We learn more by failure than we do by success.
Larry Summers' ouster as Harvard President as the result of faculty pressure is instructive on several levels.
It instructs us that even (or perhaps especially) at elite institutions, dissent from orthodoxy is not tolerated.
It instructs us that caving in to pressure does not solve your problems, it only encourages your opponents.
Excerpt from Dr. Sanity (read the whole thing):
In the history of academia, I don't think anyone has ever come closer to voluntary castration for the cause of radical feminism.
And look where it got him. As I have stated before, bullies --no matter what their gender or religion--only thrive on appeasement.
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