Among the usual claims about a trillion Uyghurs being murdered in concentration camps and the women being sterilized, the “professor” also claimed that Uyghurs weren’t recognized as one of China’s 55 ethnic minorities (they are) and that Islam is banned in China (it’s not) They didn’t provide any sources too lmao
Yes, they’re a white liberal
No, there wasn’t a single mention of Palestine
How do you become a Professor when you can’t even be bothered to google what the fuck you’re talking about? Does saying “China bad” give you a PhD now? The level of academic dishonesty is staggering, aren’t universities supposed to take this stuff seriously? Surely there must be a way to report professors spreading racist conspiracy theories as fact. It’s not just a political thing, the intellectual laziness is so extreme they cannot even get the most basic background facts right. At this point I would be surprised if they know which continent China is in.
But hey, at least they got to trivialize actual genocides by putting them next to the Uyghur “genocide”
If I pulled any of this shit in a paper - no sources, lies debunked in two seconds - I would at a minimum instantly fail the class and probably face a serious risk of being suspended and/or expelled for academic fraud.
one of the more demoralizing / disheartening features of my time in academic-adjacent outreach has been witnessing the ubiquitous
among so-called public intellectuals.
also, the public perception of tenure and its actual function within the organization are wildly at odds. tenure does not protect novel ideas or curiosity. tenure is a treat offered to careerist sophists that hit intellectually dubious metrics dreamed up by highly profitable, rent-seeking academic journals and the incurious peers in thrall to them.
there is something so repulsive about the high concentration of individuals with highly specialized training in conducting an investigation not applying any of those tools to their surroundings. it is such a waste.