Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Charlie Kirk
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If I found the right guy on Scopus (correct name and affiliation? Bret S Weinstein and Evergreen State College), he has a h-index of 2. That makes him an academic nobody, not a respected academic. How do you separate professor (the highest academic rank) with professor as basically a teacher, in the US? Because there must be some subtext I'm missing here.It's weird how people can be respected academics for 2 decades with no issues, but as soon as they take the "wrong position" on 2 issues, all of the sudden they should be relegated to "performative reactionaries"
I'm sure that's what was going through Bret Weinstein's mind... "I'm going to throw away a $300k (guaranteed for life) tenured professor position after almost two decades, in hopes that I'll be able to be a guest on some podcasts some day"
Let's be honest here... When he was regularly refuting religious claims about creationism, not a single liberal had a problem with him. It was considered "speaking truth to power... if it offends someone, oh well". The moment he objected to a day of absence initiative in which White professors and students were encouraged to not show up for a day, that's when he found himself in progressive crosshairs.
In March 2017, Weinstein wrote a letter to faculty in which he objected to a suggestion pertaining to the college's decades-old tradition of observing a "Day of Absence", during which ethnic minority students and faculty would voluntarily stay away from campus to highlight their contributions to the college. An administrator had suggested that for that year white people stay off campus, and were invited to attend an off-campus program on race issues. Weinstein wrote that the change established a dangerous precedent:
Had that not happened, he'd still have been a golden boy of the progressives...at least until 2020, when he said some other things about vaccine mandates that got them bent out of shape.
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