By any measure, Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, who holds the Johnstone Family Chair of Psychology, is one of the most influential intellectual leaders in the world. He is also someone who believes in robust intellectual discourse and free thought and speech. That propensity for academic freedom has now made him a target of hundreds of academics and graduate students who are seeking his removal from the Linguistic Society of America. The letter is one of the most chilling examples of the new orthodoxy that has taken over our academic institutions. The signatories seek his removal for holding opposing views on issues like underlying causes of police shootings and other research. The cited grievances are at best nuanced and at worst nonsensical. Yet, hundreds signed their names and academic affiliations to try to punish a professor for holding opposing views to their own. We have been discussing these cases across the country including a similar effort to oust a leading economist from the University of Chicago. It is part of a wave of intolerance sweeping over our colleges and our newsrooms — a campaign that will devour its own in the loss of academic freedoms and free speech. (I should note that I do not know Dr. Pinker and, to the best of my knowledge, I have never met him).
As a blog focused on free speech and academic freedom issues, the merits of these disagreements is less important than the effort to silence or punish opposing views. However, the underlying postings (and Pinker’s apparent viewpoints) are relevant to understanding the growing intolerance for conflicting viewpoints. We will briefly discuss the six objections below. In so doing, I will have spent more written analysis addressing the attacks on Pinker than these academics and students spent in accusing him of the most vile predilections. My complaint is not that his views are beyond criticism. My objection is to the lack of substantial evidence or analysis, and, most importantly, the effort to remove him from a key academic group. Indeed, the letter states many of the signatories want him to be effectively barred from academic discourse.
Pinker has been vocal in his opposition to the level of police shootings in our society and has recognized their devastating impact on the African American community. He has however suggested that the level of police shootings may be the result of poor training and the excessive use of force generally by police in the United States. He is not alone in raising that issue. We have previously discussed how the United States has far greater use of lethal force that virtually any other nation. Pinker, and others, have not denied that racism plays a role or that we have systemic racist problems in society. Rather he has suggested that, if we want to reduce police shootings, we may want to consider whether they are being driven by a police culture and common training that tend to escalate the level of force used in these situations.
Thus, in the first cited tweet (from 2015), Pinker is chastised for linking to a New York Times articles that suggests that “Police don’t shoot blacks disproportionately” but rather says that there are larger societal and structural issues at play in these studies. The critics used this tweet as their first example of Pinker’s unacceptable viewpoints and state:
“Let the record show that Dr. Pinker draws this conclusion from an article that contains the following quote: “The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: African-Americans are being killed disproportionately and by a wide margin.” (original emphasis) We believe this shows that Dr. Pinker is willing to make dishonest claims in order to obfuscate the role of systemic racism in police violence.”
The carefully edited quote reveals not just intellectual intolerance but intellectual dishonesty. Here is the full quote:
“The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: African–Americans are being killed disproportionately and by a wide margin. And police bias may be responsible. But this data does not prove that biased police officers are more likely to shoot blacks in any given encounter.
Instead, there is another possibility: It is simply that — for reasons that may well include police bias — African–Americans have a very large number of encounters with police officers. Every police encounter contains a risk: The officer might be poorly trained, might act with malice or simply make a mistake, and civilians might do something that is perceived as a threat. The omnipresence of guns exaggerates all these risks.”
That is precisely what Pinker was saying in the tweet, but the signatories falsely suggest that he misrepresented the article.
In the second tweet, the signatories do not even try to quote from a linked article that Pinker cites:
Again, the article itself adopts the same balanced analysis that does not deny the role of racism in shootings but also highlights that training and cultural issues could be driving the high number of fatal shootings:
“Police violence is tangled up with racism and systemic injustice. We desperately need to do more to address that, foremost by shoring up the criminal-justice system so that it holds police officers accountable when they kill. But it’s also true that deadly mistakes are going to happen when police officers engage in millions of potentially dangerous procedures a year. What aviation teaches us is that it should be possible to “accident proof” police work, if only we are willing to admit when mistakes are made.”
Rather than acknowledge that nuanced intellectual point, the signatories adopt a common attack on free speech today: Pinker is guilty of “both-sides” rhetoric.” We saw this attack succeed recently in the infamous decision of the New York Times to apologize for publishing the opposing views of a United States Senator and then forcing out the editor who approved the opinion editorial. (Indeed, these Times articles were a painful reminder of the journalistic integrity that once defined that newspaper).
The third objection concern Pinker referring to New York subway shooter Bernhard Goetz as “mild mannered.” The critics refer to his racist views and insist that Pinker is being impermissibly “casual.” However, a search on Lexis found dozens of similar references to Goetz. CNN, the New York Times, and others include descriptions of Goetz as a “mild mannered” individual. One can be mild mannered and still be a criminal and a racist.
The fourth objection is that Pinker claimed that it was “statistically obtuse” to claim that the killings of a deranged California student was proof of a pattern of violence against women. His point appears to be a classic correlation versus causation critique. One can easily disagree with this observation but he seems to be objecting to taking the case itself as proof of the pattern. What is fascinating is that the letter is premised originally on the fact that this student killed six women. In reality, the student killed 2 women and 4 men. Even though twice the number of men were murdered, the letter corrects the error but not conclusion: “Regardless of the identities of the victims, the murderer was driven by misogyny.”
The fifth objection is truly mind blowing. Pinker is attacked for “publicly co-opt[ing] the academic work of a Black social scientist to further his deflationary agenda.” It may require a linguistics degree to fully appreciate what coopting academic work to advance a deflationary agenda actually means. This is made more difficult by the fact that these academics and students do not actually see the need to explain how Pinker “misrepresents the work.” He is just declared dishonest. However, these signatories seem to double up on the fifth and sixth objections since the link is directed to the study by Lawrence D. Bobo, the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
So let’s go to the sixth objection over these tweets:
The signatories insist that even using the term “urban crime/violence” is a “dogwhistle” for racists. However, again, a search of that terminology has been used dozens of times by civil rights leaders and Democratic leaders.
Once again, there is plenty to challenge in these viewpoints. Indeed, I would have seen this letter as an excellent foundation for a debate on campus. Pinker seems to want to have such academic discourse in making these points. The problem is not that he is being challenged on these points but that they are being used as an effort to remove him from an intellectual society. These six objections are used as the basis to claim that Pinker has shown “a pattern of downplaying the very real violence of systemic racism and sexism, and, moreover, a pattern that is not above deceitfulness, misrepresentation, or the employment of dogwhistles.”
What makes this even more dubious is the following statement from these signatories:
“We want to note here that we have no desire to judge Dr. Pinker’s actions in moral terms, or claim to know what his aims are. Nor do we seek to “cancel” Dr. Pinker, or to bar him from participating in the linguistics and LSA communities (though many of our signatories may well believe that doing so would be the right course of action).”
Really, the foregoing language was not a “desire to judge Dr. Pinker’s actions in moral terms, or claim to know what his aims are”? Moreover, I am not sure what “cancelling” means if it does not include stripping Pinker of his association with the leading intellectual group in his field. It is also worth noting that “many” of the signatories did want him barred for being able to work with other academics in the field. Rather than simply engage Pinker in honest academic debate, they want him barred from being able to share or defend his views in the linguistic or LSA communities.
Below is their open letter, which I encourage you to read.
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Dear Linguistic Society of America,
This is an open letter by members of the linguistics community calling for the removal of Dr. Steven Pinker from both our list of distinguished academic fellows and our list of media experts. We, the undersigned, believe that Dr. Pinker’s behavior as a public academic is not befitting of a representative of our professional organization, that the LSA’s own stated goals make such a conclusion inevitable, and that the LSA should publicly reaffirm its position and distance itself from Dr. Pinker.
Induction into the list of LSA fellows is one of the highest signals of prestige in the linguistic community. Often, fellows are seen as the first line of academic linguistic authority, and trustworthy sources of linguistic knowledge. Lay people and members of the press reach out to fellows and media experts for official statements. We feel that fellows therefore have a responsibility that comes with the honor, credibility, and visibility allotted them by their distinguished appointment. Dr. Pinker does not live up to this standard.
As we demonstrate below, Dr. Pinker’s behavior is systematically at odds with the LSA’s recently issued statement on racial justice, which argues that “listening to and respecting [the experience of students of color] is crucial, as is acknowledging and addressing rather than overlooking or denying the role of the discipline of linguistics in the reproduction of racism.” Instead, Dr. Pinker has a history of speaking over genuine grievances and downplaying injustices, frequently by misrepresenting facts, and at the exact moments when Black and Brown people are mobilizing against systemic racism and for crucial changes.
Though no doubt related, we set aside questions of Dr. Pinker’s tendency to move in the proximity of what The Guardian called a revival of “scientific racism”, his public support for David Brooks (who has been argued to be a proponent of “gender essentialism”), his expert testimonial in favor of Jeffrey Epstein (which Dr. Pinker now regrets), or his dubious past stances on rape and feminism. Nor are we concerned with Dr. Pinker’s academic contributions as a linguist, psychologist and cognitive scientist. Instead, we aim to show here Dr. Pinker as a public figure has a pattern of drowning out the voices of people suffering from racist and sexist violence, in particular in the immediate aftermath of violent acts and/or protests against the systems that created them.
Below, we document six relevant occasions that show how Dr. Pinker’s behavior is systematically and directly at odds with the LSA’s stated aims. We believe that these examples show that Dr. Pinker is untenable as an LSA fellow and should not be allowed to retain that status.
- In 2015, Dr. Pinker tweeted “Police don’t shoot blacks disproportionately”, linking to a New York Times article by Sendhil Mullainathan.
Let the record show that Dr. Pinker draws this conclusion from an article that contains the following quote: “The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: African-Americans are being killed disproportionately and by a wide margin.” (original emphasis) We believe this shows that Dr. Pinker is willing to make dishonest claims in order to obfuscate the role of systemic racism in police violence.
