[lit-ideas] Re: Too Much Information?
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:16:57 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Thu, 16/7/09, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As for the music prof's boasts being unethical, there's no
> direct link between 'this disgusts me,' and 'this is
> unethical.' Avert your eyes.
> His institution can't censure him because he's written
> something offensive in a public, non-institutional setting.
This may be true in American academia,and well and good it may be, but in
England my impression is that persons are open to censure and even dismissal
for "offensive" material - on the basis that its public availability, and the
connection between author and institn/organisn, brings the institn/organisn
into disrepute or is incompatible with its 'core values' - and to do that
severs the trust and confidence essential to all 'employment' relationships.
Of course the love-pump might hardly matter, but what about racist or sexist
material? How does that play in American academia, even if the offensive matter
is merely placed in a "public, non-institutional setting"?
Donal
Across the Green Mountain
or on a cross on a Gricean molehill (as JLS might paraphrase)
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