'Indoctrinate U.' Offers a Look at PC Higher Ed »
Posted By stephen-johnson 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsBy Linda Seebach - "Instead of the vibrant debate, intellectual diversity, and academic freedom we like to associate with universities, Maloney found violent protests at UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco State, persecution of student members of a conservative club at Cal Poly and the University of Tennessee, divisive racial and ethnic politics a
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jdhatl1 year, 6 months ago
This is just part of the long standing right wing war on education which has created the pathetic situation where a large segment of the population believes that Saddam was behind 9-11 just because that's what they've heard. the reason that people in college campuses are so awful towards right wingers (I've witnessed it, it can be ugly) is that the right has lost any sense of moral balance in this country and deserves to be marginalized. Academia has been trying to do this since the late 60's/early 70's, so people in academia know so much more about our own basic history than 99% of the US population that they are actually entitled to be a**holes to right wingers who make the mistake of not enrolling in their local baptist bible college. They are just challenging them to get their arguments a little more oriented around logic rather than long since played out cold war era Anticommunism, the worst of all the Ism's
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stephen-johnson1 year, 6 months ago
"the reason that people in college campuses are so awful towards right wingers (I've witnessed it, it can be ugly) is that the right has lost any sense of moral balance in this country and deserves to be marginalized"
So when conservative speakers come to a college to give a lecture, it's permissible for activists to disrupt the proceedings rather than engage the speakers and challenge their ideas.
Based on your writing style, I can see why you're not too keen on debating.
"so people in academia know so much more about our own basic history than 99% of the US population "
From the article:
"he went to a history class and the professor claimed that capitalism was responsible for the Holocaust (and refused to let a student who disagreed finish speaking)"
Yeah, right
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PsychoHosebeast1 year, 6 months ago
"So when conservative speakers come to a college to give a lecture, it's permissible for activists to disrupt the proceedings rather than engage the speakers and challenge their ideas."
Well, yes it is, because generally speaking, anyone challenging the speaker is simply removed from the event... talk to the people wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at any function he's speaking at that haven't even opened their mouths, or the guy that was shaken down in front of his kid and held for six hours for simply telling Cheney he didn't agree with him when he shook his hand... or, just like when liberal speakers come and the same thing happens in reverse or they're ripped apart in a one-sided rant by Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh on their shows. People will be heard, regardless of how it needs to be accomplished.
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stephen-johnson1 year, 6 months ago
The cost of a college education is rising even faster than medical care, yet you don't hear calls for controlling costs. Curious.
The colleges know that they have a captive market, since everyone has bought into the idea that you need a college education to "be somebody." The fact that college seniors aren't much better informed than general population in many areas makes you wonder if they are getting their money's worth
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