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As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like
Conservatives are flocking to a new 'free speech' social media app that has started banning liberal users
Parler, the 'Free Speech' platform is already banning people
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @02:03AM (1 child)
It's a lot like Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist [professorwatchlist.org], which supposedly is a list of professors that push liberal views in the classroom.
If you look at the actual watchlist, you'll find many faculty who are on there for things they did outside of the classroom like writing op-ends or posting their political views on Twitter. Those cases don't even attempt to make the case that liberal views were pushed in the classroom, but that they expressed views on their own time that TPUSA dislikes. You'll also find faculty who assigned students to do things like research and argue for positions they disagree with. That's not liberal bias; it's critical thinking and understanding both sides of an issue. TPUSA claims they support free speech but they seem more interested in silencing speech they disagree with.
No, faculty should not be pushing their political views on students. That would be wrong. But this doesn't mean that faculty have to entertain factually incorrect nonsense to give the appearance of neutrality.
To give you an example, I teach a class about climate change. It does venture into some of the societal issues. Neutrality means that I treated Libertarian ideas about mitigation and adaptation with the same respect that I treated Democratic ideas. That meant that the students were assigned to read articles from reason.com and similar sites. The articles all implicitly or explicitly supported the theory that humans are responsible for much of the warming observed over recent decades, a theory that has been tested and supported by a very large number of experiments. Libertarian ideas for solutions deserve the same platform as Democratic ideas like carbon taxes. However, neutrality does not mean giving a platform to Republicans who want to deny a well-tested theory. I did make it a point to praise Republican politicians like Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, who promoted environmental policies like creating the National Park System, the Clean Air Act, and the Montral Protocol, which were enacted on the basis of good science.
I'm all for the free exchange of ideas. But neutrality doesn't mean putting BS and lies on equal footing with facts and truth.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:47AM
That site is hilarious. I know one of the professors on that list. They are a life-long Republican and conservative. I wonder what they'll think about being labeled a professor "who discriminate[s] against conservative students and advance[s] leftist propaganda in the classroom." Other than laughing out loud, that is.