Posted on 04/04/2006 11:19:42 AM PDT by Bob J
Paul Campos, a professor of law at the University of Colorado exposes the perfect hypocrisy surrounding the whole Ward Churchill fiasco.
Academics claim to despise censorship, but the truth is we do a remarkably good job of censoring ourselves. This is especially true in regard to affirmative action.
Who among us can claim to have spoken up every time a job candidate almost as preposterous as Churchill was submitted for our consideration? Things like the Churchill fiasco are made possible by a web of lies kept intact by a conspiracy of silence.
The University of Colorado hired Churchill onto its faculty because he claimed to be an American Indian.
Anyone who has the slightest familiarity with research universities can glance at his résumé and state this with something close to complete confidence.
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2005/02/paul-campos-professor-of-law-at.html
SWEET Ann Coulter takes another look at the Ward Churchill controversy:
Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want to be insulated from life.
Rather than fostering a climate of open inquiry, college campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banned words and prohibited scientific inquiry.
Even [leftists] don't try to defend Churchill on grounds that he is Galileo pursuing an abstract search for the truth.
They simply invoke "free speech," like a deus ex machina to end all discussion. Like the words "diverse" and "tolerance," "free speech" means nothing but: "Shut up, we win."
Is this event open to the public?
Is this event open to the public?
I don't think debating with a lunatic is a good idea.
I believe so.
bttt!
Bump to find later
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