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Will Cornell West's defense of free speech result in absurd accusations of racism or of being 'free speech purist'? wsj.com/articles/the-m…

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Some thoughts on the remarkable Princeton statement by @McCormickProf & @CornelWest, that I was pleased to sign jmp.princeton.edu/statement 1/

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Why is it even news that such a statement is promulgated or necessary? It says something re campuses today & this should concern us all. 2/

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But it is not enough for faculty to simply sign such statements, any more than for universities to simply have good speech codes 3/

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Faculty must also act accordingly — modeling proper behavior for students, of openness and reason and discourse 4/

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Faculty must also act accordingly — publicly supporting the principles, & their colleagues, when they are under attack for defending them 5/

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Faculty must also act accordingly — publicly opposing disinvitations 6/

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Faculty must also act accordingly — affirmatively inviting speakers they disagree with — politically or scientifically (even) — to campus 7/

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Faculty must also act accordingly — doing joint events as so admirably done by @McCormickPro & @CornelWest or @AKStanger & @charlesmurray 8/

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Faculty must also act accordingly — publicly clarifying complexities of protest vs silencing (which denies both speakers & listeners) 9/

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"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." -- JS Mill (As I have been saying.) 10/