A YouGov survey last year reported some 60% of students report that they avoid expressing some political views out of concern. That's some chilled speech! By the by, the same survey notes that black and female students self-censor more. 2/11https://www.thefire.org/largest-ever-free-speech-survey-of-college-students-ranks-top-campuses-for-expression/ …
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Those figures are substantially worst than a similar survey done in 2017 (https://www.thefire.org/research/publications/student-surveys/student-attitudes-free-speech-survey/ …), suggesting that the situation in terms of campus speech, which was improving through the 90s and early aughts, is now getting worse again. 3/11
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What's really striking is how consistently the degree of speech chilling corresponds to the actual policies universities implement. Schools with bad speech codes and which take speech-retaliatory hiring/retention decisions leave students feeling chilled. 4/11
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Bret Devereaux uudelleentwiittasi Greg Lukianoff
And there's a not-trivial amount of that happening: Its easy to dismiss those figures, but academic fields are small and lots of people know each other: you can chill a lot of speech with one or two high-profile firings. 5/11https://twitter.com/glukianoff/status/1466768444980965381 …
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Greg LukianoffVarmennettu tili @glukianoff120 profs targeted for punishment for their research or speech in 2020. Almost 500 since 2015. 27 TENURED professors fired. There were 12 such incidents at Harvard & 20 at Stanford alone. There were attempts at 65% of the top 100 schools in the country. And that’s JUST profs. https://twitter.com/knowwhatisreal/status/1466766232837926913 …Näytä tämä ketju2 vastausta 1 uudelleentwiittaus 18 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
For what it is worth, I was advised by no less than four different tenured mentors during my grad school journey to keep my politics secret. At three different schools. My politics aren't even remotely exciting. This tells me there is a problem, at least of perception! 6/11
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
Isn’t that just good workplace etiquette? No one want to hear what anyone else thinks about politics in a work setting.
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Bret Devereaux uudelleentwiittasi Bret Devereaux
Bret Devereaux lisäsi,
Bret Devereaux @BretDevereauxVastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @jbouieMoreover, the argument, "well, the big sort is just making all of American society more conformist, including universities" strikes me as a pretty weak argument. I mean, sure - but universities are built on intellectual-anti-conformity in a way that a car dealership is not.1 vastaus 0 uudelleentwiittausta 0 tykkäystä -
Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
Which doesn't remotely address the point. If it doesn't directly tie to the work you're doing, no one needs to know your political opinion.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @GrnMtnBot
I'm a military historian who regularly publishes in policy publications as part of my scholarly activity, so it very much does tie to my work. But the broader point is that I was told to be secretive about my politics even outside of 'the office' as it were.
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Were you free to reject that advice, or was your continued scholarship dependent on adhering to it?
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I was told the latter. That's the point of what I'm saying.
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