Some consider measure censorship of professors (TERRIFYING!!!!!!!!!)

[Kerrytravelers]

I apologize if this is the wrong forum or a duplicate, but I found this on Michael Moore's site and had to post.

<http://michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1940>



Some consider measure censorship of professors

By Lisa Petrillo / Union-Tribune

SAN MARCOS – Do California's 2 million public college students need Sen. Bill Morrow to protect them from their professors' politics?

That was the debate yesterday at California State University San Marcos, where 300 students gathered to hear Morrow, a Republican state senator from Oceanside, defend his proposed academic "bill of rights" – his second effort to legislate what professors could discuss in their classrooms.

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"The central purposes of the university are the pursuit of truth, the discovery of new knowledge. . . . Curricula and reading lists in the humanities and social sciences shall respect the uncertainty and unsettled character of all human knowledge in these areas and provide students with dissenting sources and viewpoints . . . ."


What Larkin (LARKIN OPPOSED MORROW ON THE PANEL) said he considers scariest is that the law never explains who will be the judge of what constitutes unreasonable political opinions and how violators will be punished.

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Cal State San Marcos officials told students yesterday that laws and policies exist to challenge grades or file complaints against professors they felt discriminated against them.









Dear God. If these people take over education, the United States is doomed. Right now, free thought is allowed, but with the Hitler Youth running the show in ever thinking corner in America... well, there will be no more thinking corners left.

[Endangered Specie]

1. The worst professors will be sent to 're-education'

:scared: :grr:

[DemBones DemBones]

3. You mean the BEST professors.

The worst ones will be given big fat raises and allowed to revise course guidelines, decide promotion and tenure, etc.

[Endangered Specie]

5. True.

and the classroom walls will have ears.

[Hissyspit]

2. Thanks for the link. These are serious issues, although...

I'm counting on Americans to see through it.

[Hissyspit]

4. There is a 1940 Jimmy Stewart movie called "The Mortal Storm"

In it Frank Morgan plays an old Jewish biology professor teaching in Germany near the Austrian border. The movie begins with his students throwing him, their favorite professor, a birthday party.

A few scenes later, after the rise to power of the Socialist party, the students, now dressed as Brownshirts, verbally assault him for daring to teach that their is no such thing as 'racial blood purity.' They storm out of his class. He loses his job and by the end of the movie, has died in a concentration camp. The movie reflects actual incidents in Germany at the time.

This if not a 'Bill of Rights.' It is the propaganda attack of fascists.

[Kerrytravelers]

6. Thanks for "The Mortal Storm"

I'll be looking for a copy to watch.

[Hissyspit]

7. Funny, the article ID in the URL at michaelmoore.com is 1940! n/t

[Hissyspit]

8. Turner Classic Movies is showing it April 26 at 6 a.m.

...according to their online seach engine.