Word: paranoids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass agents of upheaval is the Revolution. As an old man facing death, he has seized on his political work and vision as his connection with Chinese history. The knowledge that they will outlive him allows him to face death, and the threat of their corruption stimulates an almost paranoid response--a need to obliterate all enemies and an emphasis on absolute purity. It is this purity of vision which Mao is forcing on China...
...complaints have not gone unanswered. Perhaps the most succinct response has come from Kilson, assistant professor of government, who terms the courses "racially bigoted and disgustingly anti-intellectual." In a letter to the Crimson, Kilson made this point: "Blissfull unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalistic propaganda...
...outsider, I cannot adequately comment on the unrest in and debate over Social Sciences 5. However, I am frightened by the description of a "paranoid outlook" among some students. Paranoia is an overworked, rarely understood term. Typically it belongs in clinical diagnostics and even then, I find its use often excessive and unwarranted. More importantly, many psychologists have reminded us that where paranoia is diagnosed, in fact there are phenomena in the environment making the reaction, the outlook somewhat justified...
Kilson, a member of the teaching staff for the course, blasted the black critics for holding the prejudice that no white professor could ever teach a course about black people and their history. "Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning," Kilson charged, "the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...
From the outset of Social Sciences 5 some of the Negro members were, and remain, convinced that no white scholar could or should teach a course on what they like to call "black history." Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course (and any other such course, for that matter) to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...