There is a small college in Washington state named "Evergreen College". I never heard of it before a few days ago, but there apparently is a lot of drama going on there right now. I follow a guy on Facebook named "Michael Shermer". He's a famous professor and the founder of the Skeptics Society. I am religious (obviously) but I deeply admire his skepticism and his iconoclastic views. I highly recommend reading his work if for no other reason than to see how the other side thinks.
A professor at Evergreen, Bret Weinstein, is an admitted socialist and big Bernie Sanders fan. He's also a free thinker who dared to question something that the students at Evergreen College did. The New York Times wrote a fascinating opinion piece about it. I don't agree with this professor on anything but it is incredibly disturbing to me that classes have been cancelled and threats have apparently been made on his life.
I've mentioned before that I don't expect integrity and courage when it comes to college administrators. Evergreen has agreed (so far) to not fire Weinstein, but I'm not optimistic that it'll keep that way of thinking. The kids at Evergreen are worse than snowflakes, they are bullies who demand obedience and demand you conform to their way of thinking.
The truly sad part of all this is that we are seeing this kind of behavior more and more in many other schools around the nation. It's no longer about respecting differences of opinion.(I used to love debate class because if forced you to look at things from different points of view and defend different points of view) Now a days, the though is "if you don't think like I do, then there is obviously something wrong with you and you should be feared, hated, ridiculed and stopped." I am losing faith in our institutions of higher learning.
ReplyDeleteI loved debate class too for the same reasons you just mentioned. I'm not losing faith in our institutions of higher learning, Most colleges control the idiocy of their students-because even left leaning students fundamentally are there to get an education, not engage in radical activism 24/7. Evergreen College here is the exception.
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