When the online cancel mob came for him, Professor Eric Kaufmann felt little sense of surprise—only irony. As a leading researcher into cancel culture in the world of academia, he knows all too well that these days simply championing free speech can be seen as an act of fascism by some radical students and academics. Kaufmann is a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities. He also has been a pioneer in using surveys to research “authoritarianism and political discrimination” in universities in both the United States and the UK. When radicals at his own college started recently trying to oust from the university, it followed an all-too-familiar pattern, he says. “They basically put out this thread of Tweets saying that I’m some kind of a white supremacist,” he told the Epoch Times. “Which is just …