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While you're distracted by riots, activists are trying to censor & fire every professor who disagrees with PC orthodoxy. Dozens of professors suddenly face cancellation this week. This is the Purge. This is the Zerg Rush. This is it. We need your support, or academia falls.
PS in terms of how people can help, I'm discussing some possible strategies with friends & colleagues, & will share some ideas in due course.
It's not easy, given the circumstances.
Start by following @TheFIREorg, @HdxAcademy, @Quillette, & @SpeechUnion
Lots of retweets & replies saying 'academia already fell' or 'let it fall'. There are still good & brave professors fighting for free speech. Letting them get purged will just lead to an ideological monoculture that makes universities _stronger_ as indoctrination machines.
OK, here's something concrete you can do.
Donate to @TheFIREorg -- the strongest defenders of free speech available to faculty members.
They're smart, fierce, & principled. They understand the threat & the stakes. If anybody can help, they can.https://www.thefire.org/donate/
I have such mixed feelings about this. I love the academy, and I resent the hell out of what it has become. Part of me wants to save it; part of me wants to watch it burn.
Thing is, it won't burn. Uniformity of thought will only make it more influential and harder to challenge.
Genuine question: Do you think it's salvagable at this point?
Yes, I do. But there's a very short window of opportunity for saving it.
It's not as simple a matter as promoting free speech. In the name of free speech you've let people ideologically opposed to rational debate and the free speech of others into academia, and now they are your bosses. You have to fire them before they fire you.
I agree that these people are opposed to rationality and free speech, and it's a problem. But firing someone based on their irrationality is a dangerously slippery slope. If we try to protect freedom through their methods, freedom is doomed. "He who fights with monsters..."
It's already over, dude (I'm an early-career academic).
How bad is it in your neck of the woods? I’m an early career academic too
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