More right-wing censorship. This time, the Florida legislature “voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out ‘leftist totalitarianism’ by ‘dictator professors’ in the classrooms of Florida’s universities.” (Source)
What is so wrong about this type of thinking is it supposes that students are not smart enough to decide for themselves what ideas they wish to engage and believe in themselves. That’s just for starters. Additionally, such thinking is easily unconstituional.
When I was in college, there were professors of both the left and right persuasion who took the opportunity to preach their right or left ideas. And, you deal with it. It’s reflective of the real world.
If we censor our universities, then the diversity of ideas suffers. It’s that simple.
But, of course, those on the right who actually support such censorship are all about killing all ideas which they oppose. Diversity bad. Conformity good. Think like us or die!
Does this type of blatant censorship exist on the left? I’d suspect it does, but the commonality of it in these times is troubling.
The lack of criticism of it from the right is troubling as well.
