Short thread on campus free speech follows, looping back to the publication of @BruceGilley3's (subsequently retracted) essay in @thirdworldq defending colonialism, in the aftermath of which the magnitude of the problem became clearer to me.
2/ It's over three years since @DrLeeJones and I put together a public letter defending @thirdworldq and its editor Shahid Qadir for decision to publish the @BruceGilley3 essay defending colonialism: here https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-colonial-history-and-guilt-over-empire-kct89g775 and here https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/letters-no-filters (registration req)
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3/ We put together the public letter despite - or rather because of - the fact that we had both built our academic careers on the back of anti-imperialist analysis and critique of world politics.
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