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Author Topic:   Should those of religious faith be allowed to run this country?
EZscience
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Message 298 of 308 (215638)
06-09-2005 12:47 PM
Reply to: Message 295 by Faith
06-09-2005 12:39 PM


Re: Academic bill of rights my A**
And to you he is what?
A visionary leader of the student's rights movement who should one day be enshrined alongside the likes of the four students who died at Kent State ?

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EZscience
Member (Idle past 5184 days)
Posts: 961
From: A wheatfield in Kansas
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Message 303 of 308 (215643)
06-09-2005 12:52 PM
Reply to: Message 297 by Faith
06-09-2005 12:46 PM


Re: Academic bill of rights my A**
Faith writes:
What Horowitz is doing is so obviously reasonable and needed that the bizarre objections, the apologetics on behalf of the indoctrination methods themselves, and attempts to smear him here do nothing but prove how desperately needed it is.
Have you ever attended university Faith ?
If not, I suggest you are not qualified to comment on these 'indoctrination methods'.
If yes, then I suggest that the 'indoctrination methods' apparently had little lasting impact one your world view, and cannot therefore, be categorized as such.
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EZscience
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Message 306 of 308 (215647)
06-09-2005 1:02 PM
Reply to: Message 300 by Faith
06-09-2005 12:50 PM


Re: Academic bill of rights my A**
Faith writes:
Absolute denial of the dilemma a conservative or religious student is in who DARES to challenge and critique what the leftist professor dishes out!
I submit that any good professor (let's assume a Poli-Sci professor)
who happens to espouse a leftist viewpoint would nevertheless welcome all opposing viewpoints for purposes of discussion. He wouldn't be much of a professor if he didn't. All challenges and critiques are welcome because the course couldn't be fruitful without them. The rightist student is not in any 'academic' dilemma beyond having to learn to debate and argue a viewpoint. Hearing views espoused that are not equivalent to yours does not amount to persecution.
Let's get one thing straight. You are not graded on what you believe in university - you are graded on how adeptly you are able to explain and defend your ideas, regardless of the viewpoint you take. If this could be proved otherwise, the professor should most certainly be censured. I doubt it occurs very often. It's goes counter to academic principles that run deeper than any political conviction for most professors.
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