Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by throwawaygh on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:18PM (#26310348)

This thread started as a discussion about Liberty discriminating against boring rank and file faculty/gay students, and ended with “the world is ending because being president of an elite university is a GASP political job!” (Newsflash: uni prez is a deeply political job in every sense of the word and has been since the birth of the university many hundreds of years ago)

The idiocy of that conversational arc is basically the point I’m trying to make.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by nobodyandproud on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:40PM (#26310500)

Liberty Uni is heavily biased. Let’s get that out of the way.

Now I’m responding to the assertion to that one doesn’t need to be of a certain stripe to make it in liberal institutions.

You downplay and say that a Harvard pres. position is highly political; which is fair, but the reaction also shows that a pervasive and intolerant groupthink is present.

It may tolerate the odd dissenting professor, especially if they’re protected by tenure, but the buck stops there.

No such protections for students first making their way into the world.

Not exactly a bastion of free thought and discourse.

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