Petition to ban Social Justice College Courses

What I don't understand about this whole thing is that in my time in university (between 2005-2010) students were required to keep their mouths shut while the professor talked, even in very small near-graduate level classes. Only when open discussion was started, were students given the means to speak (or if a student respectfully raised their hand with an inquiry about the topic at hand).

Sure, there was the odd time in an entry-level class when a clearly politically-motivated new student eager to speak out of turn voiced their (incredibly uneducated) opinion about something, but they were usually swiftly shut down by the professor, and in a couple cases, by another student with a really hardcore burn.

EDIT: And I just realize this is a near-month old thread that I've already responded to.

... We aren't talking about the banning of free ideas.. We are talking about the support and teaching of a specific type of classes.. A university not supporting those type of classes on campus is not tantamount to banning discussions and groups with them.

It goes to the bigger question of "should an outside body be allowed to tell a university what it can and can not teach?"

@comp_atkins: They already have! Black and feminist students called out Stanford for bringing back Western Civilization courses!

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Reason for the ban, is because it teaches students to be misogynistic, and shows history of white supremacy.

it sounds like they were pissed that the Standford Review wanted to make the course mandatory.

in any case, the university is free to either tell the protesters to **** off, or to honor their requests. the point being it all happens within the university. you don't have the state coming in and saying "thou shalt not teach western civilization to any student"

and again, if stanford continues to fold to this kind of pressure, they'll end up losing their image and prestige as a top university and fall to the ranks of vassar, but it ought to be their decision

I don't think fighting censorship with another type of censorship is the right approach.

Uh... no. That makes you a hypocrite for trying to snuff out their 1st amendment right to assemble and speak their mind. These mentally bottom dwelling creatures from beyond the ninth layer of hell (read: SJWs) have as much right to spout their utter fucking nonsense as anyone. And when they go over board and start getting overly aggressive and violent (as many are prone to do) then they need to be kicked out of the school and dealt with in a legal manner. We don't need to ban them from campus, we need to have administrators who aren't pussies and aren't afraid to be called racist, sexist or whatever BS SJWs come up with, because those are their greatest and only weapons. Labels and name calling. Let them bury themselves with their nonsense and aggression. These idiots are already in the process of shooting themselves in the foot. Even liberals are starting to distance themselves from these creatures. Let your enemies kill themselves, its so much easier than wasting your own time or energy.

That's not to say these SJWs shouldn't be confronted on campus by people who stand for freedom of speech, they most certainly should be. But removing their right to say their dumb shit won't help anyone in the end. You start banning them because you don't agree with them... well... then you've become one of them.

It turns out people were right, threads in OT can be more stupid than the ones in System Wars.

Hell yes they are.

But that is the only reason I bother going here. It's an endless steam of comedy.

So the great Charz got bored in SW?! I'll be damned lol.

But yeah, here in OT we discuss lots of crappy things that has nothing to do with gaming. I can tell you the shit I do outside of life that has noting to do with games lol.

Yes great idea.

This thread isn't stupid, it's more about discussion of the issue about the current model for State Universities and the increasing debt of student loans.