Preach, Tim. I have been stewing about this ever since I heard about it first. Yet another person cheapening my Chicago BA and imagining himself to be clever while he goes about it.
This is brilliant, Tim. What is going on in higher education where leaders are unable to find the Spartacus responses? Is it that they first hear from there lawyers focusing on the fine terms of the “debate” seen before them? Or has that lawyerly tendency creeped into everything they do or write or say? In these days of a hot summer, I happen to be focused on a water recreation amenity in our neighborhood that attracts people from a very wide region. They seem to have a blast but leave a huge amount of trash around, even in view of a sign pronouncing “Leave No Trace”. Is this a bro’ of the Schmidt phenomenon?
What I think you're seeing with Chicago's response is something slightly different than the usual lawyering-up and generic statements--it's that they've chosen to frame this around "free speech" in terms of what they believe to be an unusual commitment (that has been lauded by conservatives) and so they've chosen to think that this places them in some kind of weird ethical checkmate where all they can do is grapple, grapple, grapple with a 'wicked problem'. They can't make the frame shift I'm advising here because they've already locked into a frame that makes this a dully typified problem in liberalism: how to square the competing rights of two individuals if you are the neutral sovereign calling balls and strikes in a game of negative liberties.
Preach, Tim. I have been stewing about this ever since I heard about it first. Yet another person cheapening my Chicago BA and imagining himself to be clever while he goes about it.
This is brilliant, Tim. What is going on in higher education where leaders are unable to find the Spartacus responses? Is it that they first hear from there lawyers focusing on the fine terms of the “debate” seen before them? Or has that lawyerly tendency creeped into everything they do or write or say? In these days of a hot summer, I happen to be focused on a water recreation amenity in our neighborhood that attracts people from a very wide region. They seem to have a blast but leave a huge amount of trash around, even in view of a sign pronouncing “Leave No Trace”. Is this a bro’ of the Schmidt phenomenon?
What I think you're seeing with Chicago's response is something slightly different than the usual lawyering-up and generic statements--it's that they've chosen to frame this around "free speech" in terms of what they believe to be an unusual commitment (that has been lauded by conservatives) and so they've chosen to think that this places them in some kind of weird ethical checkmate where all they can do is grapple, grapple, grapple with a 'wicked problem'. They can't make the frame shift I'm advising here because they've already locked into a frame that makes this a dully typified problem in liberalism: how to square the competing rights of two individuals if you are the neutral sovereign calling balls and strikes in a game of negative liberties.