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I am eternally grateful to all our supporters over the years & to everybody who responded so positively to this post. It can sometimes feel like principled people are few & far between, but there are enough of us to sustain our rights for generations to come if we work together.…
FIRE supporters are a unique breed. A genuinely principled group who thinks the
#freespeech
rights of both the opinion they love & the opinion they hate must be ferociously defended. I know there are many more of you out there & I hope you will join us.
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We seem utterly determined to learn absolutely nothing from the deadly lessons of the 20th century. This man was a mass murderer, who set my father & grandfather’s country on a path that it will likely never truly recover from. His brutality was admired by the other great…
Today, on the centenary of his death, we fondly remember Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the first socialist nation, leader of the Bolshevik Party, and architect of the October Revolution.
(1/7)
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“I’m a professor of chemistry. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” asked Reedley College professor Bill Blanken. “What’s the ‘anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?”
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We have taught a generation the habits of anxious & depressed people & seem puzzled about why they are extremely anxious & depressed.
We have also taught them to practice zero sum, internally focused moralistic status games & seem puzzled when it destroys organizations.
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Our research showed this as well. My theory since 2014 is that we’re effectively teaching young people reverse Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It’s cruel & compassionless, but it’s dressed up like infinite compassion.
It’s not just young women whose depression rates have surged — it’s specifically young liberals, with liberal teen boys actually faring worse than conservative teen girls.
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The central message of my book with
@JonHaidt
, Coddling of the American Mind, is not “all kids need therapy” it’s “stop teaching young people the mental habits of anxious & depressed people.” This is teaching them to catastrophize, negative filter, & engage in emotional reasoning…
Giving free therapy to a bunch of teens who don't have mood disorders caused a bunch of them to develop mood disorders, and caused their relationships with their parents to get durably worse.
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Today, my father, who survived Stalin, Hitler, Tito, & Korea & being orphaned in 1930s Yugoslavia AND who’s been preparing his kids for his imminent death since the 1970s turns 95, despite all odds. Congratulations Dad. Love you :-)
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THREAD: Former
@TheFIREorg
intern
@emmma_camp_
published a terrific essay in
@nytimes
about the stifling climate on college campuses. As if to prove her point, her piece was met with outrage & denial in a predictable culture war pattern. 1/16
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.
@StanfordLaw
students reframing a preplanned shout down of a speaking engagement by a visiting judge as just their free speech are shaming our entire institution. You were acting as mob censors & you would immediately understand this if students shouted down a speaker you wanted…
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Kids are socially very, very smart. Within a couple days of the first anti-bullying/DEI/Sensitivity programs 5% of kids figured out a new way to dominate other kids *using* that new system.
"some teenagers learn to adopt the language of antiracism and wield it against peers" is one throwaway line from this
@powellnyt
piece but if someone were to truly kick over that rock they'd find a whole writhing horrible world to explore
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From
@NewYorker
'The Coddling of the American Mind' was a somewhat better book than its reactionary title promised, but Haidt and Lukianoff’s reflexive disdain for left-leaning youth & weakness for caricature had a flattening effect on their analysis."
Ah, I see, me &
@JonHaidt
…
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A lot of us first amendment people come from a journalism background & while we all know that objectivity, like truth, is not a goal you can fully reach, giving up on objectivity leads you into a form of journalism that NO ONE should trust.
Some on the right & left do this, &…
NPR’s far-left CEO Katherine Maher: "Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done."
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This is truly excellent. I tune in every week & was also surprised to hear that
@JonHaidt
& I got a shout out. Fareed bringing the common sense & hard medicine universities need.
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Been 12 years now for me. I was so far gone I thought friends & family would help me end it if I asked. I wasn’t in my right mind. Just a few moments of sanity got me to get myself admitted. I had so much joy ahead of me, but that would’ve been impossible for 2007 me to believe
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Getting rid of the SAT & ACT will further help rich kids stay in the overclass, while incentivizing corrupt behavior on both sides of the equation & the bargaining power of universities to “encourage” donations from anxious/wealthy parents.
