Weiss: Free speech also means refusing compelled speech. It means refusing to speak untruths, either about yourself or anyone else, no matter the comfort offered by the mob. So do not genially accept the lies told to you.
Intellectual freedom
New university in Texas, aiming to restore scholarly debate, surviving so far
From a university trying out intellectual freedom: “The disarming power of culture was palpable. Students who had learned to hold their tongues in college classrooms poured forth their souls once the cork of wariness was unstopped. “
When universities no longer think intellectual freedom is important
Classic: After a few of the many students who had attended Azerrad’s talk complained about it, President Taylor and his administration initially censored the publication not only of the video of Azerrad’s presentation but also of the videos of the other eight conference presentations as well, as Howland recounted for City Journal.
Breaking: Twitter accepts Musk’s Share offer buyout plan
Breitbart, as I just saw: After a two-week battle against opposition from the platform’s board members, self-declared free speech absolutist Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and currently the richest man in the world, has succeeded in his bid to buy Twitter. In a press release, the Twitter board announced that they had Read More…
Hey, more Babylon Bee…
Sure, they are still rotting in Twitter jail but maybe it is mattering less.
New Zealand science society is even more Woke than we thought
What Coyne doesn’t get re the New Zealand injustices to scientists is that atheism does that to people. There is no avenue of appeal and nothing to appeal about. Belief in God creates reason.
Fun from the Babylon Bee in Twitter jail while Elon Musk tries to buy them and others out
Science: Just last month, Issues & Insights reported a poll it conducted with TIPP, the most accurate predictor of the last five presidential elections, regarding people’s feelings about COVID. The survey found 65% of Americans think COVID policy in the United States is “driven by politics,” with only 21% believing it’s “driven by science.”
Wokeness: Darwin wails but it hardly matters now
Some day, the Darwinians will discover freedom of religion. In the meantime, let them find out what no freedom feels like. It will sharpen their instincts.
Will Elon Musk get the Babylon Bee out of Twitter Jail?
The most significant thing to see about all this is that the Bee is doing what late night comics used to do but now dare not. Someone needs to fix that.
From the Babylon Bee (still in Twitter jail)
This stuff is not our usual line of coverage. But in these strange times — when Woke American billionaires tell us all when we may and may not laugh — you might be missing the Bee’s sendup of some of the most asinine upperclassmen in Western world history. So here’s your fix.
May anyone at all question Darwinism? Scientists or non-scientists?
The very fact that Darwinism flourishes so readily where intellectual freedom is absent is a good reason to question it.
Jerry Coyne begins dimly to perceive something…
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is discovering that progressivism is antithetical to any concept of free expression.
Good news: Jordan Peterson is Uncanceled at Cambridge U
Cambridge philosophy prof, Arif Ahmed, fills us in. If your alma mater isn’t following Cambridge’s lead, stop giving. We don’t need finishing schools for censorious ignoramuses and dunces, often on the verge of violence.
At Mind Matters News: Historian supports new anti-Cancel Culture university
At COSM 2021, he noted that proposed faculty had spent the last 48 hours dealing with a tidal wave of Twitter hate. So, he said, they are over the target…
Useful reflections on the Cancel Culture everyone faces now
Nick Gillespie asks, “What kind of simulation are we living in where Mein Kampf is easier to purchase than McElligot’s Pool?” Oh, that’s easy to answer. It will be as fully an authoritarian culture as the Third Reich but with different authoritarians in charge. And that’s the way Cancel Culture supporters want it.