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> made a Third Reich comparison while talking about admissions criteria, I'd be pretty opposed to the lecture going on. Why??
by CodeGlitch 5y ago
> made a Third Reich comparison while talking about admissions criteria, I'd be pretty opposed to the lecture going on.
Why??
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- quadrifoliate 5y agoI'm thinking mostly like a business. Nazi comparisons are bad for business. If someone starts bringing up the Nazis in some obscure context during your pizza shop's pepperoni v/s margharita bake-off, what are you going to do? Best thing to do is to move on as quickly as possible, and kick out the person who made Nazi comparisons. Now I already concede, that perhaps this should not happen on a campus. Perhaps we should explicitly maintain campuses as places where limits might be tested, and have robust responses.
- CodeGlitch 5y ago> Ninety years ago Germany had the best universities in the world. Then an ideological regime obsessed with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out, gutting the faculties and leading to sustained decay that German universities never fully recovered from. I'll highlight the important and relevant bit for you: "ideological regime obsessed with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out" Sounds pretty much what is happening in US / UK Universities right now doesn't it?