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Constantly whispering into young adults ears “I don’t think you can really handle the world as it is” is disempowering & a disservice to them. It’s the reverse CBT I’ve been warning about since 2014. It feels compassionate in the short term, but isn’t for the long term.
"Back then, I was convinced that [trigger] warnings were sometimes necessary to convey the seriousness of the topics at hand...It didn’t occur to me until much later that we might have been part of the problem."
@JillFilipovic
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Like a lot of people my age, I thought we settled this argument in 1989. If this is one lesson we cannot learn despite tens of millions dead & hundreds of millions oppressed, the future seems dark indeed.
Tomorrow will mark 130 years since the birth of one of the most important revolutionaries of all time. Even today, Mao lives on through his contributions to the science of making revolution and liberating the exploited and oppressed masses.
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The past had very different norms about appropriateness, propriety, & politeness. Everything really. And the future will be different too, & many will see YOU as monster for some belief or practice you have.
To think now is the moral end point of history is foolishness.
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All the claim “cancel culture is just consequence culture!” tells me is the speaker doesn’t know a lot about the topic, generally isn’t willing to learn, but assumes that everyone targeted for cancellation had it coming. It’s a thought-terminating cliche, not an argument.
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I don't even know where to begin with this. Yes, this is the kind of thing
@JonHaidt
& I saw coming in our work, but it's all happening in a faster & stranger than way than I ever would've guessed in 2015 when we published COTAM.
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OMG, I am seriously fan boying out here. I am a huge fan of
@KristenBell
!
#TheGoodPlace
was a masterpiece!
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THREAD: As you may have noticed, "cancel culture" has intensified in recent weeks. Everywhere you look online, people are organizing to get people fired or kicked out of college for offensive things they've said or done, often in the distant past. 1/33
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So, I’m sad to announce the end of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education…but excited to announce the beginning of the Foundation for Individual Rights & EXPRESSION! see this report
@politico
by
@joshgerstein
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THREAD: Minneapolis' First Avenue canceled
@DaveChappelle
's show hours before he was set to take the stage.
Free expression lost at First Avenue. When we put politics over free expression, we risk silencing any comic who dares to be different. 1/5
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Some think you can have this little exception to the first amendment for banning “misinformation.”
No.
Truth is hard to know, it is an arduous, never ending process, & making government the arbiter of truth is to give it unlimited power over speech & knowledge itself.
The *broad* definition of misinformation is incoherent. What it signifies now is an effort to suppress dissent and launder partisan opinions into a false consensus on matters of legitimate controversy. It's a cynical enterprise, aimed at the gullible.
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Hey
@latimes
, this INCREDIBLY easy to disprove with even the most minimal research.
@TheFIREorg
"a group that claims to advocate for free speech on college campuses — except when the speakers don’t share its political views."
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I was mystified many years ago to discover that some wealthy educated young folk in the SF bay area, didn’t even know that the USSR was an environmental catastrophe, as well. That argument was persuasive to them in a way that “they were also mass murderers” was not.
@BeijingPalmer
The collapse of the USSR ought to be part of the 'decolonization' story, the capstone end of the last, great-and-very-terrible remaining European colonial empire.
And even by the low standards of European colonial empires, the USSR was *very bad.* Worst of a very bad lot.
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I’m seeing a weird uptick in people outside, no one within many feet of them, wearing N-95 masks. Way more than I saw during the height of the pandemic.
What is up DC? We had persuasive data on the unlikelihood of outdoor transmission since, like, March 2020
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The best way for social media companies to decide what speech is & isn't permitted is to mirror standards in First Amendment law. NOT b/c they have to (THEY DON'T) but b/c there's are decades of clear standards & wisdom in the cases about how to have
#freespeech
in the real world
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Utopian systems have a long track record of giving sociopaths superpowers
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Am I pleased that
#Harvard
is now talking a good game on freedom of speech? Yes.
