{"id":68957,"date":"2016-11-15T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68957"},"modified":"2016-11-15T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:51:57","slug":"yet-another-dose-of-pc-stupidity-from-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68957","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Dose of PC Stupidity from Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yet another example of PC asininity, a group of 469 students and professors at a major university have asked the university\u2019s president to refrain from using quotations from a particular historical figure.\u00a0 In common vernacular, they\u2019ve done so because, in essence, \u201cThat\u2019s racist!\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know – you’re thinking this is just another example of garden-variety academic stupidity.\u00a0 Well, read on.<\/p>\n

The university in question is the University of Virginia.\u00a0 The historical figure?\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson \u2013 who founded the University of Virginia in 1819<\/em>.\u00a0 The PC tools who signed the letter drafted by an equally clueless group of faculty object to the University of Virginia’s President using Jefferson quotations because he was a slaveowner during the late 1700s and early 1800s.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m serious<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the University of Virginia\u2019s president – Dr. Teresa Sullivan – didn\u2019t have the guts to tell the fools, politely, to GFT (plural of GFY).\u00a0 Her reply was IMO a weasel-worded cop-out, saying that \u201cquoting someone recognizes \u2018the potency of that person\u2019s words\u2019 \u201d without implying \u201can endorsement of all the social structures and beliefs of his time\u201d.<\/p>\n

No sh!t, Dr. Sullivan.\u00a0 That’s incredibly obvious to anyone with three or more working brain cells.\u00a0 Although perhaps you did need to spell it out “see Dick and Jane” style for this particular group of fools.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sullivan should have provided a bit of adult leadership here, but didn’t really do that.\u00a0\u00a0 IMO, she should have instead said something along these lines: \u00a0 \u201cJefferson was a great man, but was a man of his times.\u00a0 He was not perfect.\u00a0 However, his ideas remain sound, and form the basis of our democracy; he also founded this university.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

As this university’s President, I will continue to quote Jefferson whenever I feel doing so is appropriate.\u00a0 It\u2019s a free country; in your own writings, feel free to quote him or not as you desire.<\/em><\/p>\n

If that last is unacceptable to you, perhaps you should seek your education or employment elsewhere.\u00a0 Here at the University of Virginia, we allow freedom of speech – even when that involves facts or ideas we find distasteful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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