Sean Hannity parrots the ridiculous rhetoric about college students being "indoctrinated" by leftist professors and asks, "What can be done to remove these professors with these radical ideas from campus?" Michael Berube provides an appropriately sarcastic response.
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Michael Berube is a noted danger to the youth of America (and has the votes to prove it).
Thanks to spyder for pointing me to this really excellent essay by Michael Berube on academic freedom and the threats to it currently. It's very long but worth the trip.
I would have taken Bérubé's Transhumanist test seriously, but when I hit the last option my brain locked up and crashed hard. It took hours to download and restore the backup.
Professors generally bend over backwards to prevent encouraging their own views, that is if they let their views be known at all.
I have to say I'm a little sceptical about Hannity's authority on this matter - what does he know about ideological indoctrination?
Hannity is apparently of the opinion that your average college freshman is as incapable of independent thought as he is.
Did Hannity even go to college?
I thought I had read somewhere that he dropped out of school. Or was that another nutjob?
Well, he did not go to any university, and his sole experience consisted of a stint as a volunteer drop in disc jockey on the UCSB (he was not a student) radio station KCSB in 1988 from which he was fired for essentially being an idiot. Interestingly the ACLU got him reinstated but he left for Iowa and claimed he was "the most controversial college radio broadcaster in the US." How unusual for him to expand his own self-promotion?
Maybe Seanie boy is really worried about all those kids going to community colleges, because obviously his great concern for indoctrination of students does not include referring to any of those young minds at this nation's hundreds of Christian colleges and universities?