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by tptacek 2170 days ago
Where by "we" you appear to mean "The University of California" and by "cancel" you mean "didn't cancel".

From the same article, in its update:

Contrary to what has been reported, no one at the University of California is prohibited from making statements such as “America is a melting pot,”

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> Contrary to what has been reported, no one at the University of California is prohibited from making statements such as “America is a melting pot,”

Simply being discouraged from saying something is scary enough. Look at the UCLA professor who didn't give his students extra time on the tests and received death threats. The silencing is deafening. Maybe you should try to hear it.

This is what I refer to: https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/ucla-suspends-professor-for-re...