Word: suppressions
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...AMERICAN Association of University Professors' attack last week on "attempts to suppress unpopular opinions" concerning race and intelligence addressed itself to a largely nonexistent issue...
...AAUP's statement contended that attempts to suppress views like William Shockley's are "undermining the integrity of the academic communities," but it never thought to enumerate the attempts or name any underminers--probably because there haven't been many. Angry students shouted Shockley down at Staten Island Community College last fall, but outside of that, he's been refused permission to speak only by two groups with public views much like the AAUP's, the Yale Political Union this week and the Law School Forum here last fall. Like the AAUP, these groups eloquently defended academic freedom, and like...
...wanted to address the question at all, instead of defending Shockley from imaginary attempts to suppress him, the AAUP should have attacked his real views...
...fact that in Denmark, where all censorship has been abolished, a remarkable and extensive drop in sexual crimes has been reported. If anything, it would seem therefore that the best way to protect the general public would be to allow outlets for sexual energy, rather than to suppress them...
...Yugoslavia and Cuba succeed in achieving independence? Why didn't their respective patrons suppress their independence movements, as they did in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Chile? Certainly the Yugoslavs and the Cubans were brave, certainly their leaders were astute. But Hungary and Guatemala had their heroes too, and Dubcek and Allende were certainly remarkable politicians. Answers based on countries' different political situations are bound to seem unpleasant, for they discourage belief in the imminent self-rule of all peoples in all situations; and with just two cases to go on, they're bound to be inaccurate as well...