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MIT has canceled a lecture to be given by physicist Dorian Abbot. His crime? Suggesting that merit should trump diversity when hiring.

Cancel culture seemed to have backfired in once instance, as thousands have registered to attend a guest lecture at Princeton University by a geophysics professor whose initial speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was canceled amid pressure from campus activists.

MIT canceled a visiting professor’s lecture after many took to Twitter to call out his views on diversity higher ed. 

There's more to science than science.

Without examination and challenge, there is little in the way of learning.

When did we decide that arguing was intolerable? Possibly it was when we determined that arguments were not about whether we were right or wrong but whether we were good

>> come on. look, this is a alaska, i just want to show you this, walking around 6:00 p.m., looking around. yeah. theres a lot that has to be unpacked when it comes to this. i have to run. i appreciate all the details and i appreciate your reporting. this isnt the end of this story, i believe. thank you so much. i appreciate it. only 4.7% of fbi special agents are black. well look at the bureaus diversity problem and what they have to do about it, next. not touching is still touching protectio...

That same time. so the operational plan, and i think this was important, too. u.s. park police had never planned to use tear gas. that was not part of their plan. that was used later by the metropolitan police department at a different location close by but not actually from the park police. >> all right, look. >> sorry. irng a lot about it. >> i like that youre giving us information. there are just too many quince denss and the attorney general was in the meeting and didnt tell them. >> yeah. >...

Up a website. if someone in the military sees what they believe are two progressive policies for pushing diversity programs, what they call like -- that they can now report it anonymously to this website. kristal, do you have any concerns over this? >> well, i do have members, concerns that members of our congress, sitting in the senate, are using taxpayer dollars to waste time, quite frankly. and so, we have to ask ourselves, if there was not a diversity problem in the military, why would a pro...

>> the fact that the city hall press corp. is overwhelmingly white has very little in the way of diversity is an embarrassment. howie: clarence, you seem to agree with the democratic mayor that theres a diversity problem, press including but couldnt she have done that on this day im only going the talk to journalists of color. >> well, yeah. im not going the take any exclusion. ive been a tribune staffer on and off and we have only had a chance not just in chicago but across the country of media...