Inclusion is bad
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He said "merit"
He is insane
Cancel culture backfires as thousands of students sign up for professor's Princeton lecture
Dorian Abbot's MIT lecture on climate science canceled over views on inclusion standards
A University of Chicago professor whose guest lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was called off amid outrage from campus activist groups is now being hosted by Princeton University, where thousands have already registered to hear the canceled speech.
The associate geophysics professor, Dorian Abbot, said activists and MIT academics were outraged by comments he made in an August Newsweek opinion piece, wherein he criticized current diversity, equity, and inclusion standards in higher education.
In the piece, Abbot proposed an alternative framework called "Merit, Fairness, and Equality," whereby university applicants are "treated as individuals" and "evaluated through rigorous and unbiased" processes based on merit and qualifications.
The professor also characterized the current diversity standards as "treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century."
An MIT spokesperson told The New York Post in a statement that the lecture on climate science and life on other planets, hosted by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, wasn’t being held this year "at the discretion of the department."
Now, Princeton has opted to take the reins and host Abbot’s lecture remotely on October 21, the very same day it was scheduled to take place at MIT.
A Princeton professor, Robert P. George, said in a Sunday tweet that the "Zoom quota" for the lecture had already been expanded to accommodate more attendees after the web conference limit was reached.
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You GO, Abbott.
Funny thing . . . the Fox piece failed to mention what if any counter protest there was at MIT to protest his lecture cancellation.
It certainly can't be that MIT -- the Mass Institute of Technology -- booed the professor 100% and Princeton showed that "thousands have already registered" to hear his talk.
Probably an innocent oversight.
