tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post4273690777531496496..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Prophet And Man At YaleAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39190598298170118322009-08-16T14:32:02.821-04:002009-08-16T14:32:02.821-04:00Andrew: Is is a very sad state of affairs. Despi...Andrew: Is is a very sad state of affairs. Despite their revisionism, today's lockstep lefty professors forget that the universities in the 60s really were hotbeds of political thought--at all points on the spectrum. Many of the conservative values I've embraced as I've gotten older I first heard coming from Berkeley professors in the 60s. <br /><br />I particularly remember a history professor (who later went on to become the chair of the history department at San Francisco State) who thought one-world government was a foolish denial of human nature calling Woodrow Wilson the "deaf, dumb and blind Don Quixote of the Twentieth Century" for botching the peace after WWI by insisting on a League of Nations. How refreshing. Today the only criticism you'll hear of Wilson is that he was a racist. But in pursuit of destroying American exceptionalism, they forgive him.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-23763259553268041712009-08-16T11:35:57.240-04:002009-08-16T11:35:57.240-04:00Skinner, You make some great points about academia...Skinner, You make some great points about academia today. When I went to college, all I heard about was the wonderful, free-spirited academic environment in which everything could and would be said in the ultimate search for truth. What I found instead was a group-think machine that stamped out mindless little followers. Sad.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-79361096357524158132009-08-16T01:10:36.739-04:002009-08-16T01:10:36.739-04:00Skinners2Cents: In the 60s, we fought for academi...Skinners2Cents: In the 60s, we fought for academic freedom. Unfortunately, many of my compatriots went on to teach at those same universities. And they thought "academic freedom" meant the freedom to miseducate, undereducate, and fail to educate. Only an ivory tower pseudointellectual could use unnamed experts to determine what ought to be printed and what shouldn't. And only people suffering from pure cognitive dissidence could believe that describing a cartoon is preferable to simply showing it. They didn't fool anybody but their fellow leftists. They're cowards, pure and simple.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-11508504193971717382009-08-16T01:04:21.861-04:002009-08-16T01:04:21.861-04:00CrispyRice: Just when I think the universities ca...CrispyRice: Just when I think the universities can't get any more foolish, they come up with something like this. They're like parents who are afraid of their own children. So they cave in, and produce monsters.<br /><br />StlDan: Think of all the money we could save by closing all the museums and simply describing what used to be in them in words, online.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-7406710925703993462009-08-16T00:51:39.677-04:002009-08-16T00:51:39.677-04:00In the back of my head every time I read one of th...In the back of my head every time I read one of these articles I've got Harold Crick from Stranger Than Fiction yelling "Have I taken crazy pills!"<br /><br />At least stories like this bring to light exactly how dark most Universities have become. <br /><br />Free thought; not on your life. <br /><br />You might run into one brave soul in a class room, who's an actual free thinker. It'll be the person who makes people gasp when they ask questions. Stunned by such audacity as to question some poor logic on the Professor's part.<br /><br />I love irony, it's natures comedy on a grand scale.<br /><br />The whole idea of going to college is about forming your own independent identity and "higher education" (which is another topic entirely). At least for those students coming out of high school. <br /><br />They are all so proud to be on their own and they don't have to conform to anything. Yet inside the first semester of college most have already become conformists on a grand scale.<br /><br />"I don't eat animals"<br />"I don't walk on the grass"<br />"I don't wear shoe's made by little slave kids"<br />And on and on, there are far to many to list.