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: If were a cop, my nerves would be raw. I am tired of these riots.” This is not the popular view, though, as discussed below, it is not clear that the police violated the law or policy. Regardless, intense criticism of Collum for the tweets, and debate over his view, would be fair and consistent with an intellectually open campus. But that’s not what happened in response, instead the worst of cancel culture is unfolding. An online effort materialized within hours, demanding Collum’s immediate firing. The campaign against Collum has been highly organized. It involved a Change.org petition, complaint letter templates and auto-complaint portals to flood the Cornell administration, contact information for Collum’s superiors and colleagues, suggestions that bias complaints be filed against Collum, and recommendations that Collum be contacted himself and told to resign. The graduate student organization which targeted Collum in 2017 has been involved. The Cornell Daily Sun, the student-run newspaper, stoked the targeting of Collum by running an article (comment section here) about the tweets that republished discredited accusations against Collum that first surfaced in 2017, and by issuing an Editorial (comment section here) demanding his firing.