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I can't believe that Twitter culture has this much power but they're using it all on cancelling MIT speakers and not even trying to improve US policy.



A large number of US universities make signing a DEI statement a precondition for employment. Some also require an annual progress report on DEI targets. Dorian Abbot had the temerity to propose an alternate framework, MFE. Some factions can't tolerate alternative perspectives, and thus Dorian had to be cancelled.

https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-16...


They don’t have any power over the government or the average US voter. They only have power over random corporate employees and universities.


It’s Brownian-cancel culture, a random walk of cancels just to see what happens…


It’s about postmodern deconstruction. Tearing everything down will make everything better. Somehow.


mobs aren't known for being logical




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