Chad Topaz of Williams College Begs You to Associate with His Stigmatized Charity, QSIDE, After Rebuke From Top Math Leaders

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Chad Topaz appears to be desperate for legitimacy now that his widely condemned plans to get a white female professor at UC Davis fired have backfired on him. As you may know, Topaz called for his Facebook and Twitter followers to subject Abigail Thompson to a merciless public shaming and to pressure her employer to punish her for expressing her personal opinions in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

In response to outrage in the mathematics profession, Topaz took both his Facebook and Twitter pages private. Bizarrely, he also began redirecting links to his QSIDE Institute website created by his critics over to the landing page of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The insinuation, of course, is that anyone who disagreed with him was a dangerous white supremacist.

One of Chad Topaz's Williams College colleagues, Colin Adams, created a petition condemning Topaz's efforts to censor and punish Thompson. This petition has attracted over 625 supporters including two famous Fields Medalists, former presidents of the American Mathematics Society (AMS), and math and biology faculty at Williams College including his own department chair Richard de Veaux. If you wish, you can sign the petition here.

In his most recent missive, which I have included below the break, he calls for his supporters to join QSIDE and promote it by including mention of it in their e-mails and other channels of community. Unfortunately for Topaz, anyone who joins his brand new, family-run QSIDE Institute will share in the stigma of his appalling effort to get a white female professor black listed and the negative publicity now associated with the QSIDE Institute brand.

Finally, the story of Topaz's campaign to get Abigail Thompson fired has come to the attention of a national news blog, The College Fix.

Among the comments are the following gems:

• Say it with me, kids: "The university is no longer the place for academic discussion." Your degree is worthless.
• The irony is she is AGAINST making a decision based on skin color. This makes her the anti-racist, yet they will say the opposite.
• Those who support totalitarianism and loyalty oaths need to consider the consequences for their own future. Eventually, they will need to go out into the world. And, of course, there is always the possibility that they will some day find themselves on the wrong side of the "party."
• Chad Topaz? Since when have 2nd rate porn stars become mathematicians?
• There is no God but the Party, and the Dialogue is his prophet.

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.

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Posted by CHADTOPAZ on DECEMBER 4, 2019


Do you want to use your academic and/or professional skills to promote social justice? QSIDE will soon open a variety of routes for involvement with the institute. You can read about our mission and see some of these examples of our work:
Making the criminal justice system transparent
Diversity of artists in major U.S. museums
Forecasting the effect of affirmative action policies in undergraduate college admissions
Maya, Princess Scientist

If you are potentially interested in participating in QSIDE by serving in any of the roles described below, please fill out this form. We will contact you when further details are available.

ALLY. You are visibly supportive of the QSIDE mission. To become an ally, you will submit a very brief profile along with interest areas and skills. This information will go in a QSIDE database and will be searchable by other QSIDE participants for engagement in common interest areas of scholarship and activism.

AFFILIATE. You have your own research and/or activism portfolio that is thematically related to the mission of QSIDE. Affiliates have a higher degree of responsibility to the organization than allies and are eligible for more benefits. Expectations include putting a QSIDE Affiliate line in your professional email signature and acknowledging QSIDE affiliation in presentations and publications related to QSIDE’s mission. Benefits include connection to other QSIDE participants, eligibility to apply for QSIDE internal grants (once funding becomes available), and professional support for QSIDE-related activism, grant-writing and research projects.

PARTNER. Beyond having your own research and/or activism portfolio, you get involved with core QSIDE research and/or action projects and make substantive contributions.

Again, if you are interested, please fill out this form.