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>the original motivation behind the journal which was to enable a platform for researchers being suppressed and cancelled by woke academia for daring to shine a

by p_j_w 5y ago

>the original motivation behind the journal which was to enable a platform for researchers being suppressed and cancelled by woke academia for daring to shine a light in areas they've declared off limit. You need to check your history. The person who came up with the JCI had a different (though somewhat similar motivation): she received death threats from right wing Christians for an article she wrote that was published in an ethics journal.

mellosouls 5y ago
No, that is just one example she cited of the originating motives in response to questions from (rightly) suspicious liberal interviewers. While right-wing equivalents exist (and in former times dominated), the vast majority of recent censorship pressure has come from the left and it is inevitable the journal champions will offer placatory tales to counter the hatchet job coverage from their (woke academic) fellow-travellers in the press.
- UncleMeat 5y ago
  > the vast majority of recent censorship pressure has come from the left I don't remember left wing governors collecting data on the political leanings of university faculty.
  - maroonblazer 5y ago
    Pick up a copy of "The Coddling of the American Mind" and you'll get a sense of what the parent is referring to. A summary can be found here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
    - UncleMeat 5y ago
      It is a famous piece and I am very familiar with it. It is totally counter to my experience. What I've seen, among friends and family, includes * climate science faculty getting death threats after having their work called out on fox news, and having members of the trump white house interfere with their grant funding * transgender faculty being specifically targeted by organized harassment campaigns from tpusa, though trained students who know precisely where they can write hate speech without faculty members being able to share that material * history faculty being told administrators to focus more on the history of the colonies in a history course focused on native americans. And in the wider news * grad students being publicly called out for their non-standard appearance by full professors on twitter after publishing work critical of heterodox views on Covid * grad students being shit for being early-career on twitter by full professors after publishing work critical of heterodox views on Covid * grad students receiving rape and other violent threats for calling out sexual assault committed by high-status faculty and the failure of universities to take action and then continuing to do so through the hatred My experience is that undergraduates and grad students are actually either far more open to exploring ideas and engaging in difficult work that can even involve threats on their own lives than administrators or political leaders think they are, or they are already ideologically frozen and only take courses so they can attack the faculty members.
  - fidesomnes 5y ago
    laugh track cue zoom in: smirking late night host with his gotchya face.

by p_j_w 5y ago

mellosouls 5y ago

No, that is just one example she cited of the originating motives in response to questions from (rightly) suspicious liberal interviewers. While right-wing equivalents exist (and in former times dominated), the vast majority of recent censorship pressure has come from the left and it is inevitable the journal champions will offer placatory tales to counter the hatchet job coverage from their (woke academic) fellow-travellers in the press.

UncleMeat 5y ago
> the vast majority of recent censorship pressure has come from the left I don't remember left wing governors collecting data on the political leanings of university faculty.
- maroonblazer 5y ago
  Pick up a copy of "The Coddling of the American Mind" and you'll get a sense of what the parent is referring to. A summary can be found here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
  - UncleMeat 5y ago
    It is a famous piece and I am very familiar with it. It is totally counter to my experience. What I've seen, among friends and family, includes * climate science faculty getting death threats after having their work called out on fox news, and having members of the trump white house interfere with their grant funding * transgender faculty being specifically targeted by organized harassment campaigns from tpusa, though trained students who know precisely where they can write hate speech without faculty members being able to share that material * history faculty being told administrators to focus more on the history of the colonies in a history course focused on native americans. And in the wider news * grad students being publicly called out for their non-standard appearance by full professors on twitter after publishing work critical of heterodox views on Covid * grad students being shit for being early-career on twitter by full professors after publishing work critical of heterodox views on Covid * grad students receiving rape and other violent threats for calling out sexual assault committed by high-status faculty and the failure of universities to take action and then continuing to do so through the hatred My experience is that undergraduates and grad students are actually either far more open to exploring ideas and engaging in difficult work that can even involve threats on their own lives than administrators or political leaders think they are, or they are already ideologically frozen and only take courses so they can attack the faculty members.
- fidesomnes 5y ago
  laugh track cue zoom in: smirking late night host with his gotchya face.