political correctness at UVM

Go overboard and parody it. You'll have fun, they won't get it, and everybody will be happy.

Part of why you go to college is to learn how to manipulate the professors, with minumum energy expended.

John

A UVM oxymoron: "...excellence in liberal education..." ...Jim Thompson

What do you want from those who bring you the communists, Bernie Sanders and Leaky Leahy? Not all the loose nuts rolled all the way to California. Quite a few got trapped up against Lake Champlain.

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Hey Jim, you already know this but I'm going to say it anyway. "Liberal" education has nothing to do with current politics, or any sort of politics. Here's a quote that expresses what liberal education means pretty well: "In classical antiquity, the liberal arts denoted the education proper to a free man (Latin: liberus, "free")" (from Wikipedia). My complaint is _not_ that UVM is too liberal (in the sense used in American politics), but that it is not liberal enough, in the true meaning of the word liberal: that is, free. As in intellectual freedom. You see the word liberal and it's like somebody hit your knee with a rubber hammer.

Exactly. Leftist is the enemy of liberal.

John

It's not supposed to, but unfortunately it does.

Wish it 'twere so. In virtually _every_ college in the US today, (including, unfortunately, my alma mater MIT), "education" is leftist brain-washing. Look around you. Which speakers get shouted down??

Nope. I, personally, am as "liberal" as they come. Do what you want, I could care less. Get in my face, get yours blown away. ...Jim Thompson

It doesn't matter which turn signal is doing the blinking. I complained about something that's associated with "liberalism," and then everybody jumped on the us-versus-them bandwagon. What's the point of trying to open a discussion about something meaningful when it just degenerates into the same old bashing we see every day here on the newsgroups and public discourse in general? It's tiresome. And there's no mental stimulation in it.

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Okay, Jim.

Go to UVM, you'll fit right in, and you'll get the "education" you deserve :-) ...Jim Thompson

Yet you continue to fan the flames, then whine about it. A typical leftist move.

It's the *only* definition that makes sense when talking about UVM. There is nothing classically liberal about the whole state.

You need to get off the corn cob...

Yep, a DimBulb groupie. The scat fixation "fits" too.

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