[mattduke]

You are not allowed to compare 9/11 to the Reichstag fire and keep your career.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/11 ... index.html

[Novus]

The reason we have freedom of speach in not so people can voice popular opinions but so people with unpopular views can be heard. Without dissent there can be no democracy. If professors and intelectuals start getting fired for voicing anti-9/11, anti-Bush, and anti-War views then democracy is pretty much finished in this country.

[AgentR]

Or anti-global warming, anti-union, pro-nationalism, anti-[], pro-Israeli.... Government schools are very harsh on anyone that steps outside that comfortably ambiguous middle strip of policy, or causes trouble or hostile attention.

For instance, I distinctly recall how people that strongly opposed disinvestment in South Africa were treated back in the 80's... Though myself, like a good little analyst said nothing for the most part, other than a vague, "go team" in support of the mob that had taken on that issue.

Schools are supposed to foster independent thought, but what they really tend to do is congeal thought around an "issue" and then exclude and ridicule any speach that might stand in opposition to that issue. The issue then is softened for mass consumption and becomes the consensus, non-threatening position. Once that occurs, any opposition speach that draws unwanted attention can be subject to instant accusations of insensitivity or whatnot.

Thus, people that just want their degrees or their paycheck are forced into silence or vague support, and the school itself putters on in its own merry way.

I suspect by 2008, strong anti-war comments, and strong US nationalistic comments will be considered grounds for censure. Vague, deranged anarchist type protests will be benignly smiled upon as completely outside the mainstream of political thought, and the school itself dissociated from the protestors.... Its all good.

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'T')he reason we have freedom of speach in not so people can voice popular opinions but so people with unpopular views can be heard. Without dissent there can be no democracy. If professors and intelectuals start getting fired for voicing anti-9/11, anti-Bush, and anti-War views then democracy is pretty much finished in this country.

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', '
')Schools are supposed to foster independent thought, but what they really tend to do is congeal thought around an "issue" and then exclude and ridicule any speach that might stand in opposition to that issue. The issue then is softened for mass consumption and becomes the consensus, non-threatening position. Once that occurs, any opposition speach that draws unwanted attention can be subject to instant accusations of insensitivity or whatnot.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'I') suspect that many intelligent people turn away from higher education due to this alone.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', '
')I suspect that many intelligent people turn away from higher education due to this alone.

[evilmonkeyspanker]

That is just a gross generalization. Though, it does seem for the most part though that the desenters are the more poorly educated. Though there exist in my opinion an eqiliberium between the two.