Offended College Freshmen Get OK to Close Book

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[NC28203]

Sorry, I meant to say CE defined by Jesus birth, not defines Jesus birth.

[GovernmentShrinker]

CE/BCE makes perfect sense. If academic work is going to lay any claim at all to objectivity, it can't explicitly divide history into before and after a particular religious figure.

[ASA Vet]

Your explanation, (or one very similar,) has been offered in nearly every thread where the dating system silliness comes up.
You will also be ignored.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Too often faculty members forget that the college exists for the students - not for them. No students, no college.

Actually, the college should exist for the people who are actually paying for it, and that is overwhelmingly NOT the students, but rather a combination of parents and taxpayers. Most of the idiocy in academia has arisen because the faculty and administration ARE letting clueless 17-21 year olds call the shots.

Since a huge percentage of students are getting federally subsidized loans and grants, and many parents who are paying all or part of the cost don't have the guts to take charge of the decision as to where to spend tuition money, colleges market themselves to 17 year old high school students, few of whom have earned any significant portion of the money that THEY will decide where to spend on college education. As a result, we have dorms for "gender-neutral" students, endless student-directed indoctrination sessions at freshman orientation, majors in "Queer Studies", and a faculty whose hiring and tenure is largely guided by undergraduates and who accordingly teach stuff that undergraduates find entertaining.

[Nextrush]

There's a trend all over the country of shoving some book down students throats when they enter a college or university.

Books are often selected by committees that include (in the case of one book that got required at a college in my area)
people who are radical left all the way.

[NC28203]

>>>Your explanation, (or one very similar,) has been offered in nearly every thread where the dating system silliness comes up.
You will also be ignored.

Ok, how abut this one? 8^)
Use of BC/AD by some scientists should offend Judeo/Christians. For example, something dated to have occurred in 100,000 BC directly contradicts the Bible's approximately 6,000 year old Earth. The use of BC with such a date is sacrilege.

[talleyman]

I always ask, "Common era? based on what?"

[Stone Mountain]

wonder why they couldn't find a book that provides for intellectual stimulation without the sex?

Maybe it's because sex is one of the strongest, if not the strongest urges that man has. And that any type of intellectual discussion of the human condition would have to include sexuality as a part of it?

[ASA Vet]

Haven't you noticed? They are offended by most science threads.
A "Science Forum" is sorely needed.
Maybe JR will create such a forum in the year 75,020 AT (After Toba,)

[fortunecookie]

Not anymore its CE (common era) and BCE (Before common era). What happened to Anno Domini and Before Christ?? Liberal Academia happened..

And, though it seems like it, it didn't 'accidentally' happen. Leftie places like PBS and certain universities started pushing the CE/BCE crap agenda quietly about a decade ago (that I noticed), just slipping it in to conversation or education as though everyone knew it. Like Hitler's theory on a lie, repeat it often enough...

[VRWCer]

You're quite correct - it was just before the whole "grunge" era took hold, and it was cool to look "prep", thereby making it difficult to "know your own" til they spoke! But it allowed for anonymity (of political stripe!) in the classroom, that was the upside, and allowed me to get away with it. I don't think I'd have gotten away with it after that whole phase passed, because I couldn't have stood to go ungroomed just to play mind games with the pinkos! It must be very difficult now to have your opinions dismissed at first glance, especially when you know that you can run elaborate and intelligent circles around your tragically deluded and ignorant classmates and professors.

[SoCal Pubbie]

" If academic work is going to lay any claim at all to objectivity, it can't explicitly divide history into before and after a particular religious figure."

Then BCE and CE are just as objectionable, since they are still defined as being referenced to the supposed birth of Christ. It's like changing the name of "Christmas break" to "Winter break". Only the name has changed.

[SC Swamp Fox]

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[elcid1970]

"AD and BC. Screw the professors."

Have some fun with them. Ask them what "A.D." stands for.

[Larry Lucido]

I should have thought of this when I was in undergrad. I was always offended by calculus.