Once again, the judgement based on personal opinions and like/dislike. Who are you to determine moral bankruptcy? Who are these professors and students to make that judgement? Based on what? Well, it is like and dislike. You may see those as strawmen, but they are not. They lie at the very root of your system of…

Does that apply to former secretaries of state?

No, I firmly disagree with you on the question of whether universities should be somehow required to give a platform to people their faculty and students consider quacks. I think that’s about as far from academic freedom as you can get.

I’m not sure you understand what theology is. More importantly, I don’t understand how you’ve twisted “refusing to parrot ideas on command” into “not allowing people to hear different ideas.” How can you not get that requiring people to conform to your political views infringes on their freedom, while allowing them…

No, she can’t concentrate because her teacher is hassling her about her clothes instead of her education. That’s the only message a dress code sends: your appearance is what’s really important to us. Fuck up the academics and we’ll write your parents a note, fail to look pleasing (but not too pleasing!) to adult men…

So the fact that I don’t LIKE phrenology becomes, in itself, a reason to teach it even though it’s a pseudoscience? If Princeton started an astrology department and then shut it down when a bunch of students and alums said “wow, this place is really going downhill now that they expressly reject the importance of…

Yes. Do you think Temple University is running away from Bill Cosby so hard because they want to? Also, guest speakers are very much part of the school’s academic program. They are selected by the faculty and paid directly by the university. If your alma mater hosted a series of lectures on the benefits of involuntary…

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On a planet where universities do not have control over their own curricula, sure. On this one they’re widely considered to be accountable for the academic programs they offer.

It’s not “don’t let them speak lest I have to hear it,” it’s “don’t let them speak on my behalf.” Nobody is under any obligation to give someone else a platform for disseminating their ideas.

Sorry, man, but that’s how liberty works. Freedom of Speech in a democracy leaves all of us subject to the tyranny of the mob. You’re either OK with that, or your claim to support that freedom is less than honest.

Freedom of Speech is also not Freedom from Commentary, which is all a trigger warning is. These kids will also discover that when they step out in to the real world, you can tell someone who’s being an asshole they’re being an asshole, which is all they’re asking to be allowed to do in school.

In their defense, as a Pats fan, Bellichek has definitely made a pact with some kind of dark force beyond the comprehension of natural science. Brady’s just awesome, tho.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but it’s definitely changing as it grows, and the scalability of its model it’s far from proven

I will fucking fight you

I really like how both the successes and failures of the public library system provide excellent examples of why libertarianism doesn’t work as an organizing principle.

Well, if so, God must REALLY love Bolsheviks.

Misdirected resentment? Among workers? Under capitalism? Naaaw, you’re making this shit up. That doesn’t happen. That would be crazy.

UGH Big Daddy Keynes showed that a population of stoned, lazy hipsters doing only the bare minimum was the mathematically inevitable consequence of successful capitalism like a hundred goddamn years ago. The only alternatives are communism and Malthusian collapse.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.