The most outrageous example of Campus PC being out of control since the Oberlin student said a pulled pork sandwich shouldn’t be called “banh mi”
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“Cancel culture” whining doesn’t get much more frivolous than this:
Every day in America countless wage workers are fired for silly or unfair or arbitrary reasons, and these people write blogs complaining about how their academic enemies…prevent their courses from being formally cross-listed pic.twitter.com/48vy50XJCy— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 7, 2022
For people outside of academia wondering if there is any material significance to this “punishment,” trust me — there isn’t. It’s every bit as stupid as it sounds.
As we’ve said before, this represents in part a willful fundamental misunderstanding of what tenure is and what it isn’t:
Tenure is a guarantee of due process that inter alia gives you the ability to voice unpopular views without being fired. It is not a guarantee that your unpopular views will be popular with your co-workers— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 7, 2022
The vast majority of American workers, needless to say, would be thrilled to have the option to walk away with a nice life-guaranteed pension if they decide they don’t like their co-workers. A few people start blogs to whine about how they’re among the most oppressed people on Earth.
And since Bari (“Free Speech! Also professors who disagree with me about Israeli politics should be fired!”) Weiss published this, you can probably guess the punchline:
They can't even keep up the pretense for a whole blog https://t.co/P6HBATDrmt— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 7, 2022