Interview with Professor Who Dared to Criticize Sandra Fluke

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2012-03-27 18:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'Steven Landsburg, the professor who was denounced by his university for criticizing Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, stuck to his position in an exclusive interview with The College Fix.

“Everyone deserves respect, but some people are not interested in discussing their ideas, or possibly examining a different side,” said Landsburg, a bestselling author and professor of economics at the University of Rochester. “Fluke clearly has no desire to do this.”
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His opinion sparked controversy at the University of Rochester. Student protesters entered Landsburg’s mid-afternoon lecture and formed a line, shoulder-to-shoulder, between him and the class. Landsburg continued to lecture. The students distributed fliers that read: “We denounce professor Steven Landsburg’s attempt to smear a gender with derogatory terms.”

UR president Joel Seligman wrote an e-mail to faculty and staff that said he was “outraged that any professor would demean a student in this fashion.”

Landsburg found these criticisms to be absurd.

“Free speech isn’t the issue here,” he said. “Nobody, myself included, tried to stifle her speech.”

In fact, if anyone had stifled speech, it was the student protesters.

“I’m very disappointed in the growing trend of students and others unwilling to engage in meaningful discussion,” he said.'

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... I agree with Rush Limbaugh's behavior. I posted it because the whole incident has become an issue feminists have taken up as a cause celebre and so have started efforts to mobilize supporters to stifle any open discussion of any of the issues it brings up. Perhaps no group ought to be more concerned with the right of free speech than MRAs. What we read about happening at the U of Rochester is a perfect example of feminists trying to stifle free speech, and with the college administration's acquiescence. It's a perfect example of everything that has gone wrong in modern academic institutions and how powerful and influential feminists have become both there and elsewhere.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-03-28 02:08