[QUOTE="Chrypt22"]
[QUOTE="theone86"]
Yes, that makes perfect sense, radicalism starts in a place that tries to teach logic and objective learning, not, say, on a show that masquerades as an etnertainment show as a way to deflect objections despite clearly being a platform from which to spread political views that are often radically charged and completely sensational. Statements like that demonstrate the need for universities in the first place.
topgunmv
No. While some Universities try to teach objectively that is far from the norm. Everyone I have known that has gone to college has had a handful of whacked out professors sit up there and preach their political agenda. While every professor isnt like that, there are a lot that do. To reitterate my last post I had a business ethics teacher that used the class to preach Communism. I had an economics teacher tell people if you drove a certain car not to come back. People tend to forget the CU professor that preached in his classes that America was evil and that we deserved 9/11. It isnt any secret that a lot of colleges have a liberal agenda, and thats just an accepted fact...
With that said, to say that they are "re-education" camps is absured, but beck feeds off the attention comments like that gives him.
Honestly, I believe that most intelligent people will not sit there and listen and believe everything that is regurgitated from a professors mouth, and if they do then they really shouldnt be in college, McDonalds would be a better fit. The people that do sit there and believe whatever they are told are just as bad as the hardcore Beck followers.
It's a good argument that the tenure system has to be re-evaluated, I've heard too many cases of students being penalized for the wrong reasons.
Chrypt has a point, but those professors aren't really the norm, at least not in my experience. Beck is being dramatic and hyperbolic for all of the very obvious reasons, but there is some validity in his argument; he just has a poor choice of words, hahahaha. From my experience the amount of that type of atmosphere, of professors (and lecturers, assistants, etc.) espousing their "liberal" agenda or bias, is correlated by college (Arts and Science, Business, Fine Arts...) and department, sometimes in both directions (though more to the left). I don't think it goes quite as far as necessitating re-evaluating the tenure system, I find that lecturers express their bias more than tenured professors anyway. 
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