{"id":7198,"date":"2015-04-28T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/28\/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-one-idea\/"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:57:38","slug":"college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-one-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/28\/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-one-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"College Encourages Lively Exchange of One Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this a freaking joke?<\/a>  (HT: Spencer Case who tells me the piece is "accurate.")
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The only kind of diversity liberals care about is politically correct diversity, diversity in respect of skin color and reproductive plumbing, not a diversity of ideas.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I've been pinching myself a lot recently.  Am I awake?  Is this stuff really happening?  <\/span><\/p>\n

Last night at five I turned on the TV  to see blacks rioting in Baltimore.  I should think that crapping in one's own pants is not the most effective way of protesting something.  Where are the adults?  Abdication of authority.  Clowns and fools, race-baiters and liars, in high places.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, fascist abuses of authority as in the<\/span> John Doe raids<\/a> in Wisconsin.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 1: Joshua Orsak tells me The Onion<\/em> is a joke site.  Spencer Case, NRO journalist, said the piece is "accurate."  I am tempted to go Hillarious:  In this POMO age, what difference does it make?  The Prez and the Veep are jokes, Nancy Pelosi is a joke, our foreign policy is a joke, the universities of the land . . . .  In this day and age jokes are realities.  'Trigger warnings' for example.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 2: Elliot writes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Regarding your 28 April post on the Lively Exchange of One Idea: it sure looks like a joke, but I also fear this type of thinking is present in American higher education.<\/span><\/p>\n

I've had a university administrator tell me and fellow instructors during a faculty meeting that, when grading papers, we should be less concerned with providing educative feedback and more concerned with providing feedback that "makes students feel warm and fuzzy and comfortable." This is just a sample of many similar comments I've heard over the years.<\/span> <\/p>\n

I sometimes suspect that (at least some) universities seek to pamper rather than educate students. This coddle-desire puts instructors who actually want to educate in a difficult spot.<\/span> <\/p>\n

I also worry that educational confusion is widespread at the elementary school level. You may have seen the following article. <\/span> <\/p>\n

http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/02\/why-our-children-dont-think-there-are-moral-facts\/?_r=0<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Thanks for your work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Is this a freaking joke?  (HT: Spencer Case who tells me the piece is "accurate.") The only kind of diversity liberals care about is politically correct diversity, diversity in respect of skin color and reproductive plumbing, not a diversity of ideas.  I've been pinching myself a lot recently.  Am I awake?  Is this stuff really … Continue reading “College Encourages Lively Exchange of One Idea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}