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Husband, father, social scientist, writer, Madisonian. Or maybe right-wing ideologue, pseudoscientist, evil. Opinions differ.

Burkittsville, MD
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    Charles Murray‏ @charlesmurray Sep 22

    Charles Murray Retweeted Michael Hendricks

    Still, it's an interesting question: Why are so many profs with tenure so timorous? I'm talking about the social sciences here.https://twitter.com/MHendr1cks/status/1043585557983645696 …

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    Michael Hendricks @MHendr1cks
    So the question is if those benefits outweigh the costs: some free-riders, people who only use tenure selfishly and never to challenge power or aid governance. I think they do, and I think we would immediately see how much they do if it went away. /11
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    • Chris Cantrall Brandon McNeice SL8 🐉🔋 ❌ g.v. wilkes iv Steve Sailer csskato Cryptarchist Russell Michaels Spooky W. Chatterston
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      2. Clifford D. May‏Verified account @CliffordDMay Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Social pressure? It takes a thick skin to be the campus pariah?

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      3. Charles Murray‏ @charlesmurray Sep 22
        Replying to @CliffordDMay

        I think that's 90% of the answer.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Jeff Peterson‏ @jeffpeterson64 Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray @CliffordDMay

        My seminary philosophy prof Diogenes Allen (of blessed memory) warned us not to devote ourselves to the pursuit of truth unless we were prepared to be lonely.

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      1. Brett P Andersen‏ @bpandersen Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        It doesn't seem likely that tenure is causing timorousness, so timorousness is likely to be causing tenure. It may be that offending anyone involved in selection disproportionately affects the decision, so it is the most unoffensive people who are most likely to get tenure.

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      1. Sulla Felix‏ @collinegate Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        The bold and fearless are killed in the cradle; they never get tenure. I’ve seen the same thing many times in business: men who achieve a position where they can say what they think without danger turn out not to have any thoughts.

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      2. Thaddeus Russell‏ @ThaddeusRussell Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Shame is more frightening than disemployment.

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      1. Random Geezer‏ @DrMcCleod Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray @Steve_Sailer

        I suppose that keeping your friends is more important than telling the truth.

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      1. Harold‏ @haroldtkerr Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray @Steve_Sailer

        Academia selects for boring conformists. It's really shocking that they use tenure to be boring conformists!

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      1. Ninoinoz‏ @Ninoinoz1 Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray @Steve_Sailer

        Campus universities? If your whole social circle is in one place it is best to conform.

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      1. Matthew Cory‏ @TricksterDoesIt Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Because it's bad for business. A school is just a business after all. Multiculturalism is just a marketing strategy in an international setting. They might install airports at some of these schools soon. It's not the age of identity but demographics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCRNO-v-qA …

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      1. Tyto Alba‏ @euneaux Sep 23
        Replying to @charlesmurray @Steve_Sailer

        Adverse selection. One doesn’t have the appetite or patience to climb that particular slimy pole if one’s any kind of courageous iconoclast with an appetite for controversy. Only orthodoxy approved “dissent” need apply.

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      1. John du Raspail‏ @JohnDuRaspail Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        It's traditional. "A few students discovered that the pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom, could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears." (Alan Bloom, The Closing Of The American Mind)

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      1. charles warren‏ @aitepaeapaea Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Tenure, even emeritus status is no protection. The late Wally Smith of UC blew the whistle on off-the-books payments to favored profs. His office lock was changed and phone disconnected overnight.

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      2. Mitchell Young‏ @FederalistTwo Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        See the case of Kevin McDonald.http://www.daily49er.com/news/2014/04/14/controversial-psychology-professor-to-retire-in-the-fall/ …

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      3. Simon Says‏ @SimonSays451 Sep 23
        Replying to @FederalistTwo @charlesmurray

        McDonald went out swinging & continues this very day.

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      4. Mitchell Young‏ @FederalistTwo Sep 23
        Replying to @SimonSays451 @charlesmurray

        Yes...I follow him on twitter. Should be easy enough to find him. Not saying I'm down with all his conclusions, but he has engaged in real scholarship in a streng verboten area.

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      1. Simon Says‏ @SimonSays451 Sep 23
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Todays bold tenured speakers are only those riding the bandwagon of courageously fighting white privilege. They would admire the emperor's new clothes

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      1. 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝‏ @MonsieurBouvard Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Nietzsche's chapter on "We Scholars" in Beyond Good and Evil provides a complete portrait of the scholar, his narrowness, cowardice, insolence, and limitations.

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      1. Eric Rasmusen‏ @erasmuse Sep 22
        Replying to @charlesmurray

        Professors are scholars. Scholars are shy. Even when there are no material consequences to fear, professors don't want to dissent. In my faculty senate, very few people vote against motions, because they all want to be part of the majority. This is not ideological at all.

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