![]() My own experience was similar to that of many other academics. Strumia’s experience was similar to that of at least hundreds of academics who refused to support identity politics. So the “Particles for Justice” took the next step of calling him hateful names, labeling him as “sexist” and “racist.” And then they took the third step of calling for his cancellation, for Strumia to be fired from his job. His attackers were acting not out of reasoned disagreement, but out of emotion: hate. There was no substantive challenge to Strumia’s data, just offense at his conclusions. A group of mostly American physicists started “Particles for Justice” to attack Strumia, claiming not only that he had attacked women in physics, but was “belittling the ability and legitimacy of scientists of color,” although Strumia had not spoken about race. Activists continue to discuss on social media how to get Strumia fired. While much comment was supportive, some politicians demanded that Strumia be fired, and some newspapers called Strumia “sexist” for mentioning differences in the interests of women and men. The immediate result was that CERN suspended Strumia, saying “everyone is welcome regardless of beliefs,” but investigated whether he had broken internal rules, which include “obligation to exercise reserve and tact” and “reserve in expressing personal opinions.” CERN also erased Strumia’s data slides, audio, and video. Checks with bibliometric data showed no bias in hires against female researchers in fundamental physics.” This quantitative data was presented in a talk that Strumia gave at CERN in 2018 in the “1st workshop on high energy theory and gender.” ![]() Strumia published in 2019 “a bibliometric publication … using the InSpire database about papers and authors in fundamental physics worldwide from 1970 to now. According to Strumia’s account “Why Discussing Gender and STEM is So Dangerous,” around 2015, CERN began importing identity politics and established a diversity office and gender quotas. Of thousands of possible examples, let us begin with physicist Alessandro Strumia who was associated with the Counseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), which managed the Large Hadron Collider. Or just that it denies the truth of their sacred narrative, and that the complainant is therefore a heretic, any of whose words must be rejected. No, they reject the opinion on identity grounds, saying that the challenge denies their existence as people, and that it makes them feel unsafe. They do not claim that the facts are wrong or the position is untrue. In response to any opinion contrary to their own, these activists do not offer counterarguments and contrary evidence. Third, their immediate and unrestrained demands that the challenger be severely punished and preferably destroyed. Second, the immediate use of the most hateful rhetoric imaginable to designate anyone challenging their position. How do we know this? Three ways: First, the vehement rejection of any criticism of or counter-argument to their neo-sexist/racist/bigoted ideological positions, and complete unwillingness to entertain any alternative position to their narratives. ![]() An elaborate bureaucracy of “ diversity and inclusion” officers are charged with policing thought, speech, and action.Īctivists, and those who support them, encourage active hate against their alleged oppressors: males, whites, Christians and Jews, heterosexuals, and cis-normal individuals. ![]() In practice, this means the adoption of identity ideology to the exclusion and suppression of other views. Through official mandatory policies, universities have transformed academic culture from a quest to discover truth about the world and its beings, to the indoctrination of identity politics and enforcement of “social justice” policies.Īs Armin Rosen puts it, higher education is “a system that has transformed itself over the past three decades into a vast federally funded cartel that has shunted aside tradition academic occupations of teaching and research in favor of bureaucratic thought-policing and ideology indoctrination.” Almost every university in North America has committed to what is called “social justice,” which is the implementation of identity politics through the mechanisms of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Identity politics divides everyone into one of two categories: evil oppressor or innocent victim.
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