Professors investigated for presenting opposing viewpoints

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 06/24/2016 | ASHE SCHOW

[massmike]

Two professors at the University of Northern Colorado were investigated after students complained that they were forced to hear opposing viewpoints.

One professor instructed his students to read an article from the Atlantic written by Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's president Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt titled "The Coddling of the American Mind." The article explains that allowing students to hide from controversial and upsetting ideas (like through the use of "safe spaces" or "trigger warnings") actually harms those students by not allowing them to confront those opinions.

After reading the article, the professor asked his students to address controversial topics such as abortion, gay marriage, global warming and transgenderism. The professor made no indication as to what his opinion on the matters was, but one student, who identifies as transgender, was upset that the professor even referenced the opinion that "transgender is not a real thing, and no one can truly feel like they are born in the wrong body."

Instead of learning how to confront this opinion and be able to adequately teach someone how they are wrong to believe that, the student felt they shouldn't have had to hear it in the first place.

Never mind that the professor wasn't even expressing his own opinion — this student just wanted the discussion shut down. And the school obliged.

This is what America's colleges are becoming.

[azcap]

If you send your kids to State School or any other of 100s of private liberal arts schools you’re setting them up for failure. They will receive indoctrination. Whether they can endure it and come out decent people is a challenge. Their religion, values,and politics will be under constant assault.

[azcap]

Hillsdale, BYU, Liberty, Ave Maria, SVU, College of the ozarks, Pepperdine,Regent, Thomas Aquinas, Texas A&M. The list of schools that wont brainwash your kids and might actually teach them to have great minds is slim. There are a handful of others but this is the list my kids get. Outside of these you need to be studying a hard science, join the college republicans whether you are politically minded or not and go to a decent church on Sunday. You might survive a state school or ivy league with that formula.

[azcap]

Hillsdale, BYU, Liberty, Ave Maria, SVU, College of the ozarks, Pepperdine,Regent, Thomas Aquinas, Texas A&M. The list of schools that wont brainwash your kids and might actually teach them to have great minds is slim. There are a handful of others but this is the list my kids get. Outside of these you need to be studying a hard science, join the college republicans whether you are politically minded or not and go to a decent church on Sunday. You might survive a state school or ivy league with that formula.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[fwdude]

Satire = “reality”

These days.

[Tax-chick]

Any parent who sends their kid to this university is an idiot.

One can't help but notice that you used the pronoun favored by the gender-upwhacked, rather than one that reflects human reality.

[The Continental Op]

This is real, this happens everywhere, and we see only a handful of reports that make their way out. Most times the professor is beaten down in private and never speaks up for fear of firing.

Most colleges are now under the control of a minority of hard left students and an enabling faculty. The faculty instructs the kids in the tactics to use—rat on teachers, shout down opposition, sit-in and mau mau the dean, etc.
Kids are not born knowing these commie tactics, they learn them from the profs.

The American University, in my opinion, is no longer close to being a place for acquiring the truth, it is about learning to hide and lie about the truth. This is all about shutting down speech and thus thought. It must be resisted by lawsuits and mocking at every turn.

[fwdude]

"...Texas A&M. The list of schools that wont brainwash your kids and might actually teach them to have great minds..."

You can just about scratch Texas A&M off that list. How the mighty have fallen. They recently held a "LGBT graduation" with the schools blessing, and their homo organizations have grown exponentially over the past decade, even including a "fisting" seminar. Moral damage left by the deviant ex-president Gates, apparently.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Yes! I taught at a Big Ten University for years. Run out by offended special snowflakes

[BwanaNdege]

“Transgenderism has no basis in reality, only in the delusions of certain persons and the willing acceptance of those with little or no moral compass.”

Now that the “trannies” have pushed “main-line homosexuals” out of the limelight, I can’t wait to see them overrun by the Trans-species” crowd.

“I’m a duck!”

“I’m a handsome prince, kiss me & I’ll turn into a frog!”

“I’m Bambi!”

[Intolerant in NJ]

Students today are too ignorant to know even what education is supposed to be about, let alone to learn anything through that education....

[NetAddicted]

UNC? Where my parent graduated.

[Rurudyne]

“Bambi” Meets “Godzilla” the Rugby Player

(... because Godzilla wouldn’t play a game where functional armor was worn)

[HLPhat]

 

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

...

 

 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself

 

[HLPhat]

>> I can’t wait to see them overrun by the Trans-species” crowd.

Nature historically produces nasty due penalties upon any culture that abominates it, thus reducing the culture's sociobiological/reproductive fitness - rendering the culture unable to compete.

Stupid is as stupid does.

CDC statistics indicate this time won't be any different.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Sex+Evolution+and+Behavior+Daly+Wilson

Natural Selection created Sex, the genetic exchange between Male and Female, because Sex increases the fitness of species; and what LGBTWhatever activists have selected isn't Sex - but the worship of themselves and their perversion of nature.   

 

[Robwin]

I do not think this has yet been pointed out, but from the article:

The complaints were made to Northern Colorado's "Bias Response Team," an Orwellian office on campus that asks students to report their peers and professors for anything that upsets or offends them.

Chilling.

[HLPhat]

>>Whether they can endure it and come out decent people is a challenge. Their religion, values,and politics will be under constant assault.

Just like adult life in progressive corporate-collectivist USSA is and will be.

Home Schooled Ostrich farming isn't working: TAKE BACK THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

"EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE"
--Thomas Jefferson