- In 2017, when nearly 1000 people died at the hands of the police, the issue of anti-black police violence in particular was again widely discussed in the media. Dr. Pinker moved to dismiss the genuine concerns about the disproportionate killings of Black people at the hands of law enforcement by employing an “all lives matter” trope (we refer to Degen, Leigh, Waldon & Mengesha 2020 for a linguistic explanation of the trope’s harmful effects) that is eerily reminiscent of a “both-sides” rhetoric, all while explicitly claiming that a focus on race is a distraction. Once again, this clearly demonstrates Dr. Pinker’s willingness to dismiss and downplay racist violence, regardless of any evidence.
- Pinker (2011:107) provides another example of Dr. Pinker downplaying actual violence in a casual manner: “[I]n 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a mild-mannered engineer, became a folk hero for shooting four young muggers in a New York subway car.”—Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teenagers for saying “Give me five dollars.” (whether it was an attempted mugging is disputed). Goetz, Pinker’s mild-mannered engineer, described the situation after the first four shots as follows: “I immediately looked at the first two to make sure they were ‘taken care of,’ and then attempted to shoot Cabey again in the stomach, but the gun was empty.” 18 months prior, the same “mild-mannered engineer” had said “The only way we’re going to clean up this street is to get rid of the sp*cs and n*****s”, according to his neighbor. Once again, the language Dr. Pinker employs in calling this person “mild-mannered” illustrates his tendency to downplay very real violence.
- In 2014, a student murdered six women at UC Santa Barbara after posting a video online that detailed his misogynistic reasons. Ignoring the perpetrator’s own hate speech, Dr. Pinker called the idea that such a murder could be part of a sexist pattern “statistically obtuse”, once again undermining those who stand up against violence while downplaying the actual murder of six women as well as systems of misogyny.
- On June 3rd 2020, during historic Black Lives Matter protests in response to violent racist killings by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many many others, Dr. Pinker chose to publicly co-opt the academic work of a Black social scientist to further his deflationary agenda. He misrepresents the work of that scholar, who himself mainly expressed the hope he felt that the protests might spark genuine change, in keeping with his belief in the ultimate goodness of humanity. A day after, the LSA commented on its public twitter account that it “stands with our Black community”. Please see the public post by linguist Dr. Maria Esipova for a more explicit discussion of this particular incident.
- On June 14th 2020, Dr. Pinker uses the dogwhistle “urban crime/violence” in two public tweets (neither of his sources used the term). A dogwhistle is a deniable speech act “that sends one message to an outgroup while at the same time sending a second (often taboo, controversial, or inflammatory) message to an ingroup”, according to recent and notable semantic/pragmatic work by linguistic researchers Robert Henderson & Elin McCready [1,2,3]. “Urban”, as a dogwhistle, signals covert and, crucially, deniable support of views that essentialize Black people as lesser-than, and, often, as criminals. Its parallel “inner-city”, is in fact one of the prototypical examples used as an illustration of the phenomenon by Henderson & McCready in several of the linked works.[1]
We believe our appeal to remove Dr. Pinker from the LSA fellows list and the list of media experts falls within the purview of the LSA because of the goals that the LSA has set for itself. In its public statement on race, the LSA “encourag[es] linguists to critically reflect on the changing nature of academic, social, cultural, and linguistic understandings of race”, and explicitly states that “there is no linguistic justice without racial justice… [this stance] requires that linguists actively work to promote equity and social justice in ways that benefit underrepresented scholars and communities of color”. We believe that the examples above show that Dr. Pinker’s established pattern of behavior stands in direct opposition to the LSA’s publicly stated aims, and the work they call for.
We want to note here that we have no desire to judge Dr. Pinker’s actions in moral terms, or claim to know what his aims are. Nor do we seek to “cancel” Dr. Pinker, or to bar him from participating in the linguistics and LSA communities (though many of our signatories may well believe that doing so would be the right course of action). We do, however, believe that the examples introduced above establish that Dr. Pinker’s public actions constitute a pattern of downplaying the very real violence of systemic racism and sexism, and, moreover, a pattern that is not above deceitfulness, misrepresentation, or the employment of dogwhistles. In light of the fact that Dr. Pinker is read widely beyond the linguistics community, this behavior is particularly harmful, not merely for the perception of linguistics by the general public, but for movements against the systems of racism and sexism, and for linguists affected by these violent systems.
Sincerely,
The Linguistics Community
(If you would like to add your name to this open letter, please sign using this google form. All signatures will be alphabetized by last name, and added to the document at regular intervals. Everyone who identifies as a linguist is welcome, and encouraged to sign. For comments, or questions, please reach out to lettertothelsa2020@gmail.com.
Addendum: Unfortunately, due to the form being abused both to threaten the editors, and to interfere with the signing process, we can, at this point, only accept signatures via email, and will only accept signatures from valid .edu addresses, or equivalent.)
Errata:
The UCSB incident involved the murder of 2 women and 4 men, not 6 women as stated in the text. Regardless of the identities of the victims, the murderer was driven by misogyny, as demonstrated both by his manifesto and the fact that the perpetrator targeted a sorority house. Dr Pinker’s tweet either ignores or denies this aspect of the event.
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| 1 | A, Pranav | Science Park, Hong Kong | NLP Engineer |
| 2 | Abner, Natasha | University of Michigan | Assistant Professor |
| 3 | Abramovitz, Rafael | MIT | PhD student |
| 4 | Ackerman, Lauren | Newcastle University | |
| 5 | Adamson, Luke | Harvard University | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 6 | Adger, David | Queen Mary University of London | Professor of Linguistics |
| 7 | Ahmed, Anaïs | ||
| 8 | Ahmed, Samuel | ||
| 9 | Ahn, Byron | Princeton | Assistant Professor |
| 10 | Alam ,Marghoob | ||
| 11 | Alden, Paul | University of Maryland | |
| 12 | Altshuler, Daniel | University of Oxford | Associate Professor |
| 13 | Ananthanarayan, Sunkulp | The University of Texas at Austin | |
| 14 | Anderson, Carolyn | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | PhD candidate |
| 15 | Anderson, Catherine | McMaster University | Associate Professor |
| 16 | Andersson, Samuel | Yale University | PhD Student |
| 17 | Antonenko, Andrei | Stony Brook University | Lecturer |
| 18 | Aravind, Athulya | MIT Linguistics | Assistant Professor |
| 19 | Arehalli, Suhas | Johns Hopkins University | PhD student |
| 20 | Arnett, Catherine | UC San Diego | Graduate Student |
| 21 | Arregi, Karlos | The University of Chicago | Associate Professor |
| 22 | Arunachalam, Sudha | New York University | Associate Professor |
| 23 | Asinari, Sarah | University of Connecticut | PhD Student |
| 24 | Atkinson, Emily | University of Michigan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| 25 | Auger, Julie | Université de Montréal | Associate Professor |
| 26 | Austen, Martha | The Ohio State University | PhD Candidate |
| 27 | Babaji, Charles | Analytical Engineer | |
| 28 | Babinski, Sarah | Yale University | PhD Candidate |
| 29 | Bai, Justin | CU Boulder | PhD student |
| 30 | Baier, Nico | University of British Columbia | Postdoc |
| 31 | Baird, Maggie | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | PhD Student |
| 32 | Bakos, Jon | Indiana State University | Assistant Professor |
| 33 | Bakst, Sarah | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 34 | Ballwahn, Isaac | New York University | |
| 35 | Banerjee, Neil | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | PhD candidate |
| 36 | Baratta, Amy | ||
| 37 | Barchas-Lichtenstein, Jena | Knology | Researcher |
| 38 | Barnes, Sonia | Marquette University | Associate Professor |
| 39 | Baron, Bertille | Georgetown University | PhD Candidate |
| 40 | Baron, Christopher | MIT | PhD Student |
| 41 | Barros, Matthew | Washington University in St. Louis | Lecturer |
| 42 | Barry, Daniel | The Graduate Center, CUNY | |
| 43 | Bartell, Stefan | University of Delaware | graduate student |
| 44 | Barzilai, Maya L. | Georgetown University | PhD Candidate |
| 45 | Basu, Sanjay | Life Member, AAAI / Life Member, ACM | NLP Services |
| 46 | Bauman, Carina | NYU | Alum |
| 47 | Beam de Azcona, Rosemary G. | Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia | Professor |
| 48 | Becker, Kara | Reed College | Associate Professor |
| 49 | Becker, Michael | UMass Amherst | |
| 50 | Beckman, Mary | Fellow, Linguistics Society of America | |
| 51 | Beer, Samuel | University of Virginia | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 52 | Belew, Anna | University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| 53 | Bell, Elise | UCLA | |
| 54 | Bell, Regina | Binghamton University | Alum |
