> I don’t think MIT should’ve cut the author’s speaking invitation.
"Oh but you said 'But' and we should ignore anything said after 'But...'". Sure, but if you could afford the slightest bit of nuance, you'd recognize that "don't cancel an academic lecture" and "making a bad-faith dumb Nazi comparison deserves to be dragged on twitter" are 2 different things? And asserting the former with the latter necessarily implies that academic decisions should not be made on the basis of social media outrage.
Abbot arguing that contemporary DEI campaigns are comparable to Nazism is distasteful on its face, but it's also reflects a shallow level of thinking and knowledge. Can he seriously not think of any other comparison from the last 90 years?
But again, the shallowness of his thinking in this area doesn't pertain to his speaking invitation.
> I don’t think MIT should’ve cut the author’s speaking invitation.
"Oh but you said 'But' and we should ignore anything said after 'But...'". Sure, but if you could afford the slightest bit of nuance, you'd recognize that "don't cancel an academic lecture" and "making a bad-faith dumb Nazi comparison deserves to be dragged on twitter" are 2 different things? And asserting the former with the latter necessarily implies that academic decisions should not be made on the basis of social media outrage.
Abbot arguing that contemporary DEI campaigns are comparable to Nazism is distasteful on its face, but it's also reflects a shallow level of thinking and knowledge. Can he seriously not think of any other comparison from the last 90 years?
But again, the shallowness of his thinking in this area doesn't pertain to his speaking invitation.