No, we shouldn't. Governments should not decide what can and cannot be studied. Universities should ensure that topics being studied are done so rigorously & contribute to knowledge. https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1052500117025157120 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames
The government should be allowed to decide though which departments get public funding.
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Replying to @LoCtrl @ConceptualJames
You'd better hope you don't vote in a theocrat or Social Justice loon then.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames
I disagree. Once the government has a role in deciding which departments get funding, this becomes an electoral issue. The reason grievance studies festered for 40+ years is because they were protected from becoming an electoral issue.
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The biggest lesson from the grievance studies debacle (that your own work wonderfully exposes) is that Universities have utterly failed at making appropriate high-level decisions about which fields should be funded.
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Replying to @LoCtrl @HPluckrose
Government intervention is absolutely the last resort and should even have layers of other "last" resorts ahead of it. Politicians aren't adequately informed to do this, and political grievances exist in politics too. Opening these fields to fair criticism would sort them out.
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Replying to @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose
One does not always need to be informed to make the correct decision.
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solution seems to me is just defund unis
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They are going to argue about this for another fifty years as Hungary and Israel once more become places where “the Martians” grow up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) …
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