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If there's an issue, it's that university administrations are fundamentally authoritarian bureaucratic institutions. But being outraged about political correct
by danharaj 11y ago
If there's an issue, it's that university administrations are fundamentally authoritarian bureaucratic institutions.
But being outraged about political correctness is more emotionally satisfying than wondering whether university power structures could be rethought in order to be more democratic, i guess. free speech is not threatened by people with opinions you disagree with; free speech is threatened by power. people buy into authoritarianism so much that it's almost invisible. when a university administration crushes somebody, why is it the fault of political correctness and not the fault of the power structure? perhaps the students overreact, but overreacting people are harmless unless they are attached to power.
considering students authoritarian is either absurd or irrelevant. students aren't the ones abusing power.
- gherkin0 11y ago> satisfying than wondering whether university power structures could be rethought in order to be more democratic University power structures shouldn't be entirely democratic. The students need to be clearly subordinate to their teachers. I think what's happening here is that, through fear of student power or laziness, the administration is using its power to appease the overreacting students rather than control and moderate their overreaction.
- danharaj 11y agoI don't think the ideal relationship between students and teachers is at all subordination. In any case, the real subordination relationship is "Investors/Trustees/Donors > Administrators > Teachers/Students".