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>"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.

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He was not university profesor, so there was no way for him to stay. T

the only way I can make sense of this (and I'm probably wrong maybe some Italians can help me) is that Italy is extremely divided in their politics (see Salvini[1]) ... and so the university overcompensated by trying to "stick it to Putin" while being totally ignorant about Russian literature. It's a long shot but it's all I've got. :/

[1] https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1501200808976728079

it's honestly much simpler than this. Who took the decision of cancelling the course was just thinking they were doing the right and sensitive thing. This time we can be almost 100% certain that there were no politics or politicians involved. Just a dumb move by someone that clearly has no idea how things go

"Hanlon's razer" I agree it makes more sense

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