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Questionable Subject Matter Fuels Questions About Virginia Tech Shooter

Started by LostInTime, May 07, 2007, 02:12:34 PM

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LostInTime

Human Events dot com
by Phyllis Schlafly 

What was the motive behind 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui's killing of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech? Why was he consumed with hate, resentment and bitterness?

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Other titles authored by professor Hausman include "Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender," "Do Boys Have to Be Boys?", and "Virtual Sex, Real Gender: Body and Identity in Transgender Discourse."

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Yes, instead of touting personal responsibility for one's actions, the conservative author instead uses a tragedy to wage her war against anything she does not agree with, like feminism and transsexualism.
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Kate

Ya know.. is there such a thing as a HAPPY ultra-conservative?

I mean all these people seem to do is wallow in self-hatred, blaming everyone ELSE for their own self-imposed misery...

~Kate~
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Laura Elizabeth Jones

I do not think that the word "happy" exists in their vocabulary, Kate.
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Hazumu

Quote from: H. L. MenckenPuritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Karen
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Seshatneferw

The issue is not just happiness, there are other reasons why universities are a prime target.

At first glance, Ms. Schlafy appears to be under the impression that the 'weird' and 'left-wing' professors indoctrinate their students into a morally corrupt mindset by their 'worthless and psychologically destructive courses'. She is, of course, misrepresenting the way universities work -- the point of university education is not to just dump some pre-existing knowledge and values on the poor kids, but rather to teach them to think for themselves and be critical. This requires that some of the classes are in fact controversial to a degree, and this in turn requires that the professors are given enough slack to do research and teach classes that do not always conform to the general consensus (whatever that happens to be at the time).

Of course, this is just what she appears to think. Looking a bit deeper, it seems likely that she, like so many ultra-conservatives, is deathly afraid that the great masses learn to think, not just follow what their great religious leaders tell them. Whether she has admitted this to herself is not altogether clear, though.

It's kind of funny, though, that womens' studies and especially the more radical forms of feminism were among the few subjects I never got to grips during my student days. Lately I've come to the conclusion that this is mainly because there is often a tendency to see gender as a conflict between two extremes, and for reasons that should be apparent by now I'm caught somewhere in the middle.

  Nfr
Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a long one for me.
-- Pete Conrad, Apollo XII
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cindianna_jones

Or maybe the kid just flipped out!  Come on... with how many billions on this little planet living right next to each other... there's bound to be a few human machines with "glitches".  No?

Cindi
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Hazumu

Quote from: Seshatneferw on May 08, 2007, 02:49:44 AM
At first glance, Ms. Schlafy appears to be under the impression that the 'weird' and 'left-wing' professors indoctrinate their students into a morally corrupt mindset by their 'worthless and psychologically destructive courses'.

Well, don't 'cha know that the uber-right thinks we're all just blank slates at birth, and that if you don't impress the RIGHT stuff all the time, the bad stuff will have an opportunity to sneak in and get impressed on to that there blank slate -- and then the child'll be spoiled and we'll just have to procreate us another blank slate and try all over again.  They also believe that's how you 'catch' homosexuality or transsexuality.  What was it Cindi said in her book about being told the trannies out in Kal-ee-forn-ee-ya sit around wearing skirts -- and ta-a-a-lkin' each other into having <gasp> 'the operation'!!  What if some innocent mind strayed into that sinful circle!?  Why, they'd have him wearin' a skirt and bookin' a flight to Trinidad in a WEEK!  Never mind the people saying that stuff would never think of doing any of that stuff...

<pant, huff>

Karen
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