Tuesday, March 29, 2005

More on Horowitz's Horror

More on the Horowitz-inspired bill that’s making its way through the Florida legislature – the one that will give students the right to sue professors when professors tell students that they are wrong about things.

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002017.html#002017

Similar bills, let us not forget, are being pushed through legislatures in eight or nine other states, including Colorado and Kansas. Academic Bill of Rights, Horowitz calls these things. Many on the Right are all for this nonsense.

The Right for a university student to sue a professor because the professor tells him that evolution is, in fact, based on evidence – and creationism is not.

The Right for a university student to sue a professor because a professor tells a class that, in fact, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – because that means the professor is showing liberal bias in the classroom.

The Right for a university student to sue a professor because a professor tells a class that the flood story in Gilgamesh predates the flood story in Genesis – because that suggests that the Christian Bible is not literal truth, which shows bias against Fundamentalist Christian religion.

What exactly will we have, if these people win? Not universities. But apparently universities are not what they are after.

1 comment:

zelda1 said...

People, or most fundelmentalists, don't want the truth. They want to go on believing in all those myths that have kept them in line, it is their world view, and, unfortunately for university professors, they don't want it changed. They don't understand their own Bible where it says, "The truth will set you free," or something like that. I see it all the time in the classes that I take. Slave owners were not really that mean, the Indians were savages first and that is why the whiteman had to kill them, the lynchings were not as bad as reported, and those fossils were put there by satan to trick the world, and on and on. In my quest for the truth, I have had to adjust or completely change my world view and because of that, I am a different person and that is what education is all about. You go in one way, uneducated or partially educated, and you come out with all this knowledge! It is a good thing, this knowledge.