http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/freedom-of-speech/stigma-and-dogma-revisited/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:33:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/freedom-of-speech/stigma-and-dogma-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-225 UCDalum Thu, 20 May 2010 02:58:27 +0000 http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/?p=1240#comment-225 Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together in such a brilliant and concise way! I am one of those dissenters in an "increasingly cramped space" at University of California, Davis. I used to get shocked at how baseless many "truths" have been developed at the university, and could not understand when and how everyone decided to come to a consensus, and what they based their allegations on. But being in my last year as an undergraduate, I am able to identify how a majority of the students simply regurgitate what their professors in lower division classes have instilled in them. No wonder they get angry when I ask them questions which challenge the "legitimacy" of their statements - I don't think most of them have really thought about these "instilled opinions" much on their own - they've just accepted what their professor led them to accept. Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together in such a brilliant and concise way! I am one of those dissenters in an “increasingly cramped space” at University of California, Davis. I used to get shocked at how baseless many “truths” have been developed at the university, and could not understand when and how everyone decided to come to a consensus, and what they based their allegations on. But being in my last year as an undergraduate, I am able to identify how a majority of the students simply regurgitate what their professors in lower division classes have instilled in them. No wonder they get angry when I ask them questions which challenge the “legitimacy” of their statements – I don't think most of them have really thought about these “instilled opinions” much on their own – they've just accepted what their professor led them to accept.

]]> http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/freedom-of-speech/stigma-and-dogma-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-226 UCDalum Thu, 20 May 2010 02:57:17 +0000 http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/?p=1240#comment-226 Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together in such a brilliant and concise way! I am one of those dissenters in an "increasingly cramped space" at University of California, Davis. I used to get shocked at how baseless many "truths" have been developed at the university, and could not understand when and how everyone decided to come to a consensus, and what they based their allegations on. But being in my last year as an undergraduate, I am able to identify how a majority of the students simply regurgitate what their professors in lower division classes have instilled in them. No wonder they get angry when I ask them questions which challenge the "legitimacy" of their statements - I don't think most of them have really thought about these "instilled opinions" much on their own - they've just accepted what their professor led them to accept. Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together in such a brilliant and concise way! I am one of those dissenters in an “increasingly cramped space” at University of California, Davis. I used to get shocked at how baseless many “truths” have been developed at the university, and could not understand when and how everyone decided to come to a consensus, and what they based their allegations on. But being in my last year as an undergraduate, I am able to identify how a majority of the students simply regurgitate what their professors in lower division classes have instilled in them. No wonder they get angry when I ask them questions which challenge the “legitimacy” of their statements – I don't think most of them have really thought about these “instilled opinions” much on their own – they've just accepted what their professor led them to accept.

]]> http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/freedom-of-speech/stigma-and-dogma-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-218 F for Fascist | Wed, 19 May 2010 03:51:48 +0000 http://blog.speakupmovement.org/university/?p=1240#comment-218 [...] here, when considering a society such as ours that too often prefers dismissive aphorism and stigmatization to reasoned discourse.  Ad hominem is easy; short-form quips are how we do social theorizing.  [...] [...] here, when considering a society such as ours that too often prefers dismissive aphorism and stigmatization to reasoned discourse.  Ad hominem is easy; short-form quips are how we do social theorizing.  [...]

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