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foreveryoung
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Message 761 of 1485 (655223)
03-08-2012 7:38 PM
Reply to: Message 723 by Tanypteryx
02-27-2012 7:00 PM


Re: It makes me want to puke when I read\listen to santorum's rants
That isn't what santorum meant by "intellectual diversity". If you look at the context of his statement, he was talking about university faculty. He also wasn't talking intelligence either. He was talking about the lockstep, party line thinking of academia. Although there is some leeway in what is acceptable for faculty to openly believe, there are some things you must never be let known that you believe, let alone teach to your students. This is the opposite of diversity. This is intellectual totalitarianism. This forum is a perfect example of it. There are a set of beliefs that are acceptable here. If you openly suggest that reality may swerve in the slightest from the acceptable beliefs here, you are mocked, ridiculed, and your reputation level kept in the basement.
Academia and this forum are little fascistic, totalitarian groups. The only diversity alllowed here is skin color, and sexual persuasion.
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foreveryoung
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Message 762 of 1485 (655225)
03-08-2012 7:47 PM
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03-03-2012 5:32 PM


It is true. Contraception leads to a false sense of security. If you think you are safeguarded from pregnancy, you are less likely to think twice before having sex outside of marriage. A person who has sex 365 days in a year outside of marriage is more likely to cause pregnancy than a person who has sex perhaps one time a year outside of marriage. The contraception is more likely to fail with more times of use. If you are not sure contraception will keep you safe from pregnancy, it is less likely you will engage in extra marital sex 365 days a year.

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foreveryoung
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Message 764 of 1485 (655228)
03-08-2012 7:54 PM
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03-08-2012 7:49 PM


Re: It makes me want to puke when I read\listen to santorum's rants
If it is so hilarious, just try openly saying a few taboo points of view on campus and see what happens. You deny that?
Those ideas have only lost their merit because their proponents were ridiculed, mocked and generally given a hard time. If their time at university can be made more difficult in any imaginable way, it will be done.
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