Given I have never made such a claim, it is not even at me.
My point is a much more subtle one. A high degree of cognitive conformity in academia leads to bad intellectual product -- both in intellectual output and in the education offered to students.
As for the point about disagreeing is not repressing, not in itself, no (though there was considerable whining about disagreement representing repression from the US Left after 9/11). If, however, it includes such things as shouting down opposing speakers, demanded apologies and/or resignations for expressing the wrong views, using your position as a teacher to deride student dissent, it becomes a bit of a different issue. These things are far from universal in academe, but they do happen enough to be a concern.
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Date: 2005-05-19 03:52 am (UTC)My point is a much more subtle one. A high degree of cognitive conformity in academia leads to bad intellectual product -- both in intellectual output and in the education offered to students.
As for the point about disagreeing is not repressing, not in itself, no (though there was considerable whining about disagreement representing repression from the US Left after 9/11). If, however, it includes such things as shouting down opposing speakers, demanded apologies and/or resignations for expressing the wrong views, using your position as a teacher to deride student dissent, it becomes a bit of a different issue. These things are far from universal in academe, but they do happen enough to be a concern.