From FIRE: ‘One Man’s Fight Against Bureaucratic Tyranny Moves On Campus‘
Today’s activist vanguardian is very often tomorrow’s calcified, authoritarian bureaucrat (if they play the game right and come in from the cold).
‘Preserving that ability to recognize tyranny is at the heart of Silverglate’s second battle—protecting college students from ideological indoctrination and censorship. As co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, he is a fiercely litigious defender of free speech on campus.’
Thanks, Mr. Silverglate.
Meanwhile, at Yale…a nice mix of bureaucratese (radical placation) flirting with all the authoritarian consequences one wishes to imagine.
Yes, it’s a real thing:
‘The Commitee To Establish Principles On Renaming’
‘The charge of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming is to articulate a set of principles that can guide Yale in decisions about whether to remove a historical name from a building or other prominent structure or space on campus—principles that are enduring rather than specific to particular controversies.’
Then again, the Committee is probably safer for individual members than being surrounded a mob-justice shame-circle in the wilds of the quad.
Erika Christakis, whose husband can be seen below, had no help from the administration…
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…and left Yale of her own accord, because she had the temerity to write the following, which is the offense that purportedly incited the shame-circling, to students who had accused her of racial insensitivity:
‘Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
But — again, speaking as a child development specialist — I think there might be something missing in our discourse about the exercise of free speech (including how we dress ourselves) on campus, and it is this: What does this debate about Halloween costumes say about our view of young adults, of their strength and judgment?’
As for Yale…
Christopher Hitchens on re-printing the cartoons that incited Islamic violence:
‘According to Yale logic, violence could result from the showing of the images—and not only that, but it would be those who displayed the images who were directly responsible for that violence
The De Blasio Files: From The Observer on that free WiFi for ‘The People‘
Hmmm….
‘From a technical standpoint, if we are asked by the police department and a subpoena is issued, we’ll give up the information,” Scott Goldsmith, president of media at Intersection, said. “We are not going to challenge the New York City police department if they ask us for information that we are legally required to give to them.’
As found on the Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Scruton_Quotes/status/760056189535346689