Posted on 11/25/2023 7:45:08 AM PST by DoodleBob
I would agree 100% with the “expert” academics, THEIR opinions are not “equally valid”.
"so why should we let someone teach social science that we know to be wrong in our social science courses?"
Because it is possible that you are wrong.
Science is not mathematics. Newtonian physics was wrong. And social science is a further three rungs down in certainty from science.
Your level of certainty and arrogance about what can be said, and probably thought, smacks of religion, and not science. This is a political religion that permeates academia at the moment. And which I am fairly sure you will swear does not infect you, while the rest of us can see the symptoms quite plainly.
Only religions ban heretics from speaking because of the wrong-think they might cause. Real science loves a good heretic. In fact, honestly, the entire goal of science is to be a heretic. To have an idea that no other person ever had. Science is the pretty much the antithesis of your thought-police approach.
And most of academia used to be the antithesis of your thought police approach as well, until the religion of leftism took it over, with the direct help of people like you.
‘Idiocy on display at Arizona State.’
they’re probably doing the playcalling for ASU’s pathetic football team...
Always, always remember, any time a democrat, a leftist a radical says “democracy” what they really mean is Democrat Party. So when they say it hurts democracy or it means the death of democracy they are really saying it hurts the the Democrat Party or it means the death of the Democrat Party.
There are, to be sure, politicians who feel that possession of political office entitles them to the same status, as do journalists, actors, and popular musicians with respect to the participation in their respective fields. We are awash in "experts"! What a time to live in!
‘The First Amendment was written specifically against such tyrants who wish to curtail speech.’
the First amendment was written specifically against federal gov’t curtailment of speech...
The arrogance of these people is unreal. I would bet that the imbecile who said this, has an extremely punchable face.
42?
I remember that number.
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
The two biggest problems in the education establishment are tenure and an almost total lack of real world experience. The vast majority of the administrators, faculty, etc. have spent almost their entire lives in academia and that leaves them with a stunted and warped view of the world. As far as tenure goes, it’s the worst thing to ever happen to education. No one should ever be guaranteed a job, but they should be fairly paid for superior performance. Unions and tenure insure mediocrity at best.
A diversity of opinion — “intellectual diversity” — isn’t itself the goal; rather, it is of value only insofar as it serves the goal of producing knowledge.If the goal is knowledge, then "intellectual diversity" is its necessary element, as knowledge -- truth -- belongs to God alone. Man can only approach it by redirecting errors. So when errors are disallowed, truth is further distanced.
Maybe they should shut up.
They probably will, tomorrow! But this particular psychosis was identified a long time ago:
"Some people think that free speech means they are free to say anything they like, but if anybody says anything back that's an outrage."-- Winston Churchill
Same difference.
Get over yourselves, you over-educated nitwits.
Expertise comes from repeated practical application in "the real world" outside of the ivory towers of academia. All these elites are doing is passing off opinionated knowledge as "expertise."
In a nutshell, these professors are saying that I'm not qualified to hold the opinions that I have.
-PJ
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