Then you would not object to paying me to teach a course about Perpetual Motion Engineering at the University of Toronto? Or how about a couse about how Jackie had Marilyn murdered because John was going to devorce her and marry Marilyn (which is no where near as far fetched as the 9/11 conspiracy stuff)?
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- frank theriault wrote: > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
