Fallacy of the excluded middle.
Why wouldn't you? Do that first. Encourage your students to think for themselves about why it's a bad idea and then provide any arguments they might have missed. They can't rely on you to interpret everything for them forever. They'll be needed to run the world at some point.
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No. I am able to provide an interpretation without getting in someone each time to provide an alternate view.
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Of course you can provide an interpretation. Everyone can. But do they go to university to learn the interpretations of David Tabachnick? I am asking whether you think students need to be able to analyse an argument for fascism/Islamism/communism/nationalism/whatever themselves?
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Of course! That is the goal. Free and critical thinkers.
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Then show them to them! Don't filter it through your representation which will be that it is bad. They need to be able to identify that themselves.
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They take many classes from different professors. That is the point of undergraduate education.
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But you trust all of them not to show students arguments for bad things made by people who believe in them so this isn't much good, is it?
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No. I have no say in what they teach in their classrooms.
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Your reasoning is chaotic and inconsistent.
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