Cancelled For Appearing On This Podcast - Vincent Harinam

What has happened to you since our last episode?

Ha. Well, i- it's a good question. I guess we take the, uh, the lo- the long route in explaining what exactly has happened here. You're, of course, well-aware of the situation. Uh, you've been, you've been a great friend and a great, uh, uh, confidant in, uh, in this affair. But, uh, what I can tell you is that, uh, I am no longer in the academy as a member of staff and a lecturer. I've left the academy because I was soft canceled at a prestigious university in the UK. I won't say which one. I prefer to keep the details off the table. It's, uh, it's happened quite a, quite a, a bit away back now, so, uh, we'll keep that off the table. We can certainly talk about how we got there, or at least how we got here.

Yeah. I was instrumental, at least-

(laughs)

... in some regards (laughs) . I facilitated your soft cancellation.

This is correct. It was you and Mikhaila Peterson, so I have the both of you to, uh, thank for the soft cancel-

An unspeakable duo of people to be associated with, yeah.

Just thoughtful individuals that try to improve the lives of others by putting out content to help them better themselves. Gosh, you people, you know?

Okay, so take it from the top. What, what was the issue? What was the experience? What were the conversations? What was the outcome?

Well, I suppose th- th- the... just to take it from the very beginning is that I'd went through an application and interview process for a professorial job at a, as I said, a fairly prestigious university in the UK and-

What were you at the time? What were you when you walked in?

I was a lecturer. I was a lecturer.

A le- What's the official... Is that lecturer of, or is that associate professor?

It's just a lectureship, a lectureship or a, a lecturer. You would, uh, teach classes more so. It's, it's, it's sort of like, um, a contract-based professorial job at a non-UK university, so you would, you would be seen as a teaching stream professor at another university, for example. Yes. Yeah, so I, I'd, I'd gone through the process of, of this, uh, job and I did end up getting it, so... A- and the reason why I know all these details is because it was told to me by various members of staff and, um, various members of the hiring committee after the fact. So, there are certain people that were very unhappy with what had happened and they couldn't keep it to themselves and they gave me all these details about the things that had transpired behind closed doors. But just to, just to explain what had happened is that, um, I was essentially chosen to be the professor. I was essentially given the job, but the contract was not sent to me, right? It... You know, it... this was... The decision was made on a Friday, and HR obviously doesn't work on the weekends, so you'd have to wait till Monday. But in between the Friday and the Monday, one member of, of the department, or a few members of the department, had heard that I would be the next in line for the job. And so they brought up the podcast that I was on, the podcast with yourself, the podcast with Mikhaila, and then it became an issue that I was not a worthy candidate because of my participation on these platforms. And so they'd essentially brought it back to a second interview, a, a, a sort of kangaroo court, which was set up in such a way that it put me to be a bad candidate. I- i-... Chris, before I even sat down in that seat for the second interview, they'd already played the podcast that I was on with you, uh, decrying that I was a member of the manosphere. They, they actually... Uh, uh, one member of the hiring committee actually, uh, circulated an article, a Salon.com article on the red pill and decried me as being a member of that community, that being the manosphere community.