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Re: If you supported the Make Education Fair campaign you are a retard.

Malfoy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:46:09 -0000

I don't know who you are, Super Science Jews, but I have a feeling... and if you're really that interested I'm keeping a book log on my Facebook for all the books I read in 2009, and so far this year I haven't read anything you could classify as ancap. That wouldn't fit your too-easy judgement though, would it?

Re: If you supported the Make Education Fair campaign you are a retard.

Malfoy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:43:51 -0000

I can point you to one right now...

Open World - Philippe Legrain - he's from the centre-left and describes himself as such.

Re: If you supported the Make Education Fair campaign you are a retard.

Super Science Jews — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:27:08 -0000

Can someone point me in the direction of the last book Ms 'Open-minded' Malfoy read which wasn't rabidly anarcho capitalist?

Re: If you supported the Make Education Fair campaign you are a retard.

Malfoy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:03:10 -0000

I don't think it's about censorship in honesty. You know I've worked on and supported that campaign from the moment it was announced - and that I'd never, ever suggest that the government should censor freedom of expression. I just wish there was some semblance of balance in class - but you know what, I made the choice to change degrees because I didn't like it! I'd hate an overtly conservative classroom just as much - education is about broadening the mind, not indoctrination or stagnation or anything else, which is why the status quo on campus bothers me so much.

(It'd be better if universities were deregulated and privatised - might solve a lot of these problems.)

(Also still think you've basically missed the point on what people were complaining about. Don't know if you've seen the content of my old teaching course but it was disgustingly one-sided and I'd prefer not to be marked down for not buying into groupthink. Thankfully UTS likes intellectual pluralism more than USyd, even if they like feminist and indigenous issues a little too much. But, you know, at least they're open to other viewpoints - and besides, if you cannot face other viewpoints then it might just be because you're worried you won't be able to justify your own i.e. your support for your own views is weak or irrational. That of course applies to both sides of this debate.)