“We believe the AAUP’s new position is wrong-headed and dangerous”
that opposes the American Association of University Professors’ new position to support academic boycotts quickly gained over 1,000 signatures from scholars and faculty upset by the recent decision.
“We believe the AAUP’s new position is wrong-headed and dangerous,” the petition states. “We cannot safeguard academic freedom by violating academic freedom. Normalizing academic boycotts poses a profound threat to academic freedom.”, held since 2005, that stated “the search for truth and its free expression suffer if a boycott is in place.”
The long-held position also stated such boycotts threaten “the principles of free expression and communication on which we collectively depend.”on her Substack that the American Association of University Professors was “once a venerable organization,” but it “has been steadily moving towards a radical agenda, abandoning its noble mission of advancing academic freedom.”
academic boycotts treat individuals “as representative of certain groups rather than free agents responsible for their own deeds.” They “represent an unacceptable intrusion of politics and partisanship into science. Beyond science, academic boycotts are divisive and contribute to increased polarization and intolerance,” Krylov said via email.
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