Iowa and Kansas aren't that far apart. Related?
Posted on 08/19/2020 10:25:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
School says the policy violates the First Amendment
A university professor said that she will dismiss students from her class if they argue against abortion or the Black Lives Matter movement.
Iowa State University professor Chloe Clark released a syllabus for a 200-level English class instructing students that they cannot argue against abortion, Black Lives Matter, and a number of other leftwing causes. It includes a "GIANT WARNING" that contradicting certain viewpoints may result in dismissal from class.
"Any instances of othering … are grounds for dismissal from the classroom," the syllabus obtained by Young America's Foundation reads. "The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn't deserve the same basic human rights as you do (i.e.: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc.)"
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, both students and professors have faced backlash for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement. At Florida State University, the school's student senate ousted its president after he said that Black Lives Matter is anti-Catholic in a private group chat. Students and faculty at Cornell University attacked a law professor at the school for criticizing Black Lives Matter on his blog, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago booted a University of Chicago economics professor from his role at the bank for criticizing the "Defund the Police" movement.
In a statement to the Washington Free Beacon, a university spokeswoman called Clark's syllabus "inconsistent" with the school's commitment to students' First Amendment rights. She also confirmed that the syllabus has been changed and that Clark has received additional information regarding Iowa State's First Amendment policies.
"The university does not take disciplinary action against students based on the content or viewpoint expressed in their speech," the spokeswoman said.
The Iowa State College Republicans believe the university's condemnation of the syllabus would not have come without national media coverage forcing the school's hand. College Republicans president Ryan Hurley told the Free Beacon that he is disappointed with the syllabus but not surprised.
"[Clark] is not out of the ordinary," Hurley said. "Many professors do these sorts of things and have these heavy left biases. I am also certain that if [articles about the syllabus] hadn't come out and gotten attention, [Clark] would not have faced any university pushback."
Clark did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
they have no ability to reason or persuade. their beliefs are not based on any sort of logic and lacking that they can’t hold up arguments to support them. Abortion is great because... women can be less resposible... so wait, you’re telling me that abortion is great because it lets women act like children... but children shouldn’t have sex, so wait.. um. See what i mean? Makes no sense. And they don’t even consider for a nanosecond that the primary reason not to have an abortion is that you are killing a baby. As science advances, year by year, its proven that life starts earlier and earlier that previously believed - but they don’t want to talk science unless its global warming... which lacks any science at all since NO ONE will reveal the formulae that they use to determine that its caused by mankind. Liberals\progressives are the ultimate in nonsensical beings.
My bet is she has been humiliated for losing arguments badly to students about these subjects and this is how she deals with it.
I’d be afraid I’d be getting a D or F no matter how well I did
Yes all of their arguments must hit a brick wall at some point.
And that’s when the rage kicks in.
When will Iowa taxpayers prohibit their tax dollars from paying this asswipe?
Hey Chloe. Abortion is infanticide and BLM is a Marxist revolutionary organization dedicated to the destruction of the United States.
Go and reproduce asexually.
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Big deal. She teaches two sections of English 250. So drop her class and enroll in one of the 61 other sections of English 250 being offered this semester.
Personally, if I was an ISU student and saw this description in the course catalog — “SEC 47 RESTRICTED TO COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES & COLLEGE OF LAS MAJORS ONLY. IS FOCUSED ON INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITIES.” — you couldn’t pay me to enroll in this yutz’s class.
I’ve never seen any improvement Post-op.
I wonder how well a psychological dissection of fascistic authorities that cannot defend their viewpoint against other opinions, or who cannot keep from being triggered when someone disagrees with them, would be received by this professor.
She should already have been fired, IMHO.
She got smacked down...
HA. HA. HA.
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Keep your mouth shut, or there goes your grade point average.
Time to defund these indoctrination camps...
“Bake the cake!”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
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Sorophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture..
In Sorophobia, Helena Michie argues that a feminism advocating “sisterhood” risks negating undeniable cultural differences that exist both among small communities of women and across nations. The book studies textual representations of women’s relationships to demonstrate the diversity and opposition along lines of race, class, and gender in seemingly homogenous sub-groups of feminist discourse. Michie addresses black women writers and lesbian and Victorian literature, as well as representations of women’s relationship my movies, music, and television. The book concludes with a chapter exploring the way scholars such as Gayatri Spivak have attempted to theorize identity and difference without reiterating the process of destructive “othering,” and Michie challenges feminists to continue the process of recognizing difference while refusing to re-create negative images of otherness.
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He does not understand the concept of logic does he?
“Any instances of othering … are grounds for dismissal from the classroom,”
she said, as she “othered” people that she disagrees with. Did she dismiss herself?
“Othering”. How did this person make it past 7th grade?
In contrast to traditional European systems, in which the professor lectured and the students listened without argument, in America, it was said, students are encouraged to challenge the professor, to think for themselves, to present alternate points of view.
The more the student argues with the professor and challenges him, it was said, the more it delights him: This brings fresh ideas, new ways of thinking, different viewpoints, novel solutions to problems. It encourages truth to emerge.
Fast forward to 2020: US schools, colleges, and universities are indoctrination centres. Deviation from the party line is not tolerated. Alternate viewpoints, ideas, solutions, and ways of thinking are ruthlessly suppressed. It is drilled into students that they cannot think for themselves and must accept the doctrine and dogma demanded by the professor.
What a difference a half century--and the Decadence of Western Civilisation--make.
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