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Wednesday, January 31. 2018

Academe: Free Speech and the Silencing of Dissent


American academia is caught up in a Maoist Cultural Revolution.


Not to worry. It's an adolescent fashion, a fad. It will pass. These kids will graduate, find jobs in cubicles, enter the real world, and grow up. Not to mention that the "tenured radicals" will retire on the comfortable pensions provided by people with tough jobs without pensions.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 15:27 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

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Worry. The graduates will converge all the companies they work for, the the professors have already brain-washed their replacements. Professors do the actual vetting and hiring of faculty, in case you didn't know. It is the privilege they most defend.
#1 Bob Sykes on 2018-01-31 16:50 (Reply)
I've been saying this for a long while. But they have not learned from the mistakes made by the original and as you say it'll be a fad or it will be suppressed forcibly.
#2 Sennacherib on 2018-01-31 17:05 (Reply)
If only. Let me know when the struggle sessions last for hours using the tortuous airplane position, those struggled against are sent down for thought reform through labor, many are imprisoned, and many are publicly executed in university stadiums... and eaten.
#3 ErisGuy on 2018-01-31 18:29 (Reply)
I foresee even more Zachriels or whatever name it uses.
#4 Confused Old Misfit on 2018-01-31 19:13 (Reply)
Hate speech, like moderate muslims, does not exist...there is speech and there are muslims.
#5 indyjonesouthere on 2018-01-31 22:30 (Reply)
Agree with Sykes, worry. This may be a fad but it's toxic. Young people are being brainwashed and no longer see any reason to value the free speech of folks who don't agree with them. Also, reasonable, very nice, sexually modest young women take a Talmudic approach to Aziz Ansari's ability to read body language - while the young woman is in his house consensually stark naked. No, real damage is being done and it's not clear to me how it will be repaired - if we have enough cultural resources.
#6 Judith on 2018-02-01 10:58 (Reply)

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