Secret Assistance: Chad Topaz Sets Up Plagiarism Factory for Those in Need of Diversity Statements

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - I saw today that Chad Topaz, Williams College's most outspoken enemy of free speech, is offering graduate students an opportunity to allow him to help craft their diversity statements. Apparently, he will keep your identity secret if he helps you upgrade the work you assert is yours and yours alone. Check this out from his QSIDE website. My fear, however, would be that Chad Topaz would use this information to embarrass you if you ever get on the wrong side of his woke politics. So...consultee beware.

Get pro bono consulting on diversity statements

Posted by CHADTOPAZ on DECEMBER 5, 2019

Are you a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow who is currently or will soon be on the academic job market in any field? Do you want assistance translating your ideas about equity/diversity/inclusion into a job application diversity statement? Or do you want feedback on a diversity statement that you have already written? Or are you finding it challenging to even begin the process of thinking about a diversity statement? QSIDE is here to help. 

We are offering several pro bono one-on-one consulting sessions on job application diversity statements for graduate students / postdocs in higher education who are on, or who will soon be on, the academic job market. Because the number of sessions we can offer is limited, we will choose participants via a lottery. Please fill out this form by Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. 

A valid Google email address (through your current institution, or if unavailable, a personal one) is required to register. However, your name will be held in confidence and QSIDE will never release information about who filled out this form, nor who won the lottery for consulting services. 

Finally, if you are interested in social justice and want to learn about ways to become involved with QSIDE, read more now.

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. His pronouns are Master/Commander.

Get Off Your Axis: Chad M. Topaz of Williams College on How to Craft Your Diversity Statement

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Ever wonder what to say in your mandatory diversity statement when you are applying to teach mathematics at the university level? Lucky for you, Williams College math professor Chad M. Topaz will be happy to get you up-to-speed on how to win your dream job by saying the right things in your diversity statement. To help job seekers like you, he is asking for donors to make tax-deductible gifts to his QSIDE organization.

If you want to get his advice right away without waiting for an academic sugar daddy, then I recommend your read what I take to be his best advice based in an interview he gave in the June 2019 edition of Notices, a journal of the American Mathematical Society. According to Chad:

A strong diversity statement might include one or more of the following components: a discussion of why equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) issues are important; disclosure of your own identities along various axes of diversity; presentation of any formal knowledge you have about EDI; examples of EDI issues at play in teaching you’ve done; descriptions of professional activities related to EDI; and other relevant personal or professional thoughts and experiences. Whether you choose from among these components or include others, a committee will want to see some thoughtful discussion.

So, if you're Chad Topaz, I suppose, you can disclosure your own identities along various axes of diversity by talking about what it is like to be a gay white guy gay-married to another gay white guy and how you're upset that blacks are not flocking to support Pete Buttigieg?

Maybe not...

In his original attack on Thompson, Topaz tries to convince us the use of mandatory diversity statements in the hiring process isn't a 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."

Really?...

The bottom line is that these diversity statements - as he recommends writing them - are clearly designed to screen out conservatives who are offended by identity politics and the white men or women who are disadvantaged by it. There is no role in Topaz's world for a scholar who thinks present levels of equity, diversity and inclusion are just fine after you factor in IQ, culture, and personal interests. Or, even worse, there is no role for you in his world if you think we shouldn't be held accountable for the behavior of our ancestors by those who take no responsibility for the behavior of their children.

Simply treating your students fairly is obviously not enough...not even a grade of 2 on a 5 point scale of EDI accountability.

Finally, if you disagree with the discriminatory, politicized, hostile approach of woke activists like Chad M. Topaz, then you should be target of his "you're either with us or against us" extremism. If you are on the wrong side of the latest leftist fad, then it is okay for you to be hectored enough in public and attacked enough by on-line mobs to find yourself in danger of being fired from your otherwise cushy college-level teaching job. This is the world of Chad Topaz, a world of hate, discrimination, anti-white bias, and on-line diversity police.

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. His pronouns are Master/Commander.

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.