Posted on 06/03/2015 7:33:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rare.
I can find a unicorn more readily.
You can’t fire tenured professors.
Oh, yes, we've been down this road before, or at least the Chinese have. The author complains that he faces a choice between guarding his every word carefully with respect to the political enthusiasms of the moment or being subjected to a show trial and a public pillory. There is a scene in the movie The Last Emperor wherein the title character sees the teacher who guided him through his own brutal re-education paraded through the streets of Beijing with a dunce cap on his head; his regret is that the kindness shown him by that teacher, such as it was, is not even remotely present in the fanatical eyes of the student fascists. I felt the same sort of moral ambiguity toward that poor teacher as I do to the author, who fortunately is faced only with a possibly inconvenient unemployment should he fail to mind his political correctitude.
It is interesting that he feels the thing is somehow better for his conservative colleagues, if indeed he has any. It isn't. Certain conservative professors of my acquaintance have had to adopt a rather unapologetic confrontational approach developed in faculty lounges, and it is sweetly ironic to contemplate that it is a survival skill that stands them in good stead in the current environment. Unfortunately, that's mostly fantasy.
But it certainly does appear to the author to have gone bad very quickly. I'm not so sure. He cites 2009 as the Good Old Days, but the problem dates well before that. If only now the Little Red Books have begun to appear in student hands and the chanting begun, it doesn't mean the source of the underlying problem is recent. He can find it, though, if he looks in a mirror.
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Fast forward and the students who now populate college campuses were trained in lousy schools by incompetent or fearful teachers. Rather than being taught that social change was important they were taught that personal exploration was the chief concern. We now have a nation of oversensitive navel-gazers.
The liberals have truly reaped what they have sown.
Im not getting good vibes from this man or his arguments
" If we subscribe to the belief that ideas can be judged within a vacuum, uninfluenced by the social weight of their proponents, we perpetuate a system in which arbitrary markers like race and gender influence the perceived correctness of ideas. "
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
In July 1936 the socialist & atheist government of Spain, dealing with an army coup, was hesitant to arm the communist & anarchist mobs because they would be unable to control them. They relented in the end because they had nobody else willing to fight against the army/police, and it worked out exactly as they had feared - they had a repressive Stalinist regime fighting against the army, and the elections that brought them to power wouldn’t be held again for decades.
The young people in the US will simply deny medical treatment to older Americans to save money; if you don’t believe this, look at how Obama was re-elected despite the fact that ObamaCare was funded in part by cuts to Medicare. Twenty years ago Dems could win elections claiming Republicans wanted old people to die; now they win elections by promising young people that Dems will let old people die...
For some reason, your post made me laugh, and I don’t know why!
Yep. They just went to the houses in groups of three or four wielding sticks to take them away. That won’t work so well here...
1963 Communist Goals:
http://www.communistgoals.com/goals/goals.htm
Considering in 2008 & 2012 CPUSA endorsed Comrade obamatollah, the “democrat party” has completed the “transformation” into the Communist Party.
This is the world progressives have wrought ( including this teacher ) I say “suck it up buttercup”.
rlmorel: Liberal professors like this guy should go back and read the history of China’s “Great Leap Forward” to find out what happens
Apparently libs can’t even recollect “The Crucible.”
He’ll inevitably face accusations of triggering fits in someone having an “identity” advantage.
This is the monster you liberals created.
This article makes me feel marginalized, but I’m not sure it is a micro-aggression, or its sexier variant, the micro-mini-aggression.
This is mostly a fairly well written article by a clearly intelligent man, but there are a few nutty beliefs like this one mixed in. Believing that identity is relevant to truth is his tragic flaw. That liberal centerpiece of his world view made him an academic success, and it is what will destroy him and his field.
The Pythagorean Theorem is true - or false - regardless of whether the speaker is an old while heterosexual male or a twenty-something Hispanic trans-lebsian. The Watts Towers are stable - or not - regardless of whether the designer is an uneducated black man or a young female Muslim illegal with a PhD in gender studies. Nimitz, Spruance, Kinkaid, Yamamoto, Kondo, and Yanagimoto fought at Gettysburg - or they didn't - regardless of the speaker's melanin level or feelings about social justice.
"Cultural weight" associated with identity, and its claimed relevance to truth are insane concepts that should be dismissed and ridiculed at every opportunity.
All conservatives into the cornfield.
-PJ
I used to wonder how mobs were wipped up to “burn the witch.” It is no longer a matter of wonder....
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