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Don't forget to read Greg Lukanioff's Unlearning Liberty[1], a very detailed examination of basically the same forces at work in education and free speech. I re
by x1798DE 12y ago
Don't forget to read Greg Lukanioff's Unlearning Liberty[1], a very detailed examination of basically the same forces at work in education and free speech. I read it not long after reading Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain[2], and was really disturbed by the parallels between what's happening naturally in universities (basically because individual actors such as administrators have no personal disincentive against violating the rights of their students) and what the soviet union systematically did to the universities when they were establishing their foothold in the Eastern Bloc. There's a whole chapter on education in Applebaum's book, and it's essentially a perfect description of what's happening in US universities. It's deeply chilling, and the same thing is causing the militarization of the police - individual police are never held liable for wrong-door raids, for killing innocent civilians, for violating the rights of US citizens, so they have no incentive to try and stop it happening.
1. http://www.unlearningliberty.com/ http://www.unlearningliberty.com/
2. http://www.anneapplebaum.com/iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-eastern-europe-1944-1956/ http://www.anneapplebaum.com/iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-ea...
- personlurking 12y agoSorry if this is not exactly related but the words Unlearning Liberty made me think of The Anatomy of Slavespeak, a document on questioning words we use and hear all the time (like liberty). It's easily found by putting the title into a search site. In the least, it's an interesting exercise in how we give shared meaning to words we often don't think twice about using.