Academia as gatekeepers

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[–]Schwarzenigga 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

You may recall that Nazis sent academics to concentration camps. Authoritarians do NOT want a wel-educated populace. Knowledgeable people will not support authoritarians most of the time. eater_of_gods your comments merely parrot the interests of authoritarians, by making a false claims. Authoritarians want you to argue with people about facts. No, academics are NOT gatekeepers, not in the least. Academics help you with the acquisition of knowledge. What you do with that knowledge is up to you. Students are not in danger of academics. They're in danger of anti-intellectualism and misinformation peddled by authoritarians.

[–]cars 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

This isn't anti-intellectualism; it's pointing out how corrupt academia can be. We already see corruption in academia with universities and researchers accepting bribes and grants from pharmaceutical companies who want to falsely advertise drugs and cover up certain facts about drugs.

If academia was interested in free expression of ideas, they would be okay with entertaining conspiracy theories, no matter how nonsensical, and opinions that differ from those of the universities' benefactors. It's not a good thing that academia is so left-leaning, promotes a single narrative without debate (at least in social sciences and arts), and will offer classes on "kink positivity" and the like. That the quality of research coming out of the education and gender studies departments is so low shows how corrupt and far from truth academia can get.

[–]Schwarzenigga 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It is absolutely anti-intellectualism (and of course anti-left wing, which is part of the point) to demonize all academic activity. What a moronic assumption you've made.

[–]cars 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not demonizing all academic activity. I'm criticizing academic activity that is clearly substandard and corrupt.

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

academic activity that is clearly substandard and corrupt.

Where is that kind of education? Accreditation programs will reject those institutions. (Though accreditation programs in the past 40 years have failed to protect the jobs of academics.)

[–]cars 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If you read any research coming out of the education department, you'll be amazed at how poor-quality it is. Princeton is also offering a class on BDSM that features shocking and pornographic imagery students have complained about having to be exposed to.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-black-queer-bdsm-course-features-porn-essay-by-professor-arrested-for-theft-from-pro-life-demonstrators/

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

Really? That's your example? Princeton? And: can you teach a BDSM course without the inclusion of BDSM images? This is a HIGHLY unusual university course, but it's offered at one of the best universities. Students for this course will get a better understanding of BDSM than they would gather in any other manner, even if they like BDSM. Professions that would would want students to understand BDSM include: psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, social worker, etc, etc. My guess is that they also try to assess pathologies in a BDSM course. No, it's not a way to enjoy porn. In short: you've not selected a poor-quality course. You've also selected an extremely poor quality, highly biased resource: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-college-fix Moreover - students who took the course as part of their professional traning knew exactly what they signed up for, and they are NOT the ones your right-wing fascist rag know about.