How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
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How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
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Re: How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
#2‘education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think’
Good luck with that in the current climate of social media raised, anxiety-ridden student body.
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#3spiked is funded in part by the Koch Brothers, so it's unsurprising to find them covering a Koch Brothers greatest hit.
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#4Worth checking out the track record of the source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiked
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-bil...
Re: How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
#5>Although the 87 professors who demanded that the invitation to Bannon be revoked asserted that they represented ‘the breadth of the University’s intellectual community’, in fact 36 of them – nearly one-third – teach at either the school of social work (20) or in the English department (16).
Considering the topic Steve Bannon, I'm baffled it wasn't more. But besides, I'm more baffled the author attempts to disclaim concern for platforming Bannon with a mere third of "automatically reject-able" professors, and then continues the argument with less than a sixth.
Is this meant to convince me of anything?
Re: How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
#6>Although the 87 professors who demanded that the invitation to Bannon be revoked asserted that they represented ‘the breadth of the University’s intellectual community’, in fact 36 of them – nearly one-third – teach at either the school of social work (20) or in the English department (16). Considering the topic Steve Bannon, I'm baffled it wasn't more. But besides, I'm more baffled the author attempts to disclaim c…
And the author's only previous piece was another "long read" on wokeness. I'm smelling an axe to grind.
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#7spiked is funded in part by the Koch Brothers, so it's unsurprising to find them covering a Koch Brothers greatest hit.
I think the criticism in the article resonates with many people and I doubt we see editorialized content. Independence is an issue for newspapers, but it would be dishonest to start here with this topic.
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#8Can we just not be having the same discussion over the same article, over and over again?
Re: How woke illiberalism is killing the academy
#9spiked is funded in part by the Koch Brothers, so it's unsurprising to find them covering a Koch Brothers greatest hit.
I think the criticism in the article resonates with many people and I doubt we see editorialized content. Independence is an issue for newspapers, but it would be dishonest to start here with this topic.
There are certain sources where the mere source itself raises these about concerns about editorialized and politicised content over accuracy. e.g. "The Daily Mail" is one. "Spiked Online" is another.
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#10Worth checking out the track record of the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine) https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiked https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-bil...
Are you requesting people confirm that Spiked is approved by a specific orthodoxy before reading the article and judging for themselves?