An academic at the centre of a freedom of speech row at Edinburgh University will face “action”, his department head has suggested.
Several students have used online forums to accuse Dr Neil Thin, senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, of being racist, sexist and “problematic”.
Thin was targeted after he raised concerns over an event entitled Resisting Whiteness featuring an area that was exclusively for people of colour, which he branded “segregation”.
He also spoke out against the decision to rename the university’s David Hume tower https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hume-move-damages-our-university-say-scholars-8fndlprzs after campaigners highlighted racist comments made by the father of the Scottish Enlightenment in 1742.
Thin, 60, strongly denies the claims, insisting that a “bullying puritanical mob” of campus activists was trying to destroy
