Thought Criminal Discovered! Soon to be jobless!

A professor made the mistake of posting something on the neo-Nazi white supremacist racist transphobic homophobic Islamaphobic website called 'Quillette'.

This thought criminal's story can be found here: https://quillette.com/2020/01/11/demoted-and-placed-on-probation/

He'll be out of a job within a year, if he lasts that long. Anti-Fa may turn up at his classes or home, and force the issue. Why should sensitive students put up with having to even see this monster on their campus?

This should happen to all who commit Thoughtcrime. In fact, he got off lightly. Within a few more years, this Trump-loving terrorist will be facing criminal charges, and will go to prison, unless he learns to keep his reactionary fascist beliefs strictly to himself. (And by 'to himself' I mean exactly that: good Progessives will need to learn about Pavel Morozov and start encouraging all American children to follow his shining example.)

 

This statement couldn’t be more true today!


“It made me realize that although we sometimes advocate for diverse opinions, we often shut down a certain group of opinions, which is hypocritical and very dangerous. I think that in order to learn and grow, we have to hear viewpoints that we disagree with, which is unfortunately not something that happens often enough in our society.”

 

A good thought. Who said that?

 

Well, he's not a thought criminal, it was what he did that caused the problem.

But I do agree that all opinions should be heard, and shot down if others disagree, without any such sanction being applied.

 

This is an interesting distinction.

If you have an opinion or belief that those with power don't like, but you never say or write it ... are you really a thought criminal?

In one sense, yes, you are an Oldthinker, and as we know, Oldthinkers unbellyfeel ProgSoc, so they should be condemned.
But it's like the Berkelean question of, if no one is in the forest to hear the tree fall, did it make a sound?

If you think that women and men are different, but pretend to agree that they are not, by keeping your mouth shut if the subject comes up ... everyone will think you agree. You will be safe.

And yet... I think a distinction should be made between someone who voices an opinion that those with power disagree with, and a person who actually does something which is perhaps caused
by that opinion.

For instance, in the case of this man, I would want to know, did he treat his female students differently than his male students? Being more critical of them, for example? Teachers can have a very bad effect
on students, simply by raising an eyebrow at the wrong time. "What? You believe that? " And if a teacher does do this, he needs to be corrected, at least if it's blatant.

But in this case, I would bet that we simply have the Thoughtpolice jumping into action. No one in his class complained ... the action was triggered by something he wrote: his opinions are
evil, according to the modern heresy-hunters.

This trend is not going to change. In fact, it will speed up and intensify.

 

Take race, for example. Many people are probably racist, but choose not to express their views because they don't want to insult people of a different ethnic background, whether black, white or any other shade. So they're not racist in their behaviour. If you make disparaging remarks about other people based on their race then you will get abused, and rightly so. But people can choose their friends, so it's not racist to choose to socialise with white, or black, or brown people if that's what you want to do.

You can understand that people in power will censor what their employees say, simply because it may affect their business/institution in a negative way. In fact employees have their freedoms reduced in many ways, especially when they are at work. Business takes precedence over freedom of speech.

 

You're not wrong, although I think the concept of 'racist' needs to be expanded.... there are all kinds of 'racists', ranging from KKK types who would gas all non-whites, to people who simply prefer to sit at the table in the school cafeteria with other people who look like them. In fact, all people, including the morst virtue-signalling progressives, are 'racist' to some degree, since they know what contemporary social reality is with respect to, say, violent crime, and automatically make statistical generalizations on which they act.

My test for racism: you're walking down the street at night. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn around, and it turns out to be three young white men, not three young Blacks. Do you feel relieved? Then you're a racist, or 'on the racist spectrum', even if you quickly say, "Oh, it's because of the legacy of slavery, it's because of the terrible racist discrimination they face when they desperatel seek a job," etc. You felt relieved, because they were not Black.

And as for businesses firing, or not hiring, people because their customers might not like it. Yes, this is true.

As a member of the "Progressive Youth Association" in 1961, I and a few other white kids from the Unitarian Church, and some Black young people, picketed Foley's Department Store day after day in downtown Houston , because they would not hire Blacks. What white woman would want to have a Black person handling the clothes she was planning to buy? "Don't Shop Where You Can't Work!" was our slogan.

But I think it took government legislation to force businesses to do the right thing.