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Let's pre-empt the inevitable sub-thread: "This is a private educational establishment and they can do what they want. It is not censorship." and "If you have a problem with this, just start your own medical university".
A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718823 - April 2021 (117 comments)
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The recent cultural trend towards radical liberalism is inherently dystopian. Fighting free speech, mandating psychological evaluation for questioning the main narrative. These are things that dictatorships and theocracies do
Is it necessarily radical liberalism that tends towards a dystopia? I was curious where this sentiment was coming from (I’ve read it elsewhere) and read some books on conservative philosophy (original post-enlightenment conservatism, not contemporary) and found it there too. It seemed like you could replace “radical liberalism” with “radical $ideology” including conservatism, the problem isn’t liberalism, it’s extrem…
It's probably academic/semantic/subjective. Very interesting to think about
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Going to university in the USA these days sounds like an absolutely terrifying prospect, and doesn't sound very promising for the future of the country.
As long as you keep quiet about sensitive issues, you will be fine.
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I missed the source on this and thought it said Reuters, but partway through I had to look back up because the bias was over there top. Only then did I realize it was Reason which explained the clearly one sided writing I had just read. For example there is no evidence presented that shows he remained calm, yet it was clearly stated that he did multiple times. While I have no reason to doubt it, I have no reason to t…
I sensed the same one-sidedness in the writing. Fortunately, they link to the recording, which I highly recommend listening to if you're curious about all the nuances that can come through at the time that get missed in summaries. https://soundcloud.com/user-381804527/microagressions-presen... The relevant bit starts around 28:40 or so.
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There shouldn’t be any “sensitive” issues in a university context. These “universities” look more like re-education centers than educational institutions. All those “sensitive” issues are plain ideological ideas and some people want those ideas to prevail by suppressing all conversation around them.
I think the discussion about this already over, i.e. it's now a part of the social contract that we don't question certain things, not because they're true or false but because of social cost of challenging them. For example, we know that the distribution of certain psychological traits in both genders is a bit different, but discussing it - either in the social context or the academia - is more or less a taboo in or…
I think it is because bad actors on the left are both powerful and vindictive -- even as this story illustrates.
Why is it that conservatives like myself freely criticize as silly or insane the excesses of the Right (Jan 6, assertions that Covid-19 is a CIA PsyOp, Trump won the election) but the Left is so reluctant to be critical of its lunatic fringe? I think it is because bad actors on the left are both powerful and vindictive -- even as this story illustrates.