{"id":422435,"date":"2022-03-26T02:21:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/harvard-cancels-a-black-academic-who-debunked-woke-orthodoxy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T02:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:21:49","slug":"harvard-cancels-a-black-academic-who-debunked-woke-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harvard-cancels-a-black-academic-who-debunked-woke-orthodoxy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348c2b1402e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348c2b1402e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harvard-cancels-a-black-academic-who-debunked-woke-orthodoxy\/#%E2%80%9CHarvard_cancels_a_black_academic_who_debunked_woke_orthodoxy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHarvard_cancels_a_black_academic_who_debunked_woke_orthodoxy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Roland G. Fryer is a tenured professor of economics at Harvard \u2014 an anointed member of the elite by most definitions. He is also black, widely published and the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur \u201cgenius\u201d grant for his work on the black \u201cachievement gap\u201d in grade school. Fryer was a student of Nobel laureate Gary Becker and a close associate of other economists who focus on rigorous analysis of empirical data.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s led him to observations that were a bit unsettling to higher-education orthodoxies. For example, Fryer found that the academic achievement gap accelerates between kindergarten and eighth grade. He also found that, controlling for a few variables, the initial disparity dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack kindergartners and white kindergartners with similar socioeconomic backgrounds\u201d achieved at similar levels. \u201cAdjusting the data for the effects of socioeconomic status reduces the estimated racial gaps in test scores by more than 40% in math and more than 66% in reading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of books in a child\u2019s household also made an appreciable difference. \u201cOn average, black students in the sample had 39 children\u2019s books in their home, compared with an average of 93 books among white students.\u201d Adjusting for that \u201ccompletely eliminates the gap in reading\u201d as children progress through first grade. These findings contradicted the standard view that black children are already locked into academic last place before they even reach school.<\/p>\n<p>This is good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, in that it means the problem is not as intractable as it seemed. Or rather, it would have been good news to anyone who wants the racial disparity to disappear through interventions that are known to work.<\/p>\n<p>But it was terrible news to activists who are invested in the idea that \u201csystemic racism\u201d explains everything. Socioeconomic standing and household reading, after all, can be improved.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>I have borrowed from Fryer\u2019s 2006 article \u201cFalling Behind: New evidence on the black-white achievement gap\u201d for my summary. Fryer, however, was just warming up to further provocations against racial orthodoxy. He also decided to take a look at the data about police stops and shootings. He confirmed that blacks were more than 50% more likely than whites \u201cto experience some form of force in interactions with police,\u201d something that Fryer said was \u201cthe most surprising result of [his] career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when it came to shootings, he could find \u201cno racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.\u201d This flat-out contradicts the Black Lives Matter assertion that has been uncritically embraced by the academy, the press and numerous politicians who hold that police readily resort to deadly violence in dealing with blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Fryer\u2019s paper on this, \u201cAn Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force,\u201d was written in 2016 and published in final form in 2019 in the Journal of Political Economy, well before George Floyd\u2019s death ignited riots and a frenzied affirmation in academe that police are the agents of brutal, racially motivated oppression.<\/p>\n<p>From this, one might conclude that Professor Fryer had learned how successfully to kick over the traces of the liberal academic establishment. He was by no definition a conservative, but a kind of independent contrarian who was willing to go wherever the evidence took him. And for a while it appeared to have taken him to the heights of academic achievement. His work received a lot of criticism in places like The New York Times, but he also won substantial funding for his Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BlackLivesMatter-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Protestors hold a banner reading &quot;Black Lives Matter&quot; during a protest against racism organized by associations, unions and parties, in Paris, on March 19, 2022. \" class=\"wp-image-21666810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BlackLivesMatter-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BlackLivesMatter-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BlackLivesMatter-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Black Lives Matter movement has poisoned academia with the myth that African Americans suffer from \u201csystemic racism.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then the bottom fell out.<\/p>\n<p>I have no shortage of bottom-falling-out stories for academics. They are sometimes caught doing atrocious things, sometimes punished for speaking up against academic policies they disagree with and sometimes disciplined because administrators seem entranced with bizarre ideas. We are in academia, after all, where egos are fragile and reputational destruction is the favorite sport. Reputational destruction, of course, comes in two popular flavors: race and sex. Since Professor Fryer is black, you might expect the line of attack will involve sex, and you\u2019d be right.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>According to The New York Times, Professor Fryer was accused in 2018 of engaging in \u201cunwelcome conduct of a sexual nature toward four women who worked in the Harvard-affiliated research lab he created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have no access to the details of the allegations, but Harvard did its work and came back with a report that amounted to a finding that he had flirted with a graduate student years ago, and that a woman he had fired found some of his language annoying. Naturally, these claims were stretched to their outer boundaries, but the initial faculty committee saw nothing of great moment.<\/p>\n<p>In the #MeToo era, rules of double jeopardy don\u2019t apply. Harvard decided to put the case before another tribunal \u2014 a secret one, but one that happened to include two black faculty members whose work had received some shade from Fryer\u2019s academic writings. Sure enough, the second tribunal decided that Fryer had crossed all sorts of invisible lines.<\/p>\n<p>As a tenured member of the Harvard faculty, Fryer couldn\u2019t easily be fired, though administrators pushed to fire him, which would have been a first since the Civil War. But there are lots of other ways to ruin a faculty member. They suspended Fryer for two years, during which he was barred from teaching or using university resources. And they permanently closed his off-campus lab, the Education Innovation Laboratory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Harvard-University2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Harvard Yard is seen on the closed Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\" class=\"wp-image-21666851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Harvard-University2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Harvard-University2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Harvard-University2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Harvard University attempted to suppress economics professor Roland G. Fryer by denying access to academic resources.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Adam Glanzman\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This looks like an academic death sentence for an obscure violation, yet Fryer may well stage a comeback. In a new documentary, professional filmmaker Rob Montz has assembled, for the first time in video form, a compelling 25-minute presentation on what happened to Fryer at Harvard, complete with scary music.<\/p>\n<p>Fryer didn\u2019t participate in the documentary, which perhaps allowed Montz to say things that Fryer himself probably wouldn\u2019t. I\u2019ve never met Fryer, but we have several mutual friends who alerted me to his story, and I have heard several grapevine versions of what happened that run in the same direction: a tale of a vindictive former employee and others sharpening grievances for their own ends and a total denial of due process in favor of putting the man in the hands of his campus adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>It is more or less what we have come to expect from higher education. The higher the educational institution, the more lowdown the tactics. Perhaps I\u2019m all wrong about this, and Fryer is a serial sexual harasser, and his contrarian writings about race and education and race and policing had nothing to do with his cancelation. Who can say for sure?<\/p>\n<p>But I will place my bet on Fryer as another human offering to the gods of wokeness. 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