You can only tackle threats to free speech while you still have free speech. At what point does it constitute a crisis? Opinions differ. She doesn't want to be tagged right now because working but you should look up Helen Pluckrose's work on this. (She did surveys & got numbers).
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?
-
-
Of course! That is the goal. Free and critical thinkers.
-
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.
-
They take many classes from different professors. That is the point of undergraduate education.
-
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?
-
No. I have no say in what they teach in their classrooms.
-
Your reasoning is chaotic and inconsistent.
-
How so? You say students need to be exposed to alternative ideas. I say that they are. Whether in my class or in my colleagues, the university is a place of free and critical thinkers.
-
David, you are a professor of political science. You cannot possibly have got here by being unable to follow an argument or remember what has been said & responded to & what the point is. You must be being evasive & this makes honest discussion impossible. I will leave it here.
- 6 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.