| 55 | Bender, Emily M. | University of Washington, Department of Linguistics | Professor |
| 56 | Benkato, Adam | UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor |
| 57 | Bennett, Ryan | University of California, Santa Cruz | Associate Professor |
| 58 | Berez-Kroeker, Andrea | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Linguistics | Associate Professor |
| 59 | Berhow, Lori | Iowa State University | Alum |
| 60 | Bermúdez, Natalia | University of Chicago | Assistant Professor |
| 61 | Bigelow, Lauren | University of Toronto | PhD Student |
| 62 | Bisnath, Felicia | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD student |
| 63 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn | Queen’s University | Assistant Professor |
| 64 | Blamire, Emily | University of Toronto | |
| 65 | Blaxter, Tamsin | Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge | |
| 66 | Blix, Hagen | New York University | PhD Candidate |
| 67 | Blum, Eileen | Rutgers University | PhD Candidate |
| 68 | Blum, Mirella | University of Edinburgh | Student |
| 69 | Blümel, Andreas | University of Göttingen | Postdoctoral researcher |
| 70 | Bodeveryy, Lise | Vanderbilt University | Alum |
| 71 | Borer, Hagit | Queen Mary University of London | Department chair |
| 72 | Bossi, Madeline | UC Berkeley | |
| 73 | Bouavichith, Dominique A. | University of Michigan | PhD Candidate |
| 74 | Bourgerie Hunter, Marie | Private sector computational linguist | |
| 75 | Bowen, Caroline | Macquarie University | Research Fellow |
| 76 | Bowern, Claire | Yale university | Professor |
| 77 | Bowie, David | University of Alaska Anchorage | Professor |
| 78 | Bowman, Samuel R. | New York University | Assistant Professor |
| 79 | Bradley, Evan | Penn State University | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| 80 | Brickhouse, Christian | Stanford | PhD candidate |
| 81 | Brodkin, Dan | UC Santa Cruz | PhD Student |
| 82 | Brown, Meredith | ||
| 83 | Brunetto, Valentina | University of Leeds | |
| 84 | Buchwald, Adam | New York University | |
| 85 | Bui, Thuy | Hoa Sen University | Assistant Professor |
| 86 | Burkholder, Ross | Calvin University | Affiliate Professor |
| 87 | Butler, Becky | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| 88 | Byrd, Andrew | University of Kentucky | Associate Professor of Linguistics |
| 89 | Cable, Seth | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Associate Professor |
| 90 | Callesano, Salvatore | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Assistant Professor |
| 91 | Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn | Ohio State University | |
| 92 | Campolong, Kelsey | Ulster University | PhD Researcher |
| 93 | Canjura, Julian | Northern Arizona University | Graduate student |
| 94 | Canning, Dominique | University of Michigan | PhD Candidate |
| 95 | Carmichael, Katie | Virginia Tech | associate professor |
| 96 | Carruthers, Brendan | Cognitive Science B.A. | |
| 97 | Catlin, Sara | Stony Brook University | |
| 98 | Chacón, Dustin A. | New York University Abu Dhabi | Research Scientist |
| 99 | Chadwick, Stacie | ||
| 100 | Chambers, Summer | University of Virginia | Linguistics MA |
| 101 | Chang, Charles B. | Boston University | Associate Professor |
| 102 | Chatten, Alicia | New York University | |
| 103 | Chemey, Natasha | Rutgers University | Graduate Fellow |
| 104 | Chen, Daniel | CU Boulder | PhD student |
| 105 | Chen, Tingchun | ||
| 106 | Cheng, Hung-Shao | New York University Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders | PhD student |
| 107 | Chong, Adam | Queen Mary University of London | Lecturer |
| 108 | Christofori, Ulrike | San Joaquin Delta College | Instructor |
| 109 | Clare, Emily | ||
| 110 | Clark, McKenzie | Student | |
| 111 | Clauss, Michael | University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
| 112 | Clem, Emily | University of California, San Diego | Assistant Professor |
| 113 | Clemens, Lauren | University at Albany | Assistant professor |
| 114 | Clevenger, Joanna | California State University, San Bernardino | Graduate Student |
| 115 | Clifford, Lily | Stanford University | PhD Student |
| 116 | Clopper, Cynthia | Ohio State University | Professor |
| 117 | Cockrum, Paul | The Ohio State University | Graduate Student |
| 118 | Conner, Katherine | The Ohio State University | PhD Student |
| 119 | Connor, Janet | University of Chicago | PhD Candidate |
| 120 | Conrod, Kirby | University of Washington | |
| 121 | Coon, Jessica | McGill University | Associate Professor |
| 122 | Coons, Caitlin | The University of Texas at Austin | PhD student |
| 123 | Copeland, Samantha | University of North Texas | Student |
| 124 | Cornall, Termy | ||
| 125 | Cotter, William | University of Arizona | |
| 126 | Cournane, Ailís | New York University | Assistant Professor |
| 127 | Cowper, Elizabeth | University of Toronto | |
| 128 | Cox, Julia | ||
| 129 | Cox, Taylor | Arizona State University | Research Technician |
| 130 | Craft, Justin T. | University of Michigan | Ph.D Student |
| 131 | Craioveanu, Radu | University of Toronto | PhD candidate |
| 132 | Crouch, Caroline | UC Santa Barbara | graduate student |
| 133 | Crowley, Archie | University of South Carolina | PhD Student |
| 134 | Culbertson, Jennifer | University of Edinburgh | Reader |
| 135 | Cunningham, Emma | Software Engineer | |
| 136 | D’Angelo, Jason | Georgetown University | Phd. Candidate |
| 137 | D’Arcy, Alexandra | University of Victoria | Professor |
| 138 | Dahlberg-Dodd, Hannah | ||
| 139 | Daitya, Patrick | Monash University Linguistics Society | President |
| 140 | Daland, Robert | Apple, Inc. | Software Engineer |
| 141 | Dale, Christopher | ||
| 142 | Danis, Nicholas | Washington University in St. Louis | Lecturer |
| 143 | Davidson, Diana | ||
| 144 | Davidson, Lisa | NYU | Professor |
| 145 | Davis, Emory | Johns Hopkins University | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 146 | Davis, Jenny | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Associate Professor |
| 147 | de Haas, Nynke | Utrecht University | Lecturer |
| 148 | De Santo, Aniello | University of Utah | Assistant Professor |
| 149 | de Vries, Hanna | Leiden University | Lecturer |
| 150 | DeGiulio, Stephen | Santa Fe Community College | Professor |
| 151 | DeMarco, Stephanie | Birmingham City University | Education Developer |
| 152 | Denis, Derek | University of Toronto Mississauga | Assistant Professor |
| 153 | DeRoma, Cynthia Zocca | Yale University | Lector |
| 154 | Devlin, Kerri | UCLA | Graduate Student |
| 155 | DiCanio, Christian | University at Buffalo | Assistant Professor |
| 156 | Dinkin, Aaron | San Diego State University | Assistant Professor |
| 157 | Dockum, Rikker | Swarthmore College | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| 158 | Dolatian, Hossep | Stony Brook University | Alum |
| 159 | Doliana, Aaron | University of Maryland | PhD Student |
| 160 | dos Santos, Wesley | University of California, Berkeley | PhD student |
| 161 | Drake, Shiloh | ||
| 162 | Driscoll, Trevor | MIT | |
| 163 | Drummond, Emily | University of California, Berkeley | Graduate student |
| 164 | Duncan, Daniel | Newcastle University | Lecturer in Sociolinguistics |
| 165 | Durryyah, Nazahat | Boston University | Alum, Linguistics Blogger |
| 166 | Dusek, Ondrej | Charles University, Prague | Assistant Professor |
| 167 | Easterday, Shelece | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | Assistant Professor |
| 168 | Eberhardt, Maeve | University of Vermont | Associate Professor |
| 169 | Elliott, Patrick | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Postdoctoral Associate |
| 170 | Esipova, Maria | Princeton University, Program in Linguistics | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| 171 | Everdell, Michael | The University of Texas, Austin | PhD Student |
| 172 | Farinella, Alessa | UMass Amherst | PhD Student |
| 173 | Farkas, Rebecca | ||
| 174 | Farris-Trimble, Ashely | Simon Fraser University | Associate Professor |
| 175 | Faytak, Matthew | UCLA | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 176 | Feeny, Graham | New York University Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders | PhD Student |
| 177 | Feldscher, Cara (Danny) | Michigan State University | PhD graduate |
| 178 | Figueroa, Megan | University of Arizona | |
| 179 | Finley, Sara | Pacific Lutheran University | Associate Professor |
| 180 | Fleckenstein, Kristen | Coastal Carolina University | Assistant Professor |
| 181 | Fleisher, Nicholas | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Associate Professor |
| 182 | Fletcher, Lauren | University of Edinburgh | PhD Student NLP |
| 183 | Fong, Suzana | MIT | graduate student |
| 184 | Forrest, Jon | University of Georgia | Assistant Professor |
| 185 | Fox, Bonnie | University of Hawai’i | |
| 186 | Francez, Itamar | University of Chicago | Associate Prof. |
| 187 | Francis, Elaine | Purdue University | Associate Professor |
| 188 | Franich, Kathryn | University of Delaware | Assistant Professor |
| 189 | Fraser, Katherine | University of the Basque Country | PhD Student |
| 190 | Freeman, Aaron | UPenn | Alum |
| 191 | Frishberg, Nancy | ||
| 192 | Fruehwald, Josef | University of Kentucky | Assistant Professor |
| 193 | Fuchs, Martin | Utrecht University | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 194 | Gaby, Alice | Monash University | |
| 195 | Gadanidis, Tim | University of Toronto | PhD student |
| 196 | Gal, Susan | University of Chicago | professor |
| 197 | Ganeshan, Ashwini | Ohio University | Assistant Professor |
| 198 | García León, Javier | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Assistant Professor |
