOACC20V)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Finally\n a White man stands up, a scientist. We need this BADLY. BADLY. The \nuniversities are dominated by Jews, and their evils know no bounds. The \ninsanity is beyond imagination. Here is a professor who went on to \nsocial media and did his thing. This is what many white doctors and \nexperts have done in the insane covid year of 2020. I hope this is the \nfirst of many. It&#8217;s about time Western intellectuals, scientists and \nacademics stood up to this Jewish insanity. This gives me hope and this \nis why I say: WORSE IS BETTER, just keep your head down and keep on \nfighting forward. DON&#8217;T STOP. Educate other Whites and get stuck into \nthe fight folks. Jan]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/historyreviewed.best\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/historyreviewed.best\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-4.png?resize=800%2C800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19671\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u2018To anyone who is reading this, I would say: don\u2019t be afraid. If you see something wrong, speak <\/strong><strong>out about it,\u2019 embattled professor tells <\/strong><\/em><strong>The College Fix<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Chicago has refused demands to punish a science \nprofessor for speaking out against diversity, equity and inclusion \nefforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Professor Dorian Abbot recently took on the push to hire \nwomen and underrepresented minorities rather than select the best \ncandidate for the job, bias against Chinese and Christian students, and \nother hot-button topics, drawing the ire of protesting students who said\n the scholar made them feel unsafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But their efforts to get him sanctioned failed at the University of \nChicago, considered the best university in the country for free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just a simple physical scientist. The way I\u2019ve always approached\n my life is to tell the truth and try to do what is morally right,\u201d \nAbbot wrote in an email to <em>The College Fix<\/em>. Abbot is (and it looks like he will continue to be) a professor of geophysical science at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Abbot cut a series of videos in which he listed his specific \ngrievances with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, \u201c58 students \nand postdocs of the Department of Geophysical Sciences, and 71 other \ngraduate students and postdocs from other University of Chicago \ndepartments,\u201d published a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1fCOezNmxmaeVLSirrYp9y2nzy7m9Yr-rgPulwW-eNDw\/edit\">letter<\/a> calling for Abbot to be sanctioned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/university-of-chicago-president-robert-j-zimmer-affirm-prof-dorian-abbot-s-right-to-free-speech-and-uphold-the-chicago-principles\">according<\/a> to a petition in support of the professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe contents of Professor Dorian Abbot\u2019s videos threaten the safety \nand belonging of all underrepresented groups within the department and \nserve to undermine Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives,\u201d the \nletter stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University President Robert Zimmer would not bow to their demands, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe universities have an important role as places where novel\n and even controversial ideas can be proposed, tested and debated. For \nthis reason, the University does not limit the comments of faculty \nmembers, mandate apologies, or impose other disciplinary consequences \nfor such comments,\u201d he wrote in a Nov. 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/president.uchicago.edu\/page\/statement-faculty-free-expression-and-diversity\">statement<\/a> to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbot praised the decision in his email to <em>The Fix.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Zimmer has a long-standing commitment to academic freedom \nand this is a central part of the UChicago brand. Critically, our \ncommitment to academic freedom has been codified many times, most \nrecently in the \u2018Chicago Principles,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/provost.uchicago.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/reports\/FOECommitteeReport.pdf\">Chicago Principles<\/a>\u201d\n he references were also mentioned by Zimmer in his statement. Defined \nin 2014, they constitute the university\u2019s \u201cfundamental commitment \u2026 to \nthe principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because \nthe ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the \nUniversity community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe current \u2018cancel culture,\u2019\u201d Abbot told <em>The College Fix<\/em>, \n\u201chas a powerful chilling effect on faculty, who fear for their jobs if \nthey speak their minds on critically important issues affecting the \nfuture of our universities and our society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, \u201cI feel that it is my duty to express my opinion on important matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat concerns me is that recently we have been trying to fix bias \nproblems by building new biases into selection processes,\u201d Abbot writes \nin his first video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1J_vf46R100Q84PBcScdoD0Z7QVfKC7gy\/view\">personal account<\/a>\n from Abbot, the university\u2019s Title IX office wanted to investigate some\n of his claims, and the comment sections of the videos became a \nbattleground where \u201ca productive conversation was not occurring.