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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
However dumb some univ. admin's ideas may be, I can guarantee one thing: their donors can come up with something stupider.
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Gay's later statements ("I'm sad," "My truth," and other noxious wokespeak) have shown her to be a creature living exclusively in the increasingly fabulist world of academia and an embarrassment to the school.
But Harvard did the right thing by keeping her. (For the wrong reasons, I'm sure, which are avoidance of protests if she were fired, and avoidance of appearing to have bowed to Bill Ackman.) First, a person is more than their most notable gaffe. She doesn't deserve to lose a job for once speaking in an avoidant fashion on the advice of counsel. Second, a mob of voices on the internet and among pundits and donors should not control what a school does or does not do. Bill Ackman is not in charge of Harvard's standards. No institution is required to bow to a group of people like Ackman or Stefanik who on one day cry about censorship and cancel culture and the next use exactly those same tools to stifle their perceived enemies.
Free speech should - must - be as close to absolute as possible in every conceivable regard. One cannot run around decrying woke campus speech codes and then attempt to employ his own.
This debacle highlights that we've become a nation of authoritarians. Everyone just wants what he or she wants and doesn't really give a fuck about any actual principles of freedom.
