Me Stoneking ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > > >HOME: > >Dan Pearlman > >102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 > >Providence, RI 02906 > >Tel.: 401 453-3027 > >email: [log in to unmask] > >Fax: (253) 681-8518 > >http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/ > > > >OFFICE > >Department of English > >University of Rhode Island > >Kingston, RI 02881 > >Tel.: 401 874-4659 > > > HOME: > Dan Pearlman > 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 > Providence, RI 02906 > Tel.: 401 453-3027 > email: [log in to unmask] > Fax: (253) 681-8518 > http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/ > > OFFICE > Department of English > University of Rhode Island > Kingston, RI 02881 > Tel.: 401 874-4659 >