Posted on 08/29/2006 7:34:58 AM PDT by Condor 63
The U.S. interstate highway system was built to give military tanks easy access to the inner cities in order to put down the expected revolution by black militants.
The technocrats who died in the Twin Towers were the equivalent of little Adolph Eichmans.
The United States government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks for its own benefit.
The above three statements were all theories proffered by college professors: the first at Chicago State University in 1969, and the second by professor Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado in 2001. The third and most recent is by professor Kenneth Barrett at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose views and re-hiring have been condemned by politicians and pundits, from Wisconsin's Gov. Jim Doyle to Fox TV's Bill O'Reilly.
Should college professors be fired for expressing radical views?
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All the jobs in beverage delivery were filled up. :P
Perhaps this urban legend was created because one justification for the interstate highway system was to help mobility of military units in case of an invasion of the continental United States. The designed were such that linear lengths of the interstate could also be used a fighter jet runways. Some liberal kook then took this legitimate need (national defense) and warped it into some jack-boot thug tin foil hat conspiracy theory still being spouted off by hygenically challenege hippie professors.
Heresy is a threatening independent thought. And the "world at large" would never encourage it: oxymoronic.
Independent thought is of course to be encouraged, even more so if it can be openly criticized and tested. That's not happening in college classrooms, I bet. Treason is always "independent"- doesn't mean it ain't treason- or moronic.
No need, lol.
Just arrest college professors at the airport as they return from their boy-sex trips to Thailand and Brazil.
"More of them are barely qualified ..."
Their "qualifications" include acquaintance with certian PC people, spewing certain catch-phrases, and cherishing a certain bleak, dark outlook on Western civilization. Oh yeah.
The world at large is not discouraging it either since the world at large is heretical to its core.
"... Kanye West reproduced by fission"
Tee, hee. Are you meaning "con-fusion"?
The guy that wrote this article is evidently just as stupid in that he can not distinguish between Noam Chomsky, the brilliant linguist and Noam Chomsky, the idiot political pundit.
You wrote: "The world at large is not discouraging it either since the world at large is heretical to its core."
The "world at large" is not monolithic! But the phrase does imply normalcy, averageness, "main stream". That is the opposite of "heretical". A "heresy" challenges accepted opinion/faith/thought. Cheezzzzz. Whoa there, pilgrim, I say in a nice way.
David Horowitz made a good point on Hannity and Colmes show that regardless how stupid statements like Churchills are, there should be a counterbalance alternative veiwpoint to the left wing crap on campus instead of this dominant ONLY way of looking at life.In that case jerks like Churchill wouldn't have to be fired because there would be conservative professors to offer debate on issues !!!
You would think that a professor of Lingistics would be not only able, but eager, to write in simple, comprehensible sentences. Chomsky uses complexity as a crutch. He's a friggin fonie, pardon my frenshhh.
Every place I look, everybody I see, nobody is happy with the way things are being done and everybody wants to do it all different and no two the same. This is not only happening with politicians bombarding us with their campaign messages right now, but with every person working for a living. There is something wrong with everything and everybody has a better idea. Of the seven billion people on earth no more than a handful thinks everything is just fine. There might be a median, but nobody I know resides on that median. You can't talk to anybody without hearing some kind of challenge to the mainstream. That is the true mainstream and it is made of atomic heresy.
"In that case jerks like Churchill wouldn't have to be fired because there would be conservative professors to offer debate on issues !!!"
You don't mean "diversity" do you??? -Diversity of the only thing that really matters: opinion/research/thought???
Bless you. And D. Horowitz (enlightened ex-Rampartsman, don't cha know).
Requiring equal exposure and shining the light on those campus commie clowns are not going to be a) thorough and far-reaching enough and b) not quick enough. I say: cut the public trough feeding frenzie. If the profs find they must compete for student dollars in a public marketplace, with no tenure, and no government dollars to shore them up, they'll shape up, and fast. Serve 'em right, she said, punnily.
I've had electrical engineering professors state that electronics work based on magic smoke. As evidence they stated that if you let all the smoke out of a piece of electrical equipment it won't work any more.
Has too much information got you down? Relax. Different opinions do not portend "heresy", necessarily or normally.
I'll have to take your word for that. Heard him speak once on a trip back East. It was a little less than impressive. I do understand he's moved past the weird fixation on postmodernism/poststructuralism that made the evening such a pain in the butt, which, I grant you, is more than I can say for his colleagues.
What a visionary!!!
LOL! Just to be safe: /sarcasm
Is heresy one of those politically charged words like Fascist! or Racist! or Genocide! ? Maybe inside a dogmatic institution such as islamism everybody else is a heretic but in the world at large it is just a curiosity.
If they're doing it in class on my dime, then yes.
If I spent my day at work doing anything other than my job (FReeping aside on my breaks), I would be fired. Why shouldn't they?
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