Posted on 10/20/2016 10:00:27 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
I was disinvited from a college debate on the campus of the State University of New York in New Paltz last March. Left-wing professors didn’t want to hear me debate a left-winger on media coverage of the elections. It was the first time in academic history, to my knowledge, that an actual debate was cancelled because of faculty objections to one side of the debate.
The ban proved to be embarrassing to the president of the university. Reminded in a letter from me that his campus website proclaims a devotion to free speech, he invited me back on October 20. Security was demanded and will be provided.
Before my rescheduled appearance, however, psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt was brought to SUNY New Paltz to discuss the controversy over the cancellation, in the context of whether "trigger warnings" should now be used to warn students of speech that may offend them. It looks like he got paid $10,000 for a couple hours' work, to counsel students about the trauma from a debate that didn’t take place. Those assembled for his lecture then discussed whether a university can be for truth and social justice at the same time.
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Time for parents to clean up college campuses by sending their kids to clean colleges -— if there are any left.
Interezsting
Social Justice is not truth. Kinda makes sense.
Disinvited? It sounds so childish. It is like "unfriending". I would start by calling them cowards.
Just send them to trade schools. Be in demand technicians and save and bank $$. Don’t support those that teach drivel. Be happy!
The Gunks nearby are good for hiking.
Education today is teaching “What to Think”.
I was taught by my parents on “How to Think”.
As far as I can remember New Paltz was always a haven for extreme liberal hippie scum.
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