To me the average college discussion never gives a fair hearing to the anti-woke ideology. Your view is correct in a classroom where the notion that there are only 2 genders is given a fair hearing in contrast to the more popular 55 plus one.
1. Why can't admin have a say on currciuli? In calculus the curriculum is set, why should intro to phil be open to discussions of whatever the professor wants? Wasn't that the demand by the free speech movement that Rand called "guild socialism"?
2. I think presenting certain ideas does inevitably exert at least some influence, even if not necessarily upon any specific individual. Think about Peikoff's "Fact and Value" - presenting bad ideas is not morally exempt even if the professors don't implement them. Think about Rand's testimony about communism in hollywood.
So this might have the unintended consequence of preventing critical evaluation of these ideologies by non-woke professors (how many are there, anyway), and hiring right wing professors might be better. But I don't see that there is a moral difference between these two tactics.
This is also the rationale behind prohibiting advertising for alcohol and cigarettes: if you put up a billboard advertising Marlboros in a minority neighborhood, they have not choice but to smoke.
To me the average college discussion never gives a fair hearing to the anti-woke ideology. Your view is correct in a classroom where the notion that there are only 2 genders is given a fair hearing in contrast to the more popular 55 plus one.
1. Why can't admin have a say on currciuli? In calculus the curriculum is set, why should intro to phil be open to discussions of whatever the professor wants? Wasn't that the demand by the free speech movement that Rand called "guild socialism"?
2. I think presenting certain ideas does inevitably exert at least some influence, even if not necessarily upon any specific individual. Think about Peikoff's "Fact and Value" - presenting bad ideas is not morally exempt even if the professors don't implement them. Think about Rand's testimony about communism in hollywood.
So this might have the unintended consequence of preventing critical evaluation of these ideologies by non-woke professors (how many are there, anyway), and hiring right wing professors might be better. But I don't see that there is a moral difference between these two tactics.
This is also the rationale behind prohibiting advertising for alcohol and cigarettes: if you put up a billboard advertising Marlboros in a minority neighborhood, they have not choice but to smoke.