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GRANTED: The opposing side will always take offense when teachers have a certain political slant. I maintain, however, that most of the stuff that gets challenged by conservatives is plain scientific fact (theory merely means it cannot ever be proven for certain, just like gravity is a theory, but people believe in that, don't they), not liberal propaganda. Saying evolution and global warming is part of a liberal agenda is rather... sad.
As Colbert says, if you expose children to ideas they don't already agree with, "They get confused - or worse - bitter!"
Stephen Colbert leaps to this conclusion - just leave children unformed lumps of clay in college, then fire them in the kiln of unchallenging thought, so that they become rigid, unformed lumps of clay forever!
Cavuto of FOX News: What was your grade?
Barry Luciers: My grade was well.
Colbert: You see! His grade was well!
Barry Lucier, a college student at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, was given three minutes of valuable cable news airtime to complain that he was - gasp! - required to watch Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth to fulfill the requirements for a class he was taking! I kid you not!Needless to say, all this reminds me of the Michael Baker forced resignation thing here in little old Nebraska, and the complaint of this student in the paper today that Baker was forcing an unfair agenda down his throat, complaining he was downgraded for saying there were WMDs in Iraq. This young man is apparently unaware that the President himself has said there are no WMDs in Iraq - ever thought that Baker was perhaps correcting you for a mistake?
A Google search turned up the some interesting facts about Cavuto's guest, facts that were not relayed to the FOX viewers. Lucier is an active member of the College Republicans at Roger Williams University. He is also a member of "Club 100", a point-based incentive program run by the Young America's Foundation (YAF), a very conservative campus activist non-profit.Lucier's main argument was that he and his fellow head-in-the-sand conservatives should have been allowed to watch an anti-global warming documentary entitled Doomsday Called Off produced and directed by Denmark journalist Lars Mortensen as an opposing scientifically correct view of the issue of global warming.
GRANTED: The opposing side will always take offense when teachers have a certain political slant. I maintain, however, that most of the stuff that gets challenged by conservatives is plain scientific fact (theory merely means it cannot ever be proven for certain, just like gravity is a theory, but people believe in that, don't they), not liberal propaganda. Saying evolution and global warming is part of a liberal agenda is rather... sad.
As Colbert says, if you expose children to ideas they don't already agree with, "They get confused - or worse - bitter!"
Stephen Colbert leaps to this conclusion - just leave children unformed lumps of clay in college, then fire them in the kiln of unchallenging thought, so that they become rigid, unformed lumps of clay forever!
Cavuto of FOX News: What was your grade?
Barry Luciers: My grade was well.
Colbert: You see! His grade was well!
