"The soft despotism of shared opinion." What, shared opinion is bad? The problem isn't shared opinion, which is what any serious debate strives for, but required opinion, opinions that must be affirmed in order to keep your job, be promoted, receive grants, etc.
Agree with you about demonizing billionaires, yes (even though most of them support the Democrats). I was also struck by the sentence before the one about billionaires:
"We know how to do this [that is, help people to learn from one another] without stirring up engagement through rage, scapegoating, and hatred."
The main form of "rage, scapegoating and hatred" I see on elite college campuses these days is the very loud and belligerent form of it directed at Jews and Israel. And that rage is based very much on the ideological framework DEI enforces.
"The soft despotism of shared opinion." What, shared opinion is bad? The problem isn't shared opinion, which is what any serious debate strives for, but required opinion, opinions that must be affirmed in order to keep your job, be promoted, receive grants, etc.
Agree with you about demonizing billionaires, yes (even though most of them support the Democrats). I was also struck by the sentence before the one about billionaires:
"We know how to do this [that is, help people to learn from one another] without stirring up engagement through rage, scapegoating, and hatred."
The main form of "rage, scapegoating and hatred" I see on elite college campuses these days is the very loud and belligerent form of it directed at Jews and Israel. And that rage is based very much on the ideological framework DEI enforces.
Cass Sunstein doesn’t get out much, it seems to me.
If there are any TERF billionaires, they will be double-dipped in demonization.
Cass Sunstein speaks of zero antisemitic comments or acts at Harvard.
Has he noticed anti-black comments? Would he draw the same conclusions?