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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We've been friends for over a decade. Cancelling people for racism is serious stuff. I just read the archived writings you linked to & your tweets don't seem proportionate. Can you share the source material about him hurting Iranian students? That's not in the link.
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I just heard about this from a completely different source (non-Iranian), so I'm inclined to take it seriously.
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I am taking it seriously which is why I want to read up on the facts. We cannot ruin people's lives and reputations over hearsay.
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Example email by professor Ullman to an Iranian student:pic.twitter.com/CHyHsCQOId
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Replying to @hadip @sujayjaswa and
This is what the student wrote to elicit such a response:pic.twitter.com/a6CWY2WuLB
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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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