On 7/25/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will defend the guys right to get up on a soap box, or write on the > Internet, but I do not think he should be given official sanction or tax > payer dollars to do so. Are we required to support every crackpot who > wishes to tell us about his hallucinations?
It rankles me that people use the "not with my tax dollars" argument to try to muzzle academics whose views don't coincide with theirs. I didn't realize that part of the deal with public funds going to universities was to allow the public to set curriculum, or otherwise tell profs what to say (or not to say). In fact, I thought that tax dollars going to post-secondary institutions was all about recognizing that the particular values and freedoms of academia were worth preserving and promoting, not so that the government or the people could use that funding as a platform to promote personal or popular agendas or censor unpopular thoughts. I guess I'm naive. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
