Speaking the truth can be disastrous for your academic career. Lying to appease the ‘acceptable’ narrative costs you your integrity and soul.
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February 24, 2024 at 9:14 am
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Fryer’s treatment is what happens when cowardly people in positions of authority bend the knee to the mob rather than stand courageously on principle of respecting what’s true. Once that respect for what’s true is replaced with promoting a ‘correct’ narrative, we lose that essential common ground necessary for mutual respect. And we see the partisan social divide it creates and then get to ‘enjoy’ all suffer to varying degrees the consequences of acting on this mass delusion causes to everything it affects.
As National Post columnist Chris Selley said about Canada’s Ruling Party – but just as relevant to every other Western democracy today across the political spectrum – these authorities are led by the sort of people who are sincerely convinced they would never do the sorts of things they routinely do, or are in fact currently doing. That’s the divisive delusion in action. Fryer simply dared to demonstrate the truth about police shootings and unarmed black people (a lower rate than whites) so the widely endorsed BLM false narrative couldn’t handle the truth but had to survive this ‘attack’ at all costs. So… the courageous people – no matter what their political leanings may be – are the first victims against the narrative-in-action (again, this not a one-sided political problem but an endemic problem in all institutions). People like Fryer are simply the canaries in the coal mines.
If the truth is supposed to set you free, what is the result when the truth is Public Enemy Number One? Stay tuned…
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February 24, 2024 at 9:18 am
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Another right wing MAGA extremist, Larry Summers (a member of the board of directors of OpenAI, the former President of Harvard University, the former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and was a director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama):
“And I think there is a widespread sense—and it is, I think, unfortunately, with considerable validity—that many of our leading universities have lost their way; that values that one associated as central to universities—excellence, truth, integrity, opportunity—have come to seem like secondary values relative to the pursuit of certain concepts of social justice, the veneration of certain concepts of identity, the primacy of feeling over analysis, and the elevation of subjective perspective. And that has led to clashes within universities and, more importantly, an enormous estrangement between universities and the broader society.”
Gosh golly, maybe he’s on to something…
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