Cofnas was sacked from his role at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2024. In blog posts, he had said that, in a meritocracy: “Blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.” In a piece titled “Don’t Scapegoat Women”, published in January this year, Cofnas claimed “women but not men can get people fired by pointing and crying”.
He added: “To meet de facto quotas, employers have had to reach deeper into the pool of less qualified female candidates. For obvious reasons, affirmative action hires often have a chip on their shoulder. Many of them turn to social justice activism to distract from the fact that they aren’t as good at their job as the straight white men who earned their position based on merit, or weren’t hired at all.”
Whose pocket is he in to get fired from one uni to get into another knowing what he is.
I mean people like Jason Lieb bounced around even after things came to light (https://paw.princeton.edu/article/former-professor-quits-chicago-post-amid-sex-misconduct-probe). Considering Cofnas wasn’t on the same level as Lieb, it’s not too surprising that someone like that gets hired elsewhere. It’s unfortunately more common that I would have expected.