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Florida law requires universities to survey students, staff about their beliefs
- MikeUt 5y agoRelated: Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diversity-initiative-berkeley/ https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver... (So they more than just ask)
- apricot 5y agoRequiring students and professors to declare their political beliefs is something I associate with the USSR or Communist China. Are you OK, America?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoThe party that masquerades as Conservative is having an existential crisis.
- duskwuff 5y agoThis isn't a new problem. Between 1950 and 1967, employees of the University of California were required to swear an oath that they were not a member of the Communist Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levering_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levering_Act
- HomeDeLaPot 5y agoI couldn't think of a worse way to promote critical thinking than this.
- xqcgrek 5y agoIronic. https://reason.com/2021/06/24/floridas-college-intellectual-diversity-survey-is-good-actually/ https://reason.com/2021/06/24/floridas-college-intellectual-... >The bill does not mandate or punish the teaching of any particular point of view. Nor does it ask students or teachers what their personal views are. It requires state universities to conduct an annual survey to determine "the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented and members of the university community, including students, faculty, and staff, feel free to express their beliefs and viewpoints on campus and in the classroom."
- sedeki 5y agoIn terms of the problem that this politician is trying to fix... Is it really that bad in the US? I think we have all read about a few examples, e.g. students canceling professors and what not. But in general?
- olliej 5y agoThis is about signaling as it won’t stand up in court.
- Engineering-MD 5y agoTitle seems slightly misleading. The requirement is to survey students and staff, not a requirement for students or staff to answer: “[a law] mandating public colleges and universities survey students and faculty about their beliefs”. Depending on the implementation of such a survey I guess it could be as in the title but personally I doubt it.
- desktopninja 5y agoI agree. This title is super "clickbaity". Title should be: Florida signs law mandating public colleges and universities to survey students and faculty about their beliefs @thehill.com, you'd get more readers with the correct title.
- casefields 5y agoIt's called paltering: The devious art of lying by telling the truth: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171114-the-disturbing-art-of-lying-by-telling-the-truth https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171114-the-disturbing-a... Outrage clickbait especially in politics is rife with it.
- dang 5y agoI've edited the title to try to make it less misleading. If anyone has a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article itself), we can change it again.
- williamtwild 5y agoThat title is total garbage . HN is becoming reddit.
- dang 5y agoIf you don't like that title why not suggest a better one? HN has been "becoming reddit" since before it was called "HN". As Voltaire said, "it must be very slow".
- rektide 5y agoawful. but, what would a voluntary syatem look like? I think it would be cool if students could declare their beliefs. think about it, write it down, let others know. I wouldn't mind random people in the world being able to quickly find my registered beliefs. that would be a neat democratic capability, no? what would that look like? what would your system or systems for that look like? edit: 5 minutes since posting and at -1. why do you disagree?
- jdsully 5y agoThe title is misleading. It’s a weird law but it seems to require the universities conduct a survey. It doesn’t put any burden on students and faculty to actually answer as far as I’m aware.