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Academics keep left : Comments

By Rohan D'Souza, published 3/7/2006

The left-wing 'moral high ground' domination of universities imbues a sense of righteous fervour crowding out balanced discussion.

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JameP wrote:
"In my time at University I have never had a tutor or lecturer who wasn't at least an ALP voter, let alone Greens or SocialistAlliance."

So who would you have prefered to tutor you and which text books and theories would you have read and studied?

It seems those who whinge about Leftist education in university have no real ideas about an alternative approach.

Or perhaps they didn't know when they were being instructed or esposed to a right wing perspective at all.

AND: not everything that is anti-leftist is conservative/right. Shock horror!
Posted by Rainier, Saturday, 15 July 2006 3:16:07 PM
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Ajay

I have to strongly object to your contention of tertiary students as 'moddy coddled'.

My experience of university was degrading poverty. It influenced me to experience 'putting theory into practice' with lectures relating to behavioural science, and at the same time reject the right-winged championed theories of my economic major.
Posted by Liz, Saturday, 22 July 2006 8:03:42 PM
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Well said Rancitas, but your thinking does not quite go far enough, cos, in truth , reducing your argument to a position of either/or is playing the same game and falls into the same trap. Let me explain, - left and right are merely symbolic terms - substitute good/bad; black/white; red/blue, in short dual thinking. Life is much more colourful and much more complex. This language is nothing more than 'battlecryspeke' - "with us or against us"!

"left" or "right" dictatorships look, and are in truth, the same thing. Self-proclaimed "Leaders"/"War Presidents" (nb, German translation: Der Fuhrer) on either side, due to fear of losing control, create artificial focal points (9/11? - Arch Duke Ferdinand?)in order to hoist the standard and call to arms...

National reproduction policy usually changes at the same time - as, of course, there may be need for an endless supply of canon fodder (think battery farming - literally, or a need for reconstruction 'drones' once the desired aim is achieved and thousands of lives have been wasted achieving the glory and ego-driven dreams of the few. Either or thinking excludes looking for solutions – common ground becomes ‘no mans land’. Our leaders “will prevail”, “will have victory” I think everyone can agree that these people, whether they claim to be on the left or the right (it will, of course, always be on the opposing side of their "enemy") are megalomaniacs
Posted by K£vin, Friday, 28 July 2006 8:55:18 PM
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