One of the most surprising things to me about PC 2.0 is how spineless universities have turned out to be. Occasional university presidents, like David Yager, stand up for principle. But mostly they capitulate to the mob.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/ronald-sullivan-harvard.html …
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It's classic corporate logic.
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One thing that’s adding to the general annoyance over the lack of a spine is also that the universities (at least _these_ unis) are rich enough to not care about popular opinion.
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This applies to pro-choice philosophy
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But aren't Lawyers supposed to be unbiased about their clients and offer a "fair" trial to anyone? If you keep removing people who do things mobs/majority don't agree with that would be a very bad system to thrive in.
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Effectively it transforms them to politicians :-(
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it's completely consistent with people voting with their pocketbooks. This will become increasingly important if US representation fails to match the populace, e.g.https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/07/12/americas-electoral-system-gives-the-republicans-advantages-over-democrats …
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Yes, university leaders must learn not to capitalute to the mob, especially in cases when urgent responses are needed in an inciden that is going 'viral'. Easy to defer, but that could set a bad precedence for future decisions.
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They should read about John Adams, who defended British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre
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I went to university in Budapest where the academy is government funded, I studied for "free" (taxes) & universities panicked about the government. =People elect authoritarians & bye-bye academic freedom! Then I studied in the UK, paid & the subject of fear was... the students
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