The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.
A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”
Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.
It’s appalling to see how quickly American higher ed bent over for the fascists. Why would anybody study there? Come to Canada or the EU instead.
$$$$, they’d rather sell out than stand up, cowards the whole lot of them.
I mean, $$$$ is literally the whole foundation of what America is about. The whole world revolves around money, sure, but in America it is not just the economy, also the culture, the religion, the media, the public parks, op’s mom, everything!
