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I have to fundamentally disagree, in that if "the concept of academic freedom is supposed to prevent individual researchers from having to in any way pay servic
by kaitai 6y ago
I have to fundamentally disagree, in that if "the concept of academic freedom is supposed to prevent individual researchers from having to in any way pay service, even lip service, to anything not directly related to their research" then we'd have even less teaching by professors in this country. Who the heck wants to teach linear algebra for the 47th time? or worse, precalculus? oh right, that's what pays the bills.
Please be accurate about academic freedom :)
- free_rms 6y agoTeaching is functional. Performative adherence to other people's politics is less so.
- kaitai 6y ago... for some definitions of functional... was it really so useful for one prof I had to read the pages from the book to us and not take questions? He did nothing else.
- free_rms 6y agoSure but you're mixing apples and oranges here. Can we think about how funny it would be if someone was doing social justice rhetoric with that level of energy? "well, uhh, you see this is, uhh, problematic i guess, they weren't being an ally. cough. you see, there are a lot of, uh, intersectional and marginalized angles here, it's really complicated. lots of microaggressions. anyways, do the odd questions on page 38, see you wednesday."