These censorious wokesters are probably the same lefties who are screaming bloody murder over the "censorship of LGBTQ+" publications in schools and the children's section of public libraries. A mere book title can send a sensitivity reader to the fainting couch, but on a better day she would probably be demanding that minors have access…
These censorious wokesters are probably the same lefties who are screaming bloody murder over the "censorship of LGBTQ+" publications in schools and the children's section of public libraries. A mere book title can send a sensitivity reader to the fainting couch, but on a better day she would probably be demanding that minors have access to the disturbingly explicit and age-inappropriate picture book "Gender Queer" and other works that normalize the scientifically baseless tenets of gender identity ideology.
How did hypocrisy come to characterize the debate about free speech? How did the left capture the moral high ground?
Yes, these are the kind of questions I wish Persuasion would dig into systematically. This is a great article, but I don't understand why deeper questions like yours are, it seems, systematically ignored. Thanks for this comment.
As a recovered academic of 34 years (a required prelude to any discussion today), I think I can help answer your last two questions. “Get them while they’re young and you have them for life.” When you ask “How many years does academia have the heats and minds of our children?” You get the answers to many questions about how and why.
That's a good start, but you'll need to peel a few more layers off that onion. Yascha does that in Identity Trap. But even that analysis leaves much that is crucial unexplained. That is why we need Persuasion to dig deeper and make this a community.
These censorious wokesters are probably the same lefties who are screaming bloody murder over the "censorship of LGBTQ+" publications in schools and the children's section of public libraries. A mere book title can send a sensitivity reader to the fainting couch, but on a better day she would probably be demanding that minors have access to the disturbingly explicit and age-inappropriate picture book "Gender Queer" and other works that normalize the scientifically baseless tenets of gender identity ideology.
How did hypocrisy come to characterize the debate about free speech? How did the left capture the moral high ground?
Yes, these are the kind of questions I wish Persuasion would dig into systematically. This is a great article, but I don't understand why deeper questions like yours are, it seems, systematically ignored. Thanks for this comment.
As a recovered academic of 34 years (a required prelude to any discussion today), I think I can help answer your last two questions. “Get them while they’re young and you have them for life.” When you ask “How many years does academia have the heats and minds of our children?” You get the answers to many questions about how and why.
That's a good start, but you'll need to peel a few more layers off that onion. Yascha does that in Identity Trap. But even that analysis leaves much that is crucial unexplained. That is why we need Persuasion to dig deeper and make this a community.