This is just the sort of thing Professor Jacobson talked about in a recent podcast with Allie Beth Stuckey. Critical race training is being embedded in everything.
Campus Reform reports:
Cornell charges students $1,800 for racially-segregated rock climbing class, frantically scrubs website when confronted
Cornell University altered the course description of a racially-segregated physical...
I appeared last week on Allie Beth Stucky’s Relatable Podcast (video and transcript below), to talk about the new website developed by the Legal Insurrection Foundation, criticalrace.org.
Cornell University Chemistry Professor David B. Collum was targeted in one of the earliest examples of campus cancel culture after the death of George Floyd. The attacks on me would follow by just a few days, though I didn’t know it when I wrote about Prof. Collum.
The Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper asked to interview me about our new website, criticalrace.org, which has received enormous media attention and well over a million page views since launch on February 2, 2021.
Joe Silverstein is a student at Cornell who makes some excellent points about Joe Biden’s presidency here.
From the Cornell Review:
The End of America?
In his first couple of days in office, Joe Biden has already taken action...
I was invited back to The Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal Podcast, hosted by Virginia Allen, to revisit the ‘cancel culture’ events at Cornell Law School directed at me starting last June, 2020.
Vaccine exemptions based on race? Really? How is this even legal?
Campus Reform reports:
Cornell offers ‘person of color’ exemption for flu vaccine requirement
Students at Cornell University can use their status as a “person of color” to be exempt from the university’s flu vaccine requirement.
“Students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a...
We have gotten to the point where people on the left are comfortable using threats and intimidation. Where do they think this will end?
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Cornell Activists Threaten Peers Who Voted Against Disarming the Police
Cornell University activists are threatening student government representatives who voted against disarming the campus police.
On...
Please sit down. This is going to shock you to your core, and you might lose your balance.
The reasons given for this change are straight out of the progressive playbook. It’s not about making the department better, it’s about power and control.
BoingBoing reports:
Cornell English Department votes to change name to “Department of Literatures In English”
According to an article on Brittle Paper written by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ and Carole...
It’s not like I told you so, but I told you so.
For years I have been documenting the increasingly oppressive atmosphere for free speech at Cornell University, including shout-downs and disruptions of conservative and/or pro-Israel speakers and events. That atmosphere now is in overdrive with a push from...
Cornell University has joined a growing list of universities embracing “antiracist” activism, a euphemism for race-based advocacy.
The Coronavirus pandemic is creating a snitch culture on some college campuses. It’s sad.
The Washington Post reports:
Cornell students petition to have freshman TikTok star expelled for flouting coronavirus rules
Colleges have been threatening students with stiff penalties for failing to practice social distancing and wear masks, blasting “selfish and reckless” behavior and...
I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the podcast Cancelled, hosted by Rob Rosen and Desma Simon. My segment was about 30 minutes long, and we covered not only my situation at Cornell Law School, but also developments more broadly in higher education.
I was not aware that, despite a grand jury decision not to indict in 2014 and a Justice Department investigation that cleared officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, a St. Louis prosecutor had reopened the case.
George Soros rightly is maligned for his corrupting influence on politics. We have documented, among many other things, how Soros has funded, mostly through organizations in his network, the anti-Israel ecosystem.
On Friday, July 24, 2020, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by FOX Business’ Gerry Baker on “WSJ at Large” regarding cancel culture.
The interview was enjoyable for at least a couple of reasons.
