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Geophysicist Dorian Abbot, of University of Chicago, had been invited to give a Zoom-based lecture at MIT on climate and the potential for life on other planets.
MIT then uninvited him because he had the unmitigated audacity to suggest that admissions to universities be based on merit.
How dare he.
In response, Abbot was invited to give the lecture at Princeton, and literally thousands of people have signed up for it; far more than were signed up at MIT.
MIT told him it was canceling the lecture to “avoid controversy” after students and recent alumni demanded he be uninvited because he’d recently argued academic evaluations should be based on merit.
Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’
How sad a society are we that even the mere suggestion that admission to institutes of higher learning be anything but merit based cause someone to be treated so poorly by an institute of higher learning. It certainly reflects poorly on MIT.
I employ two MIT graduates. One is an older guy who went through MIT back when being smart actually meant something to MIT. The other is a younger guy who's definitely fully woke. There will not be a third. We usually get two or three resumes and employment applications from MIT grads every year. I've instructed my HR Director to place such resumes into the round file, simply because I can no longer be certain whether the people submitting them got into MIT because of their intellect and work ethic or for the color of their skin.
I applaud Princeton University...
MIT then uninvited him because he had the unmitigated audacity to suggest that admissions to universities be based on merit.
How dare he.
In response, Abbot was invited to give the lecture at Princeton, and literally thousands of people have signed up for it; far more than were signed up at MIT.
MIT told him it was canceling the lecture to “avoid controversy” after students and recent alumni demanded he be uninvited because he’d recently argued academic evaluations should be based on merit.
Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’
How sad a society are we that even the mere suggestion that admission to institutes of higher learning be anything but merit based cause someone to be treated so poorly by an institute of higher learning. It certainly reflects poorly on MIT.
I employ two MIT graduates. One is an older guy who went through MIT back when being smart actually meant something to MIT. The other is a younger guy who's definitely fully woke. There will not be a third. We usually get two or three resumes and employment applications from MIT grads every year. I've instructed my HR Director to place such resumes into the round file, simply because I can no longer be certain whether the people submitting them got into MIT because of their intellect and work ethic or for the color of their skin.
I applaud Princeton University...
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