{"id":96315,"date":"2023-09-26T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96315"},"modified":"2023-09-26T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:45:00","slug":"96315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96315","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2023\/09\/26\/90-of-professors-self-censoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90% of Professors Self-Censoring<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Lazarsfeld and Wagner Thielens Jr. surveyed almost 2,500 professors right in the middle of the Red Scare on whether or not they were self-censoring in light of the political climate. Nine percent of professors said they were, which by historical standards is really quite bad. Today,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/research-learn\/academic-mind-2022-what-faculty-think-about-free-expression-and-academic-freedom\">in 2023<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">that number is almost 90%.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Greg Lukianoff<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">September 25, 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-new-red-scare-taking-over-america-s-college-campuses\/ar-AA1hdNUD\">The new Red Scare taking over America\u2019s college campuses<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what was the self-censor rate in the USSR? My guess is 99.9% or higher. It is what communists do. They have to do this because the system is so broken it can only exist upon lies. The truth must be censored to avoid the abandonment and\/or destruction of the communist organization.<\/p>\n<p>A good rule of thumb is that the more acceptable censorship, the more the society depends upon lies to exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>90% of Professors Self-Censoring Paul Lazarsfeld and Wagner Thielens Jr. surveyed almost 2,500 professors right in the middle of the Red Scare on whether or not they were self-censoring in light of the political climate. Nine percent of professors said they were, which by historical standards is really quite bad. Today,\u00a0in 2023, that number is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96316,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96315\/revisions\/96316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}