Fired for a Bestselling Book That Was Right: with Ulrike Guérot

There would be a lot to unpack.

Very briefly.

First of all, I mean, I believe since, I'm not entirely sure, between 2016 and now or between 2020 and now, 60 scientists less professors have been sacked from German universities.

I can't really verify the exact numbers, but it's a high number.

So you're definitely not an exception.

Now, when it comes to the mechanisms that are being implemented, CSFP 2025-966, so European Council Resolution 2025-966, I'm surprised that they have not kind of put you on the sanction list.

Maybe you want to explain? I mean, CSFP.

Yeah.

Let's first make the picture broader.

Obviously, and that is very important to underscore, it's not only about me.

There is a study and we will hopefully also link it under the video.

by Heike Egner and Anke Uhlenwinkel, two sociologues, who did an empirical study that points to 60 cases in Germany of removals from universities, professors from universities, under what we call fadenscheinige Gründe, pretexts.

And where you can point to the fact that the reason for dismissal is was a pretext for ideological deviation, for not solid in the values, you know, that is the formulation, ideological deviation, yeah, so.

needless to say that ideological deviation should not be something that you have to do in a democracy because democracy is just about listening to everybody and hearing all the voices especially the critical voices but we will link the study I hope Thomas under the video because it's also available in English the German title is and the English title is disrupting the university and it's It's print-on-demand on Amazon.

And it's interesting data, just to give you two data out of the book, 60, roughly 60 cases.

And the two significant data statistically important is relevant.

Two-thirds are women.

And even more statistically relevant is that... two-thirds or more are from non-academic origin, like me.

My parents had no baccalaureate, no studies, no nothing.

And this is important because if perhaps later in this video we want to link current development of ideologization and of discourse hedging with much money, And we want to link this to, say, neo-feudalism, what Varoufakis has been talking about, tech companies spending a lot of money on digital service act and all this, and to hedge discourses, look at Ireland, more or less everybody is working for the Google complex in Ireland of the five million Irish people.

And we discussed this.

You remember, we discussed this, Thomas, in Westminster, the Irish sort of being completely in the platform economy.

And then Varoufakis' book, we may link this to, about tech feudalism.

Then you may argue that expulsing those people from faculties who are what we call career makers without academic background – So coming more or less from unacademic and poor families like me and those people normally have and there's a lot of sociological evidence those people have a sense of justice because they know where they come from.

And they know what the career costs them, you know, to come up in the society.

There would be a lot to unpack.

Very briefly.

First of all, I mean, I believe since, I'm not entirely sure, between 2016 and now or between 2020 and now, 60 scientists less professors have been sacked from German universities.

I can't really verify the exact numbers, but it's a high number.

So you're definitely not an exception.

Now, when it comes to the mechanisms that are being implemented, CSFP 2025-966, so European Council Resolution 2025-966, I'm surprised that they have not kind of put you on the sanction list.

Maybe you want to explain? I mean, CSFP.

Yeah.

Let's first make the picture broader.

Obviously, and that is very important to underscore, it's not only about me.

There is a study and we will hopefully also link it under the video.

by Heike Egner and Anke Uhlenwinkel, two sociologues, who did an empirical study that points to 60 cases in Germany of removals from universities, professors from universities, under what we call fadenscheinige Gründe, pretexts.

And where you can point to the fact that the reason for dismissal is was a pretext for ideological deviation, for not solid in the values, you know, that is the formulation, ideological deviation, yeah, so.

needless to say that ideological deviation should not be something that you have to do in a democracy because democracy is just about listening to everybody and hearing all the voices especially the critical voices but we will link the study I hope Thomas under the video because it's also available in English the German title is and the English title is disrupting the university and it's It's print-on-demand on Amazon.

And it's interesting data, just to give you two data out of the book, 60, roughly 60 cases.

And the two significant data statistically important is relevant.

Two-thirds are women.

And even more statistically relevant is that... two-thirds or more are from non-academic origin, like me.

My parents had no baccalaureate, no studies, no nothing.

And this is important because if perhaps later in this video we want to link current development of ideologization and of discourse hedging with much money, And we want to link this to, say, neo-feudalism, what Varoufakis has been talking about, tech companies spending a lot of money on digital service act and all this, and to hedge discourses, look at Ireland, more or less everybody is working for the Google complex in Ireland of the five million Irish people.

And we discussed this.

You remember, we discussed this, Thomas, in Westminster, the Irish sort of being completely in the platform economy.

And then Varoufakis' book, we may link this to, about tech feudalism.

Then you may argue that expulsing those people from faculties who are what we call career makers without academic background – So coming more or less from unacademic and poor families like me and those people normally have and there's a lot of sociological evidence those people have a sense of justice because they know where they come from.

And they know what the career costs them, you know, to come up in the society.