Who Says It Does No Good To Complain?

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Oberlin College – which is sort of the UC Berkeley of small private schools, the school that spawned Lena Dunham, the place where the affirmative checklist for student sex was invented, which has led the academic world in “trigger warning” R&D, a place that makes Carlton or Macalester look like Hillsdale – has been on the “dodgy” list for it’s weaselly approach to free speech on campus.

But it’s nice to know they know where to draw the line, isn’t it?

7 thoughts on “Who Says It Does No Good To Complain?”

  1. One question.

    How in hell does any college name someone a professor of “rhetoric and composition” with a straight face?

    Libidiot institutions boggle the minds of sane people!

  2. Oh, rhetoric and composition is a fairly old and honorable academic discipline. The discipline/s used to be considered part of a good education.

    Not that they are faring well these days, clearly.

  3. MBerg, agreed. Add logic to that. Alas, taught by libturds who are themselves devoid of any logic, rhetoric and composition, it is like an LGBT professor teaching differential equations to 4th graders.

  4. Dang, that should have said “LGBT studies professor”. I am sure there are plenty LGBT professors who know how to derive an equation.

  5. Oh, and there is room for classical liberal education in institutes of higher learning along with sciences and engineering. Alas that had all been supplanted, hijacked and devalued by studies.

  6. When it comes to political and social views, Muslims are far more likely to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party (70%) than the Republican Party (11%) and to say they prefer a bigger government providing more services (68%) over a smaller government providing fewer services (21%). As of 2011, U.S. Muslims were somewhat split between those who said homosexuality should be accepted by society (39%) and those who said it should be discouraged (45%), although the group had grown considerably more accepting of homosexuality since a similar survey was conducted in 2007.

    http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/07/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/

  7. Correction; it was actually Antioch College that pioneered affirmative consent, for which it was brutally spoofed on SNL back in the days when it was sort of funny.

    Regarding this, it strikes me that any sane institution ought to simply haul the woman in and tell her that she’d better offer some evidence for her positions, or else she will have proven she’s not qualified to teach rhetoric–which is, after all, the science of establishing a logical/rhetorical position in speech or writing. In other words, opinions that are way out there are often proof that someone’s not up to the job.

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