| 199 | Gardner, Bethany | Vanderbilt University | PhD student |
| 200 | Garza, Joyhanna | UCSB Linguistics | PhD Candidate |
| 201 | Gasser, Emily | Swarthmore College | Assistant Professor |
| 202 | Gautam, Vasundhara | Dialpad | Speech Recognition Engineer |
| 203 | Gebhard, Jessica | ||
| 204 | Gegg-Harrison, Whitney | University of Rochester | Associate Professor |
| 205 | Geguera, Ria Mai | NYU | Research Staff |
| 206 | Geissler, Christopher | Yale University | PhD Candidate |
| 207 | Gerald, JPB | CUNY – Hunter College | |
| 208 | German, Austin | The University of Texas at Austin | PhD student |
| 209 | Getz, Heidi | ||
| 210 | Getzen, Cara | TESL Student | |
| 211 | Gillon, Carrie | The Vocal Fries | Co-host |
| 212 | Glödstaf, Walther | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | PhD student |
| 213 | Göbel, Alexander | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Graduate Student |
| 214 | Gölz, Miriam | Brandeis University | graduate student |
| 215 | Gonering, Brennan | UC Davis | Graduate student |
| 216 | Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica | RWTH | |
| 217 | Good, Jeff | University at Buffalo | Professor |
| 218 | Gorman, Kyle | Graduate Center, City University of New York | |
| 219 | Govindarajan, Venkata S | University of Texas at Austin | PhD Student Computational Linguistics |
| 220 | Gowda, Yadav | MIT | PhD student |
| 221 | Grama, James | University of Duisburg-Essen | Research Fellow |
| 222 | Green, Caitlin | ||
| 223 | Green, Elizabeth | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 224 | Greenbank, Emily | Victoria University of Wellington | Research Fellow |
| 225 | Greenwood, Anna | Program Manager | |
| 226 | Greeson, Daniel | Michigan State University | Graduate student |
| 227 | Grestenberger, Laura | University of Vienna | Assistant Professor |
| 228 | Grieve-Smith, Angus | The New School | |
| 229 | Grishin, Peter | MIT | PhD Student |
| 230 | Grothues, Natalie | University of Colorado Boulder | PhD student |
| 231 | Guo, Alice | University of Toronto | Alum |
| 232 | Haber, Eli | University of Chicago | |
| 233 | Hagedorn, Christina | City University of New York – College of Staten Island | Assistant Professor |
| 234 | Hagiwara, Robert | University of Manitoba | |
| 235 | Hall-Lew, Lauren | University of Edinburgh | Reader |
| 236 | Hall, Daniel Currie | Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | associate professor; LSA member |
| 237 | Halpert, Claire | University of Minnesota | Associate Professor |
| 238 | Hansen, Daniel | University of Chicago | PhD Student |
| 239 | Hao, Yiding | Yale University | PhD Candidate |
| 240 | Hara, Yurie | Hokkaido University | Associate Professor |
| 241 | Harley, Heidi | University of Arizona | Professor |
| 242 | Harper, Sarah | University of Southern California | PhD Candidate |
| 243 | Harvey, Meg | University of Arizona | |
| 244 | Hauk, Bryn | ||
| 245 | Heap, David | University of Western Ontario | Associate Professor |
| 246 | Heath, Jevon | University of Pittsburgh | Director of Undergraduate Studies |
| 247 | Heaton, Hayley | University of Michigan | Linguistics PhD |
| 248 | Heider, Paul | Medical University of South Carolina | Senior Research Scientist |
| 249 | Henderson, Robert | University of Arizona | Associate Professor of Linguistics |
| 250 | Hendery, Rachel | Western Sydney University, Australia | Associate Professor |
| 251 | Henley, Katherine | ||
| 252 | Henry, Cassidy | University of Maryland | |
| 253 | Hetherington, Rebecca | University of Melbourne | |
| 254 | Hill, Angelica | University of Massachusetts Amherst | PhD student |
| 255 | Holgate, Eric | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate |
| 256 | Hoops, Tracie | CSU Fullerton | MA student |
| 257 | Hope, Maxwell | University of Delaware | PhD student |
| 258 | Horesh, Uri | Achva Academic College | |
| 259 | Hou, Lynn | University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| 260 | Hughes, Brianne | MA Linguistics | |
| 261 | Hyett, James | University of Toronto | Alum |
| 262 | Irvine, Melissa | ||
| 263 | Jacobs, Cassandra | University of Wisconsin | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 264 | Jaggers, Zachary | University of Oregon | Postdoctoral Scholar |
| 265 | Jamieson, E | University of Edinburgh | |
| 266 | Janoff, Arianna | ||
| 267 | Jenks, Peter | UC Berkeley | Associate Professor |
| 268 | Jensen, Monica | University of Washington | PhD Student |
| 269 | Jent, Brandon | University of Kentucky | Alumnus, MA Linguistic Theory and Typology |
| 270 | Jeong, Sunwoo | Seoul National University | Assistant professor |
| 271 | Jeretic, Paloma | New York University | PhD Candidate |
| 272 | Jerro, Kyle | University of Essex | Lecturer |
| 273 | Jones, Kyra | ||
| 274 | Jones, Taylor | University of Pennsylvania | PhD Graduate |
| 275 | Joyce, Taylor | The University of Texas at Austin | PhD Student |
| 276 | Kalin, Laura | Princeton University | Assistant Professor |
| 277 | Kane, Aurora | University of California, Berkeley | PhD Student |
| 278 | Karlin, Robin | UW-Madison | Postdoctoral researcher |
| 279 | Kasstan, Jonathan | University of Westminster | Assistant Professor |
| 280 | Kastner, Itamar | University of Edinburgh | |
| 281 | Kennedy, Robert | University of California, Santa Barbara | Senior Lecturer |
| 282 | Khan, Sameer ud Dowla | Reed College | Associate Professor |
| 283 | Kiesling, Scott F. | University of Pittsburgh | Professor & Chair |
| 284 | Kim, Christina | University of Kent | Senior lecturer |
| 285 | Kim, Judy | Yale University | Postdoc |
| 286 | Kimper, Wendell | University of Manchester | Lecturer |
| 287 | Kirchner, Jessica | Senior Linguist | |
| 288 | Klassen, Jeffrey | University of Saskatchewan | Sessional Lecturer |
| 289 | Klausner, Lukas Daniel | St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences | Researcher |
| 290 | Klecha, Peet | Linguist | |
| 291 | Kolozsvari, Robyn | ||
| 292 | Konnelly, Lex | University of Toronto | PhD Candidate |
| 293 | Kosse, Maureen | CU Boulder | Grad Student |
| 294 | Kostyszyn, Kalina | Stony Brook University | PhD student |
| 295 | Kotek, Hadas | Computational Linguist | |
| 296 | Koulidobrova, Helen | Central Connecticut State University | Associate Professor |
| 297 | Koval, Pasha | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate |
| 298 | Kramer, Ruth | Georgetown University | |
| 299 | Kraus, Kaj | Gallaudet University | PhD Student |
| 300 | Kraus, Kelsey | UC Santa Cruz | PhD graduate |
| 301 | Kucharska, Rosa | University of Manchester | Undergraduate student |
| 302 | Kuo, Annita | ||
| 303 | Kush, Dave | NTNU | Associate Professor |
| 304 | Lai, Catherine | University of Edinburgh | |
| 305 | Lalonde, Codie | Carleton University | PhD Candidate |
| 306 | Lang, Benjamin | New York University Abu Dhabi | |
| 307 | Laparle, Schuyler | UC Berkeley | PhD Candidate |
| 308 | Laperle, Samuel | ||
| 309 | Lassahn-Worrell, Price | ||
| 310 | Laturnus, Rebecca | ||
| 311 | Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit | UC Berkeley | Graduate Student |
| 312 | Laurentine, Kyle | ||
| 313 | Lawson, Alexandra | University at Buffalo, SUNY | Graduate Student |
| 314 | Le Mené, Marine | University of Strasbourg | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 315 | Lee-Goldman, Russell | ||
| 316 | Lee, Naomi | New York University | PhD student |
| 317 | Lee, Rebecca | University of Colorado Boulder | PhD student |
| 318 | Lee, Si Kai | UConn | PhD Student |
| 319 | Leonard, Wesley | University of California, Riverside | Associate Professor |
| 320 | Lesho, Marivic | ||
| 321 | Lesk, Katharina | University of Vienna | student |
| 322 | Levi, Susannah | NYU | |
| 323 | Levinson, Lisa | University of Michigan | Lecturer |
| 324 | Lewis, Rebecca | University of Connecticut | PhD Student |
| 325 | Lewis, Tom | Georgia Southern University | Visiting Instructor |
| 326 | Li, Neh Gnetnemt | Jinggangshan University 井冈山大学 | Research Scientist |
| 327 | Li, Noriyasu | ||
| 328 | Lilley, Kevin | The Ohio State University | PhD Student |
| 329 | Lindsey, Kate | Boston University | |
| 330 | Liter, Adam | University of Maryland | Graduate student |
| 331 | Litovsky, Celia | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate |
| 332 | Love-Nichols, Jessica | Macalester College | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| 333 | Lowry, Cass | The Graduate Center, City University of New York | PhD student |
| 334 | Lu, Deedee | ||
| 335 | Lu, Jiayi | Stanford University | PhD student |
| 336 | Lucek, Stephen | University College Dublin | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 337 | Lukyanenko, Cynthia | George Mason University | Term Assistant Professor |
| 338 | Lund, Gunnar | Harvard | PhD candidate |
| 339 | MacGregor, Caiden | La Trobe University | Graduate student |
| 340 | MacKenzie, Jordan | Georgetown University | PhD Candidate |
| 341 | MacKenzie, Laurel | New York University | Assistant Professor |
| 342 | Macknick, Anna | Princeton University | Undergraduate student |
| 343 | Mahan, Heather | UCSC | MA Linguistics graduate |
| 344 | Maier, Erik Hans | UC Berkeley | PhD Candidate |
| 345 | Mailhot, Frederic | Dialpad, Inc. | Computational Linguist |
| 346 | Malamud, Sophia A. | Brandeis University | Associate Professor |
| 347 | Maldonado, Mora | University of Edinburgh | Postdoctoral researcher |
| 348 | Manetta, Emily | University of Vermont | Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology |
| 349 | Mangold, Ina Runa | University of Edinburgh | Postgraduate Student |
| 350 | Manke, Christine | California State University, Northridge | Alumna |
| 351 | Manning, Emma | Georgetown University | PhD Student |
| 352 | Mansfield, Courtney | University of Washington | PhD Candidate |
