I don’t share Kathleen Stock’s pessimism on campus silencing

Having discussed the gender critical philosopher’s work with students, it’s hard to accept her gloomy assessment of silenced people, says Tony Lang

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June 2, 2023
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June 2, 2023
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I am glad to hear that you discuss gender critical views with your students. Good for you. However, you cannot possibly think there is no problem in academia. While 44 academics at Oxford supported Professor Stock’s right to speak, over 100 academics then signed a letter saying the opposite. Even a handful of “academics” thinking that the notion that women are defined by their sex cannot be stated on campus is evidence that academia has been partly colonised by a loud and irrational religious cult.
Well, here you go, Tony. Here are some stories of what it's like on campus if you believe in biological reality: https://www.gcacademianetwork.org/
"As a lecturer at one of Professor Stock’s alma maters – the University of St Andrews – for almost 20 years, I can only say that this is not my experience. Nor have I heard any of my colleagues complain about their academic freedom being limited in any way." There are none so blind...
The irony of reading this article that denies the statement that universities are becoming propaganda machines for a certain typoe of view, while, at the same time, the Times Higher Education features an article that basically argue how universities should produce, I am coping an pasting: 'the generals and foot soldiers of an unprecedented civil rights movement' https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/universities-cannot-be-bystanders-when-democracy-imperilled.

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