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From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: Pedagogical Question
> Thanks, Robert. Who'd ever have imagined that the university,
> of all places, would have become an environment hostile to free
> intellectual inquiry?
>
> ==Dan
>
> At 10:14 PM 9/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >I spent 7 years studying at the University of Minnesota, and many of the
> grad students and professors quite literally lived and worked as gangs.
> Professors had followings, and if you happened to take a class while at
the
> same time not adhereing to the dominant ideology--by asking an innocent
> question from outside of the accepted ideological frame--you were quite
> literally shunned. If you quite innocently happened to say the right
thing,
> you were embraced.
> >
> >>>> Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]> 09/02 9:57 PM >>>
> >In answer to the point you make below, Antje, any ideology--whether
> >you call it Political Correctness or whatever--that is imposed on
> >anyone is dangerous, no matter how sweet-smelling. The old joke is
> >that of the communist who says, "Comes the revolution, everybody will
> >eat peaches and cream." Then somebody answers, meekly, and says, "but
> >I don't LIKE peaches and cream." Then our communist answers, "You WILL
> >eat peaches and cream!"
> >
> >==DP
> >-------------------------------------
> >But if we talk about ideology there is actually one thing about American
> >Universities/society that I don't understand at all (even at the risk of
> >stirring up a hornet's nest): political correctness and that all these
> >presumably liberal intellectuals don't see that this is merely ideology
at
> >it's best.
> >
> >Antje Pfannkuchen
> >
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