Am I also skeptical that they really mean it & cynical about the reason why they’re defending it now, as opposed to in the past?
Also, yes.
Indeed, a big double plus yes.
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If even a single expert loses their career for having “the wrong“ opinion trust in experts plummets. When people see this happen repeatedly in already extremely politically homogenous institutions the destruction of trust is perfectly predictable &, indeed, rational.
New Gallup poll: “Americans' Confidence in Higher Education Down Sharply”
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Some basics.
1) Of course you do not have *a right* not be criticized
2)
#FreeSpeech
is of exponentially greater use to society if you hear each other out
3) Shouting people down at a talk is old-fashioned mob censorship as it decides for others who they may listen to
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When you see someone (for lack of a better word) getting canceled, I think more people should know it's okay to just say "This person is my friend, a good person, and I support them." No need to say more than that, but it could make a big difference.
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Yes, I can see NO WAY in which governments taking the position that “you are accused of something unproven & therefore companies should no longer pay you for your speech” could go wrong.
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Am I… Really understanding this correctly? He was pressured to resign because he repeated an epithet to explain what had previously been said by someone else? Am I missing something?
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1) Up until fairly recently being pro
#freespeech
was a DEFINING liberal value
2) Labeling people conservative to absolve yourself from listening to them is an embarrassing tactic
3) If your instant response to a view that bugs you is LIES! EVIL! maybe you’re the ideologue?
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Tomorrow is my birthday & I am thankful that a mental breakdown I had in 2007 produced at least one positive thing: my collaboration with my friend
@JonHaidt
.
Also tomorrow we will release Part 1 of the official Afterword to Coddling for free, w/ new pieces following each week
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How about this instead? Teach children that the past is a foreign country (just as we all understood) & things are quite different there. It can lead to a *deepening* of your appreciation of the world & how even YOUR historical norms will look quaint & strange to your children.
The publisher of the books of the late Roald Dahl has made hundreds of changes to them, supposedly to make them more palatable to “sensitive” audiences. This is totalitarian censorship and should be broadly condemned by authors & publishers.
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So this happened.
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Yes, unlike all the other censors in human history who declared “IN THE NAME OF EVIL I CENSOR GOOD SPEECH!”
Ireland’s Green Party Sen. Pauline O'Reilly: “We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good…Yes you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good.”
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Ah yes, canceling internal critics is a sure way to win back public trust!
@RIKKISCHLOTT
& explain how the expert class is shooting itself in the feet repeatedly & then wondering why nobody trusts them.
People aren’t stupid, & when they see that dissenters get punished or even…
Senior
@NPR
editor
@uberliner
has been suspended from the public radio network he's served for 25 years after sharing concerns about bias in The Free Press:
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120 profs targeted for punishment for their research or speech in 2020. Almost 500 since 2015. 27 TENURED professors fired. There were 12 such incidents at Harvard & 20 at Stanford alone. There were attempts at 65% of the top 100 schools in the country. And that’s JUST profs.
@glukianoff
@JonHaidt
@JoinPersuasion
@DorianAbbot
Lots? That's my problem with what you're saying. When I look at your numbers I don't find them alarming. I mean a few dozen professors being protested by overly emotional students? The pandemic and Trump's election have stressed this country out, but I think this will pass.
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Right or left, if you insist there can’t *possibly* be a serious threat to
#FreeSpeech
from your side of the spectrum you haven’t been paying meaningful attention.
Like many things on Twitter “both siderism” isn’t actually an argument, it’s just another flippant dodge.
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I don't think academia fully has understood how devastating campus censorship & campus cancel culture is to public trust. After all, if you can get in trouble for "the wrong" opinion why should they trust you to follow truth where it leads? It's an epistemic disaster.
I would argue that requiring physicians to clear what they say to the public (about medical matters) with the marketing department should call into question anything that such an institution says about any topic. How can anyone have confidence in what their *doctors* thus say?
