Liberalism <- allowing academic freedom & freedom of speech; providing good-faith critiques of work you think is wrong (even if you think it's really crap or really offensive). Not liberalism <- signing a vaguely-worded petition trying to drum someone out of a job.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1070770137433759744 …
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While we're on academic freedom: I'd be remiss not to mention the far larger threat happening to academics right now in, e.g. Hungary. Even if you disagree with some/all of the claims made in gender studies, academic freedom needs to be for *everyone*.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/05/gender-studies-scholars-say-field-coming-under-attack-many-countries-around-globe …
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I cannot comment on the situation in Hungary, but academia has to fight corruption. Academic freedom is not for "everyone", it is the freedom to search for truth. If a discipline turns into a self-serving mafia, protection racket or ideological cult, it needs to be shut down.
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When you deny real measurable biology because it contradicts your notions of ideological purity, Maybe you're the problem not academia? I'm saying trans people are real and by ignoring and undermining and diminishing their existence we cause them real tangible harm.
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Of course trans people are real, and deserve our support. I don't know how their "existence is undermined" if we argue that academia should search for truth instead of ideology? Do you really think so?
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