The Harvard Bait & Switch: Harvey Silverglate on the University's Free Speech Fakery
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 гру 2013
- Like FIRE on Facebook: / thefireorg
Follow FIRE on Twitter: / thefireorg
Subscribe to our email list: thefire.org/takeaction/subscribe/
CORRECTION: At 3:10, Allen Ginsberg's name is spelled incorrectly.
Growing up, Harvey Silverglate always had a natural inclination toward free speech. As he says, "We really used to say on the streets of Brooklyn 'sticks and stones will break my bones but names can never harm me.'"
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1967, Harvey followed his passion for free speech to college campuses, where, as a lawyer, he defended Vietnam war protesters. His experiences defending student expression on campus eventually led him to co-found the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), where he now serves as Chairman of the Board.
In FIRE's latest video, we sit down with Harvey to discuss why it is so important to defend the principles of free speech and academic freedom on campus. Harvey also tackles such subjects as Harvard's deception when it comes to academic freedom and what label people give him that makes him laugh the most.
Subscribe to FIRE's UA-cam channel to receive automatic notifications when new material is posted.
Produced by Ted Balaker. Shot and edited by Matt Edwards. Music by Manuel Ochoa (Magnatune Records).
If the left were entirely comprised of "old fashioned liberals", I would proudly associate with them. Instead, now we have closed-minded bigots who think they aren't bigots.
And the few of us "old fashioned conservatives" left would be proud to work with them.
Bigotry Means closed-minded, but that's exactly how you should be when you're actually right. There's nothing wrong with being a bigot unless you're wrong.
An "Old Fashioned Liberal", we need more of them. Harvey you are a Superstar as is the young lady in this video.
If we had a clone of him at each and every campus in America then our education system would be much better, and the students better protected by the campus censors.
I'm so glad people like you exist.
They have FBI informants as defendants sitting in jail and in trial right now. It is horribly wrong. Please help!!!! Cliven Bundy and Americana NEED YOU
Great guy. A real liberal, in the old sense of the word, that believes in liberty, and liberty for everybody, not just liberty for people on the left. I love it when he said he started out defending leftists for free speech, and being dismayed when those same leftist took over and became hypocritically more intolerant than the old Harvard conservatives they used to protest against.
Consider yourself one of my newest heroes, Harvey. Cheers to you, sir. Subscribed.
I love this guy he seems cool as shit!
My new favorite liberal. It is funny how the right is closer to classic liberalism than the academic left is.
Yes, that is because the right has been able to work with and respect libertarians, and even incorporate many libertarian ideas, even if many on the right disagree with libertarians on socon issues, while the left respects nobody that does not buy the entire leftist program. The dems congratulate themselves on being the party of tolerance and diversity, but in reality tolerate nothing that does not completely fit their leftist viewpoint.
The fact that you define Democrats as "Left" is of course totally "conservative" P.C. Also your comment about the "Left" respecting no one is again P.C. It is so easy to find "conservatives" who rail hysterically against and viciously against so-called "Liberals" and "Leftists". I could mention Fox News whose hysteria and hatred of free speech is clear and obvious.
And of course you would support the academic leftists who try to suppress all this horrible conservative hysterical PC hate speech. I like real liberals, like the guy on this video, who actually believe in liberty. But academia and the dem party don't really have that many real liberals left anymore. They have all turned into leftists, who are just as intolerant as the old conservatives they used to protest against, and only really believe in free speech for other leftists..
Your fantasies are amusing. Your assumption that the Democrats are "Leftists" is of course risible P.C. nonsense. As for only believing in free speech for other Leftists. you really like to spout whoppers. Thank you for illustrating my point so clearly.
You haven't really listened to this very video much have you. It supports every point I have just made, and the speaker is a former liberal, who recognizes what a threat the modern leftists who have taken over liberalism and the dems are.
You are a true hero
Thank you, Harvey, for all you've done. Please, if you have money, people reading here, donate it to FIRE, which defends free speech violations on campus pro bono for people who would otherwise not be able to afford a defense.
***** Great. People who can't support theFIRE.org with money might consider supporting them by doing something to spread the word about their work. Tweet, Facebook, etc., about what they do. Tell people on campus.
No doubt you also support campaigns against violations of free speech by "Conservative" and "Fundamentalist" educational institutions where such violations are routine.
Pierre Cloutier Oh, snap! Are you a clever lad! (As Harvey points out, one is assumed to be a "right-winger" if they support free speech -- a sad comment on what being liberal has become…or maybe always was, under the surface.) I'm an atheist and a libertarian. I personally encourage free speech and inquiry at all institutions but you seem confused. A private institution is free to do as they wish. What FIRE often protests is that institutions like Harvard, which is private, claims to be a bastion of inquiry and free speech. If you'll read up it, you will see it is not.
Amy Alkon Someone below points out that Harvard accepts Federal funding. Institutions that do can't be considered "private."
Speaking of assumptions just why do you implicitly assume I am not for free speech? Oh and the statement that if one is in favor of free speech one is assumed to be right wing is politely a huge exaggeration. Your fantasies about "Liberals" are hilarious You seem to fantasize that being a "Liberal" means your against free speech. Hallucinate away.Has for a private institution is free to do what it wishes. Thank you for giving me the answer I knew you would give. But then your answer illustrates in abundance a mind set I have seen over and over again. Oh and all sorts of institutions like "Conservative" "Fundamentalist" schools get public funding one way or the other. Oh and get your psychic powers tested.
I agree with everything this man says. I don't agree however, with his choice of ties.
I dont know if there is already a list. But my guess is, that if FIRE set up a list of campuses that infringe on peoples rights and do it by how bad they are. I am sure that most colleges would hate the publicity of being known as anti free speech and anti rights and anti constitution.
