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January 21, 2004
Liberal Blacklist
A group of Republican students at the University of Colorado are giving their liberal professors a taste of their own medicine.
Republican students at the University of Colorado launched a Web site to gather complaints about left-leaning faculty members, saying they want to document discrimination against conservative students and indoctrination to the liberal viewpoint.
And their professors don't like it much.
"I'm shocked the students would resort to this," said Barbara Bintliff, a CU law school professor and chairwoman of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. "I'm concerned they may wind up with a blacklist"
Travis Leiker, 22, president of the College Democrats at CU, said classrooms are full of different perspectives. "I think the conservative students who feel there is a bias are more afraid of hearing points of view different from their own," he said.
I hate to burst their bubble, but I've yet to attend a law school or university that didn't have an unofficial 'blacklist' of its professors. That's one of the first things a student does when entering a new school....find out which instructors to avoid and which ones to take. I mean, DUH.
And conservative students catch hell for their views from both faculty & other students. I've seen it. It ain't pretty.
My prediction for 2004 and beyond is that we're going to see a lot more of this. Conservatives using the liberals' "anything goes" philosophy to bite them in the ass. After all, in a world of "who's to say what's good or bad and all voices should be heard", it's pretty easy to turn that around to justify anything....including a conservative or religious viewpoint.
Like my daddy allus said, what goes around comes around.
Posted by Rita at January 21, 2004 01:19 PM
Comments
Or, "My kharma just ran over your dogma."
Posted by: Ralph Gizzip at January 22, 2004 08:35 PM
That karma, she can be a real bitch sometimes.
Posted by: Rita at January 23, 2004 09:46 AM