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Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 4 hours ago

When your virtue signalling you meets your fragile ego you.

[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Lololol like there are wouldn't be any ties to slavery in an United States Institution. What did they expect to find? Moths?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago

The article makes it sound like the issue wasn't the connection to slaves: that was expected. It sounds like the original plan was to offer reparations to the descendants, but there turned out to be so many the finance department of Harvard completely freaked out.