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03-06-2015, 08:31 PM
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/liberal-students-are-terrifying-their-liberal-professors/
Left-wing students are terrifying their own left-wing professors
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Modern progressive college students have become so militant they’re frightening their own like-minded professors, according to an account posted by one such professor on the website Vox (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid).
The professor, using the pseudonym Edward Schlosser, claims to have taught for nine years and currently works at a midsize state college. Over that time, he says, students have decisively shifted to become so protective of their fragile emotions that defying their sensibilities can be ”suicidal” for one’s career.
“Things have changed since I started teaching,” Schlosser writes. “The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me — particularly the liberal ones.”
In the past, Schlosser says, he had a limited ability to confess his own political leanings in a class discussion, and he had no worries about exposing students to challenging texts and ideas if he thought it was appropriate for the class. Today, however, the danger is very real, especially for professors who haven’t received tenure yet.
“I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to ‘offensive’ texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain,” he says. “That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad, texts ranging from Upton Sinclair to Maureen Tkacik — and I wasn’t the only one who made adjustments, either.”
The shift in attitudes doesn’t just menace professors, but also undermines the education of students, Schlosser says. Students are no longer learning to challenge their own beliefs, and in fact are learning to lash out at those who penetrate their ideological bubble.
Schlosser’s anonymous account is the second account in the past week by a liberal professor describing an increasingly hostile relationship with their own students. Last Friday, Laura Kipnis of Northwestern described the “inquisition” (http://chronicle.com/article/My-Title-IX-Inquisition/230489/?key=HG4gdAI5NSFLM31gZT8SZD0GandvYk4nZXdIbnkjbl9WE A==) she endured after students complained about article she wrote criticizing the ”sexual paranoia” (http://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes/190351/) of modern universities.
Although himself of liberal sympathies, Schlosser blames the current environment on “cultural studies and social justice writers.”
“Their manifestations online… have led to adoption of a totalizing, simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice,” he says. If that conception isn’t somehow moderated, he says, the final result is inevitable: a surge of “tremendous” conservative electoral backlash.
Read the full essay here (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid).
I experienced this in a philsophy class, or rather heard of it, of our professor who months earlier had got into very hot water as some left-wing students had complained about him using moral questions such as rape, abortion, murder and race in moral and philosophical discussion... so much so that he apparently since then had severely moderated his class and was scared to give any radical moral dilemmas to the class. The irony of course is not only are you in university which is supposed to be for such things (or at least was pre-1960s) but it's a philosophy and ethics class.
Look on this forum too to see how crazed the left/liberals/progressives have become. If you say, as I do, that mass immigration isn't a sensible idea you are immediately attacked not by any argument or reason, but by accusations of racism and abuse as though that is the ultimate sin and wins the argument. It doesn't occur in the mind of a left-winger that actually their opponents might have some valid concerns over uncontrolled borders. And it's the same when you try talking to them about civil liberties, the married family, sovereignty or social cohesion: you just get a blank face back or the response that none of these things matter.
It's scary, although as the liberal professor in the article says, the harder they keep pushing the harder the conservative backlash will be.
Thoughts?
Left-wing students are terrifying their own left-wing professors
http://3io9kj3rajqhyi3ej3xme9pe.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/tumblr_inline_n1vx9oigJr1sb6duq.jpg
Modern progressive college students have become so militant they’re frightening their own like-minded professors, according to an account posted by one such professor on the website Vox (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid).
The professor, using the pseudonym Edward Schlosser, claims to have taught for nine years and currently works at a midsize state college. Over that time, he says, students have decisively shifted to become so protective of their fragile emotions that defying their sensibilities can be ”suicidal” for one’s career.
“Things have changed since I started teaching,” Schlosser writes. “The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me — particularly the liberal ones.”
In the past, Schlosser says, he had a limited ability to confess his own political leanings in a class discussion, and he had no worries about exposing students to challenging texts and ideas if he thought it was appropriate for the class. Today, however, the danger is very real, especially for professors who haven’t received tenure yet.
“I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to ‘offensive’ texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain,” he says. “That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad, texts ranging from Upton Sinclair to Maureen Tkacik — and I wasn’t the only one who made adjustments, either.”
The shift in attitudes doesn’t just menace professors, but also undermines the education of students, Schlosser says. Students are no longer learning to challenge their own beliefs, and in fact are learning to lash out at those who penetrate their ideological bubble.
Schlosser’s anonymous account is the second account in the past week by a liberal professor describing an increasingly hostile relationship with their own students. Last Friday, Laura Kipnis of Northwestern described the “inquisition” (http://chronicle.com/article/My-Title-IX-Inquisition/230489/?key=HG4gdAI5NSFLM31gZT8SZD0GandvYk4nZXdIbnkjbl9WE A==) she endured after students complained about article she wrote criticizing the ”sexual paranoia” (http://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes/190351/) of modern universities.
Although himself of liberal sympathies, Schlosser blames the current environment on “cultural studies and social justice writers.”
“Their manifestations online… have led to adoption of a totalizing, simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice,” he says. If that conception isn’t somehow moderated, he says, the final result is inevitable: a surge of “tremendous” conservative electoral backlash.
Read the full essay here (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid).
I experienced this in a philsophy class, or rather heard of it, of our professor who months earlier had got into very hot water as some left-wing students had complained about him using moral questions such as rape, abortion, murder and race in moral and philosophical discussion... so much so that he apparently since then had severely moderated his class and was scared to give any radical moral dilemmas to the class. The irony of course is not only are you in university which is supposed to be for such things (or at least was pre-1960s) but it's a philosophy and ethics class.
Look on this forum too to see how crazed the left/liberals/progressives have become. If you say, as I do, that mass immigration isn't a sensible idea you are immediately attacked not by any argument or reason, but by accusations of racism and abuse as though that is the ultimate sin and wins the argument. It doesn't occur in the mind of a left-winger that actually their opponents might have some valid concerns over uncontrolled borders. And it's the same when you try talking to them about civil liberties, the married family, sovereignty or social cohesion: you just get a blank face back or the response that none of these things matter.
It's scary, although as the liberal professor in the article says, the harder they keep pushing the harder the conservative backlash will be.
Thoughts?