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Florida law requires universities to survey students, staff about their beliefs

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32 pointsbjourne15 comments

Title seems slightly misleading. The requirement is to survey students and staff, not a requirement for students or staff to answer: “[a law] mandating public colleges and universities survey students and faculty about their beliefs”. Depending on the implementation of such a survey I guess it could be as in the title but personally I doubt it.

I agree. This title is super "clickbaity".

Title should be: Florida signs law mandating public colleges and universities to survey students and faculty about their beliefs

@thehill.com, you'd get more readers with the correct title.

It's called paltering:

The devious art of lying by telling the truth: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171114-the-disturbing-a...

Outrage clickbait especially in politics is rife with it.

I've edited the title to try to make it less misleading. If anyone has a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article itself), we can change it again.

That title is total garbage . HN is becoming reddit.

If you don't like that title why not suggest a better one?

HN has been "becoming reddit" since before it was called "HN". As Voltaire said, "it must be very slow".

I couldn't think of a worse way to promote critical thinking than this.

The title is misleading. It’s a weird law but it seems to require the universities conduct a survey. It doesn’t put any burden on students and faculty to actually answer as far as I’m aware.

In terms of the problem that this politician is trying to fix... Is it really that bad in the US?

I think we have all read about a few examples, e.g. students canceling professors and what not.

But in general?

This is about signaling as it won’t stand up in court.

awful. but,

what would a voluntary syatem look like? I think it would be cool if students could declare their beliefs. think about it, write it down, let others know.

I wouldn't mind random people in the world being able to quickly find my registered beliefs. that would be a neat democratic capability, no? what would that look like? what would your system or systems for that look like?

edit: 5 minutes since posting and at -1. why do you disagree?

Requiring students and professors to declare their political beliefs is something I associate with the USSR or Communist China. Are you OK, America?

The party that masquerades as Conservative is having an existential crisis.

This isn't a new problem. Between 1950 and 1967, employees of the University of California were required to swear an oath that they were not a member of the Communist Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levering_Act

Related: Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

(So they more than just ask)

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