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Silenced by the Sheep: Academia’s New Censorship
Silenced by the Sheep: Academia’s New Censorship — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
17 Mar 2021 ~~ By Bruce Gilley
The nation’s cultural elites have been gripped by an intense wave of moral panic since the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. That panic has found expression in higher education in renewed efforts to curtail the speech rights and academic freedoms of the already near-extinct members of the campus community who dissent against woke orthodoxies.
Attempts by activist faculty at Stanford University to curtail the independence of scholars at the Hoover Institution, for instance, reflect this new sense of empowerment. Clearly, the academic left has taken on a mission to eliminate all conservative and classical liberal critique, now described as “mob intimidation,” “harassment,” and “incitement.”
In a new report, titled The New Censorship in American Higher Education: Insights from Portland State University, the Oregon Association of Scholars, the state chapter of the National Association of Scholars, traces the emergence of this “New Censorship” at Portland State University, one of Oregon’s three major research universities.
What should concern Americans about New Censorship, the report argues, is its explicit attempt to redistribute basic freedoms of speech and publication on the basis of “anti-racist” credentials. (And it extends well beyond higher education.) Portland State President Dr. Stephen Percy refers to this policy shift approvingly as a “new status quo” in which fundamental liberties and one’s status before the law are determined by one’s professed zeal for anti-racist activism.
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While ordinary Americans get on with their productive lives raising their families, working hard to support themselves, and contributing to their communities, this New Censorship is taking shape in a way that will soon become a fait accompli. The reading of Plato and Dr. Seuss, as well as discussions of voter fraud and uncertainties about climate change, are now being proscribed in the name of wokeness in a mass movement that is finding its foundations in higher education and then moving outward.
This new Oregon Association of Scholars report should enlighten—and perhaps outrage—all those concerned about our intellectual freedoms and the education of the next generation.
Comment:
Gilley's efforts probably won't have much effect in Oregon. The only way would be if he had support in the State Legislature -- not just nice words, but action. But Republicans seem more concerned with things like the right to flout the mask rules in bars and restaurants than with anything having to do with higher education. Besides, they have no power anyway. Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrats control things, and they have no use for the likes of the Oregon Association of Scholars.
"There's no censorship. It's all a right-wing fantasy. Besides, the racist bastards being censored deserve it" according to he PM/DSA Democrat Leftists and their Quisling media. They seem to have an inability to recognize the contradiction in the undeniable facts.
Silenced by the Sheep: Academia’s New Censorship — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
17 Mar 2021 ~~ By Bruce Gilley
The nation’s cultural elites have been gripped by an intense wave of moral panic since the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. That panic has found expression in higher education in renewed efforts to curtail the speech rights and academic freedoms of the already near-extinct members of the campus community who dissent against woke orthodoxies.
Attempts by activist faculty at Stanford University to curtail the independence of scholars at the Hoover Institution, for instance, reflect this new sense of empowerment. Clearly, the academic left has taken on a mission to eliminate all conservative and classical liberal critique, now described as “mob intimidation,” “harassment,” and “incitement.”
In a new report, titled The New Censorship in American Higher Education: Insights from Portland State University, the Oregon Association of Scholars, the state chapter of the National Association of Scholars, traces the emergence of this “New Censorship” at Portland State University, one of Oregon’s three major research universities.
What should concern Americans about New Censorship, the report argues, is its explicit attempt to redistribute basic freedoms of speech and publication on the basis of “anti-racist” credentials. (And it extends well beyond higher education.) Portland State President Dr. Stephen Percy refers to this policy shift approvingly as a “new status quo” in which fundamental liberties and one’s status before the law are determined by one’s professed zeal for anti-racist activism.
~Snip~
While ordinary Americans get on with their productive lives raising their families, working hard to support themselves, and contributing to their communities, this New Censorship is taking shape in a way that will soon become a fait accompli. The reading of Plato and Dr. Seuss, as well as discussions of voter fraud and uncertainties about climate change, are now being proscribed in the name of wokeness in a mass movement that is finding its foundations in higher education and then moving outward.
This new Oregon Association of Scholars report should enlighten—and perhaps outrage—all those concerned about our intellectual freedoms and the education of the next generation.
Comment:
Gilley's efforts probably won't have much effect in Oregon. The only way would be if he had support in the State Legislature -- not just nice words, but action. But Republicans seem more concerned with things like the right to flout the mask rules in bars and restaurants than with anything having to do with higher education. Besides, they have no power anyway. Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrats control things, and they have no use for the likes of the Oregon Association of Scholars.
"There's no censorship. It's all a right-wing fantasy. Besides, the racist bastards being censored deserve it" according to he PM/DSA Democrat Leftists and their Quisling media. They seem to have an inability to recognize the contradiction in the undeniable facts.
