Title: Cornell students demand Chemistry Prof. David Collum be fired for tweeting that Buffalo incident was not police brutality
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Cornell students demand Chemistry Prof. David Collum be fired for tweeting that Buffalo incident was not police brutality
Background – Grad Student Union Organizer Hostility
The Buffalo Police Incident
The Tweets
The Change.Org Petition
Complaint Letter Templates, Auto-Complaints, and Grad Student Union Organizers
The Student Assembly Demand for Firing
The Cornell Daily Sun Editorial
The Administration’s Statement
Statement on Prof. David Collum’s Tweets
Conclusion — The Cultural Revolution Is Here
Two years ago I wrote about The new Cultural Revolution on Campuses:

Content: Cornell students demand Chemistry Prof. David Collum be fired for tweeting that Buffalo incident was not police brutality
Cornell students demand Chemistry Prof. David Collum be fired for tweeting that Buffalo incident was not police brutality
Campus cancel culture seeks to fire someone with an unpopular view, claiming his presence makes students feel unsafe and runs against a diverse and inclusive campus. Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 09:00pm 114 Comments
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David Collum is a distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, and former Chair of the department. He self-identifies as libertarian, making him one of a small percentage of openly non-liberal professors on a large campus dominated by far-left social justice dogma. Collum also is a sought-after speaker on finance, and the Snowflake Generation, which seems prophetic in light of what’s going on in his life now. An online effort has been organized by Cornell students, including a graduate student organizing group which has targeted Collum for years, demanding Collum be fired because of tweets he sent on June 4, 2020, regarding a George Floyd protest in Buffalo, NY. Police pushed a man who then stumbled backwards and fell damaging his head and causing bleeding. The video (below) dominated the news. Collum’s tweet expressed that he didn’t see it as police brutality because of the way the man approached police. Responding to someone who called police conduct “appalling,” Collum expressed the view (1) “That guy needed to give that cop space. Wasn’t brutality: