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Robert Long's avatar

Excited to see this! I expect that the essays you have promised will not be, uh, thin gruel!

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Logan Sandman's avatar

Strong agree

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Stephanie Rankin's avatar

I like your wee starchy rebellion. Substack is very good platform and will be even better with your participation.

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P Bedard's avatar

Fantastic! Looking forward to your future writings.

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Robert Bannasch's avatar

This list of topics you are going to write about are no small potatoes. 😎

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Freedom To Offend's avatar

I enjoyed your talk on empathy on the Munk podcast. I actually wrote a somewhat similar (neither was I enthusiastic about empathy) on my Substack a few months ago -

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulfinlayson/p/a-call-for-the-death-of-fake-empathy?r=iy2ds&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I'm not a proper academic, I'm a lecturer who likes to write - but because I responded to a man in Pakistan calling for the elimination of Israel and death to Jews and told him that i stood with Israel and that Hamas were Nazis the U of Guelph and Humber have suspended me for almost nine months and I am about to be fired.

That's what happens to you after teaching 20 courses a year for 13 years, you have no job stability and can be tossed to thte street when attacked by a fellow prof who is actually an unashamed anti-semite - https://shorturl.at/ZEoIj,

https://shorturl.at/83HvI

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