Helios
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050323freedom.php
Basically, Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committe (in Florida, of all places) voted to pass a bill entitled the "Academic Freedom Bill of Rights" which is to control "leftest totalitarianism" in colleges and universities.
Basically, it allows students the right to sue their professors if they disagreed with their professors on issues such as, say, evolution.
“Some professors say, ‘Evolution is a fact. I don’t want to hear about Intelligent Design (a creationist theory), and if you don’t like it, there’s the door,’” Rep. Dennis Baxley (R-Ocala) said, citing one example when he thought a student should sue.
Now, I may disagree with my professors in Geology about several theories in evolution (like the Symbiatic theory which explains the origins of eukaryotes (a bunch of prokaryotes (bacteria) joined to gether and some became mitochondria (the energy production centers of the cell) and others became the cell proper)) but I'm not going to sue him because of it (he even threw a softball for the creationists in the class (probably just me) saying that the spontaneous theories on the origins of life are the weakest part of the 'unified theory of biology', since it's not technically part of evolution).
Which brings me to my point- actually, I have two.
1. Why go to college if you're just going to end up sueing the prof? That's completely stupid. Suck it up and either accept what the prof says, because he will know more than you will, or try and disprove the prof. I don't care what you do, it's just that sueing the prof is retarded.
And who the hell goes to college for a major in geology or biology and not expect at least some evolution? Unless they go to the Bob Jones University or some shit like that.
Are they going to allow students to sue their math professor if they believe that 2+2=5? Or will they be able to sue their history professors if the students don't believe that the Holocaust happened?
2. Republicans are starting to turn PC. But while (some) liberals PC is trying not to hurt anyone's feelings (and being ridiculous at it) and be accepting and shit, (some) conservatives want to limit any opposition to the Judeo-Christian faith, regardless of, say, the First Amendment. Or how frivolous these lawsuits are.
Maybe it's just a few bad apples spoiling the barrel. But the bad apples are on the top, making the whole barrel look bad.
In an interview before the meeting, Baxley said “arrogant, elitist academics are swarming” to oppose the bill, and media reports misrepresented his intentions.
Oh, those evil liberal professors and their evil, dirty facts! Facts are such stupid things.
I do want to know one thing- When in the hell did intellectual elite become a bad thing? When did knowing stuff become such an evil ideology?
At this rate republicans will turn the whole country inside out by 2008. God help us.
Basically, Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committe (in Florida, of all places) voted to pass a bill entitled the "Academic Freedom Bill of Rights" which is to control "leftest totalitarianism" in colleges and universities.
Basically, it allows students the right to sue their professors if they disagreed with their professors on issues such as, say, evolution.
“Some professors say, ‘Evolution is a fact. I don’t want to hear about Intelligent Design (a creationist theory), and if you don’t like it, there’s the door,’” Rep. Dennis Baxley (R-Ocala) said, citing one example when he thought a student should sue.
Now, I may disagree with my professors in Geology about several theories in evolution (like the Symbiatic theory which explains the origins of eukaryotes (a bunch of prokaryotes (bacteria) joined to gether and some became mitochondria (the energy production centers of the cell) and others became the cell proper)) but I'm not going to sue him because of it (he even threw a softball for the creationists in the class (probably just me) saying that the spontaneous theories on the origins of life are the weakest part of the 'unified theory of biology', since it's not technically part of evolution).
Which brings me to my point- actually, I have two.
1. Why go to college if you're just going to end up sueing the prof? That's completely stupid. Suck it up and either accept what the prof says, because he will know more than you will, or try and disprove the prof. I don't care what you do, it's just that sueing the prof is retarded.
And who the hell goes to college for a major in geology or biology and not expect at least some evolution? Unless they go to the Bob Jones University or some shit like that.
Are they going to allow students to sue their math professor if they believe that 2+2=5? Or will they be able to sue their history professors if the students don't believe that the Holocaust happened?
2. Republicans are starting to turn PC. But while (some) liberals PC is trying not to hurt anyone's feelings (and being ridiculous at it) and be accepting and shit, (some) conservatives want to limit any opposition to the Judeo-Christian faith, regardless of, say, the First Amendment. Or how frivolous these lawsuits are.
Maybe it's just a few bad apples spoiling the barrel. But the bad apples are on the top, making the whole barrel look bad.
In an interview before the meeting, Baxley said “arrogant, elitist academics are swarming” to oppose the bill, and media reports misrepresented his intentions.
Oh, those evil liberal professors and their evil, dirty facts! Facts are such stupid things.
I do want to know one thing- When in the hell did intellectual elite become a bad thing? When did knowing stuff become such an evil ideology?
At this rate republicans will turn the whole country inside out by 2008. God help us.