A few weeks ago, a petition began to circulate. Noah Carl, a Cambridge academic who had recently been awarded a prestigious scholarship, was accused of promoting “racist pseudoscience” for the benefit of the far right.
Almost immediately, media commentators leapt to Carl’s defence. The petition was a “witch-hunt”, a “mob” and “academic McCarthyism”. Snowflake students and their Marxist academic handlers, it was alleged, had once again labelled an honest conservative as “racist” without reading their work. Carl told the Independent he would not be commenting publicly on the petition.
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