"Asma Barlas
Associate professor and chair, Department of Politics; director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity; Ithaca College, Feb. 6"
Is this an agenda-driven imbecile or is this an agenda-driven imbecile?
Choose one. ;^)
This CLOWN isn't even an American; so, the hag's use of the term McCarthism is beyond absurd.
>snip< to 2nd letter writer's opin...
"At that time a professor told us that the classical purpose of the university was to enable people to withdraw from their immediate surroundings so that they could look at the world with greater perspective; perhaps with a view to making needed changes, perhaps not."
I *think* it's more, "perhaps not" than anything else; and, always Anti-American in any event.
~eh, Lady?
As for withdrawing et al?
To Uranus & Pluto?
Then scream at the rest, "WHY CAN'T YOU SEE!??!" [us]
An university education is rapidly becoming the biggest waste of money one can possibly inflict upon themselves &/or children.
"However, I would never try to stifle dialogue in the classroom, provided the faculty are engaged in honest, reasoned discourse."
Does that make me want to gag, or what.
Lemme guess; this babe's a Liberal 'Rat & *stiffling* dialogue outside the classroom simply a matter of SOP, eh?
As I said; I'd like to wretch my guts out.
...as pointed out in a recent letter, young people will disregard the remarks of fools and scoundrels easily enough, even if they parrot them on exams to pass their courses."
Is that rich?
This idiot had better hope the *students* puke-out the Liberal's bile.
Interestingly enough the educated nonentity writing appears *OK* granting the warped, convoluted Leftist *professorate* first crack at these kids empty skulls.
However, an opposing attempt to speak an OPINION is rejected outright as some kind of threat?
Contradictions galore, Jill.
"Jill Ferguson
Village of Lansing IDIOTS, Feb. 5"
>snip< to another genius...
"I do not know Asma Barlas, and cannot say whether she hates America. But if she does, I'm still waiting for the evidence."
But that sure in the hell doesn't stop you from blathering ad infinitum now, either.
Huh?
"Jonathan Carey
Ithaca College graduate, Class of 2001, Brooklyn, Feb. 5"
...'nuff said.
Thank God in Heaven there weren't any more of these, "letters."
...these frightening examples of ignorance & nievete' on a collosal scale.
You're assuming there weren't...or won't be.
These three letters were the ONLY letters to the editor in today's paper.
I'll keep you posted on whether or not more come in.
Ithaca is the city of evil.
There is, however, at least one signatory from Berkeley.
Further proof that Ithaca is the City of Evil.
However, being the "liberal" media, rather than print it as a stand-alone letter, or even a guest column (the way they did with the liberal opinions), the buried it in their heavily truncated "Darts and Laurels" section.
DART: From Robert Bart of Ithaca on the lack of respect for conservative viewpoints on campuses: "Recently The Journal published letters exchanged between Assemblyman Marty Luster and Sen. Joseph Lieberman regarding the controversial 'Defending Civilization' report. In his letter, Luster proudly presented his status as a loyal Democrat and an ACLU Honor Roll recipient, so naturally he had to be at odds with a report criticizing liberal policies at universities. Political correctness, though, is a fact, and woe to those who would voice an opposing viewpoint. Perhaps that is why conservatives like William F. Buckley Jr., Pat Buchanan or Jeanne Kirkpatrick are seldom invited to speak at liberal universities, and when they do appear they are usually greeted by left-wing hecklers."
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
Today, over one month after the original criticism of liberal profs was published, the President of Ithaca College weighs in with more of the same leftist double speak masquerading as upholding the First Amendment:
....a number of writers condemned the essay by associate professor of politics Asma Barlas titled, "Why Do They Hate Us?" Some of the alumni writers stated that this article had no place in "their" magazine, and that criticism of the United States government is unacceptable in any Ithaca College publication. I found these reactions unsettling, causing me to question how well we are doing our jobs, which is to educate our students to think critically, appreciate diversity of background and outlook, and engage in intelligent, informed and respectful discourse. **** In the wake of Sept. 11, faculty members at colleges and universities in this country have come under official or public pressure for questioning various aspects of the U.S. government's past or projected policies. As a college president, I am alarmed that my academic colleagues can be threatened for exercising what is not only their right, but is also their duty, to speak freely. It is threats such as these that I find to be anti-AmericanNotice how, in a few short paragraphs, criticism of the original article's Anti-American bias was twisted around and recast by the Ithacite to be a "threat" against the author. Just another example of how the residents of the "City of Evil" are so terrified of their failed leftist ideologies being exposed by legitimate criticism.