No, nothing should be done just for the sake of it. But bad ideas are important. Both in order to understand history & sociology & in order to learn how to counter them. Also, we should push the boundaries of free speech to ensure they don't start constricting...
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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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.
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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.
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Sorry. Perhaps the medium is to blame? I believe I followed your point and disagreed multiple times. You supported a bad analogy, for some reason. You suggested that my students weren't being exposed to alternative views and ideas, which they are all of the time.
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No. You are. I've responded to all that, explained analogies & clarified my difference with you on the subjects several times. You continue not to acknowledge anything I am saying. Reasoned discussion cannot happen unless you do. Progress can't unless society does. #2 #5 #6 #7pic.twitter.com/OWa4LzwxrL
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We are losing the ability to make arguments on the left because we already know what is good and what is bad and think we can just tell kids this without letting them see it & make up their own minds and learn how to evaluate.
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