I’m a liberal professor, and I’m NOT afraid of students who question me.

[JaneyVee]

Edward Schlosser says, “I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me”. Strangely, he doesn’t give any evidence that he’s at all liberal, and the one personal incident he cites involves a conservative student.

The next week, I got called into my director’s office. I was shown an email, sender name redacted, alleging that I “possessed communistical [sic] sympathies and refused to tell more than one side of the story.” The story in question wasn’t described, but I suspect it had do to with whether or not the economic collapse was caused by poor black people.

That was it. That was the first, and so far only, formal complaint a student has ever filed against me, he says. Further, this was the response of the administration:

My director rolled her eyes. She knew the complaint was silly bullshit. I wrote up a short description of the past week’s class work, noting that we had looked at several examples of effective writing in various media and that I always made a good faith effort to include conservative narratives along with the liberal ones.

Along with a carbon-copy form, my description was placed into a file that may or may not have existed. Then … nothing. It disappeared forever; no one cared about it beyond their contractual duties to document student concerns. I never heard another word of it again.

So then he scurries off to Vox and writes a long essay in which he complains that he’s terrified by liberal students. This makes no sense at all. There has to be more to his concerns than this. He makes a few vague efforts...

the rest: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/06/04/im-a-liberal-professor-and-im-not-afraid-of-students-who-question-me/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28FTB%3A+Pharyngula%29

[randome]

1. I know. That entire article was bizarre. I kept thinking I'd missed something but...no.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Prism]

2. And then the author of that blog goes full SJW

Right about here:

But hey, let’s get right down to the really important stuff. Edward Schlosser is apparently a white man. He’s terribly concerned about the oppression visited upon us white men, as you might have guessed from that link to his blog post, where he was troubled that he was denied the right to date his students. We must protect the privileges of white male professors, even if it requires that we willfully misinterpret criticisms!

Attack, attack, attack. Mischaracterize and smear (nowhere does the original author claim to want to date student), dismiss the argument because the prof is a white male, etc etc etc.

That shit, that shit right there, is corrosive as hell to productive discourse and is the kind of "argument" that's being churned out these days.

Blogger proves the point of the author quite well, I think.

[romanic]

3. I've heard of Myers

He ripped a few pages out of the Quran and threw on some banana peels, coffee and Eucharest crackers on top into a garbage can I believe. Sounds like a well-adjusted individual.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. And he's an actual person, while the blog he responds to is written under an alias for added

melodrama. Showing disrespect to oppressive religions is in my view far better adjusted than showing respect to such religions and that explains why Myers is happy to own his views while the Furtive Conservative hides behind an internet construct. Myers has ethics.