Academia as gatekeepers

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[–]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.