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Like a similar comment - I don’t know if I believe that an american can ever utter anti-american things - with some small exceptions for flat out treason. Free
by prpl 3y ago
Like a similar comment - I don’t know if I believe that an american can ever utter anti-american things - with some small exceptions for flat out treason.
Freedom of speech is the first amendment, and even though it is counter intuitive, criticizing america, it’s institutions, and especially capitalism is fundamentally american speech - quite possibly the most american thing you could possibly do in the eyes of the founders.
Colleges of sciences and engineering rarely would have lecturers venture down that road anyway, except in courses about society, history, and philosophy embedded in those schools, so I don’t think it’s a problem in any case, and your characterizations are being overblown.
Other research areas will be inherently fuzzy on that. That’s almost tautological - the people teaching history, philosophy etc… are going to have an opinion because they wouldn’t even be teaching unless they were passionate about the field.
- wait_a_minute 3y agoIn one sense you are right. But the spirit of the times at some institutions is not to be an American so you can make a better America. It's to foment violence and division and outrage even levied at the reliability and strength of the highest institutions like the SCOTUS and the Constitution and secure borders. Furthermore, these types of things replace real learning on math and science and history and other things that have volumes of education available sans these ideas.