We Report, You Decide: Did Ex-Math Department Professor Chad Topaz Sexually Harass a Journalist?

 

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - A journalist named Christopher Brunet is wondering if he has been sexually harassed online by ex-Williams Math Department professor Chad Topaz. The transcript of Chad Topaz's sexually-oriented comments is posted above. We report, you decide.

Christopher has been covering Chad's efforts to demonize math professors who do not share his woke, anti-racist zeal. As he writes: "In the course of reporting this story, Chad Topaz started rambling about how he wants to molest me."

According to Christopher, multiple professors from Williams College have contacted him and urged him to file an official complaint against Chad.

"I am not sure. My biggest hesitation is that if I file such a claim of sexual harassment, it will trivialize victims of actual sexual harassment. On the other hand… was I sexually harassed? I think I might have been? I don’t know. I am walking away from this encounter feeling more confused than anything. I think Topaz was trying to bully/intimidate me…but in a really sexually aggressive way? Weird."

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Chad Topaz - Woke Enforcer - Exits Williams College Math Department

 

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Goofy woke math professor, Chad Topaz, has left the math department at Williams College. As he writes: "It stinks that in the end my choices were "have a real department but one that's hostile" or "have a non-hostile environment at the expense of not really having a department." And yet that's not really even a choice."

The decision was announced on Chad's Twitter account on April 13, 2022.

Chad’s story is that he requested — and was granted  — the opportunity to leave the Mathematics and Statistics department to take a new position as what he calls a professor of Complex Systems. Apparently, he made the title up himself.

Later, he explains that he will be housed in the Department of Humanities in a job that looks like a backward step in his career. As he writes: “It is not a department in the traditional sense. It's more of an administrative structure that gives me a non-hostile environment out of which to be based at the college.” 

Objectively, it looks like his new, lesser role, will properly place him in the social justice warrior category. After all, calling him a math professor was a stretch given his extremist views and willingness to compile enemies lists against his non-woke colleagues. 

He writes: “I'll be teaching my 300-level Math/Comp Social Justice research course and it will be cross-listed with American Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” The bottom line is if you want to be exposed to his woke, disturbing views you do not have to pretend to be interested in the math department too.

For more details, check out these excellent links.

https://karlstack.substack.com/p/woke-mathematicians-are-putting-their?s=r

https://karlstack.substack.com/p/chad-topaz-booted-from-the-williams?s=r

If anyone at Williams College can supply us with more details, we will be happy to publish them here and promote them on Twitter.

Williams Liberty is interested in learning more about comments online to the effect that Chad Topaz recently deleted a Twitter account after being exposed for manipulating data.

Finally, is it possible to report Chad Topaz to Williams College for engaging in sexual harassment based on his treatment of the journalist Christopher Brunet?

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Shut Up, He Argued: Williams College Anti-Free Speech Advocate Chad M. Topaz Tries to Get a UC Davis Professor Fired

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Williams College math professor Chad M. Topaz is in the news today for fighting to get a female math professor fired from her job at at UC Davis. Her egregious offense?  She had the temerity to argue that requiring diversity statements from young people applying for teaching positions is suspiciously similar to McCarthyism. This is the latest example of woke policing coming from the perpetually offended Topaz whose exploits have already caught the attention of places like Ephblog, the Williams College alumni run blogsite.

Chad Topaz, a professor of mathematics at Williams College
is leading an effort to get a fellow math professor at
UC Davis fired from her job for her opposition to mandatory
diversity statements. 

Tearing into Abigail Thompson, Topaz demands his readers contact UC Davis, Thompson's institution "to express your concerns about diversity in the Department of Mathematics and about Thompson’s role as Chair. If she has gone on record in a very public way as being opposed to diversity statements, and if UC Davis requires them, the school must look into whether or not she has been abiding by institutional policy."

Abigail Thompson

Basically, Topaz is mobilizing a nation-wide effort through his QSIDE organization to get Abigail fired for speaking her mind. FYI: I've taken a screenshot of the above statement so that I'll have a record of it if he is ever forced to delete it.

Thompson wrote an argument against the use of diversity statements for what Topaz believes is the most widely-read mathematics publication in the world, the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. He found her argument so noxious that he refused to provide a link to it. Nevertheless, you can read about it here. 

The other target for his woke vitriol is the publication which published Thompson's statement. Topaz is particularly incensed that the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) seems to believe that there are two sides to the argument.

"By amplifying Thompson’s views to a large audience, the American Mathematical Society lends legitimacy to them, and in doing so, engages in both-sides-ism," he writes. "It’s ok to use diversity statements, on one hand, and diversity statements are like McCarthyism, on the other hand." 

In his most recent blog post, he complained that the Notices is a little too eager to publish dissenting points of view. He writes, "...it seems the Notices (part of AMS, obviously) holds a value something akin to “let all sides be heard.”

As you might expect, Chad M. Topaz's woke instincts have brought his dopey, totalitarian anti-free speech views to the world of Twitter. The story has also been picked up by Inside Higher Education. Most recently, he was the subject of a blistering attack from the blogsite Leiter Reports.

In his original attack on Thompson, Topaz tries to suggest that the use of diversity statements in the hiring process isn't another backdoor way of discriminating against whites and conservatives who believe such statements are unnecessary or unhelpful. He denies that these diversity statements have anything to do with either politics or affirmative action. "A straight white cisgender man can write a stupendously effective diversity statement," according to Topaz, "if he learns about the issues and thinks about how to address them in his professional life."

The professor he attacked, Abigail Thompson, is quite distinguished. She serves as the Vice President of the American Mathematical Society and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis.

In his article, Topaz attempts to mobilize the full hatred of the left against her by suggesting other efforts in addition to trying to get her fired. All of this, by the way, is published at QSIDE. For example, he provides the emails of those who were responsible for publishing her article along with his own suggested text. He calls for us to "stop doing favors" for Notices. "Spread the word about this debacle on social media and in your workplaces," he writes.

He even seeks to dry up the supply of young graduate students for UC Davis, saying: "For those of you who are in mathematics, advise grad-school-bound undergraduate students – especially students who are minoritized along some axis – not to apply to UC Davis." Who knows? In a couple more days, maybe Chad Topaz will call for the utter destruction of the UC Davis campus itself for the sin of not reacting quickly enough to his anti-free speech fatwa?

Previous fatwas issued by the prodigious Chad M. Topaz include his attacks on various institutions which are way too white for his tastes including art museums and or mathematics editorial boards. For more information about his organization the QSIDE Institute, check out the following link.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND. Pronouns - Master/Commander.