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College President Argues Against Free Speech on Campus
Breitbart ^ | 4/8/2019 | Alana Mastrangelo

Posted on 04/08/2019 9:34:36 AM PDT by antidemoncrat

Union College president David R. Harris penned an op-ed, entitled, “A Campus Is Not the Place for Free Speech,” in which he argues that it is the role of colleges and universities to filter the conversations on campuses to provide “constructive engagement.”

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To: antidemoncrat
I promised myself no longer to indulge in gratuitous sociologist-bashing but this guy is making it hard. The process doesn't just apply to guest speakers on campus. How is anyone ever going to teach a course or ask a question in class in the absence of free speech?

We ran into this difficulty at a university where I used to work. The topic was distance learning, i.e. computerized courses with essentially no interaction (this was a long time ago when the technology didn't support that). The model we couldn't avoid was, "Here's the party line. Memorize it. Here's a test. Pass it. Here's a degree." Absolutely no one in the project wanted to reduce education to that model, but there it was, irreducible and unavoidable. That isn't education, and no progress in any of the pertinent fields is possible if the students and the professor are artificially bounded like that.

So no, a university can't really be turned into a padded playpen where nobody has his or her convictions challenged, all in the name of social comity which is unattainable for human beings anyway. Nor is it a place for therapy. If anyone's little feelings are that easily bruised, perhaps rocking in a fetal position in a darkened room is more appropriate than a classroom.

41 posted on 04/08/2019 11:22:21 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rlmorel

Needless to say any professor who even takes a peek out of the Overton window will be fired immediately!


42 posted on 04/08/2019 11:46:52 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: i_robot73

Even better.


43 posted on 04/08/2019 11:51:08 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: wbarmy

He was a kid during the 70s. He got is BS degree at Northwestern in 1991, so was presumably born in ‘69 or ‘70.


44 posted on 04/08/2019 11:53:46 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: KC Burke

Honorary degree?

Unions President is a black liberal sociologist

Lol


45 posted on 04/08/2019 11:54:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (When only the best Santa will do...call Joe Biden)
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To: Billthedrill
...at a university where I used to work.

I could have sworn you told us that you were a Tail-Gunner on a Budweiser truck.

46 posted on 04/08/2019 12:00:38 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

I’ve changed that story to a micro-brew distributor. Nobody hijacks a Budweiser truck.


47 posted on 04/08/2019 12:08:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: antidemoncrat

There are those that are so comfortable living in their fantasy liberal world in America.


48 posted on 04/08/2019 12:10:27 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: antidemoncrat

No matter how you label them at heart they are vile totalitarian freaks.


49 posted on 04/08/2019 12:31:22 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: antidemoncrat

“Shut up, he explained.”


50 posted on 04/08/2019 12:35:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Timocrat
LOL, your response made me think of Pulp Fiction for some reason:

"...This **** is between me, you, and Mr. Soon-to-be-living-the-rest-of-his-short-ass-professional-life as a College President-in-agonizing-shoot-myself-in-the-foot-self-inflicted-pain here. It ain't nobody else's business..."

51 posted on 04/08/2019 12:36:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: cgbg

Hahaha...I had to think “Overton Window...Overton Window...where have I heard that before???”


52 posted on 04/08/2019 12:53:28 PM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: cuban leaf

I have had college professors argue with me that Twitter and other social media should ban any right wing opinion, especially Trump and students should have space spaces from this hate speech on campus and then turn around and tell me they are into free speech and the open discussion of different ideas with a straight face. They are raving moon bat crazy and hard core tyrants.


53 posted on 04/08/2019 1:04:19 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: antidemoncrat

“Field guidance” from Union College’s “Dear Leader.”


54 posted on 04/08/2019 1:05:21 PM PDT by CDB
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To: DownInFlames
Re-education camps.

Not re-education camps, but re-enforcement of previously given indoctrination.

55 posted on 04/08/2019 1:18:35 PM PDT by CedarDave (A better name for US Public Schools: Propaganda Indoctrination Centers)
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To: antidemoncrat

In these leftard ‘universities’, the censorship will still continue to be such that ‘conservative ideas’ NEED NOT APPLY.

When the next American Revolution comes, alot of these willfully partisan ‘academics’ will deservedly be hanging right there alongside their fellow traveler leftist media liars/betrayers and so many traitor politicians.

Truth is not the Leftist’s friend.


56 posted on 04/08/2019 3:19:03 PM PDT by elbook
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To: elbook

Those professors forget that the first thing a revolution usually does is eats its parents.


57 posted on 04/08/2019 3:46:32 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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