I mentioned the other day in a post that I had removed myself from a lot of email lists. One of them was virtually everything to do with Michigan State University, my alma mater.
I didn't support the wokeness that has taken over the campus, administration, etc.
This, however, is the icing on the cake.
Article: "Racist" College Researcher Ousted After Sharing Study Showing No Racial Bias In Police Shootings
You have to click over and read the entire thing. I can't explain it without basically copy/pasting the whole article.
The short of it is that he was fired for reporting research findings that don't align with the university's commitment to all things Woke and SJW. In other words, if you publish FACTS that go against the NARRATIVE, you can't work at Michigan State University.
Un.freaking. believable.
How nice to be a graduate of the next dumpster fire SJW woke Evergreen College.
Michigan State is dead to me as long as this is going on. I may even pay extra to get a standard Michigan license plate and get rid of my MSU one I pay extra for. This is just disgusting.
@amy-c - To make sure you see this I'm tagging you.
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I had read of his "resignation" back in June but I did not know all of these details. No words. Completely disturbing and depressing.
Oh my. I graduated from Indiana University and gave up on them years ago because I could see the slide. This is beyond belief. It was even a study done by one of their own professors.
Just when you think this story can't possibly get any worse...
This is the article on Breitbart about it because Heather MacDonald's actual op-ed is behind a paywall at WSJ.
Professors Disown Their Research on Police Shootings After It Was Cited by Heather Mac Donald
Michigan State professor Joseph Cesario and University of Maryland professor David Johnson retracted their own research into racial disparities in fatal police shootings after conservative scholar Heather Mac Donald cited their research in her writing.
and MacDonald herself wrote in her op-ed:
My June 3 Journal op-ed quoted the PNAS article’s conclusion verbatim. It set off a firestorm at Michigan State. The university’s Graduate Employees Union pressured the MSU press office to apologize for the “harm it caused” by mentioning my article in a newsletter. The union targeted physicist Steve Hsu, who had approved funding for Mr. Cesario’s research. MSU sacked Mr. Hsu from his administrative position. PNAS editorialized that Messrs. Cesario and Johnson had “poorly framed” their article—the one that got through the journal’s three levels of editorial and peer review.
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