{"id":197260,"date":"2021-03-09T00:31:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/college-educators-form-alliance-to-defend-free-expression\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T00:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:31:42","slug":"college-educators-form-alliance-to-defend-free-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/college-educators-form-alliance-to-defend-free-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"#College educators form alliance to defend free expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK \u2014 Around 200 scholars from across the country have formed the Academic Freedom Alliance, which has a mission to help college educators \u201cspeak, instruct, and publish without fear of sanction, bullying, punishment, or persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Launched Monday, the non-profit organization arose out of discussions among some Princeton University faculty members over how to counter what they see as growing intolerance of differing viewpoints. They plan to serve as advocates for those they believe have been unjustly attacked, and to provide money for legal support if needed. Members will pay an annual fee of $50 if they are tenured professors; $35 for others; and the alliance also is seeking donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were looking for a way to foster a national conversation about these kinds of issues,\u201d says Princeton\u2019s Keith E. Whittington, who chairs the alliance\u2019s academic committee.<\/p>\n

Members range politically from Harvard University\u2019s Cornel West, a Bernie Sanders supporter, to retired Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain, a backer of former President Donald Trump. Others in the alliance include the constitutional scholar Sanford Levinson, based at the University of Texas School of Law; the award-winning novelist Charles Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington; and Nadine Strossen, the former president of the ACLU and a professor emerita at New York Law School.<\/p>\n

Some members have been involved in free speech controversies. Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis was condemned by some students for her 2015 essay \u201cSexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,\u201d in which she challenged the school\u2019s banning of teachers and students dating each other. Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor and best-selling linguist, was criticized by members of the Linguistic Society of America in 2011 for alleged insensitivity to racism and sexism. (The group\u2019s board defended Pinker, declaring, \u201cIt is not the mission of the Society to control the opinions of its members, nor their expression\u201d).<\/p>\n

Whittington, whose books include \u201cSpeak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech<\/a>,\u201d said the alliance would be \u201cnarrowly focused on free speech and academic freedom issues.\u201d He cited two recent examples of why he says the alliance is needed.<\/p>\n

Last summer, University of Southern California professor Greg Patton was lecturing on Zoom about the use of filler words in language and mentioned a handful of Chinese terms that some students believed sounded like an English-language racial slur. Patton was placed on leave, and only returned after a school investigation found that \u201cthe use of the Mandarin term had a legitimate pedagogical purpose.<\/p>\n

Also last summer, Auburn University professor Jesse Goldberg faced calls for his firing, and, he said, threats of violence, after posting a profane tweet that included, \u201cThe police do not protect people. They protect capital. They are instruments of violence on behalf of capital.\u201d Auburn called his tweet \u201cinexcusable and completely antithetical to the Auburn Creed,\u201d and reassigned Goldberg from the classroom to a research position.<\/p>\n

Asked if the alliance is a response to \u201ccancel culture,\u201d however that might be defined, Whittington called it an \u201camorphous phrase,\u201d but added that \u201csome of what gets characterized as cancel culture poses a threat to a free society tolerant of dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the extent that there are organized efforts to suppress and sanction professors who espouse controversial or unorthodox views, the alliance seeks to counter those pressures. Such pressures preceded what now gets characterized as cancel culture, but they have some overlap,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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