Liberals on the List: Conservative Students Are Tracking Professors Who Arouse Ire

I went to a university in N.C. for a period of time attending night classes. When I walked into a law class, my teacher started the first night by starting out that she was liberal and she was disappointed that Clinton was not being liberal enough. I laughed at her and said "This is going to be fun". She and I had quite a few very heated debates about the law and the political spectrum. She turned out to be one of the best teachers I've had. She was willing to espouse her views, but also, when confronted with logic and dicipline, allowed me to express why I thought she was wrong. Nine times out of ten, she would look at the rest of the stunned class and ask them if they had any answers to my points that would prove I was wrong. And nine times out of ten, most of the class would agree with me.

On the other hand, I had an Ethics teacher who came in and gave us on our first night his history of having worked for just about every liberal candidate we found. He then expressed to us the position that he had and stated that he felt that one of his jobs was to show us the right way to "good thought" because only the left was ethical. I had a field day with him. One day, he lost it when the study was on the ethics of employee/employer relationship and I asked him if it was ethical for an employer to engage in a sexual tryst with an employee. He said it was absolutely not. Then I looked him square and asked him in front of the class how he could tell us, based on the fact that he was an ethics teacher, that Bill Clinton was one of the greatest presidents, considering he had done just that. He sputtered and stammered and then told me that I better be careful, because he held my grade in his hand. I looked at him and said "You are the one who needs to be careful. You don't have tenure." Needless to say, I got an A in his class. He knew to give me anything less, I would have eaten him alive.

"Nobody with power is telling me I can't say something," Jensen said. "It's only going to become censorship if university administrators, who have the power to hire and fire and the power to punish faculty, start requiring a kind of ideological conformity for advancement in the profession. If that happens, then higher education is dead."

Pot calling the kettle black.

Every time these Communists are called out on their indoctrination of our young people, they start screaming like a stuck pig about censorship.

Oh yeah? Well how about all the "speech codes" and "campus discipline" dished out at anyone who dares to publicly disagree with their Trotskyist dogma? If that isn't censorship, then I don't know what is.

C's Wife,

I have to say that as a combat veteran I thought I was doing it in part in order to protect the speech rights of even such losers as Katz and Corrie, and that other kid in your link (forget his name) who was with the Earth First terrorists. But free speech cuts both ways, as these goons forget.

I celebrate the deaths of the two kids -- hey, join with evil, and evil befalls you. The universe has some harsh laws. Like gravity, as young George of the Jungle found out ("watch out for that tree!"). And "an object in motion tends to remain in motion" --particularly when it's a bulldozer. If Rachel Corrie's parents had helped her with her physics homework instead of filling her full of antisemitic hate, she might still be sucking oxygen instead of feeding worms. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish.

And I also thought I was protecting the right of individuals and groups to speak out, even in the days before the election. Little did I know that, to our supreme court, random schmoes have the right to send you endless kiddie-porn spam but no one who is not a card-carrying member of the press has the right to speak on politics... haysus marimba.

Funny also, that when these professors say the most outrageous crap, it's "freedom," like that Marxist guy Katz who couldn't even articulate, when asked, what Marxism was or what it stood for, and when other people merely report what the losers are saying, it's "censorship." Dude, if what you said makes people hate you, I am not a censor for telling them you said it.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

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