JP Messina
@messina_jp
Associate professor of philosophy @ Purdue University. Author of Private Censorship, available here: http://tinyurl.com/2s889jte
Governments are increasingly invoking “incitement” and “hate speech” as catch-all justifications to punish political opposition, satire, and minority viewpoints. This week’s Free Flow highlights how global authorities are stretching these terms to silence dissent.🧵
I find his platform almost entirely the clownish stuff of the populist left, but threatening this sort of action against citizens and politicians with whom we disagree is extremely dangerous and short-sighted
Absolutely not. You don't revoke citizenship. EVER. The man won a primary through hard work and connecting with the largest number of voters who showed up. Everyone needs to chill and quit it with the un-American attacks on anything but his platform.
The pattern of harm to journalists in LA (plastic bullets, pepper balls, tear gas, detentions) raises serious red flags. Several cases appear targeted. A free press doesn’t survive under attack. We MUST defend reporters’ rights.
People respond: do two things, enforce the rules and simplify them. The problem is that all of the emphasis is on enforcement of existing rules, and few with any meaningful political power are serious about simplifying them. So you get draconian enforcement of bad rules. Sad!
“Just follow the immigration rules, it’s not that complicated.” The immigration rules:
The White House just admitted to pressuring a private company to punish an employee for criticizing the president and another WH official. This is the type of jawboning that President Trump vowed to end with his Jan. 20 executive order on "restoring freedom of speech."
Last night, in a since deleted post, so-called “journalist” @TerryMoran went on a rampage against Stephen Miller and called President Trump “a world class hater.” This is unhinged and unacceptable. We have reached out to @ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry…
If you 'don't care what it costs' to root out illegals who are guilty of working hard--and improving the lives of all Americans--you've really lost the plot of what this country is all about.
They will take all your liberties and immiserate you because they just really hate immigrants.
Absolute madness in Brazil: EIGHT years in prison for spreading "hate speech" through stand-up comedy.
This is my annual tweet advocating that students’ divergence from mean grade be reported on their transcript (including a summary cumulative average). This incentivizes students to seek classes that differentiate them and provides a needed incentive to counter grade inflation.
Digging into the great @GiannaEnglert ‘s recent book on French liberalism — the ideal flight companion
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Real Capitalism™ is the President telling an individual corporation how to set its prices.
Due process of law in the context of deportations exists first and foremost to protect American citizens from wrongful deportations. The only way to protect Americans from executive mistakes or abuses is to provide due process to anyone facing deportation. This is basic logic.
Impossible to overstate how much worse this is than students using ChatGPT. If you do this, quit your job.
if you are caught doing this you should be put into the stocks so the students can pelt you with vegetables, then ritually expelled from the faculty like the scene in Beckett
Argh. Far left and MAGA right are now equally insane on economics. They only differ in their pronouns.
🔥New preprint on why political activists sometimes try to censor free speech🔥 “Speech repression and threat narratives in politics: social goals and cognitive foundations” osf.io/preprints/osf/…
The indispensable @PessimistsArc reminds us that prior to the Surgeon General's latest warnings about social media, previous SGs warned of: - Video games ("aberrations in childhood behavior"; later backtracked) - TV violence ("environmental hazard"; increased aggression; later…
Increasingly of the view that essays should just be written on university computers, with lock down browsers and no outside tech. They’re too important to abandon to the deluge of robot vomit
What do we do about ChatGPT? The obvious and easiest response is to shift entirely to in-class evaluations. That may well be the best option. But in philosophy take home essays are vital—they teach students not just how to write but how to think. 🧵