Princeton Course Claims the 'Far Right' Abuses Liberty to 'Justify Hate Speech'

[Kamaji]

Princeton Course Claims the 'Far Right' Abuses Liberty to 'Justify Hate Speech'

By Alex Parker
Aug 21, 2022

Have you ever abused your freedom of speech? According to a new offering at Princeton University, the answer may well be yes.

The Ivy League school boasts a fall course called Current Issues in Anthropology: Liberalism, Racism & Free Speech.

Here’s how it’s described on the college’s site:

In the U.S. and Europe, far right activists use “free speech” to justify hate speech. But haven’t understandings of free speech changed over time as countries authorize speech differently? How have Western histories of racism and colonialism shaped what counts as acceptable speech, particularly if violence ensues?

The class promises to employ “comparative studies of racist and Islamophobic hate speech to examine different cultural approaches to managing speech and how these rules are contested/challenged by popular countermobilizations.”

Additionally, the study will “theorize intersections of racism, liberalism, speech from scholars of post-colonialism, anti-black racism, and feminist theory.”

The reading list includes the following:

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Source:  https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/08/21/princeton-course-claims-the-far-right-abuses-liberty-to-justify-hate-speech-n615288

[Kamaji]

How far Princeton has fallen.

[Gefn]

How far Princeton has fallen.

Ah, but the black squirrels are still there.

[GtHawk]

What is the 'far right' I keep hearing the left screech about? You would think it refer to extremists like the 'White Supremacist' bogeyman that was the go to slur. The truth is they consider anyone even the least conservative that believes in family, the constitution and God forbid, biology to be 'far right'.

Always the left slanders conservatives accusing them of that which is the norm for the left, hate speech, racism, even calling for the extermination of the White devil.

[Kamaji]

What is the 'far right' I keep hearing the left screech about? You would think it refer to extremists like the 'White Supremacist' bogeyman that was the go to slur. The truth is they consider anyone even the least conservative that believes in family, the constitution and God forbid, biology to be 'far right'.

Always the left slanders conservatives accusing them of that which is the norm for the left, hate speech, racism, even calling for the extermination of the White devil.

According to libs/progs/leftists, one is "far right" if one does not toe every last little one of the lib/prog/leftist ideological lines.   Even centrists and moderates - by the old reckoning - are now "far right" "extremists".

[andy58-in-nh]

Ah, but the black squirrels are still there.

@Gefn

Of course: they are likely being subsidized.

All kidding aside, this sort of curriculum is atrocious. It is a full-frontal assault on truth, logic, reason and intellectual freedom.   

It survives because it is itself being subsidized by people who believe, in spite of all contrary evidence, that an elite college education endows one with knowledge.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Princeton is over-compensating for the sins of its own past, ala Woodrow Wilson.

The Left's attack on "free speech" has the ultimate goal of eliminating free thought.  They only want us to believe what they tell us to believe, like a woke North Korea.