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| Florida Atlantic issues new groveling apology over Jesus-stomp |
| 2013-03-28 |
[DAILYCALLER] "On behalf of all of us here at FAU, we are deeply sorry for any hurt that this incident might have caused our students, people in the community and beyond," says Charles Brown, senior vice president for student affairs, in the recording. "As an institution of higher education, we embrace academic freedom. But with that comes a level of responsibility which we did not uphold." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 It is nasty, huh KBK? |
| Posted by: newc 2013-03-28 22:38 |
| #15 Clean up on aisles 5 and 6 |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-03-28 15:08 |
| #14 In looking into this story I came to find out that the exercise came from a text book written by someone I grew up with. He was a jerk and bully then and apparently hasn't changed. Very strange. |
| Posted by: Spot 2013-03-28 14:50 |
| #13 Critical theory. I have no idea why anyone pays to be talked down to like those in this "Educational system". There is one word to describe it -obama. The pall bearer on all things future and stupid. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-03-28 11:41 |
| #12 Oh - and the university is LYING about no disiplinary actions. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-03-28 10:39 |
| #11 As ACE of Spades mentioned in his article - only Christians were asked to stomp on their holy symbol. Muslims were not asked to stomp on Allah or Mo, Liberals were not asked to stomp on Obama's name (their 'god'). Thus those groups would learn nothing from the so-called exercise - Christians were intentionally targeted. In fact they get the exact opposite effect as they get to stomp on the name of the opposition. Message: Only christians are intolerant enough to require this lesson. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-03-28 10:29 |
| #10 They are assuring us that the student wasn't punished. Wow. How noble of them to forgo his rightful castigation. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-03-28 09:34 |
| #9 EH, that parallel struck me as well. Made me wonder if there wasn't something we hadn't heard about why this was even done, the story as related is totally lacking in the usual pious, obscure self-justification on the part of the atheistic bully. The tableau as described was strangely theatrical, these anti-religion types are usually not that imaginative. Was he going to burn someone at the stake after the ceremonial cross-stomping ceremony? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2013-03-28 09:16 |
| #8 The distinguished professor didn't invent this stunt. Maybe the heirs of the Tokugawa Shoguns should collect some license fees. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-03-28 06:50 |
| #7 Every town and city school district in America is constantly begging, cajoling, and threatening the taxpayers of that district to give them more money. Whatever they have, even in districts where teachers make $70K and administrators make six figures (amounts which have no historical precedence or current utility), isn't enough. "If you give us more money, we'll make your kids smarter and they'll get into better colleges and they'll make more money." All of this is wrong. They deserve not more, but less. And this is coming from someone who spent years in the industry, both as a student and eventually a professor before I escaped to the private sector. It's wrong, and here's why. -You can't make kids smarter, only teach them more knowledge or help with study habits. -We now know that there is no correlation between dollars spent on education and outcome. -Most teachers nowadays are credentialled and indoctrinated, but not truly educated, themselves. -Outside of STEM, most of what passes as "education" isn't - it's indoctrination and credentialling for the students, as well. -In a world labor market, intelligence, competence and work ethic, and real education, are the things that are valuable to potential employers, not the mere fact that you have a piece of paper that claims to be a college degree. Beyond the economic and practical aspect of all this, though, there is something more visceral and philosophical that makes me leery of giving any more money to the education industry, and it was highlighted by this incident in Florida. The fact of the matter is that today, in your town or city, history teachers are lying to students and teaching them from an agenda that is anti-Western and anti-Christian. I can pretty much guarantee to whomever is reading this that the history department in your town teaches students (especially the honors classes) that the Crusades were a stand-alone unprovoked act of aggression against the Muslims by Christian Europe rather than a defensive response against the Muslim conquest of North Africa and the Middle East which resulted in the destruction of hundreds of thriving Christian and Jewish communities. I can guarantee that much time is spent on the horrors of Nazi Germany (no complaints about that, kids should know) but not one word regarding the Gulag or Mao's excesses is ever uttered, nor is one word in a textbook is ever assigned regarding the communist holocaust of the 20th century. I can be certain that the history department in your local public school teaches students that Christianity has been the most murderous force in history and does not mention even once the relationship between atheist regimes and millions dead, tortured and raped in the last 100 years - a number of sufferers greater than all the victims of all the religious wars in history combined. I can also know with virtual certainty that your local public high school teaches that America was an evil rotten place where nothing but slavery happened until Lincoln and nothing but Jim Crow happened until Obama was elected. Aside from all the practical and economic issues regarding the ultimate value in earning power conferred by what the schools consider education, there is all of this, which is actually a more serious problem. And in college, it gets worse, not better. So, my statement to the education industry is simply this. NO, you get not one more cent of money, nor will I even consider doing so, until you clean up your act and stop indoctrinating our kids to be anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-reason, and anti-Christian. NO, you get not one more cent of money until you teach about the atrocities of communism equally with those of fascism, and stop trying to teach kids to conflate Nazism with the American center/right (especally when teachers, most of whom are Dems, consider the conflation of Democrats with communism to be "red-baiting" - hypocrisy, much?). NO, you get not one more cent until teachers at all levels stop trying to denigrate Western Civilization. NO, you get not one more cent until you stop teaching about the Crusades as a naked unprovoked act of imperialism against a peaceful non-aggressive Muslim world. We can discuss the merits of more money for education after you fix those things, not before. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2013-03-28 06:24 |
| #6 Who would ever pay for this as an "Education"? I will bankrupt every college in this Nation -I Promise. You all suck and I only have to look at this K-12 society to see the damage you really are - but at least now it is "IN my face". So Fuck off and die extra collegiate nonsense fucks who overcharge these people to become more worthless than you. What you do in the schools is bankrupt the young teaching them to get an education in something you make the morally distant from. You are the most useless universities since Rome, and I AM being kind. Curse you all and FOAD. It is too late. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-03-28 03:38 |
| #5 I demand every penny spent for this course of study to be retained by STUD. That "School" is useless. Fuck their alma mater too. See what I AM saying? Like another Columbia zombie march -forward. All of your "Universities" belong to ? |
| Posted by: newc 2013-03-28 03:33 |
| #4 And the non-tenured |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-28 01:14 |
| #3 OK, so they are not going to proceed with any discipline against the student, but has all related material beeen purged from his academic record? And what of that POS professor? |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2013-03-28 00:23 |
| #2 Never, Ever, Ever would the professor ass sociated with this institution of higher liberal lernin would have DARED put the name "Allah" on that piece of paper. |
| Posted by: George Clunk4883 2013-03-28 00:15 |
| #1 Good to expose this kind of intimidating behavior by these Academitards. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-03-28 00:12 |