The above is a prime example of how the university campus serves as a launch pad for disseminating disinformation and hate to the global media. The fabricators of hate are not asked to engage in evidence based scholarly debate. Instead, they are encouraged to freely express.
Fake Free-Speech/ Academic Freedom Orthodoxy expressed by Woke/DEI/FIRE/Heterodox Academy is the problem. (1, 2) It enables the fabrication of disinformation and hate on campus. The solution is simple and doable: restore scholarly discourse and the pursuit of validated truth in education and on the university campus.
Those concerned with problem solving on campus can structure the university campus as a platform for evidence based debate that includes accountability and self-correction.
STEM faculty must look in the mirror and ask: what is our goal at the university? Free expression regardless of content, or the pursuit of validated knowledge.
The die is cast. Starting January 20, the government will pull the rug from under our feet and restructure education.
We have a great opportunity to effect change and to have a say, but we need to 1) redirect our mission and 2) do the work.
Our fake pretense of "free expression on campus" no matter how much it hurts is the bluff that the electorate rejected. We need to define our mission and our "to do" list. 1. restore the pursuit of validated truth and the practice of scholarly discourse on campus. 2. Eliminate the effectors of disinformation in the classroom and on campus.
To do: expose, online, the disinformation taught in the classroom. This will enable the accrediting bodies to address the problem.