Title : "Once M.I.T. starts choosing speakers based on their public stances, it becomes responsible for every stance of every speaker it does invite. Isn’t that a bigger risk for M.I.T. than a stance-neutral policy?"
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"Once M.I.T. starts choosing speakers based on their public stances, it becomes responsible for every stance of every speaker it does invite. Isn’t that a bigger risk for M.I.T. than a stance-neutral policy?"
A tersely brilliant question framed by Ilya Shlyakhter, published in "Letters: Canceled by M.I.T.: The Professor’s Talk" (NYT).
It could become impossible to invite anyone anywhere, because something could turn up post-invitation and you'd need to pull off the awkward, conspicuous act of revoking the invitation. It could become impossible to accept an invitation, because you're asking for anyone to search through whatever there might be out there that could be used against you, throwing your life into total disarray.
ADDED: I'm searching the NYT and finding a lot of letters to the editor from Ilya Shlyakhter. I'll highlight a few:
2005: "How ironic that an attempt to 'humanize' this presidency with some informal humor had to be 'written by a longtime Washington speechwriter' and required 'several days of rehearsals'!"*2005: "If government displays of religion had been pushed by Mother Teresa, I might accept them, but they're pushed by people who often contradict the very messages they want prominently displayed. Such religious displays would actually serve a useful purpose if seen for what they are: not affirmations of righteousness but testaments to hypocrisy."
2006: "Like soldiers, organ donors may serve for a mix of altruistic and pragmatic reasons. Why let the soldiers be paid but not the donors?"
2015: (about a ban on a type of ammunition used by target shooters and hunters) "If the Second Amendment protects sporting and target shooting, we should rethink its place in the Constitution. What other sport or hobby has constitutional status? And how is the ability to practice a hobby 'necessary to the security of a free State'?"
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* I blogged about that one here and said: "And she described Bush's ineptitude in his early days of ranching with the old joke that he 'tried to milk a horse ... and it was a male horse.' So, thanks, Laura, for leaving us with that picture of George with a horse's penis in his hand! "
A tersely brilliant question framed by Ilya Shlyakhter, published in "Letters: Canceled by M.I.T.: The Professor’s Talk" (NYT).
It could become impossible to invite anyone anywhere, because something could turn up post-invitation and you'd need to pull off the awkward, conspicuous act of revoking the invitation. It could become impossible to accept an invitation, because you're asking for anyone to search through whatever there might be out there that could be used against you, throwing your life into total disarray.
ADDED: I'm searching the NYT and finding a lot of letters to the editor from Ilya Shlyakhter. I'll highlight a few:
2005: "How ironic that an attempt to 'humanize' this presidency with some informal humor had to be 'written by a longtime Washington speechwriter' and required 'several days of rehearsals'!"*2005: "If government displays of religion had been pushed by Mother Teresa, I might accept them, but they're pushed by people who often contradict the very messages they want prominently displayed. Such religious displays would actually serve a useful purpose if seen for what they are: not affirmations of righteousness but testaments to hypocrisy."
2006: "Like soldiers, organ donors may serve for a mix of altruistic and pragmatic reasons. Why let the soldiers be paid but not the donors?"
2015: (about a ban on a type of ammunition used by target shooters and hunters) "If the Second Amendment protects sporting and target shooting, we should rethink its place in the Constitution. What other sport or hobby has constitutional status? And how is the ability to practice a hobby 'necessary to the security of a free State'?"
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* I blogged about that one here and said: "And she described Bush's ineptitude in his early days of ranching with the old joke that he 'tried to milk a horse ... and it was a male horse.' So, thanks, Laura, for leaving us with that picture of George with a horse's penis in his hand! "
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