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Their rights to different viewpoints are already protected. No one is being arrested for any political belief today.
Remember, DeSantis is also going to have government run polls of students' political affiliation (that are not anonymous). That's a very autocratic thing to do.
Equivalent question: is it important to be able to think in college?
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Originally Posted by Winterfall8324
Not really. If you are at university and there is a predominate mindset then just adapt to that world view. Be positive and work with others, it is a good life lesson in discipline.
You would have done very well in 1930s Germany. or in 1940s/1950s USSR.
Baah, baah, baah... nothing like a well-behaved sheep, eh? Especially when it visits a den of wolves.
“It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,” DeSantis said at a press conference this week. “Unfortunately, now the norm is really these are more intellectually repressive environments, you have orthodoxies that are promoted and other viewpoints are shunned, or even suppressed. We don’t want that in Florida, you need to have a true contest of ideas.”
This is so true. Too bad Trump could not have been so articulate.
DeSantis is batting very well lately. Compare him to Cuomo and it's no contest.
By the time you get to university/colleges you're capable of forming your own opinions on matters and should do so with critical thinking skills.
The opinions and biases of the faculty are inescapable, but we have to trust in our young people that they can form their own biases/opinions/views of the world. I certainly don't share my old lecturer's opinions on the history of the luddite rebellion (for instance), and I would suspect most students don't just blindly follow the points of view of their teacher/professor.
College campuses have become very much like "college campuses" of Dark Age Europe. Run by the dominant social control mechanism of the time (the Catholic church) and offering only "knowledge" that is approved by the church. Today's "church" is leftism and woke culture.
They are not required to be anonymous which isn't how you are describing it....that's up to....oh well, maybe read your own article?
(I'm assuming your spin was unintentional.)
They are NOT required to be anonymous. That allows DeSantis to track what students have non-conservative beliefs. That was my point. If the goal is truly to make sure different viewpoints are allowed, DeSantis would make sure colleges promote Marxism and Socialism as much as he makes sure they promote Conservatism.
Didn't think any of that could be called 'liberal'. EEK ----
I did visit one once, and despite them being adults, they were treated like kids. Separated by sex, tight curfews etc. Quite frankly, I didn't know how it was supposed to prepare people for the real world.
I did visit one once, and despite them being adults, they were treated like kids. Separated by sex, tight curfews etc. Quite frankly, I didn't know how it was supposed to prepare people for the real world.
I find it interesting that conservatives are so concerned that their offspring are being indoctrinated. I live in the southeast and never worried about the obvious bias of the educators of my kids (conservatives). I gave my kids the tools to be critical thinkers. They can sit and lsiten to someone lecture them on what they think the world is -- take that info. and come to their own conclusions.
If you are raising individuals who you fear are subject to the feelings of a Professor and aren't able to weed out and source information on their own -- that person probably shouldn't be at a university.
I went to Catholic school for all of my pre-college years. If your theories were accurate I'd be a full fledged Nun by now or at least a devout Catholic.
I tried and tried and nope.
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