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[–]xoenix 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

University students have had their profs reprimanded or fired(?) for saying there are only 2 sexes. I read somewhere that in recent years thousands of academics have been retired, fired or otherwise punished, apparently for subject matter or opinions.

[–]chottohen 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This is really regrettable since the whole idea of a university is to hear a range of opinions. If you prescribe an opinion, then the students' ideas are not really involved. If you proscribe opinions you are also restricting the opinions a student may have. That is the objection I have toward the Politically Correct approach to teaching—the correct way to think about a subject has already been chosen for the students—they do not have to think.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Everyone but me seems to hate philosophy because there's no "right answers".

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

as the joke goes, the other disciplines are dedicated to finding the answer to questions, while philosophy's about whether you're even asking the right questions to begin with (or it's just hairsplitting about categories and/or incessant abuse of Boolean operators)

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not good for sheeple