<br /><br />Most arguments you will hear between conformists is who can conform the most and how dedicated they are to conforming. <br /><br />The most dedicated are not afraid to help keep you informed on how you should be changing your life to better facilitate their pipe dream of happiness. <br /><br />It actually makes me chuckle every time I think about.... Then it makes me want to beat them senseless in hopes that they suffer amnesia. I'd be doing them and the rest of the world a favor.. =)<br /><br />We can print, sculpt, build, paint, celebrate, and fund every vile form of "Art" under the sun. Deities from all religions have been artistically rendered in every negative light possible. Except one, now we need to be sensible about offending people, to bad you didn't grow a conscience until recently. Will you be taking down all offensive depictions of Christ from you art galleries and out of all text books? <br /><br />Somehow I don't think the Professors at Yale have become sensible I think they are just trying to keep the glass bubble from bursting around the pretend world they talk about living in.Skinners 2 Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06637561284569976324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-58914681943337207542009-08-15T22:31:28.409-04:002009-08-15T22:31:28.409-04:00"that the cartoons had been printed so univer..."that the cartoons had been printed so universally previously that to do so again would be redundant."<br /><br />So why have an Art Museum or why print art books? I could have saved these people a lot of money on an education.StlDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962630369585325054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-90862709389628376332009-08-15T19:29:41.881-04:002009-08-15T19:29:41.881-04:00Wow, LawHawk, that's just crazy. I mean, I...Wow, LawHawk, that's just crazy. I mean, I've seen universities do stupid things before, but this is a new level of PC-ness. Or maybe, as you say - CYA-ness in not wanting to have the student union bombed.CrispyRicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302075204880024936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-40311327094361197402009-08-15T19:26:11.839-04:002009-08-15T19:26:11.839-04:00ScottDS: Don't hold your breath for the next ...ScottDS: Don't hold your breath for the next SI swimsuit book either.<br /><br />StanH: I'm not so worried about our future leaders, but the ivory tower produces hordes of followers, aka sheeple. Academia (even at my <i>alma mater</i> UC Berkeley) used to teach students how to think and how to question. Now they just teach them how to spout leftist talking-points by rote. A nation of independent thinkers can handle crazy leaders, but a nation of followers can only take orders.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-36741955303258534462009-08-15T19:11:24.411-04:002009-08-15T19:11:24.411-04:00Scott, Ducks are indeed flying objects. Swimming o...Scott, Ducks are indeed flying objects. Swimming objects too.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-58965090382161648732009-08-15T18:54:52.018-04:002009-08-15T18:54:52.018-04:00What do you expect from our fearless academics, pe...What do you expect from our fearless academics, perched in their the Ivory Tower that is Yale. Just think this is where our future leaders are made, God help us.StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-35172653497016263802009-08-15T18:18:50.548-04:002009-08-15T18:18:50.548-04:00I was looking forward to Yale's book on superm...I was looking forward to Yale's book on supermodels but I guess I'll pass on it now. :-)<br /><br />(ducks flying objects)ScottDSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-84415343011730531542009-08-15T18:09:52.724-04:002009-08-15T18:09:52.724-04:00Andrew: My "Far Side" collection challe...Andrew: My "Far Side" collection challenges your "Bloom County" selection to a war of words. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-12969325787456476812009-08-15T18:08:27.869-04:002009-08-15T18:08:27.869-04:00Primer: Ya gotta know that these Yale professors ...Primer: Ya gotta know that these Yale professors and staff are just sniveling cowards. Their arts department must be a mess. Imagine writing a book about the Mona Lisa without actually showing the painting. People have been fighting over the meaning of the painting for five hundred years. A painting (or a cartoon) cannot possibly be described adequately in words, and those cowards at Yale know it. One cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb on his turban is worth considerable comment. Unfortuntely, the yellowstreaks at Yale know exactly how jihadis comment.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-1964414823546915802009-08-15T18:01:39.265-04:002009-08-15T18:01:39.265-04:00It takes 1000 words to describe a picture, I like ...It takes 1000 words to describe a picture, I like that. That makes my Bloom County collect the longest books ever written!<br /><br />Of course, Yale could write about those without fear that peace activists would kill us all.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-57937535082038256832009-08-15T17:50:58.429-04:002009-08-15T17:50:58.429-04:00Lawhawk, Very nice as usual. I only have one quest...Lawhawk, Very nice as usual. I only have one question. Without the actual cartoons, what is the point of the book? <br />It appears to me to just be a book that liberal intellectuals can point to and say "Look how thoughtfully and compassionately we have handled this subject". Aren't we special...<br />Cowardice apparently was a Yale Man..Primerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02426473400552011132noreply@blogger.com