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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All Americans - liberal, conservative, and apolitical - should be very concerned about the future of college given how Trump & Vance are attacking it. It is arson with no architecture. They don't have a vision for fixing it, they just want it to die.[/quote]

I am a college professor and I am just. so. sad.  [b]I had my first experience yesterday with a 'fascist adjacent' student challenging my authority in class, like something out of the Cultural Revolution.[/b]  We had an assignment about Mid East politics and I had assigned them to read and discuss an op-ed that appeared in Al Jazeera.  "I'm not reading Al Jazeera and neither is anyone else,"  he told me.  "It's crap.  It's not something we should be reading."  I told him that he could fail the assignment but that it's important to get a well-rounded view of an issue, to read a variety of sources, and that Al Jazeera does a darned fine job of covering MidEast politics.  But I suspect he will not be the last student to get in my face and try to take control of my class.  A depressing future.  I am glad I can afford to retire early. [/quote]

Several years ago we had a 20-something nanny who was taking college classes and working for us part-time. Every day her description of her classes was "I stood up and challenged this professor on his insensitivity to X group." Maybe your students have been going along with you for years, but my understanding is that students have thought they've been running the university for a long time. You just wouldn't notice it if you were more on the left like most professors and students. I mean, [url=https://www.thecoddling.com/]The Coddling of the American Mind[/url] has been in print for a decade now, right? Conservatives have been concerned about the stifling of free speech on university campuses for [url=https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/what-are-my-rights-campus]a very long time, if FIRE is any indication[/url].

Maybe the First Ammendment and respect for experts matters on both sides of the political spectrum. I know there aren't many on the right who believe that any more, but I do.[/quote]

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