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Having read the article, that seems like a nonsense take. Care to explain?

I think parent is saying that the progressive Twitter mob has been labeling and attacking people who support merit-based admissions policies that ignore race as racists for many years already. This cancellation is not “different” as the author says, they are only now becoming aware of the pervasiveness and wrongness of this type of thinking since it happened to someone they care about and not someone they didn’t.

Mounk is famous for writing exactly this piece, over and over again, with only the names changed. As long as the person getting “canceled” is in some way conservative, Yascha Mounk (and Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi) will be there to write this article.

That’s hardly red-pilling though.

I read it too, they're saying this is different because they agree with them.

Pretty much every example of lecturers being cancelled in the last 5 years is for the same unrelated reasons.

It's boring, so you're a fan of this one guy and suddenly it's an issue? Please.

I mean, not being super familiar with this guy outside of what is presented in the article, there does seem to be a pretty important difference between someone like Milo and an actual academic giving an academic talk. I see why some would worry about cancelling a talk by the former (despite him being utterly repugnant and bringing nothing of substance to the audience), but the latter cancellation seems worse to me.

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