Wednesday, July 7, 2021

An Edict Against Thinking - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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Brandeis University Promulgates an Edict Against Thinking

 

 

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and

fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the

remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

 

-Justice Brandeis, 1927

 

 

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Because

 

Potentially oppressive language gender

Exclusive ableist culturally appropriative

Terminology reinforce systems of violence

Identity-based language gender binary

 

Brandeis teaches a language of fear -

Scary enough at $60,000 a year!

 

 

Justice Brandeis on freedom of speech (bureaubrandeis.com)

 

Violent Language | Holding Ourselves Accountable | Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center | Brandeis University

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