A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within academia to conform

Re:A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within aca... by imwillofficial on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:41PM (#28688734)

Turning? This has been happening for awhile.

Regardless of where you are on the US political spectrum. Universities have been held strongly on one side of that spectrum for awhile now.

If that’s good news or bad depends on where you stand on said political spectrum.

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Re:A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within aca... by dang on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:03PM (#28688885)

The submitted title ("Universities Turning into Social Justice Factory?") broke the site guidelines about titles: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.". We've reverted it now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within aca... by prudhvid on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:11PM (#28688932)

Thanks Dang!

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Re:A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within aca... by worrycue on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:22PM (#28689615)

> If that’s good news or bad depends on where you stand on said political spectrum.

I think objectively it’s bad for everyone when free inquiry is hobbled by dogma.

I think people should have the right to be wrong in academia. I can think of no safer place to be wrong - there are real consequences when you are wrong in practice (e.g. as a politician) compared to being wrong in theory (e.g. as a professor not really in charge of anything)

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Re:A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within aca... by prudhvid on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:09PM (#28688915)

Independent of political affiliation, silencing diversity of thought is not a good thing for the society

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