How universities were corrupted. We are facing a deep cultural problem that is becoming more pronounced with each generation. A new generation of university students are increasingly supportive of removing from campus words, books, ideas, speakers, and events they find uncomfortable or offensive.

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I mean if each new generation is worse this is coming from before they get to uni.

It's in schools and homes.

I think teachers generally have lost control in classrooms and get no support to defend themselves so have fallen on "be kind" and social shaming to manipulate pupils to behave rather than use fair discipline and consequences.

This means kids are learning to be highly manipulative and immoral to get on.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Yep... Yep... This problem is as old as "education" itself is, i sense. It "only" got more fierce, so to say.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

As old as education itself? Huh? No. No it is not.

Never before have students demanded less knowledge from university. Never before have they demanded more censorship. Universities have always been places of free inquiry since they were birthed by the Enlightenment.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

So tell me why the Vatican hasn't opened its library for the public then. If you are able to supply your proposition with a sound base though.

Or describe to me as best and sound as you can:

How can any book be burned again and again in the timeline of human history? By students like when the Nazis simulated being in charge ?

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

It's safer to wear an ISIS flag in London than it is to wear a MAGA hat in Chicago. LET THAT SINK IN.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Chicago is a cesspool made of quicksand and corruption chaos. I know this. No need to let it sink in. And the incest-ridden Britons are too fucked-up to actually start to believe in a "law" that is younger than 100 years.

Let that sink in, private CAPS.

And fyi: You're writing off-topic again. Like most of the times.

Don't tell me this are the two brain-cells "arguing" again. Please. Mercy.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Millionaire Neil Degrasse Tyson was accused of repeated sexual misconduct and of rape and seems to have faced literally zero repercussions.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Relevance in relation to the questions i asked ?

Let me guess :

Wikipedia and its codices and metrics are a totally blind spot for the filter-bubble you put your tent up in, ain't they ?

And i'm not talking about the propaganda-able part of Wikipedia but the rather "sciency"-part of Wikipedia.

Which is very hard to instrumentalize for political operations, naturally. Because these are dictatorships for most parts.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So you're pathetically trying to gaslight me into believing you are more intelligent than your cat is, ain't you ?

Hint: I already know the answer to this question, but maybe you can finally start to believe that your head has more functions than being an excuse for visiting the hairdresser, you most likely secretly have a crush on since a decade.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wonder if the Vatican is hiding all the "heteric's" books in their library, including perhaps the original books of the New Testament not edited by them.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would put a bet on the assumption that they hide a lot of very old celtic knowledge in this library.

Not only their own stuff, so to say.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I bet they're hiding Matthew's logia, the original Hebrew Matthew, the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of the Hebrews, the gospel of the Nazarenes, the gospel of the Ebionites, the Marcionite gospel, Marcion's version of Paul's letters, Secret Mark, the gospel of Peter, all the lost apocryphal gospels, all the heretics' writings, and possibly even original versions of canonical books before they altered them.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Calculus is uncomfortable and offensive.