| 353 | Mantenuto, Iara | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD Candidate |
| 354 | Marino, D. | McGill University | Grad Student |
| 355 | Martí, Luisa | Queen Mary University of London | Senior Lecturer |
| 356 | Martin, Fabienne | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| 357 | Martin, Katie | MIT | Graduate student |
| 358 | Martin, Tyree | University of Arizona | Ph.D. Student |
| 359 | Martinez del Rio, Aurora | University of Chicago | Graduate Student |
| 360 | Martinez, Randi | Yale University | |
| 361 | Matsubara, Julie | University of Chicago, English Language Institute | Director |
| 362 | Mauk, Claude | University of Pittsburgh | Senior Lecturer |
| 363 | McBride, Justin T. | Northeastern State University | Assistant Professor |
| 364 | McCabe, Samantha | ||
| 365 | McClay, E. K. | Simon Fraser University | research staff |
| 366 | McCoy, Tom | Johns Hopkins University | Graduate student |
| 367 | McCready, Elin | Aoyama Gakuin University | Professor |
| 368 | McFadden, Thomas | Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft | |
| 369 | McGowan, Kevin | University of Kentucky | Assistant Professor |
| 370 | McKay, Isabel | University of Arizona | |
| 371 | McPherson, Laura | Dartmouth College | Associate Professor |
| 372 | McVeigh, Joe | University of Jyväskylä | University teacher |
| 373 | Meadows, Tom | Queen Mary University of London | PhD Candidate |
| 374 | Medina, Jennifer | ||
| 375 | Merryweather, Marina | ||
| 376 | Mesh, Kate | Lund University | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 377 | Meyer, Cherry | University of Michigan | |
| 378 | Midgley, Daniel | Because Language | Co-presenter |
| 379 | Mieczkowski, Hannah | Stanford University | PhD candidate, Communication |
| 380 | Miller, Taylor | SUNY Oswego | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| 381 | Minnick, Lisa C. | Western Michigan University | Associate Professor |
| 382 | Mirea, Nicole | Northwestern University | PhD student |
| 383 | Molina, Malia | Carleton College | |
| 384 | Monette, James | Data Scientist | |
| 385 | Mooney, Kate | New York University | |
| 386 | Moraski, Kendall | University of British Columbia | Alum |
| 387 | Morgan, Adam | NYU | Postdoc |
| 388 | Morikawa, Nora | ||
| 389 | Mufwene, Salikoko S. | University of Chicago | Professor of Linguistics |
| 390 | Munson, Benjamin | University of Minnesota | Professor and Chair |
| 391 | Murphy, AJ | University of South Carolina | PhD Student |
| 392 | Murray, Sarah | Cornell University | Associate Professor |
| 393 | Musica, Anne | Georgetown University | Alum |
| 394 | Musil, Jakub | The University of Edinburgh | PhD candidate |
| 395 | Nakamura, Megan | University of Florida | |
| 396 | Namboodiripad, Savithry | University of Michigan | Assistant Professor |
| 397 | Narayan, Chandan | York University Linguistics | Assoc Professor |
| 398 | Nederveen, Sander | Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia | MA/PhD student |
| 399 | Nelson, Brett | University of Calgary | PhD Candidate |
| 400 | Nelson, Scott | Stony Brook University | |
| 401 | Nesbitt, Monica | Dartmouth College | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 402 | Newell, Heather | UQAM | Professor |
| 403 | Ng, Sara | University of Washington | PhD student |
| 404 | Nguyen, Chieu | Google Japan | Computational Linguist |
| 405 | Nguyen, Emma | University of Connecticut | PhD student |
| 406 | Niedzielski, Nancy | Rice University | Associate Professor |
| 407 | Nielsen, Kuniko | Oakland University | Associate Professor |
| 408 | Nölle, Jonas | University of Edinburgh | PhD Candidate |
| 409 | Noonan, Máire | Université de Montréal & Université du Québec à Montréal, | course lecturer |
| 410 | Norris, Mark | ||
| 411 | Nowlan, Melody | ||
| 412 | Nycz, Jennifer | Georgetown University | Associate Professor |
| 413 | O’Gorman, Tim | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 414 | O’Hara, Charlie | University of Southern California | |
| 415 | O’Meara, Carolyn | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Associate Research Professor |
| 416 | O’Neill, Brittney | York University | PhD student |
| 417 | Orfitelli, Robyn | University of Sheffield | Lecturer |
| 418 | Ostrove, Jason | UC Santa Cruz | Lecturer |
| 419 | Overfelt, Carly | ||
| 420 | Pabst, Katharina | University of Toronto | Ph.D. Candidate |
| 421 | Palma, Pauline | McGill University | PhD student |
| 422 | Papillon, Maxime | University of Maryand | |
| 423 | Parrish, Alicia | New York University | Grad student |
| 424 | Parrott, Jeffrey Keith | Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc | Assistant Professor of Linguistics |
| 425 | Pasquinelli, Renni | Johns Hopkins University | PhD Student |
| 426 | Pasternak, Robert | Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 427 | Pater, Joe | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Professor |
| 428 | Patton, Colleen | University of Arizona | PhD Candidate |
| 429 | Paul, Ileana | University of Western Ontario | Associate Professor |
| 430 | Paullada, Amandalynne | University of Washington | PhD Candidate, Linguistics |
| 431 | Payne, Amanda | ||
| 432 | Payne, Elena | University of Cambridge | Student |
| 433 | Payne, Elinor | University of Oxford | Associate Professor |
| 434 | Pearce, Jo | University of Glasgow | PhD Student |
| 435 | Pearson, Hazel | Queen Mary University of London | Senior Lecturer |
| 436 | Perez Borbon, Luz | University of Massachusetts Boston | PhD student |
| 437 | Perfors, Amy | University of Melbourne | Associate Professor |
| 438 | Perleberg, Ellen | University of Washington | Undergraduate |
| 439 | Peters, Andrew | University of Toronto | PhD Candidate |
| 440 | Pham, Mike | ||
| 441 | Piggott, Glyne | McGill University | Emeritus Professor |
| 442 | Pillion, Betsy | University of Chicago | PhD Candidate |
| 443 | Pinzin, Francesco | Goethe Universität Frankfurt | Postdoctoral researcher |
| 444 | Plumb, May Helena | University of Texas at Austin | PhD Candidate |
| 445 | Pollio-Barbee, Harper | Brandeis University | Undergraduate Student |
| 446 | Potter, David | Morehead State University | Post-doc |
| 447 | Potvin, Gabrielle | ||
| 448 | Pratt, Teresa | San Francisco State University | Assistant Professor |
| 449 | Preminger, Omer | University of Maryland | Associate Professor |
| 450 | Prichard, Hilary | Linguistics PhD | |
| 451 | Prickett, Brandon | ||
| 452 | Puderbaugh, Rebekka | University of Edinburgh | Teaching Fellow |
| 453 | Punske, Jeffrey | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies |
| 454 | Purse, Ruaridh | University of Pennsylvania | PhD Candidate |
| 455 | Raclaw, Joshua | West Chester University | Assistant Professor |
| 456 | Rademacher, Tess | Former LSA Intern | |
| 457 | Rasin, Ezer | Leipzig University | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 458 | Rawlins, Kyle | Johns Hopkins University | Associate Professor |
| 459 | Reed, Paul E. | University of Alabama | Assistant professor |
| 460 | Rees, Alice | University of Edinburgh | Research Fellow |
| 461 | Rehrig, G. | UC Davis | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 462 | Reiss, Charles | Concordia University, Montreal | Professor |
| 463 | Remirez, Emily | UC Berkeley | PhD Candidate |
| 464 | Rett, Jessica | UCLA | Professor and Director of Graduate Studies |
| 465 | Richardson-Todd, Aurore | PhD student | |
| 466 | Richie, Russell | University of Pennsylvania | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 467 | Ritch, Joseph | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | MA Student |
| 468 | Roberts, Brice | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD Candidate |
| 469 | Roberts, Julie | University of Vermont | Professor and Director |
| 470 | Robinson, Mary | NYU | PhD student |
| 471 | Robles, Jessica S. | Loughborough University | Lecturer |
| 472 | Rodriguez, Alejandro | UC San Diego | PhD Student |
| 473 | Ronkos, Danielle | The Graduate Center, CUNY | Ph.D. Candidate |
| 474 | Rosa, Jonathan | Stanford University | Associate Professor |
| 475 | Rosen, Nicole | University of Manitoba | Professor |
| 476 | Rosenau, Sara | CU Boulder | Graduate Student |
| 477 | Rouvier, Ruth | University of California, Berkeley | PhD Candidate |
| 478 | Rouvinen, Alina | Student | |
| 479 | Rowe, Margaret Anne | Georgetown University | Alum |
| 480 | Royer, Adam | UCLA Linguistics | PhD Candidate |
| 481 | Royer, Justin | McGill University | PhD Student |
| 482 | Sampson, Tory | University of California, San Diego | PhD Student |
| 483 | Sanchez, Roger | Universidade Federal de Belo Horizonte, Brazil | PhD |
| 484 | Sandoval, Starr | graduate student | |
| 485 | Sandy, Abu El Adas | NYU | PhD student/worker |
| 486 | Sayeed, Asad | University of Gothenburg | Assistant Professor |
| 487 | Scarpace, Daniel | University of Texas at Arlington | Assistant Professor of Instruction |
| 488 | Scheffler, Tatjana | University of Potsdam | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 489 | Schlegl, Lisa | Univeristy of Toronto | PhD Student |
| 490 | Schneier, Joel | University of Central Florida | Lecturer |
| 491 | Seals, Corinne | Victoria University of Wellington | Senior Lecturer |
| 492 | Sears, Cheyenne | Ohio University | Alum |
| 493 | Semushina, Nina | UCSD | PhD candidate |
| 494 | Seong, Jihye | The State University of New York at Buffalo | Ph.D. Student |
| 495 | Shames, Kayla Matthea | Cornell University | Undergraduate Student |
| 496 | Shan, Chung-chieh | Indiana University | Associate Professor |
| 497 | Shapiro, Mary | Truman State University | Professor of Linguistics |
| 498 | Shenkar, Julia | George Mason University | Alum |
| 499 | Sherley-Appel, Clara | UCSC, UVA | Linguistics MA |
