How Colleges Can Counter ‘Cancel Culture’
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Several months ago, in the first episode of The Chair, a Netflix comedy-drama, a popular literature professor throws up a mock Hitler salute while lecturing about the relationship between fascism and absurdism. A cellphone video of the salute promptly circulates, a social media storm ensues, angry students demand the professor’s ouster and a supine administration capitulates. While some academics have derided this episode as “utterly improbable,” others have termed it “painfully believable” and “an all-too-plausible scenario.”
Originally published: November 9, 2021
Author: David Wippman
Position: President
Institution: Hamilton College
Published by: Inside Higher Ed