Faculty News
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Professor Jonathan Haidt is interviewed about his recent cover story for The Atlantic
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Excerpt from KIRO Radio -- "The idea that words are so dangerous, that anything could hurt anyone, and words are so dangerous in books that we need trigger warnings... this is new. And this is totally incompatible with the idea of a university, which is free speech, free thought... you should be able to say anything. ... Once you start saying that words are violence, that then can justify literal violence in response. So this is a very, very dangerous move. And it's only a few years old."
Faculty News
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Excerpt from KIRO Radio -- "The idea that words are so dangerous, that anything could hurt anyone, and words are so dangerous in books that we need trigger warnings... this is new. And this is totally incompatible with the idea of a university, which is free speech, free thought... you should be able to say anything. ... Once you start saying that words are violence, that then can justify literal violence in response. So this is a very, very dangerous move. And it's only a few years old."