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Hi Chis Lewis

Yes, like you, I too find it difficult being a Centrist.

I also found Uni lecturers tended to be of the Left.

I don't know what impact the Lib-Nat Coalition policy of bumping up Arts Degree fees will have on Uni Academics' political leanings.

Cheers

Pete

Pete,

the guy I complained about calling me anti-Labor gave one of the most biased lectures I ever heard. Complete rubbish.

After the lecture, in tutorials, I asked the students what they thought of the lecture.

Of the ones that spoke, they all agreed it was biased and not true.

Biased academics think they influence; they don't.

The students just go away and get jobs, and join the club calling the humanities biased towards the left.

The problem is the teachers; they are simply not competent in understanding the world and why there are legitimate representations made by left and right.

To put it simply, they are mostly bozos.

Chris Lewis,

What subject areas are you talking about?

Chris Lewis- Thanks for your comments. Kudos.

To Plantagenet- Centrists are effected by the Overton Window.

In order to stay in the centre they need to constantly move to the left (or more Locke Liberal position).

It's a form of Communist Salami Tactics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

"The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences."

"In 1998, Noam Chomsky said: The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.[10]"

Hi Chris,

I also had a run-in with one of my lecturers who gave
me an F on one of my essays and it would have affected
my over all score. The topic of the essay was AIDS and
it was a controversial issue at the time. I had done a
great deal of research on the topic including interviews
with people suffering from AIDS and an author who'd written
on the subject.

Anyway I asked that my essay be looked at by other lecturers
and if they thought I deserved an F. Fair enough. My essay
was examined by other lecturers. I ended up with a High
Distinction for it. The lecturer apparently was a well
known homophobe and had allowed his extreme views to
influence the way he marked students instead of being objective.

I was glad that I had plucked up the courage to question that
mark he had given me.

There you go.

We all have our experiences - good and bad at Uni - and I guess
it all depends on us how we handle them.