"Academic Freedom" - Another sign of an approaching dictatorship?

[ck4829]

What do the Ceasescu, Pinochet, and Stalin dictatorships all have in common?

They all banned the teaching of Sociology.

"Michigan Rep. Jack Hoogendyk (R-Portage) is carrying a bill that would let the Michigan Legislature pick and choose the courses it wants to fund at public universities in Michigan. His bill would make it possible for lawmakers to withhold funding to an institution that offers courses they don’t like.

The gay classes are not alone. Hoogendyk also doesn’t like courses such as Multi-cultural Education and The Psychology of Human Intimacy and Sexuality. He also wants to ban Sociology of Deviant Behavior. This is ironic because this is the course using texts that historically categorized gays and lesbians as sexual deviants.

Regardless of the fate of this proposal, it’s scary because legislative funding bodies, like a state Legislature and Congress, can and do attach strings to funding. For example, colleges may not discriminate on the basis of race and gender or they will lose federal financial aid. If a college wants to discriminate on the basis of race, as Bob Jones University insisted upon doing, it had to forfeit federal funds and its tax-exempt status. "

http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=1450&issue=830

How much more proof do we need that this Horowitz-inspired "academic freedom" is just a front for Totalitarianism?

[lindisfarne]

1. "Approaching" dictatorship? It's here. n/t

[applegrove]

2. This from a bunch of neocon who never put forth their theories for

academic peer review? Yeah right!

[Terran1212]

3. It's always repression called "Freedom"

[ComerPerro]

4. From now on, you will major only in Business

we only want two kinds of people in the New American Century:

low-paid, under-educated workers, and Business-School trained managers to supervise them.