The University of Austin (UATX)

[Walter Sobchak]

I'm kinda leaning toward "free speech grift", which is sad because higher education really does need a complete reset.

However, many of the people involved have made careers out of being cancel culture victims, so this whole thing is a bit suspect. I want to see a free speech university created for the love of the game, not as a money grab because the university libs have pissed off enough conversatives to where such a thing would be profitable.

I think the problem here is the fact that it's a university which centers itself around free speech, rather than being a regular university which promises to welcome free speech. The former seems somewhat like a grift, whereas the latter is sorely needed.

I keep seeing variants of this statement that "higher education needs a complete reset" but what does that actually mean? Certainly aspects of universities need to be reformed but what, practically speaking, do you think a "complete reset" of post-secondary education would look like?

And I think you've nailed it by saying that universities need to welcome free speech rather than building around it. We're already seeing the predictable ridicule of UATX for just being a free speech university:

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All that being said, I would take the shit out of a David Mamet play writing course.

That’s hilarious.

This “university” is a grift like everything else aimed at Trumpers and other right wingers who think they’re victims (lol). These people are extremely gullible.

Not only is it a grift, it seems like they’re trying to create confusion with the name of an actual well-regarded university, UT-Austin (UTXA).