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Cornell chapter of Heterodox Society organizes a panel on academic witchhunts…

featuring two victims well-known to readers of the blog, Kathleen Stock and Rebecca Tuvel (whose views on trans issues are quite different, as it happens, but both have felt the wrath of the Wokerati).  Now the Department of Philosophy at Cornell and several other departments have organized an event at the very same time as the Stock/Tuvel event, billed as a "celebration of transgender scholarship and life, to counter anti-trans speech on campus and abroad."  While this is better than trying to shutdown the Stock/Tuvel event, it certainly confirms the basic problem.  I'm sure all readers can guess at least one of the Cornell philosophers participating in the counter-event, a well-known opponent of academic freedom and free speech.

 

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