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1 thing I think
@JonHaidt
& I got wrong in our 2018 book COTAM is that we ended on a hopeful note even though we thought the problem was going to get worse before it got better. Now we both think we are in serious trouble for a long time coming
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I was an outspoken atheist from 7th grade up w/ divorced parents who had a hard time paying for school. I skipped school A LOT (in my defense I was working jobs to help w/ family expenses). Only as an adult did I realize how kind & tolerant my Catholic high school was towards me
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A lot of us first amendment folks come from journalism backgrounds, & many of us were horrified talking to younger people in journalism programs who explicitly argued for not merely describing the world, but that achieving political goals as part of their job. “Merely” describing…
There's a certain type of journalist with an increasingly utilitarian outlook, i.e. it's so important the Good Guys win that the ends justify the means and fairness and accurately are subservient to that. This was subtext for a long time but is now being said explicitly.
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“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of…
THE CANCELING OF THE AMERICAN MIND by
@glukianoff
and
@RIKKISCHLOTT
is a timely deep dive into cancel culture and how it hurts all Americans.
Available 10/17, learn more:
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Sooo...I wrote this book with my friend
@JonHaidt
& I think it might help explain a little of what is going on at the moment.
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This is profoundly dishonest. Her job was to stop a disruption
@StanfordLaw
. She didn't.
Instead she took a student group's designated time to give her own pre-planned speech in which she suggested limiting
#freespeech
policies at SLS and questioned the …
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Our society teaches reverse CBT in hopes that by the suffering, guilt, & shame of young people we’ll somehow get to some socially or politically better world.
We won’t.
Despair breeds hopelessness, not positive change. And a miserable youth is not acceptable “collateral damage”
Having a negative view of masculinity damages boys’ & men’s mental health.
“Brand new research assessing the views of over 4000 men found that thinking masculinity is bad for your behaviour is linked to having worse mental wellbeing.
Around 85% of respondents thought the term…
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My fellow hypochondriac introverts, this is our moment
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And we are SO close to achieving human perfection through public shaming. Just a few hundred more people kicked out of jobs for old tweets and welcome to Utopia!
This James Gunn controversy is long overdue. I've been saying it for years: if we simply destroy the lives of everyone who has ever erred, then all of us good people who have never even once done anything wrong can finally live our perfect lives in peace!
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Far fewer jobs should require a college degree. And there should be a way to test out of a BA degree. If the test was sufficiently challenging, it could be a much better indicator to employers as to who the the best hires really are (not just who grew up the wealthiest)
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Wow. "[W]hen Bloomberg business asked dozens of business leaders to name the best book they read this year, The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff &
@jonhaidt
, received the most votes."
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Every time a prof is targeted for punishment by students for using their academic freedom & every time there's an attempt to shout down a speaker, that University should look into administrators role in encouraging it. This is an underappreciated part of the dynamic on campus.
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GREAT NEWS: The pathology report for the excised part of my jaw came back and it looks like they got the whole tumor!
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I call BS on anyone claiming shouting down a speaker, or worse, responding with violence “is just more speech.” You’d do a 180 if a speaker you wanted to hear was shouted down or cancelled due to violence. Indeed, you’d probably label the violent mob censors as fascists.
(&…
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THREAD: So
@vox
writer
@seanilling
just said that ppl like me worry too much about
#freespeech
b/c “speech has never been freer.” Bizarre assertion in 2020. Speech was probably freer in 2005 before the "democratic recession" began, but it was certainly freer in, say, 2015. (1/65)
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Professors reacting with, "NO! THE LACK OF RESPECT COMES ONLY FROM A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIGHER ED!" is utterly predictable. They, of course, bear no blame. Higher ed bears no blame. 22 years of fighting abuses in higher ed has taught me it can never, ever be their own fault.
If even a single expert loses their career for having “the wrong“ opinion trust in experts plummets. When people see this happen repeatedly in already extremely politically homogenous institutions the destruction of trust is perfectly predictable &, indeed, rational.
