Why do leftwing ideas and viewpoints continue to have ANY credibility?
It's the Academy's own fault for tolerating this joke of a professor all these years. They certainly must be aware of the dishonesty and shoddy work, but their standards revolve around political correctness rather than truth and scholarship. And the only reason they are now going to discipline Prof. Churchill is because he happened to go one step too far and make a public comment about 9/11 that incensed the general public. If he had just been a little bit less quieter, he'd still be peddling his poison without restraint.
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"Ethnic studies — a relatively new field — could be harmed by the plagiarized passages..."
Harmed? Did anyone really think that most of these classes were anything more than a sop to special interests to begin with?
I don't think Churchill can count on the real Indians to come to his aid. Most of what I've read says they are very angry with this white-eyes impostor.
-ccm
Don't think that any humanities field is any different. They are all just like this. All of them.
My buddy and I went to rent a video the other day,and came across a DVD on West Point. Hmm. That looks interesting, we thought.
When we turned it on, the PBS logo came up, and we looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders and thought..."Hey, it is about West Point...how bad could they screw it up?"
As the actual video began to play, they showed cadets doing various things at West Point...Two black cadets...an Asian cadet...a hispanic cadet and a woman, a white guy, a black guy and a white guy, a hispanic guy and a black guy...more women, etc...etc.
Of course, they spent ten times the attention on the first black cadet to graduate than they did on General George S. Patton, probably 20 times as much on women, and 50 times as much on how flawed the institution was with things like hazing, low standards and such.
The high point was obviously the Kennedy presidency, and all men wanted to go into either West Point or the Peace Corps, and how the men who went into both were made up of the same stuff...then Kennedy was killed.
Here is the transition into the Vietnam era, with the low, ominous quagmire music, burning palm trees, wounded GIs, GI's mistreating prisoners and so on. They talked about how mistreated and demoralized West Pointers became, going to football games and being called "baby killers", having to wear wigs off campus, and so on.
The thing that INFURIATED me about this was these scumbags who made this PBS "documentary" talk about the mistreatment of West Pointers and our military as if the stigmatization and mistreatment is some kind of thing they had no hand in...something that someone "else" did to our troops.
I am still steaming from watching it.
I should explain what got me off on that track...it seems somewhat disconnected, but I don't think it is. It all boils down to Political Correctness, and how it affects all aspects of academia.
Wow. Anyone who thinks that Churchill has harmed the *cough* academic integrity of the "studies" curricula is kidding himself. These are not fields of scholarship, they are political grievances.
Because having to document and research would hurt their feelings, so it must be banned.
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This is bad, how????