They have, actually!
>Fights for freedom of expression
>Disables comments on almost all of their videos
Too true! But then far too many youtube commenters just clutter reasonable discussions with nonsense, making it hard to find smart comments whether you agree or not.
You should look into Amazon bait and switch scams. For example they charge you one price at checkout but the amount they charge your account is higher
Can UA-cam correct their closed captions because I'm only hard of hearing and I can't understand what's going on through the captions.
HE SAID, THERE IS TOO MUCH PC BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe they just feel like they have an axe to grind
God bless you Allen
I hope the optimism is justified. When you try to get logical argumentation from many of these students, it's like talking to a solid wall of platitudes and slogans dipped in concrete. The brainwashing is incredible.
Wow, I never thought harvard would be this hypocritical
Fingers crossed?!
I really hope the current university model is totally abandoned in the very near future hopefully when the bubble bursts. I honestly believe it will take a major economic movement for the institutions to change.
Bwaahahaha, this aged beautifully 😂
Pretty sure Tom Lehrer would not be happy with his Alma Mater.
Dave.
I'm generally not one who goes in for hero worship, (though I REALLY admire other free speech advocates like Ginsberg, Jagger, Richards, Bowie, Burroughs, Bukowski, HSThompson, Camille Paglia, R.Crumb, Terence McKenna, JP Donleavy...) Harvey Silverglate is quickly becoming someone whose work I greatly appreciate.
Am I drunk or did this video keep playing itself multiple times?
It's interesting that the two principles that Harvey espouses right at the outset of this video are contradictory.
If this man and myself were to set down and drink a beer, we would disagree 90_ of the time. But on this he gets it. Wake up SHEEPLE.
Can't Harvard the Harvey.
Your awsome
Harvey, I disagree with one of your positions on civil libertarian grounds: Harvard can't proclaim itself a formally leftist institution because it accepts federal funding and is tax-exempt. Ideological institutions should not be funded by the government.
But when the government is a Leftist institution...
Cruelty1633
Exactly. Harvard should be honest about its agenda and so should the government. There's nothing non-ideological about government, particularly modern American government.
Then Harvard, in good conscience (which obviously it lacks)m should refrain from accepting federal money---as indeed the conservative Hillsdale College refrains.
‘Eventually the censorship monster will turn on you’. Let’s hope it does.
"classical Liberals" and now ""old fashioned liberals"......
The saddest part of Harvard is that it produced Obama.
It manufactures Obama's...all day long.
So sad is it that what he is talking about is just freedom 1-0-1, founding principles engrained in our culture, yet it sounds profound. Our teachers, schools, media, and population is that backward.
FIRE was singularly unhelpful to me in my battle against the discredited UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. I am writing about FIRE and other foundation-funded organizations.
FIRE might have seen the righting on the wall for her (see below) and would not have gained by involving themselves. Even Help groups and nonprofits have a self interest motive that has to come first if they want to continue to exist and the UC system is a massive opponent in solid footings.
This is how the UC system punishes wrongdoing at the highest levels.
"Under a settlement, Katehi will remain on administrative leave for a
year as chancellor emeritus, receiving her $424,360 annual pay with the
promise that she will return as a faculty member."
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-davis-chancellor-katehi-resigns-20160809-snap-story.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Katehi
You are so right. FIRE and other organizations that I will identify, choose the low-hanging fruit to pick and keep their corporate fund-masters placated.
You are working on a paper/article/book? I wasn't sure from your first comment but am glad to hear it. I would be interested in reading it and am intrigued by the subject as it seems we live in a time that Charities, Funds and NGOs are being exposed left and right as something other than was sold to the public.
One of my colleagues pointed to the list of corporate and foundation donors. FIRE works for the "Bad Guys." We know it as "controlled opposition." Spread the word. They hire interns and fresh university graduates to field queries then at weekly meetings the professional intelligence managers cherry pick the cases that will make the org look like it is preserving academic freedom rather than perpetuating structural corruption at the university.
+Professor Hamamoto
Again, I am interested in the other side of the story but no one should spread the word just on accusations of being bag guys or controlled opposition or smelling bad :)
not trying to be argumentative but if you have some references or detailed insight it would be helpful to keep the conversation going.
This man and I are totally fucking simpatico.
When liberals became progressives, I became a libertarian.
Philosopher Michel Foucault had some interesting insights into *why* colleges and universities do these things.
How can anyone be liberal,socialist,or communist....
Thanks left wing.
65 million in the People’s Republic of China
20 million in the Soviet Union
2 million in Cambodia
2 million in North Korea
1.7 million in Africa
1.5 million in Afghanistan
1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
1 million in Vietnam
150,000 in Latin America
A society doesn't work well when everyone is equal.
I believe in equity and personal freedom.
Equity(fairness) and equality(equal) are very different.
Deaths were not a result of being equal but maybe just the opposite, I don't know. While propaganda said whatever, people were not equal - so one thing granted is it didn't happen because everyone was equal.
I dig what he is saying but,that damned 1960's Charlie Brown TV holiday special jazz music is pissing me the Hell off.Slayer,old Man,Slayer!!!!
BTW,I also dig the Charlie Brown cartoons,I grew up on them,especially the Halloween one.But the frigging music,damn you,Vince Guaraldi
I really enjoyed Hardeep Singh's whine. The self love and persecution mania P.C. of so many so-called "conservatives" is compulsively hilarious
06:10 So your basically saying that academic liberals are communist.
Not communist. Marxist and hardcore.
Self Stirring Pot Whats the difference between Marxists and communists?
Self Stirring Pot Oh thanks for clarifying it, why are Marxists scum?
Professor Indoctrinator.
Brian Rickert Because Marxists murdered more innocent people in the last 100 years than anyone else.