Harvard writer: Free speech threatens liberalism and must be destroyed

Harvard writer: Free speech threatens liberalism and must be destroyed
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/23/h...h-threatens-liberalism-and-must-be-destroyed/

If this Harvard University student got her way, free speech on campus would be abolished and professors with dissenting views fired, because radical leftism is the only permissible political philosophy and the First Amendment is a barrier preventing modern colleges from fulfilling their proper role as indoctrination camps.

Her name is Sandra Korn. She is a senior at Harvard and columnist for the Harvard Crimson.

In a recent column, Korn unambiguously insisted that the university should stop guaranteeing professors and students the right to hold controversial views and pursue research that challenges liberalism.

“If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals?” asked Korn in her column.

The column’s subtitle was even more direct: “Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice.”

Korn cited several instances of perspectives that clashed with her own being banned from campus as triumphant examples of the way Harvard should be run. The firing of Subramanian Swamy, a Harvard summer school instructor who was dismissed for his anti-Islamic views, was one such triumph.

She also invoked the academic boycott of Israel — something condemned by Harvard President Drew Faust and numerous other university presidents — as an example of the kind of tactics leftists should defend and use in order to get their way on campus.

Korn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Her sharp rejection of intellectual freedom — a value enshrined by U.S. law and central to the success of American institutions of higher learning — is common among left-wing activists at elite colleges. Last week, Erin Ching, a sophomore at Swarthmore College, took a similar view when she criticized her university for committing the unforgivable crime of allowing a conservative — Christian thinker Robert George — to speak on campus.

“What really bothered me is, the whole idea is that at a liberal arts college, we need to be hearing a diversity of opinion,” she said, according to the Daily Gazette. “I don’t think we should be tolerating [George’s] conservative views because that dominant culture embeds these deep inequalities in our society.”

George, a Swarthmore alumnus, came to campus to debate Cornell West.

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Man, there is as fine an example as you will find for government subsidized birth control and abortion on demand.

 

I'm reminded of posters here who think the wealthy should get one vote for every dollar they own.

 

Actually until the mid-1850s most states in the U.S. only allowed people with property to vote. However they only got one vote - not multiple votes based on how much property they owned.

 

A good idea, of course. But in modern US, "1 vote for each $ paid in Federal Income Tax" is a better one.

 

so.... is that biaaatttch from Harvard a Stalinist or a Leninist? Maybe she's just a really hard nosed Democrat?

 

This helps explain why all the homeless in Cambridge, MA are in Harvard Square and none are down near the MIT Campus.

The homeless are Harvard alumni.

 

Figures this totalitarian opinion in favor of an iron nanny state was expressed by a female........

Never should have given them the right to vote. The LORD set man over the woman, she was intended to be a helper comparable to him. This evil generation has reversed the roles! And look, they have watered the weeds of humanity to the point where the fruits of righteous behavior are cut down and thrown into the fire.

All predicted. Adam was tempted by the serpent through his wife. Some things never change. :eek:

 

I agree. And my girlfriend does too. Of course, her Dad is a Pastor, as was mine. It's a sign of the times, when people who attend Church are considered terrorists in the same country founded by believers...

 

^ Two of the best examples of how religion makes one fucking retarded. Or of how fucking retards become religious. It's a chicken or egg thing.


Holy shit!

And they want equal rights to speak this shit? This is exactly what that girl was talking about. False equivalency. Some bigotry and stupidity simply does not deserve public airing alongside rational speech and instead should be beat back down into the pit of excrement from which it comes.