This story of cancel culture would be laughable were it not for the fact that it is so serious. It involves an attempt by four Harvard Law School student groups to interfere in the employment of, and damage the career of, Professor Adrian Vermeule.
This reflects an ongoing attempt by leftwing students to purge academia of viewpoints that do not perfectly align with the social justice and Black Lives Matter orthodoxy. Much like during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, students lead the way in belittling and trying to damage dissident professors, with public shaming and institutional ritualized denunciations preferred methods of intimidation.
We’ve covered so many of these cases just in the last few months, it’s almost too much to count, but includes: Cornell Chemistry Prof.
David Collum, UCF Psychology Prof.
Charles Negy, U. Chicago Geophysicist Prof.
Dorian Abbot, McGill Univ. Anthropology Emeritus Prof.
Philip Carl Salzman, U. Miami Law Prof.
Dan Ravicher, USC Business Prof.
Greg Patton, Princeton Classics Prof.
Joshua Katz, several Skidmore College
professors, University of North Texas Music Theory Prof.
Gregory Jackson, Michigan State Physics Prof.
Stephen Hsu, and …,
William Jacobson.
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Student Cancel Mob Comes For Harvard Law Prof. Adrian Vermeule Over Tweets Mocking Leftists