Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks

[Reptile]

Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests

Michigan State University leaders have successfully pressured Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation after the Graduate Employees Union launched a campaign to oust him from his role.

This came after the union, which represents teaching and research assistants, crawled through years of blog posts and interviews Hsu had conducted and criticized him for sharing content on genetic differences among different races.

But the main thrust to oust Hsu came because the professor touted Michigan State research that found police are not more likely to shoot African-Americans.

Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks | The College Fix

Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests.

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[GM-GUY]

You can’t have diversity in thought. Global climate/warming/cooling; IQ by race; conservative instead of liberal

How many scientific discoveries are going to be missed because no one will look at non approved things.

 

[jkelly1229]

800 people... 800 people signed a petition and you made the dude step down.

Theres like 800 kids on the floor in a dorm. Tell them to f***ing stuff it

 

[Lucas McCain]

Actually whites are killed by police at about twice the rate as blacks.

 

[robjax]

talk about the back tracking to save their own arses....lol

"Cesario’s research had been cited in a widely shared Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism” that was published June 3 amid racially charged protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody.

The “MSU communications team highlighted the mention in the June 9 edition of their email newsletter, InsideMSU. The next day, the Graduate Employees Union denounced Mr. Hsu. By June 11, editors of the newsletter had apologized ‘for including the item and for the harm it caused,’” the Journal reports."

 

[Dennis in MA]

Actually whites are killed by police at about twice the rate as blacks.

Well, considering that black folks are only 13% of the population, I'd hope that whites getting killed far outweighs blacks getting killed.

As a % of encounters and a % of offenders, blacks are killed at much lower levels than whites.

 

[whatluck]

It's getting pretty bad if we can un-person someone for speaking the truth.

 

[JJC]

Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests

Michigan State University leaders have successfully pressured Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation after the Graduate Employees Union launched a campaign to oust him from his role.

This came after the union, which represents teaching and research assistants, crawled through years of blog posts and interviews Hsu had conducted and criticized him for sharing content on genetic differences among different races.

But the main thrust to oust Hsu came because the professor touted Michigan State research that found police are not more likely to shoot African-Americans.

Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks | The College Fix

Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests.

www.thecollegefix.com

This is the kind of muzzling of academia that propagates the perception of only left wing academics. When an individual initiates a well constructed and unbiased (here meaning without a preference for outomes) investigation of meaningful social importance they should be lauded for their efforts. To ostracize and terminate this researcher for concluding an unpopular finding is unconscionable. If you don't like the findings, repeat the study and identify the actual flaws. The university should be ashamed of itself. MSU research output is no more than a glorified community college now as far as I'm concerned.

 

[greencobra]

It's getting pretty bad if we can un-person someone for speaking the truth.

yeah, getting out of hand quickly.