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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I just came across a pure example of cancel culture. Dozens of Princeton University faculty members last week advocated creation of a committee that would stop publications, by fellow faculty members, they deem beyond the pale:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...CkyIA/viewform
I personally, from time to time, read publications -- specifically, books -- written by Princeton faculty members, so this is a threat to my freedom to read (just as the excuse for shouting down, made in #100, is a threat to my freedom to listen). |
Neither your freedom to read or listen would be impinged upon by any of that, even setting aside that you’re using “freedom to” as an ethical construct rather than a legal one.
The Princeton issue reads as a committee which would hold sway over Princeton University Press rather than the faculty’s ability to publish outside the university. Which Princeton is wholly within their rights to incorporate into their practices, employment does not guarantee publication by the university.
Any other issues raised by that committee read as textbook examples of at will employment and contracted employment. You can be terminated if your employer feels your behavior reflects poorly upon them (assuming it’s not as part of being within a protected class I.e. they can not terminate your employment for being a woman, or a PoC, etc).
The professor is still free to publish if they can find a publisher or can self publish.