This is vital information that too many want to ignore. Sending your kid to college? Find out what they will be taught and how they cannot question orthodoxy without imperilling their career.
Much as we see in another current film, Expelled, the powers-that-be have laboured mightily to exclude all alternative opinions, making their view the only one worthy of discussion.
What was once discourse is now indoctrination.
-Speech codes
-Censorship
-Enforced political conformity
-Hostility to diversity of opinion
-Sensitivity training
We usually associate such things totalitarian regimes, not with the American universities that nurtured the free speech movement.
When we think of college, we think of intellectual freedom. We think of exploring ideas through energetic, ongoing, critical thinking and debate. But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don't know is that American college students check their First Amendment rights and individual freedom at the door.
Ghis1964
This is vital information that too many want to ignore. Sending your kid to college? Find out what they will be taught and how they cannot question orthodoxy without imperiling their career.
Much as we see in another current film, Expelled, the powers-that-be have labored mightily to exclude all alternative opinions, making their view the only one worthy of discussion.
What was once discourse is now indoctrination.
-Speech codes
-Censorship
-Enforced political conformity
-Hostility to diversity of opinion
-Sensitivity training
We usually associate such things totalitarian regimes, not with the American universities that nurtured the free speech movement.
When we think of college, we think of intellectual freedom. We think of exploring ideas through energetic, ongoing, critical thinking and debate. But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don't know is that American college students check their First Amendment rights and individual freedom at the door.
Ghis1964
Regarding the 7/7/2005 terrorist attacks in London, let us look at the facts, and what we were told, and compare them. Then, using Ockhams Razor and common-sense, let us see what conclusions are to be drawn, so we can all understand what most likely really did happen that day.
Ghis1964
