Sometimes bad people make good points. Doesn't make them good people - they are still bad - but they are occasionally right about one or two things. It's just hard to find those things amidst all the hateful garbage. |
Really? Is that what your DD is telling you or is that what you are telling her? Do you know any other grad students or PhDs or anyone involved in academia? There are huge problems - the system has collapsed and so far, nothing has been reborn from the ashes. |
The values of honesty and integrity in one's academic work should be embraced by everyone. |
My. Fancy that. Are you saying it's unfair to make Gay resign because she plagiarized? I'm very confused here. Was it right wing "fascist agenda" that forced the resignation of the white male Stanford president last year? As far as I'm aware, there was no real media discussion of that event. I'm also curious as to who exactly is this "far-rightwing, fascist agenda" and the people behind it. Are you saying Bill Ackerman, a Jewish businessman, is a fascist? Elise Stefanik is a fascist? |
Okay I guess we will,have to look at the federalist society membership. |
Appreciate the cite! |
You're a great komedian. |
I believe in balance, or some semblance thereof. Are you arguing 28 to 1 is anywhere near balanced? Sounds like it. |
Go for it. Unfortunately for you, there is no mass conspiracy to refuse to review conservative writers and academics work for plagiarism. So trying to make this into a game with the pretension that what is happening to Gay is only a right wing witch hunt is making you look silly and hysterical. Gay got her comeuppance. As the old say went, pride goes before fall. You're just trying to make a martyr out of a mediocre hack who grifted her way to the top, which, when you think about it, is a very strange thing to do. But I do understand your mentality. Gay is on "your side" of the ideological divide and a champion of causes you believe in, therefore she needs to be defended and protected at all costs to avoid presenting weaknesses to the enemy, whoever they are. But such mentality only ends up exposing the same weaknesses and corruption you fear, except that it's on your side, not the enemy's side. This mentality and ironic outcome is as old as history. And history, as another old saying goes, repeats itself. And it's quite laughable. |
Oh I am sure some of those people are not pro Israel, having affairs, are gay, do not support Trump, etc. what ever you people use to enforce your thought control. There are plenty of conservatives professors and CEOs to go after. I guess you want a quote for liberal vs conservatives professors. Let make sure the same is done with judges and CEOs. Also people in the media. Way too many conservatives in those places. |
No, I'm not arguing that "28 to 1 is anywhere near balanced." What I am doing is wondering how you would address this imbalance. Would you seek to institute quotas based on political orientation? In other words, what would a solution to this issue look like? |
DP. When a university embraces DEI and uses the tenets of DEI to interview prospective professors, they are going to end up with far left liberal "scholars." If universities want to get back to what they are supposed to be doing - educating and not indoctrinating - they need to reject the whole DEI movement and the CRT nonsense and start looking for professors who are knowledgeable in their fields and who actually know how to teach. You know..... start basing their hiring on merit. |
If you think that in real life--in any job--people are hired solely on merit, you are deluded my friend. It is a lofty ideal that I share, but it is not reality. There is a ton of research showing that people in a position to hire others are influenced by a host of factors, including personal biases. If DEI is biased in one direction, status quo hiring practices are biased in another direction. PS Re: your comment about universities "indoctrinating" their students, you know that conservative, especially some religious universities do so as well, right? The right is welcome to create more universities that teach their particular viewpoint. And students can decide where they want to go. PPS Re: your point about the need to hire professors "who are knowledgeable in their fields and who actually know how to teach"--having been through a bachelors, masters, and PhD program where I was taught by all-white professors, I can tell you that lots of knowledgeable professors are not good at teaching. The ones who are can be transformative, but they are few and far between and have a gift that does not necessarily correlate with their record of scholarly work. |