Anachronistic Abe

President. anti-neoconfederate. Theater-goer. Pronouns are Hi/Mars.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@JohnMcC37670329 @MonkEmma Ok, Arday is a fraud, but you are retarded if you think marathons must be named and officially organized. I bet you pronounce it "mawafin" like a British bloke with a speech impediment.

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

One reason Arday is so vigorously defended is that his boosters and apologists are just like him. They have never had to acquire any specialist knowledge about anything, and what little they have is either undergraduate dilettantism in disciplines you can now master in the time it takes to watch two YouTube videos, or is in word-salad-fantasy garbage disciplines. Freelancers with arts degrees are certainly the worst. If I had a grievance personality, no useful education, yet wrote for a living, he'd be my guy too.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@AndresAlvar3z Disingenous low IQ take, but I will defend your right to it.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@imad_karr1 @nathancofnas If a Professor is literally retarded, is no one allowed to mention it and we all have to go pretending everything is normal?

[Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas]

Flemish state television

[marc glendening @GlendeningMarc]

@BellRibeiroAddy The Left are now race-tribal primativists. They defend Arday's fraudster activities simply on the basis of his ethnicity. Had he been white or asian they would not be holding vigils for him. The battle is now between those defending liberal civilisation against neo-fascism.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@seuntomas @KonstantinKisin Because this is obviously not true, it won't really anger anyone. It's exposing the truth, like Arday being an incompetent fraud, that upsets people.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@BellRibeiroAddy Get over yourself and you victim-hero complex. Arday was a barely literate fraud and everyone over 90 IQ knows it.

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

STATEMENT: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) is deeply concerned by Ghent University’s (@ugent’s) suspension of Dr Nathan Cofnas. While we take no view on the merits of Dr Cofnas’s — or any other scholar’s — views beyond the question of whether they are lawful, the reasons now given for his suspension raise grave questions of academic freedom and set a potentially dangerous precedent for its restriction.

Ghent’s suspension letter, which we have seen in full, relies extensively not on alleged misconduct by Dr Cofnas, but on the reactions of others to his appointment and public activity. It repeatedly converts the scale of that opposition into evidence supporting disciplinary intervention: a student campaign established specifically to oppose his appointment, a petition signed by more than 2,000 students, complaints from staff, more than 100 emails to the University, the withdrawal of a guest lecturer and the prospect of an academic boycott.

That is perilously close to an institutionalised heckler’s veto: the greater the hostility generated by protected speech, the stronger the case for restricting the speaker.

The perverse incentive this creates should be obvious. If opponents of an academic know that mobilising sufficient complaints, petitions, boycotts and disruption can itself become evidence that the academic’s continued employment is causing unacceptable “unrest”, an institution effectively provides a roadmap for getting controversial scholars suspended.

Former ACLU director Ira Glasser once compared speech restrictions to poison gas: attractive when the weapon is in your hands and your opponent is in your sights, but rather less so when the political wind changes direction. The same warning applies when a heckler’s veto is allowed, almost by default, to become part of an institution’s disciplinary reasoning. Once the threshold for intervention is lowered in this way, the principle becomes available for use against academics of every political and intellectual persuasion, depending only on who happens to be holding the institutional levers.

The protection of #academicfreedom cannot depend on how successfully an academic’s opponents are able to mobilise pressure against them. CAF therefore urges Ghent University to correct course. If it believes Dr Cofnas has committed misconduct, it should specify that misconduct and assess it on its merits. But opposition, outrage and reputational pressure generated by lawful academic expression cannot properly substitute for a disciplinary case.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@LauRademakers1 @salducoes @felix_coens @ugent I support an investigation into Laurens for harassing Cofnas. I knew Belgium was an intellectual backwater, but this low IQ buffoon makes it more obvious.

[Felix @felix_coens]

As a student and member of the Board of Governors of @ugent, based on the information available to me, I cannot understand the decision to suspend Cofnas. Academic freedom is our highest good, to be handled with care and protected from (political) pressure.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Whenever I’m tempted for a moment to feel bad for Arday, I recall that he called the police on a researcher for looking into his fraud.

He was a liar, a cheat, and wanted the state to go after his enemies

He should be remembered as a disgrace. https://t.co/E3NuyOwn9x

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@themostsikas @theo_nash Why the 40 year window?

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@CharlotteA15906 @theo_nash Shows her obvious bias.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@theo_nash @Pipolinna I heard he also likes pineapple on pizza.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@leptonhadron @sociologyWV Lol, here come the anti-Semites, crawling out of the basement.

[Jason Manning @sociologyWV]

As someone who wants to keep his academic job until the mortgage is paid off, let me state in no uncertain terms that I stand with the fraud/plagiarist/fabulist+ community.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Every 6 months or so all of academia takes a break from their important scholarship in order to remind us that each and every single hillbilly luddite stereotype about higher education being a cocoon of berserk shrieking Stalinist savages is 100% correct.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@carolecadwalla Pure nonsense. Journalism should expose fraud, not cover it up.

[Anachronistic Abe @AnachronisticAb]

@Petersbrooking @SharkeyAli94062 @nathancofnas Amazing low IQ ignorance.