Colleges and universities are manifesting authoritarianism with the recent trend of banning words and firing teachers, according to Professor William Jacobson.
William A. Jacobson said that colleges in America for the most part only tolerate left-wing political viewpoints.
One of the more recent instances comes from Northern Illinois University , which is planning on hosting several sessions for faculty and instructors that tackle topics like"White fatigue" and"antiracism" at the end of January. Jacobson also claimed that the people engaged in word banning on campuses come almost entirely from the left, utilizing speech control as a"power play."
Jacobson called the decision"absurd" and said the trend was"extremely dangerous" to free expression on campuses because one can never be sure what commonly used words could lead someone to be deemed a racist. "It turned everybody into a potential victim. Everybody's potentially offended regardless of the speaker's intention," he said.
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