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.
@DavidAFrench
on how badly the media has misrepresented the 303 SCOTUS case. "This case was not, as it has been widely described, about whether a website designer could refuse gay customers. That would be both illegal and immoral, & I would not participate in such a case.…
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I am a big fan of Thomas’s but I disagree with him here. Nobody ever disproved the problem of “political correctness” or even “cancel culture”, they just made the terms taboo to say. This is a winning strategy to deny your opponents a common term, making problems harder to fight.
the word "woke" needs to be retired. we need fresher, more specific language.
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Ah, yes, the famous fascist opposition to ideological purity tests. The people who think they are anti-fascist for supporting ideological loyalty oaths are really embarrassing themselves today.
The idea that there is *insufficient* homogeneity of ideology in higher education…
@glukianoff
@tylercoward
Thanks for reminding me that FIRE is actually not at all a “free speech” organization but actually a fascist right wing think tank dress up as an impartial group. This totally sucks.
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The premise of my work with
@JonHaidt
started with "we are teaching a generation the habits of anxious & depressed people" & from research we learned why it would hit women especially hard. But these numbers are much worse than I would've guessed.
16/n Some of you asked for it, so here is the last chart broken down by gender. Biggest gap within age x ideological groups is between white liberal men (33.6%) and women (56.3%) in the 18-29 category
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@sapinker
: "The growing regime of censorship, slander, & punishment against anyone who questions establishment orthodoxy is locking us into error & corroding the credibility of our institutions. No one has documented the facts & causes of this alarming trend more thoroughly than…
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So your standard is now “prove to me that you were forced out of your website/newspaper for ideological error, but my starting place is those concerned are [insert series of insults]?”
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“Members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired.”
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‘Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up’ by
@AbigailShrier
is an extraordinarily important book that everyone should read. & it gives me a glimmer of hope that we are leaving The Great Awokening & entering The Great Debunkening
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Wondering about the controversy surrounding "anti-CRT” bills popping up all over the country? You’re not alone. It’s taken me several weeks & 3 co-authors to write this 5000+ word piece (1/34)
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"If you warn students that an unnatural, unforgivable crime has taken place anytime they are offended or challenged, you are dooming them to a life of feeling like they are constantly under attack." from my 2012 book Unlearning Liberty.
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John Lewis lived in my neighborhood, & was always warm & friendly except the last time I talked to him. It was after I'd heard of his illness. I offered to pick up some luggage for him. He gave me that “I am JUST FINE” look of a proud older gentleman. Only made me like him more
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We need to have the highest tolerance for difference of opinion on campus, but absolutely NO tolerance for violence.
Tonight at Yale, I was assaulted by a student today at an anti-Israel protest. He stabbed me in the eye with a Palestinian flag. Now I'm in the hospital. This is what happens when visibly Jewish students try to attend and document these rallies.
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We tracked 563 attempts to get scholars canceled since 2015 — including 283 just since 2020. Nearly 2/3 were successful, resulting in sanction, & 1-in-5 resulted in termination (that includes 30 tenured professors!). 8/12
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Doing this without reducing campus admin bloat & overall expense is a historic mistake.
White House officials are planning on canceling $10,000 in student debt per borrower, a central campaign promise by President Biden that would relieve debt for millions of Americans.
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All joking aside, the Gemini biases remind me of the weird culture I first experienced at Stanford & in the SF Bay Area in the late 90s. A narrow, parochial, neuroticly self critical, & rigid worldview that thought it was simply revealed truth.
Google Gemini can’t generate a “Norman Rockwell style image of American life in the 1940s” because Rockwell “idealized” American life
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Think of an Olympic diver at the tallest diving board. Her mother climbs up the ladder & whispers in her ear, “You really can’t do this honey, & failure could lead to permanent emotional damage. Also you are both oppressor & oppressed & there’s no way out. & your friends could…
There was no sign of a teen mental illness epidemic until around 2012. Then liberal girls' rates started increasing. Then everyone else. Why?
