If we have any epistemic standards in academia case for colonialism article is obviously awful (https://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2017/09/on-case-for-colonialism.html …). We don’t evenly apply standards, and we ought: but Oh So Concerned for free speech only ever Concerned to see more bigotry published. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Last-Fall-This-Scholar/242880 …
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Try & ask yourself honestly, if you were a black person in academia and even mildly knowledgeable about history of racist scholarship, wouldn’t you suspect that the Oh So Concerned for free speech are just a front for the same old bigotry? And thereby be reluctant to join in?
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I want the free speech movement to have more credibility, it’d suit my broader beliefs, but tbh every time I see something like this I entirely understand why they don’t.
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