cancelling

 In my class, we talked about how people can use the internet to cancel people. We discussed the action of a professor (Professor M) at my university, who emailed a student inappropriately. I know Professor M as I was in his class, and hearing the version that my other professor (Professor J) was told (from a faculty point), it was very different from what I knew. I am a friend of the girl who got the inappropriate email, and I got to see how the school handled it from her perspective. I also had issues with this professor, but had been ignored by the school. My friend wasn’t satisfied with the school’s handling of the problem, so she took to social media. Making tiktoks and facebooks posts. These got a lot of attention, and the school reached out to her after seeing the post. They stopped the class from meeting and just told us that we would either get to take the exam or keep our current mark. The emails we got from the dean didn’t address the situation at all. If I hadn’t known the girl, then I would have had no idea why the class was stopped. The school also hasn’t made any public announcements or statements. I also have not heard anything from the university about my issues with the professor, so it just seems like they don’t care all that much. But yeah, the only reason my friend had the school reach out is because her social media post started gaining traction, and the school didn’t like that. My comment on her post got more attention than any email I sent to the school.