@glukianoff
nailed it: Reverse CBT, as I explain here:
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People have been laughing about this, but do they realize how often student building takeovers have literally been catered? It had become fairly common place over the past several years.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
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We get flood warnings a lot in DC as we have frequent intense summer rains, but this one is overachieving.
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Dear young & healthy folks, thank you for being willing to put up with so much difficulty & disruption in order to help save the lives of my parents, & the parents & grandparents of people you will never meet. You’re doing something very kind, whether you know it or not
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Thank you interwebs. I needed that.
🇯🇵 Ce combat de sumo complètement déséquilibré 😂
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My biggest fear, when it comes to this historical moment, is that a lot of people are going to get "canceled" (jobs lost, students expelled), the culture war will get nastier, but no meaningful & BADLY needed police reform will actually happen.
THREAD: As you may have noticed, "cancel culture" has intensified in recent weeks. Everywhere you look online, people are organizing to get people fired or kicked out of college for offensive things they've said or done, often in the distant past. 1/33
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I’m having one of those nights where I’m just completely exhausted, a tiny bit sad, and just want to tell every friend I’ve ever had since I was little how much I love them.
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I've seen a lot of abuses of Institutional Review Boards in my 18 years at FIRE, but this is surely one of the worst.
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Unconstitutional. If this bill passes I would love the opportunity to challenge it in court.
'South Carolina bill outlaws websites that tell how to get an abortion'
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Hi. I’m Greg.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you
Hi, I'm swimming pool.
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All-time career highlight!
Greg is wise, and tells us about very important things that care not being talked about. Pre-order his book "The Canceling of the American Mind"
@glukianoff
US: UK:
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I am so glad someone made this argument! It always felt like this to me “in the name of kindness, tolerance & open mindedness we now declare your language inherently discriminatory & have therefore fixed it for you. You’re welcome!”
Great
@Newsweek
piece about the “lexical imperialism” of the term “Latinx.”
“The fact that our community is so offended by this term tells you who this term is for, and it's not us.”
@StrangelEdweird
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“I sort of think when it’s done it’s done, & certainly no one who’s not an author should be modifying a book.”
Wes Anderson says Roald Dahl's books shouldn't be modified after the author's death. Anderson was at the Venice film festival with another Dahl adaptation, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar."
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The Overton window is quickly becoming the Overton peephole
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Since publishing the original Coddling article with
@jonhaidt
in 2015, one of the most meaningful experience I’ve had is being asked what advice I would give to others who struggle with depression. Here are my top recommendations: 1/14
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A quick lesson in
#freespeech
& power:
Historically the rich & the powerful have always been protected by their wealth & power.
Then democracy came along & the will of the majority was also protected by the vote.
You only need
#FreeSpeech
to protect minority opinions.
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First amendment protected? Yes.
Do I like this tactic? Not one bit.
Seen yesterday outside Claudine Gay's home. Kudos to
@AccuracyInMedia
for holding her and Harvard to account.
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So, people do understand that there’s not that much in the constitution in the first place & we are a nation as much of norms as laws & when you start eroding those norms there’s not all that much holding us together, right? Right?
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Violence is not “extreme speech“ it is the antithesis of what freedom of speech is for. Just like on campus, we need to have the greatest tolerance for freedom of opinion, but no tolerance for violence.
The pro-Pals in New York are protesting outside a Biden fundraiser and assaulted someone simply trying to get through them. They are out of control.
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Thanks Ricky. Censorship is comedy’s natural born predator.
If you don’t believe in free speech for people who you hate, fear and disagree with, then you don’t believe in free speech.
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WAPO TODAY: 'To fight antisemitism on campuses, we must restrict speech'
There is such primitive thinking on this issue. NO, restricting speech about Israel/Palestine will accelerate group polarization, increase radicalization, & supercharge hostilities. By all means, punish…
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