MIT President Rafael Reif's Statement on Freedom of Expression(president.mit.edu) |
MIT President Rafael Reif's Statement on Freedom of Expression(president.mit.edu) |
This looks like its been run through that utility that makes links look sketchy
I had the URL updated to the Office of the President's page linked by a poster below as it is certainly clearer / more immediately credible. Thanks for raising the issue and thanks to that poster for the link.
Here's a real link: https://president.mit.edu/speeches-writing/reflections-and-p...
http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVwAAAxBzpsAAcrrRL4AAAA8ttQAAAAAGqoAJ...
Which resolves to this: https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/6/letters_to_community/importa...
(note: the tide already turned, what this guy has to say about DEI and careers has already returned to being the normal, default position, after a decade of overreach by social progressives)
That's...exactly where this should end, if you wanted to make an honest ethical argument instead of one grounded in a foundation you admit that you reject as valid.
> the MIT students who opposed this speaker are now morally obliged to listen to his criticism, because it's in good faith, rationally argued, and entirely within the context of the original lecture.
the MIT students are not morally obligated to accept your conclusion as to whether the talk is in good faith or any of those other things, much less to take any particular action based on your belief about those things.