Posted on 09/13/2020 1:49:54 PM PDT by george76
There is an organized and growing effort to push back against the cancel culture on college campuses. Thousands of conservative and libertarian scholars and academics are standing up and issuing a ringing endorsement of academic freedom.
It’s called “The Philadelphia Statement on Civil Discourse and the Strengthening of Liberal Democracy” and has been signed by such luminaries as Robert George, Christina Hoff Sommers, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and more.
The statement embodies concepts that all can embrace — at least, those whose minds haven’t been poisoned by the radical left.
Tragically, we are losing these defining features of our democracy. Common decency and free speech are being dismantled through the stigmatizing practice of blacklisting ideological opponents, which has taken on the conspicuous form of “hate” labeling. Responsible organizations are castigated as “hate groups.” Honest people of good faith are branded “hate agents.” Even mainstream ideas are marginalized as “hate speech.” This threatens our ability to listen, discuss, debate, and grow.
Blacklisting is spreading. Corporations are enacting “hate-speech” policies to protect people from “wrong” and “harmful” content. Similarly, colleges and universities are imposing speech regulations to make students “safe,” not from physical harm, but from challenges to campus orthodoxy. These policies and regulations assume that we as citizens are unable to think for ourselves and to make independent judgments. Instead of teaching us to engage, they foster conformism (“groupthink”) and train us to respond to intellectual challenges with one or another form of censorship.
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It will take leadership at all levels of society, especially in the schools where children are being taught to hate those who disagree with them as being “evil.” Given how entrenched liberal academia is in the educational system, it will be a long slow process to change it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
90% of them will still vote for Biden.
Dear Academics: You are years late and kilodollars short.
I mean 90% of academics will vote for Biden
Too many liberals getting bit in the @zz by the cancel culture they spawned and encouraged is all this “statement” is about.
Cancel culture was only supposed to be used against nasty rightwing conservative racists sexists fascists bigot Islamophobes homophobes.
Now left wing faculty are getting canceled. This wasn’t supposed to be.
Well, too late now, that genie’s out of the bottle.
Which culture is being cancelled? Can’t it go both ways?
The Cancel Culture was being Brainwashed during the Obama years
Of course.... now that it is being used against them.
FINALLY!!!!
Maybe they’re starting to realize that Biden has lost his mental faculties, and is not worth voting for.
If they don’t like Trump either, perhaps they won’t vote for President, or will pick a third party candidate. (????)
Sounds like something written by a leftist that wants to let others be heard only to argue that the others are wrong. They must get lonely arguing among themselves; and perhaps they recognize that they are eating their own. I say let the cancel culture continue until all the leftist have destroyed each other.
Can’t wait to see education being overhauled in Trump’s second term. Half these Marxist professor will out on the street. And they can’t CODE!
And regular people.
You can read it and sign it here:
https://thephillystatement.org/read/
I already have.
Talk to your Dhimmicrap politicians about it. Demand they sign. When they don’t (and they won’t), spread the word that they’re against free speech.
Late enough and short enough that a large part of the names on that statement will lose their positions over the next year and find themselves unemployable above two year junior college(excuse me- Community college now) level if at all.
BUMP
ping
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