Coercion on Campus Stops When Students Say No

Dear Canada's university students, Over the last year, our country's universities have dismissed your concerns and refused to answer your questions.

You followed the universities' directives in good faith, you believed they had your best interests at heart, and that what you were doing was necessary for your education and essential to protect others.

The universities' positions so far have been "Trust us," everything done is to "Keep the community safe." Maybe there was some rationale for that position last year, when more was unknown.

Science no longer supports the mandates, this is true, but focusing solely on that fact misses the larger point: Your personhood belongs to you, not to the university.

In this case, without open and honest debate, there is no possibility of the rich, enriching free culture you go to university to receive.

21st-century universities are commercial enterprises and you are their customers.

Standing up to your university, making and protecting the choices you want to make, will be a far greater education than anything you will learn in a university classroom or from a textbook.

https://brownstone.org/articles/coercion-on-campus-stops-when-students-say-no/