悉加州大学河边分校林培瑞教授（Perry Link）因履行职责而对同事表达了对应聘人士学术水准的意见而遭受学校当局惩罚。我们，作为林教授的普林斯顿中国学社同事，对此深感惊讶和严正关切。众所周知，林教授不仅不是种族主义者，而且是反对种族主义的学人。校方此举侵犯了林教授的学术自由，侵害了林培瑞的宪法权利，校方以“多元、公平与包容”（DEI）为借口制造思想禁忌和言论禁区，甚至以此迫害不附和以肤色为录用标准而敢于坚持学术良知及标准的林教授，这是公然蔑视学术独立和思想自由，这是公然迫害一位有口皆碑终身献给学术和人权事业的可敬学者。我们抗议这一压迫行径，并敦请校方收回成命，还加州大学为一个学术自由的公平天地。

（注：林培瑞教授与普林斯顿校友艾略特、普林斯顿教授余英时共同创立了普林斯顿中国学社（PCI），这是中国1989年六四事件后在普林斯顿大学东亚研究系成立的一个组织，接收因六四事件而流亡海外的知识分子和学生，研究中国现代史和时事。林培瑞教授现为普林斯顿中国学社董事会主席。）

普林斯顿中国学社全体同仁

Stop thePersecution of Professor Perry Link

We have learned that Professor Perry Link of the University of California（Riverside）, was punished by the school authorities for expressing his opinions on the academic level of a job applicant to his colleague in the performance of his duties. We, as Professor Link’s colleagues in the Princeton China Initiative, are deeply surprised and seriously concerned about this. As everyone knows, Professor Link is not only not a racist, but a scholar who opposes racism. The school's actions have violated Professor Link's academic freedom and infringed upon his constitutional rights. The school has used"diversity, equity and inclusion"(DEI) as an excuse to create taboos on thought and speech, even used this to persecute Professor Link who dared to uphold his academic conscience and standards and did not agree with the skin color as a recruitment criterion. This is a blatant disregard for academic independence and freedom of thought, and it is a blatant persecution of a respectable scholar who has devoted his life to academia and human rights and is highly praised by everyone. We firmly protest this coercive action and urge the school to reverse its decision and restore UC to a fair environment of academic freedom.

(Note: Prof. Perry Link joined with Princeton alumnus John B. Elliott and Princeton Professor Yu Ying-shih to found the Princeton China Initiative(PCI), which was an organization established in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University after the June4th Incident in1989. It accepted intellectuals and students who were exiled overseas due to the June4th Incident and studies modern history and current affairs. Prof. Link is PCI’s board chair.)

All colleagues of the Princeton China Initiative