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We already have companies cut ties with Russia I don’t see this as being any different. Cut ties with people with oppressive views. Screw them is my feelings.
by 14 5y ago
We already have companies cut ties with Russia I don’t see this as being any different. Cut ties with people with oppressive views. Screw them is my feelings.
- simonh 5y agoEconomic sanctions are a very, very different thing from coerced 'confessions' from individuals. There are governments that engage in such practices, but they have no place in a free society.
- 14 5y agoNothing is coerced and there is no confession. If you don’t agree with the statement then just don’t go to that school. You talk about a free society but Uyghur are being rounded up and put in re-education/concentration camps that also has no place in a free society. We do agree they are being rounded up unwillingly right? A university could have a declaration of values that each student must sign. If they don’t agree with that political stance then don’t attend.
- infamouscow 5y agoEvery cent of Cornell's federal grant money would be pulled for violating the 1A rights of these students.
- simonh 5y agoOf course China is not a free society. The problem with what you suggest is, who gets to decide the political requirements on such institutions? Well, politicians will. So lovely, now we have bureaucrats and politicians deciding what must be taught, and what cannot be taught or even discussed in our educational institutions. What could possibly go wrong? The only way to prevent such dictatorial mandatory opinions in education is to have no dictated mandatory opinions. Free discourse is the only answer, and yes that means discussing abhorrent opinions and statements. The right answer to the darkness is to flood it with light.