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27-10-02
It's
official: Gore Vidal is insane
Yep, it's finally
happened. Vidal's gone
completely yo-yo. Apparently Dubya deliberately allowed the attacks
of 11/9/01 to occur. Even Kerry
Nettle hasn't said anything this stupid.
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USA: an orgy of national narcissism?
A new entry in our
Spleen section: reader Steve S. of California
has contributed this bollocking of recent statements
by novelist Phillip Roth.
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The return of the lovely islamic essay
A few days back I
mentioned the http://islam.org.au
site (now featuring a laughable pop-up disclaimer) had removed their charming
essay on preserving the islamic identity in the west, where all non-muslims
were likened to sewer creatures. Well, thanks to reader Peter Q., I've
just found out the essay can be viewed here.
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The
view from today's classroom
Got a brilliant e-mail
from a first-year uni student in Perth. It requires no comment from me,
so without further ado.......
Tex
Firstly,
let me say how much I enjoy reading your website. It is always amusing
& often insightful!
Anyway...
as one of those "stupid hippies" (uni students), I thought
I would relate to you an experience I had last Monday in my American
history tutorial.
I
was having a "discussion" with my Professor regarding welfare
reform and the impact on Afro-Americans. His essential thesis is that
welfare is good while mine is that welfare is bad. I argued that free
market solutions are needed in order to drive individuals to improve
their own position. Several days later, he start sound sounding off
in another tutorial about how I had fundamentally misunderstood american
society, was generally stupid and have "narrow experience"
(my mate in the tute reported his comments to me).
The
point of this whole story is that this academic has often wondered out
loud why nobody listens to humanities academics anymore. The simple
reason is that academics don't list to anybody, are the biggest elitists
in the country (by and large) and are unable to realise that Whitlam
was dumped over twenty five years ago. However, the part that illustrates
the sheer stupidity of these leftodemics is that when I went along to
the Honours Programme Orientation Seminar, the Honours Convenor spent
the entire seminar saying that '2003 is gonna be just like '68... I
can't wait!'.
The
biggest problem facing students is that if you argue a libertarian or
conservative position, you are invariably penalised either through marks
or made to feel to very uncomfortable in the classes. Besides, can a
17 year old really argue effectively against the tripe spread by these
guys? Only in my last semester, have I begun to do so! The leftodemics
are so concerned with spreading their worldview, that they are incapable
of teaching orthodox history.
Our
arts faculties are a national disgrace and it has nothing to do with
funding!
Is anyone surprised?
Still, with students like this one, there's good reason to hope for the
future.
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