SATIRE | Due to concerns about the one-sidedness of the diversity training, “To Be Known and Heard,” the USG Senate’s new task force on “viewpoint diversity” has recommended a training to promote the other side, titled “To Erase and Silence.”
“Students are coerced into confessing their sins — wealth, whiteness, and privilege — in front of thousands of kids they met just days before.”
The battle for free expression has some fighters at Princeton.
@MylesJMcKnight
is one of them.
Three speeches were given. Two by resolute progressives, including one by President Eisgruber. All in agreement, and all with the same message. But I guess the ideas are bad ideas only when spoken by conservatives!
Letter from Princeton Open Campus Coalition to Princeton President Eisgruber
Privileged to have written with the brilliant
@abigailandwords
A plea for healthy institutional neutrality.
"It’s difficult to believe I’m a political outsider, because I’m inclined to think that my ideological stances are moderate. A majority of my views were completely anodyne only five years ago."
My comments in a
@nypost
article by
@RikkiSchlott
“We cannot let our universities become seminaries for the priests of preselected causes. A dispassionate commitment to truth-seeking must remain the priority. It is this vision that, in our advocacy, we cannot neglect.”
My latest in
@NRO
"Why do the leaders of a ballet club condemn ballet? We cannot liberate tradition from history. We cannot practice the discipline while destroying it. We cannot emancipate ballet from itself."
My piece in
@NRO
@McCormickProf
But the 40% in the next four years will be the result of a sickening assault on the value of truth and empirical fact, perpetrated by POTUS himself. The previous 40% was the product of a legitimate debate about the way our electoral system should work...in either case a shame :(
Establishing formal protections for freedom of thought and discussion on campus, and pushing back hard against censorship, are important, but they're parts of a larger cause that must not be neglected. Princeton junior Myles McKnight on the larger cause.
@rooya_r
Here’s what he’s said re: the issue in seriousness: “For the sake of justice and right, the perpetrator of this evil deed must be prosecuted, convicted, and punished…let us teach that violence against abortionists is not the answer to…abortion. Every human life is precious.”
@rooya_r
If I were you, I would be extremely embarrassed for not grasping that this was an obvious spoof on the intellectually unsalvageable position of “personally pro-life but publicly pro-choice people.”