Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’
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#2> asking them to “acknowledge” what they’ve done and “change” their ways through restorative justice-type exercises undoubtedly chills student speech.
This precedes speech. This is the right to read. Stallman's essay [1] needs an update. But no books were burned so we're still the good guys, don't worry.
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#3Can have fun with this particularly if it’s a 20th century European history course assignment. If books cause harm, then pretty much any religious text will be (very) offensive to another as it’s heretical etc. psychology texts probably really offend Scientologists, and I’m sure you can come up with other combinations without too much effort.
Das Kapital, any civil war history covering the western campaign and it’s generals, anything covering civil rights, the Vietnam period…
Re: Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’
#4Can have fun with this particularly if it’s a 20th century European history course assignment. If books cause harm, then pretty much any religious text will be (very) offensive to another as it’s heretical etc. psychology texts probably really offend Scientologists, and I’m sure you can come up with other combinations without too much effort. Das Kapital, any civil war history covering the western campaign and it’s g…
Indeed, but, we all know that in those circles nobody cares about Scientologists' feelings getting hurt.
There's a well-established hierarchy of sacred victim groups that have to be protected from "harm" (for an arbitrary and nebulous definition of the word) at all costs, and whose defense is one of the most pious expressions of in-group belonging.
Scientologists, Christians, members of political groups on the other side of the spectrum, and many others are not recipients of such benefits. Any form of affiliation with them, including consuming their respective literature, would likely get you excommunicated unless you do sufficient public penance once caught.
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#5> asking them to “acknowledge” what they’ve done and “change” their ways through restorative justice-type exercises undoubtedly chills student speech. This precedes speech. This is the right to read . Stallman's essay [1] needs an update. But no books were burned so we're still the good guys, don't worry. [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
The dizzying pace with which so many of our institutions—from the ACLU to basically all our our elite universities—have not only abandoned but energetically oppose their former principles, over just the past five years, is horrifying.
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#6How are we supposed to learn from history if reading historical documents becomes a crime?
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#8"Those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it."
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#9Wow. Just wow. As far as I'm concerned, the student in question should have exactly one response to the Stanford administration.
"Fuck You."
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