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duckMuppet | 5 years ago

Didn't they just fire a Michigan State University prof for having a different opinion?

Honestly, just drain the system as much as you can.

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throwawaysea|5 years ago

Yes. See https://quillette.com/2020/07/01/on-steve-hsu-and-the-campai.... The professor’s own blog has links to many other articles covering this absolutely unjust situation: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/07/wall-street-journal-mo...

He isn’t the only one either. A Princeton professor who wrote a paper about protests is facing protests (https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Protesting-of-a-Protes...). Now a large number of professors at Princeton, mostly from the humanities, signed a petition asking for an end to academic freedom and a committee to review every publication for “racist” content. The students who signed onto a letter defending academic freedom are now being cyber bullied (https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-students-cyberbullie...).

Now crazed and radicalized students at Harvard are trying to cancel Steven Pinker. Yes, that Steven Pinker (https://www.thecollegefix.com/far-left-scholar-activists-att...).

The entire higher education system in America has been turned into a propaganda machine that radicalizes young minds and is hostile to any ideas they don’t agree with. It is dangerous for society and completely incongruent with fundamental academic principles. We need to defund it all and start over with a much more decentralized system.