Academics use new dictionary to aid students in era of fake news

Contributors hope resource will encourage students to avoid ‘assimilationist’ mindset

Published on
January 15, 2017
Last updated
February 16, 2017
John Elmes
pro choice advocates (right) and anti abortion advocates (left) rally outside of the supreme court
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What do you mean? ‘to understand abortion, you must understand the perspective of pro-choice and pro-life adherents’
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#1 Submitted by Isabel Verdadera on January 15, 2017 - 9:54pm
This seems like a sensible idea, although it's a shame that it took the rise of Donald Trump for left-leaning college professors to realize that there are valid arguments on the other side. Three cheers for the reopening of the marketplace of ideas. After spending thirty minutes browsing the definitions, some of them seem a little idiosyncratic and skewed in favour of leftist ethics, but it's definitely a start.

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