Wow wow wow what an absolutely horrible article, I can not believe this has got to the front page of HN. First of all, Roland Fryer was indeed suspended for sexual harassment. He himself admits that and has talked about the work he's done to improve himself after learning the affect that his comments had on young people. That's behavior very unbefitting of someone who got fired for "just spitting facts in the face of the woke mob". You'd expect him to, you know, actually fight the claims if it was the case.

Quote from Fryer: “I apologize for the insensitive and inappropriate comments that led to my suspension, which I regret deeply and which brought shame on the department and disrepute on me personally,” Fryer wrote. “I didn’t appreciate the inherent power dynamics in my interactions, which led me to act in ways that I now realize were deeply inappropriate for someone in my position.”

Failing to mention any of that is 100% journalistic malpractice and should immediately tip anyone off that this is not a real piece of journalism, it's a quick, hacked together culture war piece. It even says this "Gone are those such as Roland Fryer who sought to inquire freely into the most important questions facing society today through well-gathered evidence and rigorous logic." one paragraph after talking about how Fryer was welcomed back. Truly masterful levels of journalistic trash.

The rest of the article is just your standard fox news CRT bait piece about how every classroom (including, somehow, all the engineering and maths classes) are teaching your kids that America is bad and racist and only you can save them by teaching them the lost, forgotten idea that America is actually exceptional and never once destabilized a South American government to make bananas cheaper. There's no real evidence in the article to support this, you just have to take the author (who has already established themselves as someone willing to hide information to make a point).

If you want to criticize Harvard and other major institutions, I have no problem with that. They are institutions that admit legacy candidates by the boatload despite what often is a lack of merit, for example. But this isn't criticism here, it's just culture war. Its just "cultural Marxism" but avoiding saying that so that it can appear credible. But read any article about cultural Marxism and you'll find practically copy pasted content. What's cultural Marxism? A conspiracy theory that was originated by the Nazis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism) and is being peddled by neo-nazis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_...) try to justify the idea that people are actively destroying "culture". The Nazis did it to justify the most industrial genocide ever committed. Please don't buy into genocidal conspiracies because of hacked articles like this.