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As can be seen in the first seconds of the lectures, Timothy Snyder is a professor at Yale [1], a private university, so he cannot be considered a government em
by the_why_of_y 3y ago
As can be seen in the first seconds of the lectures, Timothy Snyder is a professor at Yale [1], a private university, so he cannot be considered a government employee.
Additionally, even in government run universities in the west, there is the concept of academic freedom[2], meaning that faculty are able to teach their material freely without having to fear retaliation from the government (in the United States, this is effectively limited to "tenured" professors, it's more general in other countries.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_freedom
- secondary_op 3y ago[flagged]
- the_why_of_y 3y agoBy your argument, we should disregard everything Noam Chomsky says on politics because he is a professor (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an elite university deeply interconnected with the government, and thus must be considered a mouthpiece for US government propaganda.
- secondary_op 3y agoNo. Can you people do not turn off your technical rooted in science pragmatic pedantic brain when talking about politics ? MIT is technical university, why I have to explain on HN that there is great difference between technical crowd from MIT and politicians who brewed at Yale ? Yale have more in common with United States Military Academy At West Point where [1] > The runner up after Harvard is Yale University, claiming 5 U.S presidents as alumni. > Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower are the only 2 U.S. presidents who attended the United States Military Academy At West Point. They are also 2 of the most important military generals in American history [1] https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/where-did-most-u-s-presidents-attend-college/ https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/where-did-most-u-s-presidents-...