Canvas by Aj Fife

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 21:47:26 UTC

College is all about Curiosity and that requires free speech

The classroom

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:19:24 UTC

the scope of interference

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:21:42 UTC

telling students and faculty what they can and can't say

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:22:29 UTC

the October 7th attack

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:23:58 UTC

the strength of commitment

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:24:41 UTC

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:37:01 UTC

“that truth is the sole aim and not the proof of officially prescribed and quasi-officially

desired or at least permitted views.”

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:42:46 UTC

instead, a group of Black students, myself among
them, went to the lectern afterward to question, argue and learn.

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:44:12 UTC

Teaching a subject is important; it is also in a sense incidental. The
classroom is, first and foremost, a place to train young minds toward a yearning for
knowledge and a taste for argument

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:50:38 UTC

Most obviously,
calls for violence based on racial or other differences rest in that wilderness, and need not
be tolerated in the classroom

ajf320 — 2024-10-10 23:54:12 UTC

then ignoring the overheated rhetoric of many pro-Palestinian protesters on campus. It has since spiraled into a full-bore battle in the never-ending culture wars.