Sure: as long as they are presented as bad ideas. Creationism is worth discussing but creationists have no place lecturing in the university.
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Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and
They really need to be presented by people who think they are good ideas. Can't just spoonfeed students 'Here is a bad idea and this is why it is bad.' That's not teaching them to pinpoint & challenge the problems in potentially dangerous ideas & we'll need people who can do that
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and
Sure you can. If I teach about the way the fascists used Nietzsche, I can certainly present it as a degradation.
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Replying to @DeTabachnick @HPluckrose and
If it's unfaithful to Nietzsche.
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose and
Right. But, it would be my interpretation. I am not going to get in someone who thinks it is a "good idea."
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Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and
No. I am able to provide an interpretation without getting in someone each time to provide an alternate view.
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Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and
Of course! That is the goal. Free and critical thinkers.
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Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and
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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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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