There is a specter haunting Democracy and covertly assaulting academic freedom.
It is the specter of “INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY.”
A Danger to Democracy arises in the pages of the Atlantic Magazine
#ProtectDemocracy
#FireFriedersdorf
— Fascism Understander Jason Stanley
It is the specter of “INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY.”
A Danger to Democracy arises in the pages of the Atlantic Magazine
#ProtectDemocracy
#FireFriedersdorf
— Fascism Understander Jason Stanley
Remember — “institutional neutrality” is code for “fascism”
The dangerous Koch Brothers funded propaganda campaign to attack academic freedom by manufacturing a “campus speech” crisis has made inroads into academe itself — 82 percent of MIT faculty have fallen prey to this moral panic!
https://twitter.com/dorianabbot/status/1457070682605596676
The REAL danger to academic freedom is the 83 percent of MIT’s faculty who have fallen prey to the insidious machinations of the Koch Brothers and who now support the dangerous assault on academic freedom and democracy called “institutional neutrality.” Buy my book to learn more!
Fascism is when the speech of those with whom you disagree is not actively suppressed
When you’re Jason Stanley’s alt
https://twitter.com/gdivinetz/status/1464767114192035846
Oh gosh I never called on the Atlantic to fire Friedersdorf! I merely drew attention to his dangerous Koch Brothers-funded assault on democracy to encourage that institution to keep practicing the “institutional neutrality” that is attacking academic freedom!
Realistically the magazine accepted that grant precisely to hold at arm’s length from its own editorial judgment the kind of reporting that expresses the views of 83 percent of MIT’s faculty
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