Warrior General Games

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Originally posted by Catullus16
wrong on all counts, as usual.
and you have misread me by a country lightyear. first you misread my exactly™ post as if i was responding to your article and came down on entirely the wrong side of my point -- but i ignored that and responded to your article anyways. and now, you're misreading me yet again by taking that response and twisting it into some sort of accusation about what you may or may not have said. great, you never said stuff. congrats. i never said you did.
meanwhile, the article you posted is shit. just my opinion, since you kinda asked.
Have you ever considered that perhaps you're not quite the poster that you imagine yourself to be,
heck, i haven't even considered what kind of poster i might be. i imagine i'm p fucking annoying to certain personalities. hmmm, maybe there's a pattern?

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
and that you occasionally *suck* at making an actual point
yeah, i can't really control the illiteracy of others, which can be frustrating at times. oh well. thanks for asking.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
rather than dueling pointless linguistics?
i think anyone with a decent education in the humanities might tell you that you apparently have no clue what 'linguistics' means.


p.s. i'm guessing that it really rankles your ankles to hear the latest lefty lunacy out of academia, but i think your emotion about this topic is primarily due to the news sources you choose to consume. maybe you can appreciate the diversity of american academia, with is relatively high percentage of private schools (omg free market of ideas) including a bazillion liberal arts colleges that no one cares about, not to mention all the for-profit schools and professional schools and tech schools and even online schools. quick question, do you consider MIT to be decidedly liberal? what about CalTech? i mean hey, left coast, amirite?

point is, academia is far broader than you seem to be imagining. you seem to be focusing on a single over-reported slice of the humanities and assuming that it represents the entirety of academia. has anyone ever accused you of conflating 'some' with 'all'? just wondering.

oh, and i know i used the term 'liberal arts' above, but that's another term that doesn't mean what you think it means.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Then I won't bother responding to defend the article since you haven't read it to begin with. The article made no mention of "teaching as a liberal" being the problem, but because you're too intellectually lazy to actually READ the article you half-assed many responses to, you've demonstrated again that you're still largely a waste of time.

Try us again in 10 years when you've experienced some more of that world you think you want to live in.

So your thought process here.. Do you think pretending you can't defend your own opinion means it didn't happen or are you hoping people will forget about it and change the subject?

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
So I'm supposed to take seriously an objection that begins with questioning whether campuses regularly skew left?
yeah, i realize that disabusing you of your misperceptions means your house of cards crumples. that's why you're so upset with me right now. how dare i claim that your central assumption isn't self-evident! i must be the antichrist.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Come on man, you're better than this. Pick a better topic to spend your time on.
let me guess, now you're going to scream IGNORANCE at me and spam a bunch of quotewalls about jews. i've seen this movie before.

Originally posted by Catullus16

oh, and i know i used the term 'liberal arts' above, but that's another term that doesn't mean what you think it means.

He's taking too long to respond so allow me to stand in for him. Ahem;

It says librul so it's clearly emphatically bad and agenda-based you 19 year old unintelligent pro-learning meanie. Now phrase your response to this post while also citing my article in APA format or I'm going home and not playing with you anymore

Originally posted by rams78110
So your thought process here.. Do you think pretending you can't defend your own opinion means it didn't happen or are you hoping people will forget about it and change the subject?

I'm stating there is nothing to defend--you went off in a direction not implied by the article itself. If you wish to chase that rabbit, by all means do so on your own time.

Cat, I've already stated I won't do quote-trees that involve 4-6 items at once--the software here won't allow it.

If you have a point, make it.

But you don't--you wandered out lazily on a ledge, and now you're trying to cover that fact with volume rather than with clarity.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
I'm stating there is nothing to defend--you went off in a direction not implied by the article itself. If you wish to chase that rabbit, by all means do so on your own time.

What article? I see no article. I mentioned no article. I responded to no article. There is no article in this discussion. So, Larry, what do you personally think a professor being conservative or liberal does to the content of their fact-based lectures?

Careful cat. Phrase your next post very delicately or Larry is going to cry and go home

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Cat, I've already stated I won't do quote-trees that involve 4-6 items at once--
i don't care.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
the software here won't allow it.
lol, yes it will. in fact, i'm doing it right now. you know, the very thing you're whining about.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
If you have a point, make it.
i have, multiple times. and you know it, you're just choosing to be disingenuous. don't blame your failings on me, larry.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
But you don't--you wandered out lazily on a ledge, and now you're trying to cover that fact with volume rather than with clarity.
one of the least convincing whiteflags i've ever seen, but i can understand why you don't want to continue this conversation.

in the meantime, maybe just mull over the post i made previously (which by the way, is all one quote so you can't pretend it's suddenly an issue):
http://glb.warriorgeneral.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=5028266&page=538#49349400

Originally posted by rams78110
He's taking too long to respond so allow me to stand in for him. Ahem;

It says librul so it's clearly emphatically bad and agenda-based you 19 year old unintelligent pro-learning meanie. Now phrase your response to this post while also citing my article in APA format or I'm going home and not playing with you anymore

sorry, i suddenly can't use this forum i've used for years.

therefore, you haven't made a point so i win. also your mom is dumb.

Originally posted by rams78110
What article? I see no article. I mentioned no article. I responded to no article. There is no article in this discussion. So, Larry, what do you personally think a professor being conservative or liberal does to the content of their fact-based lectures?

First of all, there was quite clearly an article here--that's why your ignorant ass popped in to begin with. You ignored the link because you're intellectually lazy.

Second, I have nothing at all against professors being liberal or conservative, so long as the proper and neutral Administration is in place, so long as the mission is the advancement of higher education rather than "social justice", and so long as the powers that be rigorously endorse the maintenance of such an environment. Had you bothered to click on the link (and read it), you'd have already understood that.

Originally posted by rams78110
Careful cat. Phrase your next post very delicately or Larry is going to cry and go home

the strangest thing to me is how his responses to you completely contradict his responses to me.

i directly commented on the article, so his defense is to say the article isn't his words. you're not commenting on the article, so his defense is to point you to the article.

pick a path, larry.

Originally posted by Catullus16
sorry, i suddenly can't use this forum i've used for years.

therefore, you haven't made a point so i win. also your mom is dumb.

Check my replies to rams--in not a single instance have I made him wade through more than a single quote at a time. The software here isn't worth the effort.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
I have nothing at all against professors being liberal or conservative, so long as the proper and neutral Administration is in place,
cool, so when some board of governors insists on stocking the administration with corporate-friendly appointees who are willing to steer research towards projects that directly benefit those corporations, that should be combated? p.s. a big lol at anyone who thinks professors run the university, especially those in the humanities who are still making five figures.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
so long as the mission is the advancement of higher education rather than "social justice",
hey, are we allowed to study social justice as a topic or is that off-limits? anything else that should be censored in the name of political correctness?

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
and so long as the powers that be rigorously endorse the maintenance of such an environment.
yay, so the administration should completely abrogate academic freedom because that would be good somehow. let's destroy the biggest pillar in the free exchange of ideas, we've been wrong too long.