Jimmy Higgins
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So you don't actually know.Any class where discussion of the material is an aspect?Sure, that'd be a problem. What classes even provide this opportunity in College though?Sure. But I never suggested otherwise. If 20% of students feel uncomfortable expressing ideas in class and there is no variation by political ideology, it may be just their personality. But if students of one particular political stripe perceive an environment hostile to their beliefs, and the university has contributed to that environment, that is a problem.I don't think that it is any university's job to ensure that ANY student never feel discomfort in a classroom. One of the major points of education is to expose students to different ideas, to different ways of thinking, and to THINK. There is and should be some discomfort in that process.
I wasn't aware you were the collective right-wing in America.Non. To beg the question is to assume the conclusion in your premises. I haven't assumed any conclusion.And it certainly appears to be begging the question, instead of actually showing a truth.
You commonly watch YouTube videos with 4 year old boys in them?Today, parents are putting 4 year old boys on YouTube and Twitter and asking them to explain what 'non-binary means to them', in order to virtue signal to others how accepting and progressive they are.For decades the right-wing has been hostile to colleges. Call graduates elites (despite most Government folk umm... being Ivy Leaguers). Back in the 80s, being "elite" meant that you merely had book smarts, not real world smarts. So college educated people that saw issues with bad ideas were simply uninformed on how "things really work".
Anti-education attitudes from the right-wing continued to expand. The public school system became targeted. They were accused of "liberal indoctrination". These were always vague claims made at the label level, never actually being demonstrated across a systematic plan. In the last decade, there have been individual cases of teachers going about teaching certain aspects the wrong way (against white people... this was never an issue if done with no ill intent against minority students).
In the '00s and '10s, the state of Texas began using their book buying influence to influence how content is presented in text books. Today, young children are being "coached" into sexual behavior according to the alt-right.
Thanks for not bothering to read a single thing I discussed, and again putting this individual thing into a bottle and pretending it has no relation to the war against education the right-wing has been fighting since the 80s in America.A State government investigating whether a taxpayer-funded institution creates a systematically hostile environment for certain groups is not 'meddling'--it is responsible government.Teachers are being labeled as predators now. A state Government in meddling in collegiate education (not administration, but education) because of alleged partisan attitudes that have never been demonstrated.
Partisan attitudes leading to indoctrination and the stifling of education in college indeed is alleged. Teachers having opinions has never been in doubt.Partisan attitudes in higher education are not 'alleged'. They are quite real.
Well, the right-wing has been making these claims without evidence for decades now. So it can't be that hard.But, how could partisan attitudes be demonstrated if you refuse to investigate whether they exist?
It is like if you can twist a statement and respond out of context, you get a pellet fed to you.Of course you can believe what you want. Nobody has the apparatus yet to stop people's thoughts. Believing what you want isn't the issue.You can pretty much believe what you want in colleges, however, you have to prove your work.