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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (47144)2/22/2014 7:26:59 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
Harvard Feminist Says Academic Freedom Should Be Abolished Because It Fosters “Racism, Sexism, And Heterosexism”…

Yeah, we need to protect our universities from the threat of heterosexism, in the cause of academic justice, of course.

Via College Fix:

A Harvard University feminist student writing in the campus newspaperThe Crimson recently posited this:

“If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals simply in the name of “academic freedom”?

The column was titled “The Doctrine of Academic Freedom – Let’s Give Up On Academic Freedom in Favor of Justice.”

Its author, senior Sandra Y.L. Korn, a joint history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality major, called for the end of academic freedom and in its place “a more rigorous standard: one of ‘academic justice.’”

“When an academic community observes research promoting or justifying oppression, it should ensure that this research does not continue,” she wrote. “The power to enforce academic justice comes from students, faculty, and workers organizing together to make our universities look as we want them to do.”
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