For Christ's sake a bunch of law professors at University of Pennsylvania just denounced their own colleague not for any reasons of legal scholarship, but because she expressed some conservative moral ideals. And you people are telling me that professors won't promote orthodoxy among students, when they are enforcing it among their own peers!
That sounds interesting. Can you share the article?
That was interesting. I think the professors were a bit harsh to "condemn" a person for an opinion. However, Amy Wax has a very peculiar perspective on what she thinks would work in today's world in terms of progress. She comes across as some 1960s idealist that if we force the same culture on everyone, whether they want it or not, society would be better. And that culture she seems to want to push is the Anglo-Saxon Christian way of life. She doesn't even really provide reasons for how and why this would work. It almost feels as though she is disgusted with other cultures that aren't hers.
And the law professors could have written an op-ed dealing with her arguments and dismissing them.
Instead, they assumed her values were beyond the pale and merely condemned her like an Inquisition. But there's no problem at all, right?
I'm not sure what you are conveying here. Her values were on display in her premises and conclusion.
They assumed they were beyond the pale in that they assumed that they were not even worthy of discussion. They merely "categorically rejected" her beliefs, without any attempt at debate.
And okay, you people are being purposefully disingenuous if you think a statement such as: "We write to condemn recent statements our colleague Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at Penn Law School, has made in popular media pieces," is not an attempt to name and shame.
If she says everyone should live an Anglo Saxon christian way of life, she absolutely deserves 100% to be condemned, shamed and shrugged off as though her opinions don't matter. That type of view is disgusting and detestable. If she was on about how that is HER way of life, and not trying to spill it on everyone else, that would be different. ---
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