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How Guns Could Censor College Classrooms
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“Be careful discussing sensitive topics.” “Drop certain topics from your curriculum.” “[Don’t] ‘go there’ if you sense anger.”
A faculty working group at the University of Houston recently offered these recommendations to professors preparing for Texas’s new campus-carry law, set to take effect August 1. The situation to which these recommendations are alluding—gun violence in response to controversial or otherwise difficult classroom discussions—is at this point only a hypothetical worst-case scenario. But critics of the legislation are still appalled: To abide by the law, and keep everyone safe in classrooms with armed students, faculty may ultimately have to resort to self-censorship. |
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"In the eight states that have already enacted such a law, none of the predicted nightmares have taken place—students drawing their weapons on professors who fail them, for example, or students firing on one another in heated classroom arguments."
But, the hoplophobes continue to exhibit classic symptoms of projection. They react so emotionally to people with different opinions, that they can't trust themselves, so assume that others can't be trusted either, regardless of the facts.
Maybe also, their opinions about what they discuss aren't grounded in facts either and, knowing this, they realize that they must defend the irrational against empowered students. |
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