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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI知 a liberal professor, and I知 NOT afraid of students who question me.
Edward Schlosser says, Im a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me. Strangely, he doesnt give any evidence that hes at all liberal, and the one personal incident he cites involves a conservative student.
That was it. That was the first, and so far only, formal complaint a student has ever filed against me, he says. Further, this was the response of the administration:
Along with a carbon-copy form, my description was placed into a file that may or may not have existed. Then nothing. It disappeared forever; no one cared about it beyond their contractual duties to document student concerns. I never heard another word of it again.
So then he scurries off to Vox and writes a long essay in which he complains that hes terrified by liberal students. This makes no sense at all. There has to be more to his concerns than this. He makes a few vague efforts...
the rest: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/06/04/im-a-liberal-professor-and-im-not-afraid-of-students-who-question-me/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28FTB%3A+Pharyngula%29
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]
Prism
(5,815 posts)Right about here:
But hey, lets get right down to the really important stuff. Edward Schlosser is apparently a white man. Hes terribly concerned about the oppression visited upon us white men, as you might have guessed from that link to his blog post, where he was troubled that he was denied the right to date his students. We must protect the privileges of white male professors, even if it requires that we willfully misinterpret criticisms!
Attack, attack, attack. Mischaracterize and smear (nowhere does the original author claim to want to date student), dismiss the argument because the prof is a white male, etc etc etc.
That shit, that shit right there, is corrosive as hell to productive discourse and is the kind of "argument" that's being churned out these days.
Blogger proves the point of the author quite well, I think.
romanic
(2,841 posts)He ripped a few pages out of the Quran and threw on some banana peels, coffee and Eucharest crackers on top into a garbage can I believe. Sounds like a well-adjusted individual.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)melodrama. Showing disrespect to oppressive religions is in my view far better adjusted than showing respect to such religions and that explains why Myers is happy to own his views while the Furtive Conservative hides behind an internet construct. Myers has ethics.