Cancel culture backfires as thousands of students sign up for professor's Princeton lecture

A University of Chicago professor whose guest lecture at MIT was called off amid outrage from campus activist groups is now being hosted by Princeton University, where thousands have already registered to hear the canceled speech.

In the piece, Abbot proposed an alternative framework called "Merit, Fairness, and Equality," whereby university applicants are "treated as individuals" and "evaluated through rigorous and unbiased" processes based on merit and qualifications.

The professor also characterized the current diversity standards as "treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century."