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Another professor bites the dust

Started by Langue_doc, February 24, 2022, 09:41:45 AM

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marshwiggle

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on March 04, 2022, 03:44:14 PM
Quote from: marshwiggle on March 04, 2022, 10:55:44 AM
I'm not through it all yet, but it would seem a safe space would be more like an "epistemic bubble" by those definitions.


I don't really think so. A safe space isn't really an epistemic space, nor is it one from which relevant voices are excluded by omission (rather: hostile voices are excluded by design--but, again, it's not really an epistemological thing).

The definition creep of what counts as "hostile" is the big problem; for instance, among the "healthy-at-any-size" crowd, just talking about things like fitness is seen as "hostile", despite all of the relevant medical evidence about what conditions optimize health.
It takes so little to be above average.