The New Victim of Cancel Culture: Science
MIT has canceled a lecture to be given by physicist Dorian Abbot. His crime? Suggesting that merit should trump diversity when hiring.
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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.
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