Posted on 01/27/2015 7:56:02 AM PST by Academiadotorg
The academically free have different ideas of what free speech means than the rest of us do.
At the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention in Vancouver, Canada, Rosaura Sanchez, a former protester-and-activist-turned-Latin American and Chicano literature-professor at UC-San Diego, claimed that professors do face “consequences to speaking out on campus”
She went on to allege that she has been “surveilled and recorded” while at protests by campus administrators. Most people do not use freedom of expression in order to keep the expressed thought a big secret.
Sanchez asserted that on her campus “dissenters names are placed in a black book,” and admitted, “That’s the price to pay.” Sanchez believed, “To comply and to consent” is not an option for professors like her.
She urged the audience to go and find “our political voices…as hackers…as disseminators of information over the Internet and social media.” It’s interesting that she would mention “hacking” under the rubric of freedom of information. Most of us would regard it as a source of misinformation. It also gives us an idea of where mysterious hackers may come from and receive inspiration.
She counseled, “Our struggles have always been embarked upon with students” and “these are the strategies that we have become to depend on.”
This is not going to end well for America.
I would like to hear Ms. Sanchez’ views on having conservative groups bringing in speakers like Mark Steyn.
Perhaps the STEM departments should separate from the less academic portions of academia.
Yes.
Less academic.
It was not that way years ago, but it is now.
Let the silly-walk and the guess my gender departments support themselves.
Without gubmit aid.
And we can have the pleasure of watching these idiots slowly dry up and die.
The MLA went full bore Mao crazy in the late sixties and early seventies pretty much abandoning serious scholarship for liberation/revolutionary activism. Not at all hard to believe they’ve devolved even more.
Oh, yes - a member of the most protected class in the country insists she is brutally oppressed but gives no specifics. Pardon my yawning.
about 1968
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