What snowflakes get right : free speech, truth, and equality on campus / Ulrich Baer.
2019
LC72.2 .B34 2019
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Title
What snowflakes get right : free speech, truth, and equality on campus / Ulrich Baer.
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ISBN
9780190054229 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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LC72.2 .B34 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1213
Summary
Angry debates about polarizing speakers have roiled college campuses. Conservatives accuse universities of muzzling unpopular opinions, betraying their values of open inquiry; students sympathetic to the Left advocate for some regulation of speech, asking for "safe spaces" and protection against visiting speakers and even curricula they feel disrespects them. Some even call these students 'snowflakes' - too fragile to be exposed to opinions and ideas that challenge their worldviews. How might universities resolve these debates about free speech, which pit students' welfare against the university's commitment to free inquiry and open debate? This text provides a new way of looking at this dilemma. It explains how the current dichotomy is false and is not really about the feelings of offended students, or protecting an open marketplace of ideas.
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Angry debates about polarizing speakers have roiled college campuses. Conservatives accuse universities of muzzling unpopular opinions, betraying their values of open inquiry; students sympathetic to the Left advocate for some regulation of speech, asking for "safe spaces" and protection against visiting speakers and even curricula they feel disrespects them. Some even call these students 'snowflakes' - too fragile to be exposed to opinions and ideas that challenge their worldviews. How might universities resolve these debates about free speech, which pit students' welfare against the university's commitment to free inquiry and open debate? This text provides a new way of looking at this dilemma. It explains how the current dichotomy is false and is not really about the feelings of offended students, or protecting an open marketplace of ideas.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 16, 2019).
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190054199
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