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Remember when the thing was to teach VIRTUE? Teach them virtue! So when the students are, essentially, taking up a moral view and acting on the basis of a moral view, which is to express disagreement and disapproval of certain views--that they have arguments are immoral (they can make arguments about their views!) this is bad because....they aren’t open-minded or something. And in fact, they are pretty fair to most views in my experience. I cannot be at all times (like now) because this swill has been shoveled at me for decades so I do lose patience with it. I don’t know why these people expect the students to be completely value-neutral about everything, to not let their values inform their responses to things. I also notice that the right has lost interest in the idea of teaching virtue or ethics or anything like this.

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