Posted on 03/01/2023 7:58:55 AM PST by Twotone
As the academy gets younger it grows more authoritarian, according to a new survey of over 1,400 faculty members conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The free speech group's findings portend a dark future for higher education if this course isn't reversed—and if faculty minds don't become more open to dissenting viewpoints.
Over the past decade or so, many academic departments embraced ideological views in their teaching and research, promoting social justice–laden scholarship as a way of correcting the wrongs of the past. Unsurprisingly, many departments developed left-of-center academic monocultures, becoming unfriendly to differing opinions. Young faculty entering the profession are only adding to this academic echo chamber.
As a professor, I'm on the younger side for faculty members. My cohort is much more illiberal than their older colleagues. Two-thirds of faculty over 55 years old said students shouting down a speaker is never acceptable. That number plummets to 37 percent for faculty 35 and under.
Shockingly, younger faculty report more acceptance of violence to combat speech. While 97 percent of older faculty say it's never acceptable for students to use violence to stop a campus speech, only 79 percent of younger faculty agree. That one in five younger professors show any level of acceptance for violence to stop speech should alarm all of us.
Mixing age with ideology reveals even more pronounced support for illiberal attitudes. Among liberal faculty 35 and under, only 23 percent indicated that students shouting down a speaker is never acceptable, compared with 88 percent of conservative faculty. Moderate faculty in this age group were also much more likely than their conservative colleagues to endorse the acceptability of these tactics.
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Stupid should hurt.
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The “revolution”’always eats its own.
Yes, sooner or later, Robespierre goes to the guillotine, too.
100% of lieberal professors claiming victim status to crybully conservatives into censorship.
I do not but the article’s premise whatsoever as for as liberals go.
Good. The lazy bassturds can finally join the work force. Start working for a living.
This will not end well.
They are reaping what they sowed.
Grave diggers always in demand.
Yes, the most innocuous and innocent word or gesture can offend someone and end a career. And what was acceptable and passed unnoticed yesterday can be a crime against humanity today. And if they want to get you, they’ll get you; for a personal grudge, a perceived indiscretion or for no reason at all. We live under a tyranny of whimsy and no one is safe. The rule of survival is to say nothing, do nothing and be nothing.
Only 40%?
Thats a far cry from the near 100% of conservative faculty on campus today.
Yep.
Oh, you fear turnaround?
Poor baby. :) :) :) etc.
lol
sorry, but we dont fire people for their opinions, that’s what the left does.
But we do fire them if they try to molest or groom our children, and we don’t want them promoting their gay lifestyle choices and will not tolerate mentally ill men who pretend to be women demanding access to our little girls locker rooms and/or bathrooms!
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