| 500 | Showers-Curtis, Katka | University of Wisconsin – Madison | Graduate Student |
| 501 | Shukla, Mohinish | ||
| 502 | Shulist, Sarah | Queen’s University | Associate Professor |
| 503 | Sichel, Ivy | UC Santa Cruz | Associate Professor |
| 504 | Sicoli, Mark A | University of Virginia | Assistant Professor |
| 505 | Simpson, Erin | UCL Institute of Education | PhD student |
| 506 | Sims, Nandi | Ohio State University | PhD Candidate |
| 507 | Singerman, Adam | Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago | Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow |
| 508 | Sirna, Sarah | Michigan State University | |
| 509 | Skilton, Amalia | University of Texas at Austin | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 510 | Slayton, Aliya | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | PhD student |
| 511 | Slobe, Tyanna | University of California Los Angeles | PhD Candidate |
| 512 | Smith, Alexander D. | University of North Texas | |
| 513 | Smith, Barry | University at Buffalo | Professor & Chair |
| 514 | Smith, James | ||
| 515 | Smith, Kaylin | Michigan State University | PhD candidate |
| 516 | Sneller, Betsy | Michigan State University | Assistant Professor |
| 517 | Snider, Todd | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | |
| 518 | Soldaini, Luca | Amazon | Applied Scientist |
| 519 | Sommerlot, Carly J. | University of Texas at Arlington | Ph.D. Candidate |
| 520 | Sprenger, Anna-Marie | UChicago | graduate student |
| 521 | Staicov, Adina | Hiroshima University | Assistant Professor |
| 522 | Stalley, Sean | ||
| 523 | Stephens, Heather | University of Toronto | PhD Candidate |
| 524 | Stickles, Elise | University of British Columbia | Assistant Professor |
| 525 | Stromdahl, Lars | University of Delaware | PhD Student |
| 526 | Strother-Garcia, Kristina | Bloomsburg University | Assistant Professor |
| 527 | Subtirelu, Nicholas | Georgetown University | Assistant Professor |
| 528 | Sullivant, Ryan | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 529 | Sundaresan, Sandhya | ||
| 530 | Sunil Arvindam, Vishal | ||
| 531 | Surbatovich, Amy | Editor | |
| 532 | Sutherland, Paul | American Philosophical Society | Archivist, Linguist |
| 533 | Szabó, Ildikó Emese | New York University | PhD candidate |
| 534 | Tabachnick, Guy | New York University | graduate student |
| 535 | Talmina, Natalia | Johns Hopkins University | PhD student |
| 536 | Taniguchi, Ai | University of Toronto Mississauga | Assistant Professor |
| 537 | Taylor, Katherine | The Ohio State University | Alum |
| 538 | Thomas, Airica | Northwestern University | PhD Student |
| 539 | Thomas, Jenelle | University of Oxford | |
| 540 | Thomas, William | The Ohio State University | PhD Student |
| 541 | Thompson, Anie | H5/University of California Santa Cruz | Consulting Linguist and PhD alum |
| 542 | Thompson, Ellen | Florida International University | Professor |
| 543 | Thompson, Katrina | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Professor |
| 544 | Thoms, Gary | New York University | Assistant Professor |
| 545 | Tomlin, Nicholas | UC Berkeley | PhD Student |
| 546 | Torbert, Benjamin | University of Missouri-St Louis | Associate professor |
| 547 | Torgersen, Henrik | University of Oslo | MA student |
| 548 | Tran, Marcellin | University of Toronto | Student |
| 549 | Travis, Lisa | McGill University | Professor Emeritus |
| 550 | Tulsyan, Purnima | ||
| 551 | Turnbull, Rory | Newcastle University | Lecturer |
| 552 | Turner, Gerry | York University | PhD Candidate |
| 553 | Turner, Robin | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | PhD student |
| 554 | Twiner, Nicholas | Stanford University | Graduate Student |
| 555 | Tyler, Matthew | Yale University | PhD candidate |
| 556 | Tyrone, Martha | Long Island University | Associate Professor |
| 557 | Ulfsbjorninn, Shanti | University of Deusto, Bilbao. | Associate Professor |
| 558 | Umbal, Pocholo | University of Toronto | PhD Candidate |
| 559 | Usta, Betül Seda | University of Stirling | PhD student |
| 560 | Valentinsson, Mary-Caitlyn | Appalachian State University | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| 561 | van den Akker, M. | Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Undergraduate |
| 562 | VanderStouwe, Chris | Boise State University | Lecturer |
| 563 | Vaughan, Alfie | University of Cambridge | Undergraduate |
| 564 | Vihman, Marilyn | University of York | Professor |
| 565 | Vihman, Virve | University of Tartu | Associate Professor |
| 566 | Villanueva, Mercedes Eileen | ||
| 567 | Vittalbabu, Chandru | Sunnyvale School District | Speech-Language Pathologist and Linguistics graduate |
| 568 | Vu, Mai Ha | University of Delaware | Alum |
| 569 | Walkden, George | University of Konstanz | Professor of Linguistics |
| 570 | Warner, Natasha | University of Arizona | Professor and Head |
| 571 | Warren, Isaac | Georgetown University | MS Student |
| 572 | Wassink, Alicia | University of Washington | |
| 573 | Weinberg, Miranda | Swarthmore College | Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics |
| 574 | Wells, Alexus | Georgetown University | |
| 575 | Whitcomb, Kathleen | ||
| 576 | Williams, Adina | Research Scientist | |
| 577 | Wilson, Brianna | University of Chicago | PhD Student |
| 578 | Wilson, Fiona | University of Toronto | Graduate Student |
| 579 | Wilson, Scott Keohookalani | Pukyong National University | Lecturer |
| 580 | Wing, Dakota | York University | PhD Candidate |
| 581 | Wingett, Hannah | Georgetown University | Alum, BA Linguistics + MS Theoretical Linguistics |
| 582 | Winterstein, Grégoire | UQAM | Professor |
| 583 | Wolf, Simon | Unaffiliated | Independent Researcher and Consultant |
| 584 | Wood, Skye | Virginia Tech | Alum |
| 585 | Wright, Kelly Elizabeth | University of Michigan | PhD Candidate |
| 586 | Yeaton, Jeremy | UC Irvine | PhD student in Language Science |
| 587 | Yoshida Nuttall, Kelly | Boise State University | |
| 588 | Young, Eris | Writer | |
| 589 | Yuan, Michelle | University of California, San Diego | Assistant Professor |
| 590 | Zaitsu, Anissa | Stanford University | PhD student |
| 591 | Zimman, Lal | UC Santa Barbara | Associate Professor of Linguistics |
| 592 | Zompi, Stanislao | ||
| 593 | Zweig, Eytan | University of York | Lecturer |
There was a similar attempted take-down in Classics recently: https://medium.com/@libertinopatrenatus/the-sportula-a-statement-on-the-paideia-institute-c9887f1df064
I worked in the real world for a few years before returning to get a Masters degree. One of my professors bought a “pedigreed” dog for $1,500 that turned out to be a mongrel, another of my professors added the guy who sold professor 1 the dog to her car title so she could get a break by using his CIA insurance on her Corvette (he told campus police he was on the title when he used a key she gave him to drive it off to his other family in California). That’s the trouble with people who are professional intellectuals and have no business or real world experience. Now, imagine these signatories from the LSA, one of whom is a “post doc researcher” (read: I couldn’t find work in the Linguistics field so I stayed in school even after my PhD). Eventually, though they don’t realize it, they will, through these righteous purges, ensure that there will be no one left in the LSA who thinks differently or who knows anything the rest of them don’t…at which point they are all the same, which is to say utterly useless to society, as one of them would be enough. And, sadly, they are not even smart enough to figure this out. But I’ll bet they are hell bent to ensure “diversity,” though I doubt they can even agree on a definition of that.
“Whom are you?”, said he, for he had been to night school. — Andre Gide
Interesting story bob
we all know what diversity means. GET RID OF WHITE MEN AND MAYBE WOMEN TOO, AND REPLACE THEM WITH BLACKS AND HISPANICS & FOREIGNERS
Asians or at least NE Asians, may or may not count as diversity given the particulars of the department. In STEM, ha, definitely NOT, they get the white guy treatment too
I love the Gide quote and your whole response was spot-on. Did you ever read “Straight Man” by Richard Russo? The premise is, sort of, that in your average college English department, everyone’s the straight man. (I’ll probably go to linguistics jail for using the term ‘straight man’).
Trump Will Deport Foreign Students If Universities Don’t Hold Classes In Person
A directive by the Trump administration that would strip international college students of their U.S. visas if their coursework was entirely online prompted widespread confusion on Tuesday as students scrambled to clarify their statuses and universities reassessed their fall reopening policies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The White House measure, announced on Monday, was seen as an effort to pressure universities into reopening their gates and abandoning the cautious approaches that many have announced they would adopt to reduce Covid-19 transmission.
The effect may be to dramatically reduce the number of international students enrolling in the fall. Together with delays in processing visas as a result of the pandemic, immigrant advocates say the new rules, which must still be finalized later this month, might discourage many overseas students from attending American universities, where they often pay full tuition.
“The financial repercussions to institutions are potentially very traumatic,” said Daniel J. Hurley, chief executive of the Michigan Association of State Universities, which represents the state’s public universities. He cited studies showing that 33,236 international students contributed $1.2 billion to Michigan’s economy in 2018.
