Posted on 10/24/2005 10:44:25 PM PDT by Saynotosocialism
PULLMAN, Wash. -- A complaint from the "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education" prevented Washington State University from dismissing an education student who describes himself as a conservative Christian.
Ed Swan of Othello says he was ordered into diversity training over comments that he didn't believe that whites are privileged, opposed adoption by gays, and wrote "diversity is perversity" in the margins of a book.
Swan says he is not a racist and is no more likely to preach his point of view in the classroom that someone with left-leaning politics.
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Does that mean that he only liked one brand of beer? That would be enough to get you blackballed at WSU.
Does that mean that he only liked one brand of beer? That would be enough to get you blackballed at WSU.
Salt does not do much good inside the salt shaker.
Assignment for school administrators:
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire
Compare and contrast with: "You have to take diversity training!"
Why? Ed Wilson is one of our greatest living scientists.
That is why I would go to another state. If Washington wants to destroy itself, I'm happy to let them do so. The most effective vote is the one that we cast with our feet.
I see things have gotten worse since I graduated from WSU in December 1992. I have never made a donation to WSU and never will precisely because of crap like this.
Thoughtcrime doubleplusungood.
What a bunch of hypocrites! "Diversity" is not the goal of WSU. From this article, it appears Swan actually brought diversity (of thought) to the classroom. And we just can't have that now can we? Not in a publicly funded school. I hope all like minded alumni will STOP contributing to this madness.
After leaving a university in 1993, I realized I entered a No-Mans Land between worlds for about 6 months, where I knew of what was going on at the school, but saw how the "outside world" was oblivious to how bad things were there.
The president of the Board of Trustees (who also saw the problems at the school) urged me to write it all down before I forgot what it was like to be in that place...and of course, I didn't. But cases like this, and talking with alumni, make me remember that feeling.
I believe this is one of the most important battlegrounds in the fight to protect our republic. I can't tell you how many students I know who paid lots of money to learn nothing but one side of things in the leftist-indoctrination program financed by our tax dollars.
"Ed Swan is a 42-year-old fourth-year student in the elementary education program at Washington State’s College of Education. Swan’s problems stem from the College of Education’s use of Professional Dispositions Evaluations (PDEs) to evaluate education students for their fitness to become teachers."--from http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/6274.html
Anyone know anything about this group? They sound on target: The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's increasingly repressive and partisan colleges and universities.
Mr. Swan's age might be relevant. I believe many younger students simply buckle under the pressure.
Which is what scares them, as schools -- primary, secondary and graduate -- have become leftist indoctrination centers precisely because the educated idiots preach their version of the "truth" as if it really IS gospel. My father-in-law was tossed out of a Doctorate program in Secondary Ed because he wouldn't toe the anti-religion, pro-abort line.
So far the approach has just been to use vague words. But this is just the beginning in education and in industry.
Obviously you are not sensitive to the issues!
Whatever you just said, I respectfully will defend your right to say it, whether I like it or not. And if I don't like, I retain the right to say so. That is what "Tolerance" used to mean.
When I worked with the very elderly and even demented, I learned a thing or two about true tolerance. I used to talk about politics and religion, just to get discussion going. And in a hospital ward such as that, people of all walks of life end up together.
This older generation showed a persistent, authentic tolerance of each other's differing views even in their demented state of mind. It glowed as a halo on an old civilization, shining quite differently than the patina we now see called "tolerance and diversity".
Ask them if the gender suitability-to-task displayed by all mammilian species (as noted by Harvard biologists recently) isn't carried forward to humans, won't that be a denial of evolutionary processes at work?
Hey, I'm just trying to stay awake!
Your comment makes me want to faint, throw up, and all that other stuff the feminazi said at the Harvard meeting. Just the fact that you might dissent silently in your own thinking is oppressive to me, a sensitive type of guy.
My sentiments exactly! I thought getting a college education was all about engaging new ideas and challenging they way one thinks. This is unacceptable for a State University. Sad to say that he'll probably suffer unless he transfers, and I would transfer to a private university. I transferred from Arizona State to Univ. of SO. Cal. because of prejudice and discrimination on the other end. I majored in architecture which is one of those majors that tries very hard to "weed out" certain students in the lower division [first 2 years of study] Well I knew my work was just as good if not better than other white counterparts in my studio classes and my classmates agreed. They were shocked at my grade son numerous occassions. I met with my prof. the dean which was of no consequence. I spoke with ombudspersons and with the provost and couldn't get an appointment with the president. State universities can ruin your life. It took me nearly 6 years to graduate from college.
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