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Simon Dedeo.  On Censorship

I was perhaps over enthusiastic about many things yesterday.  I have these 
giddy moments.  Worth dipping into, perhaps.  I found the off the cuff 
reflections on St. Johns, at the end, really interesting, but I have a son who 
teaches there.  

Not giddy today. 

Nick 

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
[email protected]
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ?
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 9:30 AM
To: FriAM <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Interesting "take" on political correctness and triggering

Which episode are you talking about? 

Simon DeDeo? https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/currents-simon-dedeo/
Jack Murphy? https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/jack-murphy/


On 5/26/20 10:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Sorry everybody,
> 
> I got snookered.  After an hour of cross checking in the internet, I 
> could find no evidence that …
> 
> (the Oxford Union apparently voted to asked the British government to 
> limit texts that may be taught on campus)
> 
> I don’t know if I misheard (the podcast was a bit muddy in places) or was 
> mis-told, but in any case I mis-informed you.  Again, I apologize.

>
> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 4:14 PM
> 
>  
> 
> This <https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/feed/podcast/> is a recent 
> podcast from the Jim Rutt Show which contained some new thoughts, for me.  It 
> reveals an understanding of the current free speech crisis on campuses (the 
> Oxford Union apparently voted to asked the British government to limit texts 
> that may be taught on campus) as arising from the interaction between a model 
> of polite discourse (avoidance of uncomfortable topics) with the wildly 
> increased diversity of student bodies on the campuses of elite universities, 
> meaning that the number of topics that can be discussed without making 
> SOMEBODY uncomfortable has greatly decreased .   The last five minutes 
> includes a discussion of the St. Johns model.  If you had only a few minutes 
> to devote to it, you might skip there and then reel back if you want more 
> context.  Easterners do NOT, repeat not, be put off by that “Howdy” thang at 
> the beginning.  For me, there were LOTS of new thoughts, here. One 
> significant model of classroom discourse that is NOT mentioned on the podcast 
> is the “T-group” model, from the sixties.  Hmmm.

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