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Then the battle is lost, because universities, at least in the USA, are the home of "free speech areas" and not letting people speak who a group disagrees
by wozniacki 12y ago
Then the battle is lost, because universities, at least
in the USA, are the home of "free speech areas" and not
letting people speak who a group disagrees with.
STEM is often criticized as unwelcoming, but humanities
has become a place of "agree with me" or be condemned.
It is a mistake to assume that this is a localized phenomenon limited to the United States. Lately - and as somewhat of a testament to how disturbingly uniform and inauthentic, millenial culture has become everywhere - the same kind of intolerance for
discordant views can be seen on campuses from Canada to the UK.
I'll leave you with an excellent write up on the topic of this brand of groupthink and shutting down opposing views, on campuses, by Brendan O'Neill in The Spectator :
Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere.
On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture
halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in
the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students,
smell like students. But their student brains have been
replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and
programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem
like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing,
H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five
minutes in their company will know that these students are
far more interested in shutting debate down than opening
it up. [1]
[1] Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-s...
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoWait. Book-devouring, ideas-discussing students? Where the hell are these creatures, and where were they when I attended undergrad!? All I've ever seen was job-seeking, exam-studying things. Also, doesn't the constant talk of debate and free exchange of ideas rather presuppose a form of antirealism about everything under the sun? After all, we don't talk about a free exchange of ideas on the laws of motion. You can be accurate or incorrect about those.
- protomyth 12y agoThanks for the links. I did not want to state beyond the U.S. because I have not done the research myself on this subject.