Apparently I missed this whole scandal, and I consider myself way too online, especially on hexbear every day. Was this mostly on UK news? You guys are supposed to post it here, where I get all my news.
Luckily this article was also a good summary it seems. This guy wrote a paper, and it seems the UK press made fun of him for plagiarism and making a bunch of other “untrue” fabulous claims. Then he was found dead, *hounded by the media for two weeks. I’m guessing it must have been pretty bad, which is why I’m surprised I missed this.
BTW the piece of shit now has a new tenure in Belgium because being a card-carrying open racist means you at worst have to switch jobs and then can start a grift were you write a book about being cancelled while being a Cambridge professor while black and autistic means you get bullied until you kill yourself and then even supposedly “leftist” media handwrings about how the racist was actually kinda right and you were a victim of inclusivity taken too far.
I wish i was doing the “reductive subtweeting” here that reactionaries love to accuse me of, but this is an actual recap of events.
Apparently I missed this whole scandal, and I consider myself way too online, especially on hexbear every day. Was this mostly on UK news? You guys are supposed to post it here, where I get all my news.
Luckily this article was also a good summary it seems. This guy wrote a paper, and it seems the UK press made fun of him for plagiarism and making a bunch of other “untrue” fabulous claims. Then he was found dead, *hounded by the media for two weeks. I’m guessing it must have been pretty bad, which is why I’m surprised I missed this.
The person who started the hate campaign against him was a eugenicist cambridge professor that was kicked out for racism
BTW the piece of shit now has a new tenure in Belgium because being a card-carrying open racist means you at worst have to switch jobs and then can start a grift were you write a book about being cancelled while being a Cambridge professor while black and autistic means you get bullied until you kill yourself and then even supposedly “leftist” media handwrings about how the racist was actually kinda right and you were a victim of inclusivity taken too far.
I wish i was doing the “reductive subtweeting” here that reactionaries love to accuse me of, but this is an actual recap of events.