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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Subject: Re: Feminists, Radical and Otherwise (was: the Male Gaze)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.163156.10890@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov2.210604.16395@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov9.173104.7296@netcom.com> <BxGrHL.4pG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:31:56 GMT
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- In article <BxGrHL.4pG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jchason@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Julie Chason) writes:
- >sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >
- >
- >> I have read
- >>accounts of incidents where male students took too strong issue with
- >>what the feminist professor was saying, and were not merely booted out
- >>of class, but charged with Thought Crimes under P.C. statutes, and
- >>forced to perform Revolutionary Self-Criticism if they wanted to stay
- >>in school.
- >
- >I'm interested in hearing a fuller account of such events. I have associated
- >with and had classes with many instructors and professors who can be
- >considered PC and feminist. No one I know has ever resorted to misuse of
- >power. Verbal skill and well-reasoned arguments usually suffice to
- >CHALLENGE, not necessarily convert or convince, those who are critical.
-
- Well, Dinesh D'Souza tells of such cases, or read any issue of the
- new anti-PC magazine "Heterodoxy" ($25/year, 12400 Ventura Blvd.,
- Suite 304, Studio City, CA 91604). They both specialize in Horror
- Stories along such lines.
- --
-
- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
-
- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
-
- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
-