I was just reading this article about academic freedom. I know some of you will jump in here and call me anti-semite again. If you want to waste your time with that nonsense go right ahead but it means nothing to me.

I don't consider this anti anything except anti-censorship. Everywhere you look this influence seems to be everywhere. Something just doesn't seem right. I can't imagine if this was a muslim that it would be tolerated or for that matter a Christian. It's like I pointed out in some other threads, you say the wrong thing about certain people who have wormed their way into all kinds of powerful positions and your career is over. These are some ruthless psychopaths who don't care about anything except control.

If his account of what happened indeed matches reality, then I agree with you. Universities are places where people are supposed to be free to ask questions.
My prof in ME Studies did a great job of balancing Zionist and Palestinian sides of the story. It is possible. And it's better to hear both sides than no sides.
The thing is that I have a hard time picturing that dialogue actually taking place. It sounds like one of those dialogues from the silly religious comic pamphlets. I'd like to hear other accounts. The professor's point of view might be skewed. But then again, I have found myself shocked by stupid dialogues in the past and it will happen again I'm sure.
Academic freedom is something I feel needs to be heavily defended. The terrible thing is that some powerful people from both sides seem to want to silence their academic foes. We have liberals trying to enforce PC. We have conservatives trying to prevent "anti-government", "anti-war", and "anti-Christian" questions or commentary from ever coming up.
The university of all places is where views should be brought to the forefront and challenged on their own merit.
And in this case, the prof appears to be being fair by allowing questions to come up.
But it could be that the head of the faculty feels that the questions are irrelevant to the class and the prof interprets the situation as being a PC one. I have been in classes where students constantly try to bring up tangents that detract from the subject matter of the class. Perhaps the questions are better for a ME Studies class than a religion class.
I would like to see what the other side says before drawing any conclusions.

But overall, I am troubled by the assault on academic freedom from both sides of the spectrum. And each uses the other's assault as fodder for their own (like that David Horowitz guy- what a tool). On one side they want to keep questions from being asked out of concern for politeness. On the other they want to keep questions from being asked that might "hurt our values" (ironically they often disguise it as protecting academic freedom by using the PC crowd... Like I've said before, PC is a liability for liberals).

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That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

And I do not need to know.

I agree PC junk is something the liberals need to rethink. Universities are not places for people to worry about getting your feelings hurt. If you are that sensitive then you don't belong there. These tough questions about the world should be discussed with a no bars hold attitude. Better to give everyone their say and open to debate than have desperate people out there trying to get heard using violence. They day Universities become indoctrination institutions is the day they might as well shut down.

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I love rota only brings up issues that have to do with jews opressing someone or Jews doing something against someone who is attacking them. Funny, how he never brings up anything about anyone attacking Jews.

Close but not quite what I expected. What happened to "Rota is an "Anti-Semite"?

Anyway how can I not post stories like that when they are all over the place every day? And how can I tell when someone has really attacked jews when they use "Anti-semite" against so many people all the time? It's like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" so much it lost all it's shock value.

You're an anti-semite because you only post topics concerning Jews in a bad light. You could discuss plenty of types in a bad light - Catholics, Protestants, Hindus, Muslims, gays, straights, Kurds, Polynesians, Peruvians, Luxemburgians, people from Nebraska, etc. Apparantly when reading the news you only notice articles concerning Jews!

Well would it make you happy if I post a thread about how the Zionists are puppets of the Jesuits?

There are a million things happening in the world every day concerning all sorts of people. But, you only focus on the jews - that makes you an anti-semite.......

I focus on articles concerning all types of people, I dont only have one type of people as the focus on my news agenda.

Thus, you are an anti-semite! Post a topic or two not concerning the jews doing something bad and maybe you'll stop being an anti-semite.

so what if he is anti-semite. the article makes a good point, the teacher that was fired for provoking questioning and talking about issues deemed taboo by a bunch of politically correct liberals. Anti-semite or not the teacher only did what a good teacher at such a level of education is supposed to do.

printer2 you need to watch "mind of mencia" or see some of carlos mencia's stand up comedy on comedy central. In fact i think that all the people that are all about political correctness should watch carlos mencia. He is brilliant.

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Anit-Zionist...how many times do I have to correct you? As far as posting a non-Zionist article......well I'll try...it will be hard but we'll see if I can do it...just give me a little time.


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