"Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom"

Excellent article by John McWhorter, a Columbia professor.

He's been a voice against academic cancel culture, and has been contacted by tons of professors -- most of whom are Democrats -- who claim they can no longer do their jobs without extreme fear of consequences for non-woke speech.

Read it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...reedom/615724/


I saw this shit coming in 1990, when I was in college. The very beginnings of speech censorship and thought policing were taking place at the time, but it was referred to as "political correctness", and most people -- including most liberals -- rejected it. Not anymore.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

Excellent article by John McWhorter, a Columbia professor.

He's been a voice against academic cancel culture, and has been contacted by tons of professors -- most of whom are Democrats -- who claim they can no longer do their jobs without extreme fear of consequences for non-woke speech.

Read it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...reedom/615724/


I saw this shit coming in 1990, when I was in college. The very beginnings of speech censorship and thought policing were taking place at the time, but it was referred to as "political correctness", and most people -- including most liberals -- rejected it. Not anymore.

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At least you don't have to worry

About 1.5 years old, but here's a good article (by a different author) compariing SJW wokeness with Christian fanatacism.

Two sides of the same coin.

Both of these articles, by the way, were written by Democrats.

https://valerietarico.com/2019/01/24...-the-same-way/