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so what im wondering is if your so smart how did you end up seeing your control over your profession stripped from you by mere administrators and how did you end up in a position where speech and thought are more restricted on university campuses than anywhere else in society
follow up question can you say "im living the life of the mind" without wanting to hurl yourself from a precipice to escape the shame you carry and which briefly reemerges when you think abt your forebears before you shove it under the surface when you remember your mortgage
and do you ever think about the millennia of christians who would sooner die than falsify their beliefs and often did and how your profession is a continuation of the medieval clergy and how a high duty of fidelity to conscience might not be doffed quite as easily as a cassock
do you ever wonder about the blood price men paid over centuries to be able to speak and think freely and wonder further at your exemption from having to ever even theoretically make such sacrifices yourself in our enlightened age
no further questions https://t.co/1HA4BX70ut
or perhaps all of this is in keeping with tradition https://t.co/1eyiOqeUud
overall im not sure weve made a good trade here if we judge convictions by the courage with which men hold them https://t.co/yzobMhZXgO
"what are you talking about robot? why IM an academic and IVE never felt unable to express my opinions" https://t.co/WIZVijEHtZ
ha ha https://t.co/HIz9mFeJ2P
do i really need to do this https://t.co/iKOdw7tfmg
this thread was actually spurred by recalling that time literally hundreds of economists in positions of national prominence turned on an eminent colleague and denounced him in droves for suggesting riots might be counterproductive https://t.co/8TewMCBXR9
Challenge to professors who definitely face no limits on their expression: Go ahead. Post a piece of paper by your office that simply says "It's Okay to Be White" surely theres nothing objectionable there. Right https://t.co/1H9iSJ3mhO
perhaps you might publish a thoughtful ontological paper youre Permitted. right. https://t.co/Ex8v5I1uS5
these are a few prominent examples off the top of my head because of their prominence they are especially well-documented i am aware of many other cases some of which i cant discuss because i know the people involved and there are many, many others none of us have heard of
the other thing is that you dont need to get everyone who things Wrong Things to strangle discussions. you can just make examples of some people and if these heroes break publicly? well. generally lesser lights will follow every apology was a failure. better men would've never. https://t.co/uMf4Wmh6dk
anyway, As You Know all of this has led to faculty jobs requiring applicants to submit groveling statements affirming their conformity to an ideological regime https://t.co/hWRpPjkQ6v
with this the succession is broken and our intellectual heritage dies with this generation further reading on such matters linked glad you managed to publish a few extra papers in third tier journals tho https://t.co/DSL8ryR3Xj