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A comment on The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf].

Re:The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf] by dluan on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:31PM (#28269829)
> "In modern terms, Hughes was canceled. For a few months, the city was called Trotsk (after Leon Trotsky), until Trotsky lost in the power struggle inside the party and was himself canceled (see Figure 1)."

lol

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Re:The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf] by ls-lah_33 on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:01AM (#28273007)
Yeah, I had a laugh there as well. The author's equivocation between cancel culture and Stalinist censorship does seem like a bit of a stretch. I think a better analogy would be the explicit promotion of 'patriotic education' as a matter of official state policy [1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/what-1836-project-texas-promote-pat...

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