There can be no doubt that discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or beliefs should not be tolerated in academia. Surprisingly, however, in recent years, policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), officially introduced to counteract discrimination, have increasingly led to quite the opposite result: the exclusion of individuals who do not share a radical 'woke' ideology on identity politics (feminism, other gender activisms, critical race theory, etc.), and to the suppression of the academic freedom to discuss such dogmas. This subversion of academia — disguised Trojan-horse style as universal human rights advocacy — is unacceptable because academia must be politically neutral and protect freedom of speech, a cornerstone of professional scholarly activity without which universities as we know them will slowly but surely suffocate.
Our purpose here is to put together some particularly illustrative cases of such repression in a single book, testifying to a ubiquitous trend within western culture, irreducible to a few isolated complaints. The essays contained here illustrate the abuse of power, censorship and witch-hunts at many universities and research centres in the name of DIE.
List of coauthors in alphabetical order: Dorian Abbot, Tomonori Agoh, Gerhard Amendt, Ivar Arpi, David Benatar, Peter Boghossian, Civitas Research Team, David Díaz Pardo de Vera, Pedro Domingos, Janice Fiamengo, Étienne Forest, Jorge Gibert Galassi, Norman Goldstuck, José L. González Quirós, Lawrence M. Krauss, Patrick LaBelle, Martín López Corredoira, Heather Mac Donald, Martin Malmgren, Erik. J. Olsson, Jordan Peterson, Constantin Polychronakos, Philip C. Salzman, Alessandro Strumia, Tom Todd, Andrei Yafaev.
Show moreThere can be no doubt that discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or beliefs should not be tolerated in academia. Surprisingly, however, in recent years, policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), officially introduced to counteract discrimination, have increasingly led to quite the opposite result: the exclusion of individuals who do not share a radical 'woke' ideology on identity politics (feminism, other gender activisms, critical race theory, etc.), and to the suppression of the academic freedom to discuss such dogmas. This subversion of academia — disguised Trojan-horse style as universal human rights advocacy — is unacceptable because academia must be politically neutral and protect freedom of speech, a cornerstone of professional scholarly activity without which universities as we know them will slowly but surely suffocate.
Our purpose here is to put together some particularly illustrative cases of such repression in a single book, testifying to a ubiquitous trend within western culture, irreducible to a few isolated complaints. The essays contained here illustrate the abuse of power, censorship and witch-hunts at many universities and research centres in the name of DIE.
List of coauthors in alphabetical order: Dorian Abbot, Tomonori Agoh, Gerhard Amendt, Ivar Arpi, David Benatar, Peter Boghossian, Civitas Research Team, David Díaz Pardo de Vera, Pedro Domingos, Janice Fiamengo, Étienne Forest, Jorge Gibert Galassi, Norman Goldstuck, José L. González Quirós, Lawrence M. Krauss, Patrick LaBelle, Martín López Corredoira, Heather Mac Donald, Martin Malmgren, Erik. J. Olsson, Jordan Peterson, Constantin Polychronakos, Philip C. Salzman, Alessandro Strumia, Tom Todd, Andrei Yafaev.
Show moreMartín López-Corredoira has a PhD in Philosophy (Univ. of Seville,
Spain; 2003) and PhD in Physics (Univ. of La Laguna, Tenerife,
Spain; 1997). At present, since 2011, he is permanent staff
researcher at Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in
Tenerife (Spain). Previous books include: main editor of Against
the Tide: A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and
Astronomy Get Done (2008, Universal Publishers); author of The
Twilight of the Scientific Age (2013, BrownWalker Press); author of
Fundamental Ideas in Cosmology. Scientific, philosophical and
sociological critical perspectives (2022, IoP Publishing).
Tom Todd lives in Hamburg (Germany), studied European History and
Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (UK) and worked mostly
as a translator and information technology professional. His latest
projects: a scientific conference on domestic/family violence (with
Gerhard Amendt, Germany, 2018) and an 8-part series of short films
on gender and social issues (Germany, 2020–2022).
Erik J. Olsson is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Lund
University, Sweden, a position he has held since 2008. He has a PhD
in Theoretical Philosophy, an MSc in Applied Computer Science and a
BA in Mathematics from Uppsala University, where he became an
Associate Professor (Docent) in 2001. He is an Oxford and Cambridge
author. In 2012, Olsson co-founded Academic Rights Watch, an NGO
monitoring academic freedom in Sweden by primarily documenting
violations of scholars' academic rights.
"It is also a book that illustrates how far the distance is between
social justice, as construed through the various critical social
theories that operate around the dyad of oppressor and oppressed,
and the importance of free speech. The fact that there is a tension
between pursuing a society based upon open dialogue and freedom of
speech and conformity to principles of DIE is indicative of the
fact that many see the application of the principles of DIE, and
perhaps even the principles themselves as carrying problems within
them that outweigh their benefits. For, if the principles of DIE
were so manifestly good and true why would they need to be defended
through censorship?"
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