Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #FireStephenHsu

Most recents (4)

after initial shock seeing a senior MSU VP
- appear alongside a noted white supremacist
- dismiss systemic racism as an “unscientific hypothesis”
- insinuate genetic differences in intelligence between racial groups

... I was left with the question, “So what?”

cont. ⬇️
restated, “What harm has Steven Hsu’s role as a senior Vice President at Michigan State University caused & who has been harmed?”

cont. ⬇️
we're conditioned to understand racism & sexism as explicit, hateful acts intentionally perpetrated on individual targets

the #FireStephenHsu grievance runs counter to this trope: it did not arise from stories of direct harm befalling a particular victim

cont. ⬇️
Read 17 tweets
"On 27 August 2018, Ron Unz published a long essay in his 'American Pravda' column endorsing Holocaust denial."

"On 16 May 2019, #StephenHsu hosted his friend Ron Unz on his podcast holding him out as a brilliant person & allowing Unz to promote his 'American Pravda' column..."
"...allowing Unz to promote his 'American Pravda' column at unz.com as a good place to start awakening Americans from their 'slumber' (Hsu’s word) brought on by the mainstream media."

#FireStephenHsu
"Imagine #StephenHsu explaining to Holocaust scholars how giving a Holocaust denier platform means Hsu is qualified to judge their research, to have a role in their funding, to have a role in promoting & tenuring them. Imagine him in the room with them telling them these things."
Read 17 tweets
Stephen Hsu: “These horrible people will stop at nothing.”

“These horrible people” are faculty at the uni where he is VP Research.

“These horrible people” are graduate students where he is VP Research.

He doesn’t have their trust.

He is in a leadership positions over them.
They wrote a petition.

A VP Research at a public research uni in the US is threatening a lawsuit against graduate students over a truthful petition.

@michiganstateu, let him go.

Let him sue when he is no longer VP Research.

statenews.com/article/2020/0…
Please, #highereducation let it sink in how twisted this situation is. Hundreds of faculty members and graduate students sign a petition--with evidence and good reason--calling for the removal of the VP Research & Innovation at their institution, a public research university.
Read 20 tweets
Today for #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM, the GEU and its coalition partners in the STEM community are calling for the removal of Stephen Hsu as VP of Research and Graduate Studies at @michiganstateu.
The person responsible for directing MSU research funding is a vocal scientific racist and eugenicist. This is shameful, and it is actively harmful to our research community. #FireStephenHsu
The following thread contains links to Hsu’s own posts and his own words. They are broadly organized into categories demonstrating positions of RACISM, EUGENICS, SEXISM, and CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
Read 30 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!