La Universidad de Cambridge por las razones equivocadas: nuevos ataques a la libertad académica

Transcribo tres párrafos de esta excelente y completa nota escrita por Nigel Biggar, sobre un nuevo (cada día mas recurrente) y lamentable episodio contra el pensamiento crítico y la libertad de expresión y pensamiento en cuanto a lección programada para Jordan Peterson.

"Of all institutions, universities should model the giving and taking of reasons, offering well considered rational explanations, exposing them to criticism, and either rebutting it or yielding to it. Cambridge’s reluctance to be rationally accountable was a betrayal of its vocation."

"Not every child born a Christian or Muslim chooses to remain an adult believer. Identities involve interpretations of facts, interpretations involve ideas, ideas are chosen, our choices are accountable to reason, and what’s accountable is fair game to criticism."

"When one puts Cambridge University’s serial inaction in the case of Dr Gopal alongside its precipitate action in the case of Professor Peterson, what is revealed is this: the University does in fact discriminate on the unjustifiable grounds of race, gender, and above all morals and politics. If you’re non-white, female, and aggressively ‘woke’, then you’ll be accorded maximal benefit of doubt, given a pass on official norms of civility, let free to spit hatred and contempt on social media, and permitted (probably) to malform and intimidate students. However, if you’re white, male, culturally conservative, and given to expressing reasoned doubt about prevailing mores, you’ll be given no benefit of doubt at all. And, should you do so much as appear to transgress ill-conceived norms of inclusiveness, you’ll be summarily and rudely excluded"

https://www.thearticle.com/cambridge-and-the-exclusion-of-jordan-peterson#