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To: Hodar
"In Africa, they still have cannibalism and slavery."

Don't forget how they mutilate their wives: clitoral castration, at the very least. Talk about sexist.

But I don't think these facts get mentioned in many classes.

16 posted on 02/17/2005 6:00:16 PM PST by Republicanprofessor (10)
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To: Republicanprofessor

Well, the humanities have increasingly become studies in "right thinking". There is a certain point of view that must be followed. Usually, it's a PC point of view and nothing else is accepted.

Of course, we all know this, but I think at some point the sciences and engineering are going to stand up and demand that the humanities not be put on nearly the same level. Scholarship standards are simply horrendous (Ward Churchill is an extreme example of what's typical.)

As a mathematician, it has always offended me that I must abide by the standards of "proof" while even physicists don't have so high a standard. But at least there's the (high) probability of failure.

There's an old joke: The dean is complaining to the head of the physics department about all of the very expensive equipment that they use. "Why can't you be more like the math department, all they need are pencils, paper and a wastebasket. Or sociology, they don't even need a wastebasket."


54 posted on 02/18/2005 7:05:14 AM PST by AmishDude
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