I have been in similar circumstances at my university where critical servers were made inaccesible during ongoing research. So I understand Dr. Povey's frustration first-hand, but breaking into the building (and the protest) was an escalation unbeholden to a professor.<p>The banality of some student activist causes gets to me too and often politics do not align. However educators need to show patience and decorum.
I think this post perfectly captures white privilege. Getting fired for breaking into a university building, endangering students, then writing a blog post filling in the details about how the left is anti-white. All while he's able to land another (presumably) cushy private sector job.
This reminded me of the classic xkcd story of the dedicated sysadmin: <a href="https://xkcd.com/705/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/705/</a>
<p><pre><code> there are many things said by American progressives
where if you replace "white patriarchy" and "women
of color" with "Jewish capital" and "Aryan youth",
and add a picture of a blond boy and a swastika
or two, you'd have a very serviceable Nazi
propaganda poster. Think about it.
</code></pre>
[ponders it in deep silence in the Gendo Ikari pose...]<p>Ok, I thought about it.<p>So.. progressivism is basically Nazi propaganda, and white men are being persecuted like Jews by an evil cabal of all progressives, women and people of color.<p>No, sorry, not buying it. The author is a bigot and a manchild.
> I'm aware that it's a huge violation of social norms for me to say publicly that I think whites, or males, are being discriminated against.<p>Probably because it's blitheringly stupid to assert something that is demonstrably not true and also staggeringly insulting to people who are actually discriminated against.
I have no idea who that is. But it reads like a bad parody of an alt-right list of grievances.<p>Seriously: someone who thinks he can make a coherent argument invoking "gay jews joining the Nazi party" doesn't belong on any unversity's faculty.