Universities Should Be “Unsafe” For Political Correctness
Let the ideas be heard!
Gatestone Institute reports.
Universities Should Be Unsafe For Political Correctness
The current code word being tossed around to protect political correctness from competition in the marketplace of ideas is “unsafe.”
“I feel unsafe” has become the argument stopper on many university campuses. Efforts have been made to shut down controversial events or speakers, some of which have succeeded, at MIT, the University of Michigan, Northeastern University, Oxford, Hampshire College, Smith College, and other great universities, on the grounds that students would feel “unsafe.” Students must, of course, be and feel physically safe in their dorms, classrooms, and campuses. That’s what university and city police are for: to protect against physical assaults and threats. But no one on a university campus should be or feel safe or protected when it comes to the never-ending war of ideas.
An important role of the university is to challenge every idea, every truth, every sacred notion, even if challenge makes students (or faculty) feel intellectually uncomfortable, unsettled, or unsafe. There must be no safe spaces in the classroom or auditorium that protect members of the university community from dangerous, disturbing or even emotionally unsettling ideas.
Universities Should Be Unsafe For Political Correctness (Gatestone Institute)
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“There must be no safe spaces in the classroom or auditorium that protect members of the university community from dangerous, disturbing or even emotionally unsettling ideas.”
Certainly true, but there is nothing “unsafe” about hearing opposing ideas. That is the first lie.
The only ones that are unsafe are those that don’t adhere to the PC religion. They get pies thrown at them, accused of rape, perhaps sued or kicked out of school, like the kids that rudely used the “n” word on that bus. Then there are the prof’s that grade conservatives lower as punishment, or the admittance committees that prefer to admit liberal students.
Traditional America is truly unsafe on campus in many ways, while the PC conformists seek to impose their version of Sharia law.