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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Then the people who can address the problem - university administrators and faculty - should do something about it. They could start by issuing something like the Statement on Principles of Free Expression put out by the University of Chicago. |
Absolutely. When issues like these surface, they need to be dealt with and stomped out by the majority as quickly as possible. By letting this continue and by more educated professionals in these institutions allowing this sort of unacademic behaviour, all they do discredit the vast majority of excellent professors and institutions where a higher education is still of the utmost value.
They just can’t sit around and do nothing about it, even if it’s a relatively small number of institutions/professors they engage in this type of thing. If they do nothing, or if people don’t speak up, you’re just going to get more and more unintellectuals looking to discredit higher education as useless, politically partisan, and restrictive of free thinking. Anything that emboldens anti-intellectuals is a clear step backwards for society as a whole.