Last month @codeorg congratulated Stanford professor Jeffrey Ullman for winning the Turing Award (the Nobel prize of computer science). We then learned this professor has a long history of bigotry, especially against Iranians like myself.
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Plus, read his FAQ page “Answers to All Questions Iranian”, and imagine instead it were an FAQ about Jews. Or Blacks. Or any other group. Pretend you’re a student, this is your professor, and he refuses to take down this page despite repeated complaints: https://web.archive.org/web/20200129080549/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/iranian.html …
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It's against what I believe in, but it's not racist. Here's what he writes in that link: "One correspondent commented 'It is well known that I hate Iranians,' even though the article doesn't mention Iran explicitly, and I actually have no such feelings." 1/2
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I've encountered so many amazing students from Sharif University of Technology. I hope this student went on to great grad program.
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We agree
. As I said, what he wrote is against what I believe in. It's just that him having strong geopolitical positions isn't the same thing as him being a racist. - Show replies
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