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"Universities are a bastion of free speech." LOL.
by ojbyrne 13y ago
"Universities are a bastion of free speech." LOL.
- protomyth 13y agoHaving FIRE's[1] RSS feed[2] in my daily reading has dissuaded me from that belief. "Unlearning Liberty" by Greg Lukianoff (FIRE's President) has a chapter of Yale. 1) http://thefire.org http://thefire.org 2) http://thefire.org/feeds/news/ http://thefire.org/feeds/news/
- Steuard 13y agoThere are valid objections to that claim, no question. But students asserting this in their defense nevertheless has a great deal of power, because universities still want to be bastions of free speech. It is close to the core of the self-image of university and college faculty members (and an awful lot of the administrators, too), even when the reality falls short of that ideal. So these words make a very strong moral argument in context, and might succeed in building on-campus support where other arguments wouldn't.