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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

I took American novel before 1920 as an upper division English core curriculum class in the late 80s or early 90s. It was taught by a very masculine lesbian, and while we did read Melville’s Benito Cereno and of course Huck Finn, and I think one Jack London novel, everything else was from female authors like Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett. etc. I never even thought about dropping it, much less complaining to anyone about her choice of representative reading (because I was not a titty baby snowflake, or moron)

I didn't take a lot of classes like that in the 2010s, because I was in CNS. But I took an American history class from the gilded age to Reagan and we read two books with different perspectives of American history and I found it quite insightful and I would have never read those two books without the class.  Even in my ethics class, I didn't see any religious people whining or crying because of a specific ethical framework that may favor their beliefs would probably not work for everyone in a diverse society.

In all of my schooling, I never felt like I was having someone's opinions pushed onto me. Even if they did, I'd like to believe I have the critical thinking skills for an university student to take my own stance on it.

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1 minute ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

In all of my schooling, I never felt like I was having someone's opinions pushed onto me.

This is almost never the case. It's just whiny ass snowflakes crying about having to hear opposing world views.

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22 minutes ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

In all of my schooling, I never felt like I was having someone's opinions pushed onto me.

No I clearly remember in molecular biology being told some BS about memory T cells “evolving” into a genetically distinct lineage from somatic cells. Pure d indoctrination IMO

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Lots of comments in this thread about how kids spend all their time online, have no face-to-face interactions, etc, and that's why they're intolerant of opposing viewpoints.   I'm not buying that premise for one second.  First, intolerance is nothing new, and if anything, the oldest members of our society are much more intolerant than the youth, just as it's always been.  We are an intolerant culture, and always have been.  If young people are doing it it's because they learned it from their elders.  One dipshit aggie kid who was clearly coached through her attack on a professor doesn't change this.    Kids spend significantly more time in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds, where they must learn to navigate challenging personalities and situations while discussing topics that are prone to being inflammatory, than the vast majority of adults do.   99% of adults are hiding in a bubble and rarely communicate with anyone face-to-face who isn't a coworker or a close friend, and that's only if they actually work outside of their home.  Even then, most companies tend to be filled with very similar people, because that's how hiring works.   Calling out the only segment of our society that actually has to deal with diversity daily rings hollow to me.

What's going on culturally with political correctness, cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, was not started by young people.  Some young people are influenced by intolerant adults, for sure.  The shouting down of speakers on college campuses rarely starts with a student movement.  This aggie nonsense was clearly not driven by that student, who could barely string a sentence together and thinks that the president has his own laws.  It's outsiders, whether parents, political activists, or just plain old shitheads, that stir up young people.  The mush brains that people under 25 are walking around with aren't coming up with a damn thing on their own outside of how to party and fuck, and even those things are being ruined by adult influence.

I do agree the Internet has made things worse, but there's a reason Facebook is the big gaping asshole of the Internet.  It's where all the old people are.

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Made the mistake of checking out the Texags thread on the firing, thinking there might be some pause about the long-term implications for the university of nakedly bending to political pressure and/or regret that the university president might get fired over a whiny snowflake.  Haha. No. Silly me. Everyone’s super excited about getting rid of all the libs (aka groomers) and instituting a Christian curriculum though.  Genuinely worse than I could have imagined.  

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4 minutes ago, EdTomBell said:

Made the mistake of checking out the Texags thread on the firing, thinking there might be some pause about the long-term implications for the university of nakedly bending to political pressure and/or regret that the university president might get fired over a whiny snowflake.  Haha. No. Silly me. Everyone’s super excited about getting rid of all the libs (aka groomers) and instituting a Christian curriculum though.  Genuinely worse than I could have imagined.  

Yup....I peeked over there yesterday.  It's a shit show.  The /r/aggies subreddit is more open minded though and they are having better conversations about it.

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7 minutes ago, EdTomBell said:

Made the mistake of checking out the Texags thread on the firing, thinking there might be some pause about the long-term implications for the university of nakedly bending to political pressure and/or regret that the university president might get fired over a whiny snowflake.  Haha. No. Silly me. Everyone’s super excited about getting rid of all the libs (aka groomers) and instituting a Christian curriculum though.  Genuinely worse than I could have imagined.  

 

1 minute ago, speed817 said:

Yup....I peeked over there yesterday.  It's a shit show.  The /r/aggies subreddit is more open minded though and they are having better conversations about it.

i've middle school aged kids and i've already decided they can't go to aggy because of texags.  it is just such an indictment of their school that people can leave there and end up that uneducated.  i try to convince myself that it is just some fishbowl circlejerk not representative of the larger body but gotdam is it a lot of data points. 

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45 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

This is almost never the case. It's just whiny ass snowflakes crying about having to hear opposing world views.

Ugh, I miss the pre-social media days when you'd just scoff at your weird libertarian HS government teacher who also doubled as your driver's ed teacher.  Scoff, roll your eyes and tune out their weirdo shit. 

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55 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

No I clearly remember in molecular biology being told some BS about memory T cells “evolving” into a genetically distinct lineage from somatic cells. Pure d indoctrination IMO

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Posted
1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Thread is a tad ironic given the violence an old person did today against someone who said things he didn't like.

That old dude was released and the suspect is still at large, according to the police

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Okay. Point still stands. Another non-Gen Z guy shot 2 Congress people in Minnesota that he was opposed to their beliefs, killing one. So while we decry the current generation and their intolerance, let's not forget who they're learning it from. 

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