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Thomas Smith is the ‘conservative’ law professor at University of San Diego Law School who has been targeted by student cry-bullies after he harshly criticized the Chinese government for its handling of the coronavirus and expressed his belief that the virus leaked from a Wuhan virology lab.
The students absurdly claimed that Prof. Smith was attacking Chinese people as an ethnicity rather than the Chinese government, and demanded his firing. Dean Robert Schapiro disgracefully denounced Prof. Smith, labeled his blog post an example of bias, and launched an investigation of Prof. Smith. (Exam question: Is it really a fair and impartial investigation where the head of the instituation already has declared it to be an act of bias before the investigation even started?)
We covered the story initially in U. San Diego Law Prof. Thomas Smith Harshly Criticized Chinese Gov’t, Now Faces False Claims Of Ethnic Bias:
This another example of the student mob mentality that is sweeping academia and almost always directed at right-of-center professors. In almost all of these cases, the pattern is the same: Students weaponize their hurt feelings to demand destruction of a professional career over political comments with which they disagree, exploiting administrative weakness by falsely claiming bias against the professor. In the face of such contrived bias claims, administrators crumble and publicly shame the professor through ritual denunciations, occasionally leading to actual employment termination.
It is reminscent of the worst days of the Maoist Cultural Revolution, in which students were the most aggressive in demanding ideological obedience from professors, with public shaming one of the tools used to humiliate the target and scare others into silence.
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