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| Subject: Woke mob tries to get economics professor fired for arguing police shouldn't be defunded Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:51 am | |
| When University of Chicago Economist Harald Uhlig tweeted a milquetoast, tongue-in-cheek criticism of Black Lives Matter’s official call to “defund the police,” he probably didn’t expect that to be the end of his tenure as editor of a top academic journal. But if the mob of rabidly illiberal academics descending on Uhlig gets their way, he’ll be fired from that position. First, here’s a look at what the professor tweeted that got so many left-wing academics and activists so upset. (Spoiler alert: It’s far from radical). - Quote :
- Too bad, but #blacklivesmatter per its core organization @Blklivesmatter just torpedoed itself, with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice : "We call for a national defunding of police." Suuuure. They knew this is non-starter, and tried a sensible Orwell 1984 of saying,
— Harald Uhlig (@haralduhlig) June 9, 2020
https://thepostmillennial.com/woke-mob-tries-to-get-economics-professor-fired-for-arguing-police-shouldnt-be-defunded
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