Interesting reading views from here and then reading the response from other economists on twitter.
Clearly there's a divergence. It's fascinating.
The cancel culture twitter mob comes to economics | Cochrane
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^ is this why HU is not an editor anymore?
Our culture is going down the drain and it is not because of Turnip. The woke mobs are the ones doing this.Nah, the twitter critics are not a problem at all. People should be free to criticize. This is a good thing. It is the people caving to them who are the problem.
And Trump is very much the avatar of cancel culture.
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I remember hearing that when a various polls of reporters found that they were overwhelmingly Democrats, the claim was that it did not bias their professional writings. So are academic journal editors more susceptible to their personal preferences when the stakes are even lower?
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In case these haven't been posted.
See the responses to this:
https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1272735334065979392And then this:
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In his time as editor is there evidence HU ever discriminated against minority submitted papers? When at the Chicago fed had he ever been disciplined or warned regarding harassment or creating a toxic environment? What we have is nothing but tweets. Where is the evidence?
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In case these haven't been posted.
See the responses to this:
https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1272735334065979392
And then this:
https://twitter.com/caseybmulligan/status/1272713284886683653That tweet by Dube is a disgusting personal attack against an economist in a public forum. There is no room for this kind of behavior in our profession. He should apologize.
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Anyone in this forum met Sandy Grossman? He was also very arrogan1 and ru1hless in class. I remember that he single me out (I was much taller than him) saying things like „what s1upid kind of questions is this“ and the like,
If he would still be around in academia people would have made similar complains about him. In this sense HU got what he sowed.