Five Professors Tell How They Were Canceled — and Why They Fought Back
New York Post | Rikki Schlott
This NYPost piece documents the cancelation of FAIR Advisor Peter Boghossian (Portland State), Sue Bergin (Brigham Young), J. Angelo Corlett (San Diego State), Sophia Nelson (Christopher Newport) and Dorian Abbot (lecture canceled by MIT).
“Since 2015, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has recorded a staggering 591 instances of retaliation toward college faculty members for expressing their ideas. In 2020, FIRE recorded 136 instances of punishing or firing professors for airing their views — a fourfold increase over just five years. In 2021, 111 were targeted…But some professors are speaking out against cancel culture. Here are five, of diverse backgrounds and ideologies, who are refusing to bow to the mob.”