But the concern that their campuses could become coronavirus clusters has prompted many universities to adopt measures to reduce exposure, from requiring masks in classrooms to limiting social activities to reducing the number of students invited back to campus. Many have announced a hybrid approach that would provide some in-person classes but offer a significant amount of coursework virtually.
Such changes could put foreign students’ visas, known as F-1 visas, at risk under the new rules. International students whose universities are not planning in-person classes — which is currently the case at schools including the University of Southern California and Harvard — would be required to return to their home countries if they are already in the United States. Those overseas would not be granted permission to enter the country to take online coursework here.
Edited From: “Trump Visa Rule Seen As Way To Pressure Colleges On Reopening”
The New York Times, 7/7/20
REGARDING ABOVE:
The New York Times article notes that foreign students contribute about $40 billion per year to the U.S. economy. They are, in fact, a crucial revenue stream to many universities and college towns.
Yet Donald Trump wants to ‘take these students hostage’ in his thrust to reopen schools and universities; a highly contentious issue at the moment. ‘Yes’, we’d all like get back to normal. But the virus is surging like never before.
Arguably Trump is to blame for the virus’ current surge. Since the pandemic began, Trump’s entire response has been one of denial. Trump has, in fact, gone out of his way to undermine his own administration. How peculiar this is!
So here Trump is once again taking students hostage; just as he did with the DACA issue.
VIRUS SURGE BASED IN RED STATES
The surge in coronavirus cases in the United States, which has set new daily-case records five times in the past nine days, is being driven largely by states that were among the first to ease virus restrictions as they moved to reopen their economies.
Florida has seen its average new daily cases increase more than tenfold since it began reopening in early May. Cases in Arizona have jumped by 858 percent since beginning to reopen May 8. Cases in Texas have risen by 680 percent since beginning to reopen May 1.
Epidemiologists had warned that reopening could lead to waves of new infections if it was done before the virus was contained, and before contact tracing was sufficiently ramped up enough to contain future outbreaks.
The trajectory taken by many states that pushed to reopen early offers a cautionary tale.
South Carolina, one of the first states to let retail stores reopen, has seen its average daily case count rise to 1,570, up from 143 from when the state began to reopen in late April, a 999 percent increase. And in Georgia, where the governor’s moves to reopen swiftly in late April were criticized as too aggressive by Mr. Trump — who had generally been pushing states to move faster to reopen — cases have risen by 245 percent.
Edited from: “The Surge In The United States Is Being Driven By States That Moved To Reopen Too Early”
Today’s New York Times
You might want to take a look at the deaths trendline, Seth.
CDC Official Weekly Covid Deaths
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It has been plummeting since May.
Deaths are down 48% in Georgia since Governor Kemp started reopening the State.
It’s a cold virus, not the Black Plague.
I realize that is a big disappointment to people like you. But that’s your personal problem.
You’re stupid, Rhodes. Trends are more relevant than deaths.
It doesn’t matter how many died in New York during April. All that matters is where the virus is surging NOW.
If I’m “stupid”, then you’re in very deep trouble, Seth.
All that matters is deaths, not infections. It’s a cold virus.
Once again, the CDC data clearly shows a major decline in deaths since May nationwide, and once again, Georgia has seen a 48% reduction in deaths since the Governor re-opened the State.
But please continue to drive alone in your car with the windows rolled up, wearing a useless mask, like all of the other moronic chicken little’s. That fits you perfectly.
Yeah, Rhodes, you’re stupid.
The latest news is that deaths are trending up again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
FROM LINK ABOVE:
The U.S.’s daily number of deaths from the coronavirus has risen recently in some of the nation’s most populous states, signaling a possible end to months of declining death totals nationally.
In Texas, officials announced 119 deaths on Wednesday, surpassing a daily record for deaths in the pandemic that the state had set only a day earlier. In Arizona, more than 200 deaths have been announced already this week, and the daily virus death toll in the state reached higher than ever. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee also set single-day death records this week.
The seven-day death average in the United States reached 608 on Thursday, up from 471 earlier in July, but still a fraction of the more than 2,200 deaths the country averaged each day in mid-April, when the situation in the Northeast was at its worst.
Health experts cautioned that it was too early to predict a continuing trend from only a few days of data. But the rising pace of deaths in the Sunbelt followed weeks of mounting cases in the region and suggested an end to the country’s nearly three-month period of declines in daily counts of virus deaths.
“but still a fraction of the more than 2,200 deaths the country averaged each day in mid-April”
Thanks for reinforcing my point, Seth.
BTW, do you still have all of your participation trophies and ribbons that you got for showing up to soccer practice?
I’m absolutely positive that you do.
“Yeah, Rhodes, you’re stupid. The latest news is that deaths are trending up again.”
Paint Chips despite what you think Texas with a population significantly greater than the population of NY had 12 deaths yesterday while NY had 27, NJ had 25 and Mass had 28.
There is no question that we will have outbreaks as the country opens up along with some deaths. The alternative is a marked increase in suicide, drug use, and poverty which by itself causes higher death rates. The impact on the economy has been horrendous and the next generation will be substantially poorer because of it but what do you care you selfish person.
By the way minorities will slip further and further behind as the children remain without any education and those whose parents that dont speak English will have non English speaking children. Count on this group of children increasing the rates of shootings, theft, violence and drug overdoses as they get older.
Seems ye old University will have to cut salaries and dig into those huge endowments prohibiting free American speech and though has gained them. Bye, Bye anarchy hello manufacturing.
“Houston Mayor Cancels Texas G.O.P. Convention, Calling It ‘Public Health Risk’”
Mayor Sylvester Turner said the large gathering of Republican officials amid a worsening pandemic would put many people at risk. Party officials said they were exploring a legal challenge.
– New York Times
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Election Postponement – Not A Vote By Survey Monkey
President Trump must postpone the November election due to COVID-19, understanding that a fair and equitable election is impossible and that all other economic and social activities have been modified and/or suspended for reasons of the pandemic. To conduct a legitimate election, voters must appear and have their identity confirmed at a polling place. Democrats have already cancelled their convention. Communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) are promoting “vote-by-mail” knowing that they will be afforded an historic opportunity to manipulate and defraud the vulnerable voting system. Communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs), in order to seize unfair advantages, absurdly propose that America surrender its self-governance to Survey Monkey. Communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) employed our South Korean “allies,” K-pop, to enlist and encourage Tik Tok users to crash President Trump’s Tulsa rally. Communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) “harvested” ballots to conquer Orange County, CA and other districts. Lincoln won 1860 with 38.9% and 1864 with brute military force. Joe Kennedy erased a Nixon victory and bought the presidency for JFK through Mob purchases in Chicago. Is it conceivable that the communists will not maximally corrupt and manipulate “vote-by-mail” to obtain a November victory? Of course they will. To communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs), the ends justify the means. No ethic, regulation, law, promise, duty or point of honor will ever prevent them from attempting to steal power. The essence of the Republic must be preserved at all costs, as Lincoln would say. President Trump must postpone the election due to COVID-19 until such time as the pandemic is in sufficient and quantifiable decline.
George- I told PCS the other day, that if you were a professor, I would come to your office hour every single week, and sit my arse down across from you, and hang out, ask you a million questions, and refuse to leave until the office hours were finished. 😉😁
I would be your number 1 student.
A professional society should be judged by the intellectual rigor of its proceedings.- especially its disciplinary proceedings.
Signing themselves “Sincerely, The Linguistics Community”, several humdred fellow members of the Linguistic Society of America signed a letter demanding Pinker’s removal from LSA based on allegations about Professor Pinker’s motivation for making six Tweets which Prof. Pinker was not allowed to answer, and which were not subjected to even cursory objective analysis to explore the charges against Professor Pinker in any intellectually honest way.
If LSA accepts these demands and removes Pinker from its ranks, LSA, and not Steven Pinker will stand convicted of crimes incompatible with scholarship. The Linguistic Society of America can either give Professor Steven Pinker an opportunity to defend himself against these six charges, or stand convicted itself of being a mere figurehead for a mob. Linguistic studies in America will be a few embers of light in a Lysenkoian darkness.
It may be amusing for people to know that one of the most blatant white racist professors of the 20th century, was palindromically named, Revilo Oliver, a tenured professor of Romance languages at U of Illinois. One of his academic highlights, was an important translation of the 5th century AD Sanskrit work, the “Little Clay Cart” .. here’s a cite i found to that:
[Śūdraka. Revilo Pendelton Oliver; Rozelle Parker Johnson; Ernst Krenn (eds.). “Mṛcchakaṭikā, The Little Clay Cart: A Drama in Ten Acts Attributed to King Sūdraka.” in Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 23=1938. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 45–210.]
Revilo Oliver had a very interesting life. Besides his academic attainments, he was also a cryptographer for the War Department in WW2 if I recall. He also was an early “John Birch Society” leader, until he was expelled for antisemitism. Oliver also testified before the Warren Commission concerning allegations he published that there was a conspiracy in rogue elements of government to assassinate JFK. Fancy that, hmm?
Oliver did not get too much trouble from the university for his extracurricular works, far as I know. though I have no special insight, he might have for all i know, from public sources. He died in 98 If I recall.
Steven Pinker, is no Revilo Oliver.
Another figure I am reminded of is Arthur Butz. A professor of electrical engineering, who wrote a book of “Holocaust denial”
His works were “deplatformed” off Amazon a couple years ago, just as many more modest works of “hate” are being censored today. However, Butz kept his job
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Butz
I could go on and on about such figures and name many more. I guess the point would be, apropos of today, that they were attacked and censored and censured and deplatformed decades ago, perhaps less at times or perhaps more, but even then few voices of “academic freedom” leaped to their defense.
To some extent “academic freedom” has always been an illusion, or perhaps, one might say, simply an ideal.
