| | | A basic question of our times: Is everyone entitled to their own opinion? When opinions differ can they be civilly challenged and defended?
One quote stemming from my university days: Although I may differ with your opinion, I would fight to the death for your right to defend that opinion.
Unfortunately, imo, in today's "progressive" university environment, there are too many examples of not being allowed to defend any opinion. (i.e. speakers blocked by the "progressive" alarmists.)
For me, university was a place for exposure to all new ideas. Today, imo, university has become a place for discussion of only those new ideas that meet the ideological "progressive" criteria.
Seems to me that "progressive" thought might be more accurately described as "regressive" in the sense that "ideological parameters" effectively censor any discussion of conflicting opinions or thinking.
If I am correct in thinking that "ideological parameters" in the elementary, high school and university classroom settings censor discussion of conflicting ideals, isn't this a curbing of free thought?
If "progressive thinking" is curbing free thinking, isn't that, in fact, "regressive.
Is the TDS that is so outrageously apparent in political discussions of today not a reflection of the "progressive ideology", which is actually "regressive" , that is being propagandized in our schooling system and media outlets like the CNN's of the world?
Isn't TDS a sympton of a very dysfunctional part of our society that has been immersed in wayward thought processing brought about by the indoctrination by an impractical ideology that has consumed our educational system?
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