The University told him that he could reinstate the course if he included Ukrainian authors.
He said he wasn’t an expert on Ukrainian literature, so he decided to teach Dostoevsky elsewhere."
I feel like it would have been better for him to stay and fight for his principles. Now the administration is just going to fill the professorship with someone who will toe the line and the university will slip further into this insanely partisan groupthink.
[1] https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1501200808976728079
It's incredibly difficult to fire people in Italy but somebody should at least apologize because this is a terrible look.
Certainly would think twice before studying literature, or philosophy at such a place. (triple skull emoji)