\u201d As a \nresult, he took them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the videos have since been deleted from YouTube, the petition in support of Abbot managed <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1w6zMi55IYDlacpn38C7X7xRVM8ZYDqhy\/view\">to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1uTpoGS-Jo_K01UANDN-Gqmj5JbwfKMlT\/view\">save<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OAPz7hTw_C4YAGgvfxEztFj4vC4jkSBh\/view\">the slides<\/a> from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recounts experiences he had on selection committees for \napplicants. In many cases, although fewer women applied to the programs \nthan men, the committee would select more women, implying preferential \ntreatment, according to Abbot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point, he claims that a dean once told members of a hiring \ncommittee on which he served that the only applicant that would be \nconsidered for the position would be \u201ca woman or underrepresented \nminority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second video sees Abbot claim that there have been instances of \ndiscrimination against Chinese students in his department. Other top \nuniversities, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/harvard-admissions-is-not-biased-against-asian-americans-appeals-court-rules\/\">Harvard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/yale-denounces-hasty-two-year-federal-investigation-that-found-it-discriminates-against-asians-whites\/\">Yale<\/a>, have been accused of doing the same in their admissions processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbot also mentions a conservative Christian student of his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is always being excluded,\u201d Abbot says, \u201cand his opinions and cherished beliefs are mocked and dismissed regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the third video, Abbot discusses the Shills Report. Produced by a \ncommittee of UChicago scholars (including a Nobel Prize winner), the \nreport catalogs the three main functions of modern universities: \ndiscovering new knowledge, teaching students that knowledge, and \ntraining students for future careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbot adds his own corollary to the Shills report, detailing what universities are not supposed to be doing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>(1) advocating particular political ideologies,<br>\n(2) religious instruction of the population,<br>\n(3) attempting to adjudicate and effect social justice, and<br>\n(4) providing for the national defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fourth and final video, Abbot paints the big-picture \nimplications of the current \u201ccancel culture\u201d debate, naming \n\u201cconsequences of treating human beings primarily as members of<br>\ngroups rather than as individuals worthy of dignity and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OAPz7hTw_C4YAGgvfxEztFj4vC4jkSBh\/view\">specifically references<\/a>\n the Holodomor, a famine in modern-day Ukraine. In its rush toward \ncollectivization, the USSR forced peasant farmers they called \u201cKulaks\u201d \nonto farming collectives. When the inefficiencies of the collectives \nbrought about the famine, the government increased the peasants\u2019 grain \nquotas, leading millions to starve to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many scholars, along with the Ukrainian government, have classified the Holodomor as an act of genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe only way \u2018cancel culture\u2019 ends is for all of us to stand strong and when an attack comes, hold the line,\u201d Abbot told <em>The Fix.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat said, try to understand the other side\u2019s perspective and speak \nin a way that is as generous and loving as possible,\u201d he advised. \n\u201cSometimes they will be unwilling to reason, and you will just have to \nsay your piece and move on. If we all try our best to do that, then I am\n optimistic that we will get through this unfortunate phase in our \nsociety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo anyone who is reading this, I would say: don\u2019t be afraid. If you see something wrong, speak out about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbot said he hopes that his good reputation on campus will be maintained. If not, he is prepared for what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo quote the old Kris Kristofferson song: \u2018Don\u2019t let the bastards get you down.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/uchicago-refuses-to-punish-professor-protested-for-criticizing-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts\/\">https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/uchicago-refuses-to-punish-professor-protested-for-criticizing-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FANTASTIC: A WHITE PROFESSOR STANDS UP: A VICTORY: UChicago refuses to punish professor protested for criticizing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts 4th December 20200 Comments (001709.97-E004822.34NNORLOACC20V)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [Finally a White man stands up, a scientist. We need this BADLY. BADLY. 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