Indoctrinate U, the documentary college campuses want to ban

Nor does it add anything to a thread to go around and point out whether or not anything is added to a thread by pointing out people's spelling errors, especially when there are plenty of other posts made that aren't pointing out spelling errors yet add nothing to the thread or the forum. Pointing out the obvious, especially for the 1001st time, is as bad as anything else.

stupid letsrunners wrote:

Wrong again. I think that presenting ANYONE as unwilling to do an on-the-spot interview with an agenda-driven "journalist" is pointless, whether the interviewer is liberal or conservative. No professional should engage on the record unless they are prepared. If you're a politician at a press conference, it's your job to be prepared for the media; if you're a geography prof getting coffee, tell them to f#ck right off and come back with an appointment.

I agree 100%. I just thought it was funny that people so quickly jumped on this guy for it while my hunch is that they eat up Moore's "documentary".

i went to the website for the film and looked at deleted scenes. they are interviewing columbia students about an offensive quote about jews made by a professor when they are approached by security, who says they have to see someone about a film permit. then the filmmakes proceed to portray it as semi-outrageous that there would be a charge for filming there and that columbia would want to know what they were filming and have final content edit. this is true of every school everywhere, and every responsible company and organization. to act like this was in response to their agenda is ridiculous.

plus, if students are so offended by what their professors have to say, TAKE A DIFFERENT CLASS, or go to school somewhere else.

amksteeple wrote:

plus, if students are so offended by what their professors have to say, TAKE A DIFFERENT CLASS, or go to school somewhere else.

If a student is in a class that has nothing to do with politics and the professor starts spouting their political views in class, this is inappropriate and the student has a right to be pissed. I would be pissed if I was paying top $ for an education and I had to hear some blowhard crying about politics during class. I don't even like to hear about it at work, where I am getting paid for being there, but all people ever talk about is whiny politics.

Another thing I think is a bit comical is chuck d (who I normally agree with on most things) moaning about peoples' spelling and then not capitalizing his sentences. I agree with his point because I believe people should write clear English and not leave the syntactical nuances open to the readers' interpretation. Those who think that spellcheckers and "internet shorthand" have eliminated the need for correct grammar have something to learn about the communication of ideas. And chuck - I may be wrong - but I think the word Fahrenheit is always capitalized. I'll let someone more anal than myself check that though...

If I "eat up" a 'documentary' from Moore, it's because he had the ability to make it entertaining, not because I expect him to arm me with all of the facts necessary to make a decision on any major topic. TV news is the same way anymore, though. Moore just tells the sides of the stories that don't get airtime on Fox News or CNN or even NPR, due to editorial bias brought in by corporate owners, advertisers, and 'underwriters'. The stuff he puts on film didn't not happen. These hacks didn't even make their attack film appear at all entertaining (and I do delight in seeing those in a position of power or authority squirm when made to face the music), that's their greatest flaw here.

I'm all for documentaries like this. Even as a liberal and academic. Why?

... if this is the best case that can be presented then academia isin't doing too bad.

wqsxcwsx wrote:

Those who think that spellcheckers and "internet shorthand" have eliminated the need for correct grammar have something to learn about the communication of ideas.

Maybe you've been "indoctrinated" to believe that spelling and grammar are more important than they really are. Tons of dumb ass mofos have been communicating ideas just fine with horrible spelling and grammar.

Mr. Price wrote:

I'm all for documentaries like this. Even as a liberal and academic. Why?

... if this is the best case that can be presented then academia isin't doing too bad.

Documentary?? Exactly what does this document--once again, the stupdity of a right wing idealogue aiming at people with the intelligence of an eighth grader at most? Even this, you have to guess at. They don't DOCUMENT anything. They don't even make a case--ANY case.

I'm all for discussion but can't have a debate with an unarmed person.

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

Tons of dumb ass mofos have been communicating ideas just fine with horrible spelling and grammar.

But the majority don't. Being unreadable is not an asset.

This isn't relevant to the Davis invitation issue, but people need to know that Summers got into trouble at Harvard for issues other than what he said about women.

Chief among them, according to my sources, was that he was much more of an autocrat than the Harvard professors and chairs are used to. He did not take a "collegial" approach to governance. This doesn't go down well with faculty at any college anywhere.

Along the lines of spell-checking and vocabulary, I well remember seeing a national news stringer stopping people outside the Yard and asking them if they thought a college president should be "congenial." Most answered that this wasn't very important. It was clear that the stringer had not been listening, or did not understand the difference between "collegial" and "congenial." Pretty bad, since anybody just looking at the item on the national news would have thought that Summers was in trouble because he wasn't congenial.

I could tell my university was a bastion of liberalism when I checked the curriculum and noticed that they didn't offer one single course in proper "Foot-tapping Technique in Public Mensrooms." What sort of communist crap is that? Not only that, there's not even one single course in "How to IM your Underage Pages to go out for Drinks." Thank god I was able to learn most of that stuff at my church's Sunday School, where I also took an excellent class in "Snake-Handling 101." The labs for that class were awesome!