My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit.

[pcosmar]

I hope I'll learn in High School to tell Einstein's gifts of wisdom from Hitler's demagogy.

Go back and study Nimrod.. the error continues.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nimrod

Following leaders or aspiring to be one.

 

[Dickens]

Go back and study Nimrod.. the error continues.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nimrod

Following leaders or aspiring to be one.

So you learned all the smart stuff. What was your score http://reverent.org/einstein_or_hitler.html ?

 

[pcosmar]

So you learned all the smart stuff.

Still Learning "Stuff".

I don't play silly games.

 

[Dickens]

Still Learning "Stuff".

I don't play silly games.

Afraid that will not tell between the two?

 

[acptulsa]

Afraid that will not tell between the two?

Sentences work better when they have subjects. Just a tip to help you hone your Engrish.

And I have no idea where you got the notion that pcosmar is so afraid of either good dead Germans or bad dead Germans that any inability he may have to differentiate between might give him pause. I mean, we all know you couldn't be bothered to do your homework and study up on us before you started trolling us, or you wouldn't have made everyone laugh by trying to tell me what I don't know about automobiles. But just based on the responses by pcosmar which you have responded to, that was a ridiculous thing to say.

 

[Dickens]

And I have no idea where you got the notion that pcosmar is so afraid of either good dead Germans or bad dead Germans that any inability he may have to differentiate between might give him pause.

The whole construction of this NYP article will collapse: Academic journal accepts ‘Feminist Mein Kampf’

 

[acptulsa]

The whole construction of this NYP article will collapse: Academic journal accepts ‘Feminist Mein Kampf’

Like a great many Post articles, it collapsed already, with no help from me, pcosmar or you. Outside of New York or the Left Coast, literally no one is surprised to learn radical feminists and famous dictators sound alike.

At the "academic journal" their most likely reaction was, " I wondered why the quality of the prose was so much better than usual."

Clickbait is clickbait.

 

[Dickens]

Outside of New York or the Left Coast, literally no one is surprised to learn radical feminists and famous dictators sound alike.

At the "academic journal" their most likely reaction was, " I wondered why the quality of the prose was so much better than usual."

The quality of the prose was the same as in other articles in the journal. Mein Kampf was "re-written" beyond recognition.

 

[pcosmar]

The quality of the prose was the same as in other articles in the journal. Mein Kampf was "re-written" beyond recognition.

It would be "rewritten" in Translation..

and as I have never bothered to read anything that Adolf wrote (unfamiliar with his writings),, and because I have only read a little of Albert's work,, and not his private musings,,, I could not judge a quote I had not read.

You misunderstand the College I went to,, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_State_Penitentiary
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/mo-state-penitentiary/
They did provide an excellent Library.

I hold a Masters in Survival,,with a solid Minor in Escape and Evasion..
It is a matter of Record that the Forum is aware of. and i am pleased to be accepted here..

any time you are up to Honest discussion.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1438647364923760641

 

[Occam's Banana]

"Universities are turning into ideology mills" Peter Boghossian on why he resigned from Portland State University.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/17/universities-are-turning-into-ideology-mills/
spiked (17 September 2021)

Peter Boghossian was assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University until he felt forced to resign last week. His resignation letter went viral – it was a righteous blast against the growing intolerance on his campus.

Much of the trouble began in 2018, when Boghossian, with fellow academics James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, revealed they had successfully published scores of fake academic papers to highlight the degradation of scholarship in the woke era. This led to disciplinary measures from his superiors. And once he became known as a critic of wokeness, he was harassed by students, too. Eventually, after 10 years at Portland State, Boghossian had finally had enough.

spiked caught up with him to find out what he thinks is going wrong on campuses across the West.

[...]

spiked: How serious is the threat to liberal education?

Boghossian: It’s very grave. Look at Jason D Hill, a philosophy professor at DePaul University, who has been accused of transphobia. He’s a gay, black immigrant. If we lived in a sane civil society, those identity markers wouldn’t matter. But we don’t. The shit that he has got has been insane.

Free speech and open inquiry are under attack. But it’s not just that. Those things are proxies. The real issue is that people are being robbed of their cognitive liberty. People don’t seek the truth anymore. They view the university as an ideology mill. Their goal is to get people to adopt certain moral conclusions. That should terrify you, even if you agree with those conclusions. You can never really know if they are true unless there is some pushback against them.

We all need to be challenged. That’s what a university is for. What’s the point of going to university just to deepen the ideas that you already have? The whole thing should be a truth-seeking enterprise.

[... FULL ARTCILE AT LINK: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/17/universities-are-turning-into-ideology-mills/ ...]

 

[Dickens]

It would be "rewritten" in Translation..

I meant that the English translation of "Mein Kampf" (which is adequate) was re-written beyond recognition in the hoax article. Its writing style is like that of any other article in social science journals.

and as I have never bothered to read anything that Adolf wrote (unfamiliar with his writings),, and because I have only read a little of Albert's work,, and not his private musings,,, I could not judge a quote I had not read.

But still you should be able to tell a genius from a thug even if you read nothing by either.

 

[pcosmar]

But still you should be able to tell a genius from a thug even if you read nothing by either.

That would require meeting them.. and I have met neither..

Some people can't tell a hero from a thug.

 

[Dickens]

That would require meeting them.. and I have met neither..

Yes, you would have to see them. If every quote was accompanied by author's portrait you would easily tell them apart.

This is similar to another test, where you have to tell a painting by a famous apestract artist from a painting by an ape. You would need to meet the painter. Just from the painting you can't tell.

 

[pcosmar]

Yes, you would have to see them.

I would have to meet the real people.. not a picture or painting.

I only know what history has been recorded,,

Though I have been puzzling on Albert's ideas concerning the Precess of Gyroscopes,,and how to make it happen.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/BruceDGilley/status/1442600965274673153

 

[Occam's Banana]

Peter Boghossian is producing/presenting a series of videos by Dr. Lyell Asher on the topic "Why Colleges Are Becoming Cults".

THREAD: Why Colleges Are Becoming Cults