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Aella
@Aella_Girl
cool report, I particularly like that they seemed to attempt an even hand at addressing pressure from both political directions
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker
There is a myth that "cancel culture" is a myth. But literally hundreds of scholars have been targeted, & a majority of the attacks result in punishment, often firings. Report here: thefire.org/research/publi via @TheFIREorg
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@DLydbyrd
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@Aella_Girl
So 190 incidents across five years of people being "successfully" targeted from the left and only if you're still including people whose only sanction was an investigation (~20+ from my tallying?) and people who were reinstated (38)... Seems... less than I'd expect?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@DLydbyrd
It was less than I expected, yeah! I still think it's 'bad', like they're only really documenting the extreme which has a chilling effect on everyone, but it's still less than I would have guessed based on the discourse around it.
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