Academics Demand Econ Journal Purge Prof For Criticizing Defund Police Movement

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | June 11, 2020 | Chrissy Clark

[CheshireTheCat]

Students and professors are demanding that an academic journal fire a professor who criticized efforts to defund the police.

Activists submitted a petition accusing University of Chicago economics professor Harald Uhlig of "trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement" on his Twitter account. The campaign came after Uhlig wrote that Black Lives Matter "torpedoed itself with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice." Max Auffhammer, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers created the petition to oust Uhlig from his position of editor of the prestigious Journal of Political Economy.

Uhlig's comments "hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession," the petition said. "We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments, but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline."

Uhlig did not respond to request for comment....

[CheshireTheCat]

I wonder how these students and professors are going to look a year from now after more cities burn.

[cranked]

The level of censorship taking place by the woke, SJW, progressive libtard commie Dems is reaching Germany 1933 levels.................................

[EBH]

And they don’t even realize the timber in their own eye.

[eyeamok]

Max Auffhammer, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers created the petition to oust Uhlig

I say we hold them to these Standards, Any University Employee that initiates Contact of ANY Kind with a Police Officer SHALL Be Terminated Immediately, Any Student that initiates contact with a Police Officer shall be Expelled.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

The way Rats deal with free speech they don’t agree with, is shoot the messenger, because they can’t (don’t) have a cogent argument to offer.

[whistleduck]

Brainless Brown shirts. looking forward to the show.

[JimRed]

Academics Demand...

ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual who is unwilling or unable to create or provide any goods or services of value to others, who pontificates while hiding out in a college or university and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.

[JimRed]

Any Student that initiates contact with a Police Officer shall be Expelled, especially if such contact consists of applying for employment in law enforcement.