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> Professor Soucek, at Davis law school, said ideological diversity is not the point. > “It’s our job to make sure people of all identities flourish here,” he
by hiatus 3y ago
> Professor Soucek, at Davis law school, said ideological diversity is not the point.
> “It’s our job to make sure people of all identities flourish here,” he said. “It’s not our job to make sure that all viewpoints flourish.”
- Dig1t 3y agoThis is a fundamental change in a core value of western academia. For the entire history of academia in the US, open-mindedness and fostering debate has been central.
- blovescoffee 3y agoFairly recently Jews, Blacks, and more groups were literally excluded from joining many universities... I'm not entirely unsympathetic to your point but it's not as if universities are historically unproblematic.
- pauldenton 3y agoIt seems like Asians have been excluded from universities like Jews were excluded from Universities, except the former is happening now and the latter mostly happened a hundred years ago
- raxxorraxor 3y agoPretty much against what the mission of universities is. With that position he might need to become a pastor, but certainly not head an institution like a university.
- revlolz 3y agoWith quotes it feels like we are living in the 2nd dark age.
- rayiner 3y agoIt’s more insidious than that, because it also means reframing identities that are built around viewpoints. Islam, for example, gets reframed as post-Christian humanism in a hijab.