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Instead, shopping encourages students to show up to a class uninformed and ask such questions, whose answers are plainly available on the syllabus. Like shopping week as a whole, it’s a waste of teachers’ time and ours??except unlike shopping week, at least it doesn’t actually harm us in the process. Shopping period may once have been useful, it’s true—back in the days before syllabi could be posted online or that questioner could e-mail the professor instead. But today, much more information beyond...
...Under the charade that we ourselves are a secular democracy, we condemn groups that adhere to a brand of democracy that—like ours??is not quite “secular.” And, in order to prevent religious parties from coming to power, we enable far greater evils, such as sustaining dictators like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The result is that we fail both to suppress religious groups and to promote democracy; religious groups merely become more popular, and Mubarak tightens his restrictions on freedoms. Yet our narrow mindset leads us to continue...
...society that privileges no truth claim above any other—and is sincerely convicted to such a policy—should happily accommodate the viewpoints of various groups, no matter how intolerant, or “offensive,” they may be. But a community like ours??”pluralistic” in nature and committed to respecting differences—cannot as warmly embrace viewpoints that undermine our deeply-held principles...
...most famous biologists of the 20th century, Watson shook the scientific community after The Sunday Times Magazine of London quoted him as having said, “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours??whereas all the testing says not really,” the newspaper quoted him as saying in reference to blacks...
...damaged goods,” Barry said. That view trickled through the scientific last week after The Times of London published comments by Watson in which he said of blacks, “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours??whereas all the testing says not really.” After a public outcry, Watson said in a statement that he was surprised by what he was quoted as saying and that “there is no scientific basis for such a belief.” Watson...