Currents 045: Dorian Abbot on Protecting Academic Freedom
The Jim Rutt Show
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We Made a Mistake. Here's Why We Made a Mistake
M i t has been sticking to their guns though, with some weasel wording. I didn't see a single qualification in there for literary criticism it. So we are so, so ridiculous that they're grasping at straws to hold on to this decision. You don't need free speech principles to defend someone who never says anything that offends any one else. You need free Speech principles to defend people who will occasionally say something that some one else will take offence at and want to shut down their speech. It represents a basic ending of why we have free speech principles. And i think that's worth naming and identifying,. We can spend time explaining what academic freedom is and why it's important
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