Cancel Culture Targets Professors Who Like the 'Wrong' Things on Social Media

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"As a university lecturer in geomatics, I can attest to this: earlier this month, I received a polite email from my Head of School stating that an anonymous person had sent a list of tweets that I had ‘liked’ over a 24-hour period to the University’s Equalities Team. My supposed ‘crime’ was that I had liked posts saying ‘All lives matter’, ‘Gender has a scientific basis’ and ones opposed to mass immigration," the physicist writes.

According to McCulloch, the complaint extrapolated from his social media likes that McCulloch was "black-hating, woman-hating, immigrant-hating…etc," which, of course, the physicist says isn't true. A few weeks later, McCulloch was informed that another complaint had been received and the University was opening an investigation into McCulloch's thought crimes. A colleague of the McCulloch's was appointed investigator and a Zoom meeting was scheduled for a disciplinary hearing to decide the fate of McCulloch's continued employment at the university.

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