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[languishinghack]

this morning we fought for freedom. i think we won.

testifying in front of the house select committee on academic freedom and higher education wasn't near as bad as i had expected. (see: HR177 and ABOR) (in case you haven't heard yet, 'academic freedom' is infact a very VERY bad thing... you can thank me when you get to college

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[angeldesignpro]

Wait, how is academic freedom bad?

[angeldesignpro]

Wait, how is academic freedom bad?

i read that, it looks like a thinly veiled effort to allow I.D. and/or introduce more conservatives view points into classrooms. But it doesn't look like it would be at all effective toward those ends... am I missing something?

Also, with what points could you argue against it?

[angeldesignpro]

OK, it looks like the opossing side is that it would make politicians incharge of deciding what is academically necessary and require diversity to the point of absurdity - like the hiring of an array of ideologies, even wrong/weird/out there ones.

I still don't see how it has teeth enough to be worth, you know, caring about at all?

[languishinghack]

the committee was formed to investigate whether a problem exists, we told them it doesn't and they should not be wasting their time with such partisan bullshit... you are right that it has no value, but the gov't has better things to spend time and money on than scaring profs