In the world of intelligent people, he wins no admiration. Only scorn.
Well, yeah, it’s no wonder that this guy would rail against political correctness. How else is going to defend his right to rail against pro-choice defenders, lesbians, or whatever his “conservative Christian” views tag as being wrong and evil?
So from his comfortable tenured perch, this guy takes up a class session to rail against what he deems to be political correctness, mm… It seems that he is the one who doth protest too much. He wants to be free to say whatever he wants - fine. He just can’t come to grips with the fact that he can’t police how society reacts to his speech. Free speech isn’t free of consequences - he should get over it.
^^I agree with jamcafe.
He’s free to invoke “the creator” in class, but he’s not okay with someone disagreeing with him.
I believe that “political correctness” is often a euphemism for groups someone else belongs to being hurt/offended.
This related story is pretty interesting. I think there’s plenty of plenty of gray area around offensive speech. People obviously have a right to be offensive, and those offended have a right to voice their opinions. Each side frequently says the other side needs to shut up, which of course offends the other side even more.
For people who aren’t familiar with him, Mike Adams is a very well-known figure on the extreme far right, best known for his columns at townhall.com.
Yes, Mike Adams has been picking fights for years.
Hopefully, the pay from his tenure job is so well that the carpet, roof, etc., of his house has never been installed by illegal aliens “invited” into this country to serve all of us by the pro-business leaders of this country, mostly to fatten the bottom line of those you-know-who-they-are (definitely not Marxists he hates so much.)
The last time when the roof of my house needed to be replaced, I went to a legitimate company (which may be among the top 3 companies in this business at my city.) The person who we have the first contact was a legal American for sure. However, when the workers came out to do the actual work, they were very likely all illegal aliens, not speaking any English, not owning a car (everyone of them does not drive a car. Someone else drive them to the work site, my home) in a city without good public transportation system.
Maybe this professor lives in a “better” part of the country so he has never had this experience. Or, he has the financial resources to hire a “general contractor” so that he himself does not have to deal with this.
The online database gives his salary as $75,000, so he is definitely not a 1%-er…
I feel sorry for the students who have to spend an entire semester with him.
Was surprised that he got good ratings on ratemyprofessor.
^ His students probably self-select a fair amount, so he may have many who already agree with him.
Probably true. Especially with that “proclamation” made at the outset of his class.
I do think “pc” has gone too far, but we should keep in mind that there is a reason for it. Some folks can’t moderate their own behavior at all.
I imagine to anyone not already indoctrinated into the Left, he’d be a breath of fresh air. When kids hear only left-wing/socialistic bias in the soft sciences, they are missing out on the views of capitalist/libertarian/Free Will types.
There are (to some) excuses for failure on one side and accusations of systemic unfairness, while the other side is more judgmental of failure while touting the (to some) self-righteous virtues of hard work and personal responsibility.
It’s the system vs. the individual as failure’s culpable party, in other words. One side thinks that people tend not to get what they deserve, while the other side believes that outcomes are direct results of inputs like effort, intelligence, and risk-taking.
The same with success: is it the product of the system and luck, or the product of individual greatness?
The thing is, both sides are right, to varying degrees, depending on particular situations.
It would be a shame, in my opinion, for students to hear only one side of that long, old argument.
I think as long as the guy isn’t outright making stuff up then it’s valuable for students to hear a variety of different opinions. I do absolutely think that opinions need to be challenged in order for people to grow and learn, providing the discussions are civil and based on facts and reality. That last part seems to have gone missing for the past several years, unfortunately.
Some people are unreasonably thin-skinned and too easily offended by trivial matters.
But some people do go out of their way to offend others.
I always find it hilarious that the people who complain about how thin-skinned and easily offended and “politically correct” certain groups are, happen to be pretty much the very same people who are the first and loudest to whine and yell and have fits about Starbucks’ holiday cups not being Christmasy enough. The hypocrisy is incredible.