Warrior General Games

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLT3A0a3hoQ Pretty awesome feats on that video.

i love shit like that

From elsewhere:

"Imagine if physics majors rioted and demanded that every single area of study on campus had to incorporate theoretical physics and hire physics majors. That is exactly what is happening with identity politics studies. It’s a naked power grab that has the potential to redefine academia as we know it."

Academia is a lost cause anyway.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
From elsewhere:

"Imagine if physics majors rioted and demanded that every single area of study on campus had to incorporate theoretical physics and hire physics majors. That is exactly what is happening with identity politics studies. It’s a naked power grab that has the potential to redefine academia as we know it."

what is this in reference to?

Originally posted by Venkman
what is this in reference to?


The "social justice" attempts to take over academia.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
The "social justice" attempts to take over academia.

I meant specifically. where did you pull that quote from?

Originally posted by Venkman
I meant specifically. where did you pull that quote from?

Here's the link: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261991/what-campus-crybully-wars-are-really-about-daniel-greenfield

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Here's the link: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261991/what-campus-crybully-wars-are-really-about-daniel-greenfield

Another reason to be appreciative of smaller government?

Originally posted by Roughneck
Another reason to be appreciative of smaller government?

I'm not sure that's the primary take-away from that article, but there's definite "mission creep" afoot at universities today.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
From elsewhere:

"Imagine if physics majors rioted and demanded that every single area of study on campus had to incorporate theoretical physics and hire physics majors. That is exactly what is happening with identity politics studies. It’s a naked power grab that has the potential to redefine academia as we know it."

exactly. academia is a lost cause. lots of people out there claiming to have an education in physics who have no idea what they're talking about. anyone with a degree is a fraud, especially in their field.

Originally posted by Catullus16
exactly. academia is a lost cause. lots of people out there claiming to have an education in physics who have no idea what they're talking about. anyone with a degree is a fraud, especially in their field.

I'm not sure that's that's the primary take-away from that article...

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
I'm not sure that's that's the primary take-away from that article...

i think anyone with a decent education in the humanities might tell you that your article says far more about its author than its subject.

for example, anyone who honestly thinks that the claim "the average campus already skews left" is somehow self-evident likely never went to university themselves. are people really under the impression that only leftists become professors? do you seriously think your average engineering or law or medicine or business or agriculture department skews left?!?

at the very least, get your stereotypes straight. accuse the humanities of skewing left, but don't pretend that the sciences aren't part of academia (which also includes administration and governance, btw). step two, let's not pull a gray fallacy by assuming the center is necessarily balanced.

the rest of that sentence i quoted above continues on to claim that the alleged 'average' campus merely "maintains the pretense of serving an educational purpose". how about you take a graduate course in mathematics at your local state university and tell me if that education is only pretense. wait, don't tell me, there's no such thing as lie theory because the term reminds you of democrats.

ffs. the last thing america needs is politicized anti-intellectualism. i thought that kind of ignorance disappeared with foofighter.

Originally posted by Catullus16


for example, anyone who honestly thinks that the claim "the average campus already skews left" is somehow self-evident likely never went to university themselves.

You're not really debating that are you? I mean there have been polls aplenty that back that assertion. Much of academia IS left of center politically. That won't kill it, in and of itself, but it is a fact.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
I'm not sure that's that's the primary take-away from that article...

Meaningful posts aren't exactly on a shitty troll's agenda.

Originally posted by Catullus16
how about you take a graduate course in mathematics at your local state university and tell me if that education is only pretense.

Uh, I was the one that disagreed with any such assertion. Will it *eventually* get the way you describe? Given enough time and enough leeway, it could indeed. But I'm not asserting that to be the current state, nor have I ever done so. I think you jumped too quickly.