The trend against free speech and intellectual debate at college campuses across America, can be laid solely at the feet of the Democrat Party. This is their albatross around their necks. How much longer can they keep up the ruse that their party platform is about tolerance and kindness?
On another note, it is very difficult to compare use of force statistics with other countries. There is a cultural difference in response to law enforcement interactions. It is highly improbable that a man in Japan is going to fight with police officers instead of complying, while it is highly statistically likely that a male in some neighborhoods is going to fight with police and resist arrest. The Yakuza are hardly as widespread as the myriad gangs in the US, also responsible for many violent altercations with the police.
Some countries value respect and self control far more than the United States. Also, since we are a mishmash of cultures, there is a broad range of sub cultures within our people. Walk into a gated suburb in Orange County, Beverly Hills, Compton, Camden, or Appalachia, and expect wildly different attitudes and responses to police. Some are eager to help the police solve crimes and have a safe neighborhood…others hate snitches and rats. Some cooperate mildly with police, others fight to the bitter end.
Also, systemic racism requires laws and rules to specifically, and deliberately, punish a particular race. Examples around the history of the world are Slavery, Apartheid, Jim Crow, Caste, fines for specific races, the prohibition of a race owning property, prohibition against other races becoming citizens in some countries, the forced abortion of North Korean women carrying the babies of Chinese men, etc.
There is no legal systemic racism in the United States. There are most certainly disparities. There are certainly long term effects from Jim Crow. But there are no laws that deliberately, and explicitly, apply to one race. Whenever unlawful discrimination is found, it is subject to a lawsuit.
If reparations passes, that would be systemic racism in tax law, as it would be a fine on white people, paid to black people. CA legislature has voted to rework its constitution, which will allow it to discriminate. The purpose is to discriminate against Asians in college applications, and against Caucasians, to allow lesser qualified African Americans and Latinos to take spots they have not earned through either sports scholarships or academics. If it passes, that would be systemic racism.
If there is a hiring practice that discriminates against a particular race, such as whites, that would be an example of systemic racism. I believe this would be against the Civil Rights Act.
A meritocracy is not only fair, but it prevents the Balkanization or tribalism according to race. Diversity is not skin deep. I have more in common with my black conservative friend, than I do my Leftist extremist hateful relative.
Did you say “systemic racism?”
Welfare is unconstitutional (Congress has the power to tax only for “…general Welfare…” not individual welfare, specific welfare or charity).
Affirmative action privilege is unconstitutional.
Quotas are unconstitutional.
Forced busing is unconstitutional.
Obamacare is unconstitutional.
Fair Housing law is unconstitutional.
Non-Discrimination law is unconstitutional.
Social services, rent control, minimum wage, WIC, TANF, HAMP, HARP, HUD, HHS, etc., are unconstitutional.
Please cite the sections in the Constitution which support these communist redistribution and social engineering programs.
Yes Karen but universities and big corporations are not meritocracies. That is a lie. Perhaps they never really were.
https://www.creators.com/read/pat-buchanan/07/20/the-new-systemic-racism-that-is-coming
orderly and socially productive white people and asians are the new targets of not only the mob but the affirmative action racist firing squads.
by firing of course I mean, HR department layoffs
“…others hate snitches and rats.” Isn’t this the same culture of the “thin blue line”?
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
The Feminazi White Shirts are commensurate with male communists in red.
The various fascists have achieved “critical mass” as “The Singularity.”
That can’t be you say.
They’re all frothing-at-the-mouth, rabid, totalitarian psychopaths in search of personal power for power’s sake.
The sole object of their hatred is freedom – Constitutional American Freedom.
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“It’s the [dictatorship], stupid!”
– James Carville
Harvard Professor Under Fire In Latest Attack On Free Speech
Who needs dialogue, dialectic and debate when you can respond with emotion?
Intellect is so passé.
Who knew there were that many intellectual douche bags in the world?
Stalinists gonna Stalin.
Nah. More like the American version of Maoist red Gurads… ritual denunciations, thought crimes, incoherent rantings and lame incantations.
Another academic whose academic freedumb rights are on full display. Wonder if JT approves of:
“I’m gonna find where you live and I promise I’m going to f****** murder you with my bare hands and rape your corpse after setting in on fire. Stupid c***,”
The author of this missive is a UT San Antonio teaching assistant, Jonathan Pullen. He wrote it to a conservative twenty-something for daring to tweet about transgender “rights.”
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Freedom-fighter-alleges-local-teaching-15394004.php
what an insane rant this pullen fellow put out. Another express news article calls him a former TA, not clear whether he was dismissed over this, for being a general nutjob, or for completely unrelated reasons. To forestall any would be free-speech what-about-ism, terroristic threats do not and should not be protected speech.
There used to be a time when one academic found flaws the findings of another, he or she would conduct his or her own research to refute the incorrect opinion by a process which was referred to, quaintly, as academic freedom, leading ideally to a robust search for truth. Now academics are simply too incompetent or lazy to engage in actual academic work. Also, they are not interested in finding the truth, but rather in having their faith-based opinions affirmed and the apostates and heretics banished to the outer darkness.
Today, they have those who are guilty of thoughtcrimes cancelled and dismissed from academic positions. Tomorrow, who knows, guillotines and autos-da-fe? Every who cares about these issues must push back against this in every way they can. Civilization itself is at stake. Otherwise, soon, supporters for free speech and freedom of thought will be out right dissidents.
“Otherwise, soon, supporters for free speech and freedom of thought will be out right dissidents.”
We’re already there. What’s left of the “dissidents” is quickly being cleaned out of Hollywood, Academia, Media, and Corporate America.
white people are going to be fired from NBC to eliminate racism. figure that out!
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-07-07/nbc-news-group-chairman-wants-a-50-diverse-work-force-cesar-conde
Im wondering how antiwhite racism is going to cure whites of supposed cultural habits of racism?
seems to me whites will be tempted to believe that racial solidarity is actually the only thing that will save their lilly white skins in the end
but what do i know. just another white guy.
That’s why China is eclipsing the US for Global Leadership. The US Elite are cognitively impaired (hence the adulation for Senile Joe for President)… First among equals.
Apparently left leaning liberals are anathema to to the high priests of the Church of the Woke Progressive, and must be prosecuted for heresy.
No liberal should imagine that the fact that they are clinging to the rump of the Democratic party will save them. I’m a liberal and I quit voting for Democrats in 2016, because I saw this weirdness coming (the insane University of Missouri protests were what did it for me, but everybody has their own red-pill moments).
Jay, define your terms please.
Left leaning liberals were spanked again in the primaries. Center Democrats, of which i am one, represent the plurality if not majority viewpoint of Americans as our candidates have won 6 of the last 7 presidential votes and by virtue of winning swing districts across America, won the 2018 Congressional elections by a landslide. Our positions on healthcare, immigration, and gun control also reflect the majority view of Americans.
“Left leaning liberals were spanked again in the primaries. Center Democrats, of which i am one”
You don’t know what the term center means. You are part of the uneducated mass of democrats that will lie and change their opinions at the drop of a hat.
Center Democrats. Book, define your terms please. I know people who would call themselves that and they’re enthusiastic about lawful firearms ownership. But they may be a little younger than you. You are Baby Boomer and I am a Gen X. Nobody my age who has a pair dares to talk about “gun control” this is strictly the province of old ladies and emasculati. Here in Rust belt we have Democrats that will stake out and hold a NRA favorable profile not unlike the southern dems.
This is more of a class issue. People who are upwardly mobile find it chic to call for gun control, in either party. People who are downwardly mobile like me, er, no way.
“Center Democrats, of which i am one”
You’re just another participant in the binary us versus them Dialectic, and you’re a member of a tribe.
IOW, you’re a partisan. Partisan’s and partisanship is what feeds into the red vs blue manufactured political squabbles that keeps the elitists in power.
So here you are. A Democrat whose nominee is just another lifelong career politician with mid-stage Dementia who doesn’t even know what day it is without being told multiple times a day.
It’s time to dive into this subject matter & get to the intrinsic core.
College Professors should know better. Get off trackable social media platforms & go incognito.
Influence experts, who assess the information needs of a target population and craft messaging to influence and engage target audiences.
*Research and analyze methods of influencing foreign populations
*Developing a variety of marketing and media products
*Operating and maintaining equipment, such as analog and digital recording and playback devices and communication systems.
*Disseminating and broadcasting important information via television, radio, Internet and newspaper media.
I don’t necessarily disagree. Without people with some credibility challenging predominant narratives, it will be even harder to combat those false narratives.
typo: disagree should be agree. I don’t necessarily agree.
Taking revenge
“The Cask of Amontillado” (sometimes spelled “The Casque of Amontillado” [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe’s stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive.
Get ready for a new spanish civil war right here in the usa. Study that war and enjoy how communists and fascists battled each other. Lots of dead priests and academics. Neither side was good. A war between 2 horrible groups. In the end franco emerges victorious.
I noticed the foreign names too. Country of origin could be relevant as many non wasp cultures, especially the wealthy elite of those disdain free speech and are opposed to freedom of thought. They are used to top-down authority where the elite are supposed to be deferred to and are insulted at being challenged by those they regard as social inferiors. Social elites have always been over represented in academia. With globalisation and the competition for lucrative foreign students perhaps universities are reflecting the cultures of origin? Issues concerning the disadvantage of working class blacks are a handy platform for them to camouflage their elitist views.
I agree Liberty2nd. It’s a useful list of where to not donate…
As a graduate of USC, I am deeply embarrassed and offended that two people identified themselves as if they represent the University in this fallacious letter. All institutions that do not retract any implied complicity in this attempt to destroy a keystone of the Constitution are nothing more than tricoteuses knitting their appeasement to the mob.
Good riddance.
Back in the USSR