Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Conservative Alumni Groups Strike Again!
Witch Hunt!!!
Some conservatives want proof of overliberalism or something in the classroom. So they want students to tape lectures and show them.
First off, this is pretty clearly a violation of intellectual property rules. You can't tape record a lecture for that purpose, and you sure as hell can't sell it.
But that argument is only mentioned in passing, behind all the other crazed loony-type arguments.
Some of the group's targets accuse it of conducting a witch-hunt.
"Any sober, concerned citizen would look at this and see right through it as a reactionary form of McCarthyism," said education professor Peter McLaren, whom the associated named as No. 1 on its "The Dirty Thirty: Ranking the Worst of the Worst."
A reactionary form of McCarthyism!!! Different than the original! Look here, prof-dudes. If there's something you don't want people in general to know you said on the public dime in the university system...... don't say it. Why all the panic and whining? After, all, according to the very next paragraph:
"Any decent American is going to see through this kind of right-wing propaganda. I just find it has no credibility."
See? Nothing to worry about, right? Why bother throwing a fit? "Ah, but victimhood is so fun... no, wait, I didn't say that, don't tell people I said that!!!!!"
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