Deans at U of T have been calling profs in for meetings to chasten them for social media posts in solidarity with Palestine. thevarsity.ca/2024/11/18/u... - ThreadSky

nkalamb.bsky.social • 99 days ago

Deans at U of T have been calling profs in for meetings to chasten them for social media posts in solidarity with Palestine.

https://thevarsity.ca/2024/11/18/u-of-t-faculty-members-called-into-deans-office-for-supporting-palestine-on-social-media/

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adoealt.bsky.social•98 days ago

Hi can you retweet? https://t.co/Px2bYSXfhI

susandusen.bsky.social•98 days ago

Fascism in action

ejpratt40.bsky.social•98 days ago

I wish I could be surprised, alas.

cidmcdp.bsky.social•98 days ago

Man thank God I don't teach anymore.

shitty-ally.bsky.social•98 days ago

Embarrassing for the institution, to be so firmly on the wrong side of history.

punkademic.bsky.social•99 days ago

The state that’s all about individual freedom, I’m told

nkalamb.bsky.social•99 days ago

It’s Toronto, actually! I always forget there are two UT’s!

juljogarfue.bsky.social•98 days ago

Don’t forget UT(University of Tennessee).

nkalamb.bsky.social•98 days ago

🤦🏻‍♂️

kim-show.bsky.social•98 days ago

And of the three, it's the one I would have least expected to pull this

punkademic.bsky.social•99 days ago

Oof. It’s happening everywhere unfortunately.

nkalamb.bsky.social•99 days ago

No doubt. Ugh.

ahemnason.bsky.social•98 days ago

Consistently blown away that a universe of administrators could post UKRAINE STRONG messages like they'd bought into a MLM merch campaign and now they're all "well we can't weigh in on this stuff we have to be neutral."

Very excited to see what happens when we're branded "collaborators".

dani-monster.bsky.social•98 days ago

I’m sorry, WHAT?!

stephengb.bsky.social•99 days ago

I'm ashamed of my alma mater.

heather147.bsky.social•99 days ago

I'm ashamed of the Homo sapiens species

nkalamb.bsky.social•99 days ago

Ditto!

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•98 days ago

I know a jobs a job and tenure is valuable but if you don’t tell the dean to get fucked what are you doing? What does academia even mean then?

dwidmannabraham.bsky.social•98 days ago

One colleague there said that it’s better at U of T than most other universities in Canada.

nmkennedy.bsky.social•98 days ago

That isn’t the case at all. That this story is in the news should alone suggest this isn’t the norm.

dwidmannabraham.bsky.social•98 days ago

My colleague is a full professor at U of T law school and I was sharing his perspective. I am sure that there is repression that is not actually in the news nor even known across a single campus. That is certainly the case here in the U.S..

nkalamb.bsky.social•98 days ago

That says it all.

dwebster.bsky.social•98 days ago

Many Canadian universities are not trying to censor their faculty, I think your colleague may be mistaken on that.

ganstaotter.bsky.social•98 days ago

This is my alma mater and it has always been on the wrong side of history until the very last minute. In this case, UofT will go down with Israel. The top admin is completely committed to Israel's colonial objectives and weapons tech development.

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