Today in fascist academia
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As I noted last week, it has gotten tiresome, depressing, and repetitive to post numerous individual links of stories each day that highlight the oppressive culture that apparently permeates much of today’s academic community. I found that by doing these posts individually, I would not post every important story.
To solve this, I have decided to periodically post the stories in a bunch, and have so far found that I still have had to do it twice a week. Below is today’s list. Check each out. The pattern that disturbs me most is that while much of the intolerance is coming from the students, the administrations and faculty of most of these schools appear quite content to either appease, or support, that intolerance.
- The Purge: Scott Yenor and the Witch Hunt at Boise State
- UC-Santa Cruz: Students storm library, shut down College Republicans meeting
- University of Montana Dean, Worried About ‘the Risk of Offending Students,’ Dis-Invites Conservative Speaker
- Reed College: Class struggle: how identity politics divided a campus
- Chapman University: White, male student under fire for defending diversity of thought: ‘punchable, drag him, expel him’
- Protesters shut down UCLA event on ‘civil discourse’ and ‘hate speech’
And then there is this story from the journal Science: Analysis of China’s one-child policy sparks uproar
A new study of China’s one-child policy is roiling demography, sparking calls for the field’s leading journal to withdraw the paper. The controversy has ignited a debate over scholarly values in a discipline that some say often prioritizes reducing population growth above all else.
It is definitely worthwhile reading this story. While I have serious doubts about the scientific rigorousness of the paper in question, I find it remarkable and disturbing that the first instinct of the scientists in this field who question the paper is to demand its retraction. In other words, rather than argue their doubts and questions publicly and let the chips fall where they may, they prefer to grind their boots into the author’s face, silencing him entirely.
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As I noted last week, it has gotten tiresome, depressing, and repetitive to post numerous individual links of stories each day that highlight the oppressive culture that apparently permeates much of today’s academic community. I found that by doing these posts individually, I would not post every important story.
To solve this, I have decided to periodically post the stories in a bunch, and have so far found that I still have had to do it twice a week. Below is today’s list. Check each out. The pattern that disturbs me most is that while much of the intolerance is coming from the students, the administrations and faculty of most of these schools appear quite content to either appease, or support, that intolerance.
- The Purge: Scott Yenor and the Witch Hunt at Boise State
- UC-Santa Cruz: Students storm library, shut down College Republicans meeting
- University of Montana Dean, Worried About ‘the Risk of Offending Students,’ Dis-Invites Conservative Speaker
- Reed College: Class struggle: how identity politics divided a campus
- Chapman University: White, male student under fire for defending diversity of thought: ‘punchable, drag him, expel him’
- Protesters shut down UCLA event on ‘civil discourse’ and ‘hate speech’
And then there is this story from the journal Science: Analysis of China’s one-child policy sparks uproar
A new study of China’s one-child policy is roiling demography, sparking calls for the field’s leading journal to withdraw the paper. The controversy has ignited a debate over scholarly values in a discipline that some say often prioritizes reducing population growth above all else.
It is definitely worthwhile reading this story. While I have serious doubts about the scientific rigorousness of the paper in question, I find it remarkable and disturbing that the first instinct of the scientists in this field who question the paper is to demand its retraction. In other words, rather than argue their doubts and questions publicly and let the chips fall where they may, they prefer to grind their boots into the author’s face, silencing him entirely.
Thanks for the update Bob. Do not like it but hiding my head in the sand does not make it go away. I liked General Kelly’s opinion of the American people and their fight back.