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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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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
So holding people (especially students) accountable for the actions of a government they didn’t vote for is ok by you?
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I said the opposite! I said I disagreed with it, but that what I had seen didn’t qualify him as racist. Also that if we have a standard, we should be consistent in the application of it. By the way, I wouldn’t support harming those kids even if they voted for that government!
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