This is a very strange conception of “liberty,” and reveals a very strange concept of how education works. I learned about all sorts of wrong ideas at my (private) university—including Marxism!—and do not consider myself “poisoned."
https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1493694009600053250
It is difficult to think of a more chillingly Soviet principle than Dan Patrick’s: That ideas are poisonous, and therefore politicians must determine which are the Correct Ideas fit for discussion in a university classroom.
In college, I read the views and arguments of Marxists and libertarians, Kantians and utilitarians, natural law theologians and Rawlsians, relativists and rationalists, Cartesians and physicalists…
Necessarily some of those views are incorrect. But I’m pretty sure I ended up better educated than if Dan Patrick had, in his infinite wisdom, decided which of those conflicting views was True and forbidden all discussion of the others.
It also makes me a little sad for Dan Patrick that he seems unable to conceive a distinction between learning *about* a set of ideas and being indoctrinated in those ideas.
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