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Trying to remember the source of the quote that basically says that whenever you try to open a "free speech" area to protect from illiberal witch hunts, you end up with a community of like 3 principled libertarians and ten thousand witches.

Difficult for me to imagine some sort of "mission driven school", especially advertised as a counterpoint to elite University cancel culture, didn't just turn into just as much of an illiberal institution, but just with a hard right/conservative bias.




The quote you are thinking of is from the Slate Star Codex article “Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Strugglehttps://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...

“The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.”


Here are some schools that endorse the Chicago Statement on Freedom of Expression: https://www.thefire.org/chicago-statement-university-and-fac...

It's a diverse mix of state universities and a few elite private ones. No right-wing captured institutions as far as I can tell.

Being right-wing is not even a positive indicator for liberal values and support of free speech, IMO. Right wingers just cancel people for different reasons. Liberal values are not on the left-right spectrum in 2021, if they ever were.


> Difficult for me to imagine some sort of "mission driven school", especially advertised as a counterpoint to elite University cancel culture, didn't just turn into just as much of an illiberal institution, but just with a hard right/conservative bias.

Perhaps what we perceive as a 'conservative' bias is just what centrist discourse used to be like before the twitter mobs?




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