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To: Lane3 who wrote (4700)	4/13/2005 11:45:04 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

I agree to the extent that I haven't heard a single "cure" that isn't worse than "the disease". Typically, when identity groups complain about such things, much of the complaint derives from oversensitivity. Is the offense that professors deriding students for supporting capitalism? Or are they simply teaching evolution in the biology department? Its both, and to that extent I agree that the problem isn't as big as it is sometimes presented as being. I don't consider the 2nd "problem", to be a problem. Its also things like what happened to the president of Harvard, or some of the things going on in Columbia and some other universities re: the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, and the whole "America is the greatest source of evil in the world" thread that runs through certain parts of academia. I think there is a real danger of conservatives reacting to hard to this liberal bias. Becoming oversensitive would not be a good idea, nor would creating conservative "islands" in academia that never talk to the more liberal professors, departments, or universities. I think congress trying to solve this issue would be a bad idea, for practical, constitutional, and libertarian reasons. I also don't really think state legislatures should get involved for the most part. State governments should have some say in how state schools are run but they should have a light hand and most of the time they should leave things alone. Any bill that supposedly is going to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors”, probably amounts to bringing in the heavy artillery. I can see serious issues with what could be in a bill like this, and freedom of speech, academic independence, and other issues. It sounds like a busy body bill, that will not achieve its purpose and will have nasty direct effects and side effects if it is pushed hard, although to be fair I have not actually read the text of the bill. Well now that we are done agreeing on this does anyone hold the contrary opinion? Does anyone here think that the bill is a good idea? Please feel free to disagree with me. Does anyone know another person on SI who is a supporter of the bill, isn't an obnoxious jerk, and might be willing to post here? If so please invite them over. Tim

To: Lane3 who wrote (4700)	4/13/2005 7:48:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7936

The Thought Police Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo at April 12, 2005 03:24 PM After showing today's article by Hans Hoppe on his ordeal at UNLV to a faculty colleage, the colleague told me of his own brush this year with a "sensitive" student who was offended by one of his macroeconomics lectures. The lecture employed an economic model called the "IS-LM" model. It has the shape of a normal supply-and-demand model on a blackboard, and to illustrate what the model says my colleague had drawn a series of arrows on to the diagram. A student came up to him after class and claimed to be "personally offended" by the model because all the arrows supposedly made the graph look like a swastika! blog.lewrockwell.com