2/12/05 INSIDER LETTER | 2005-02-12
(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 2/12/05)
*** Bob's Insider's Message ***
The point of my book Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood is that Political Correctness is not LIKE a religion, it IS a religion. Each day seems to bring yet another story to vindicate my assertion. In fact, we are experiencing a "Great Awakening" type explosion of the religion of Political Correctness on campuses across the country.
The latest outrage centers on Dr. Hans Herman Hoppe, a world renowned Austrian economist who teaches at UNLV. He gave his standard lecture on long-term planning, making the mundane observation that the young and old put less emphasis on long-term planning than do married couples with children. What could be more obvious? Only a retard couldn't get that.
[Saturday, February 05, 2005, Las Vegas Review-Journal "Lecture causes dispute: UNLV accused of limiting free speech," by Richard Lake. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Feb-05-Sat-2005/news/25808494.html]
Hoppe got into real trouble by making the point that homosexuals have shorter time horizons than heterosexuals, because homosexuals don't have children and engage in riskier behavior. A student was offended and filed a complaint with the administration.
The administration has been trying to get Hoppe to agree to forgo his next pay raise as punishment. He is refusing to do that.
In a converse way, Dr. Hoppe has followed my advice. He stated that the administration should have told the student to "grow up." He is not backing down one bit. He is tenured, so they can't do anything to him. The case is so ridiculous, so open and shut, that just by standing up to them he will win.
Any student should be able to do the same thing. But students are young and inexperienced, taught to respect those in authority over them, and no tenure. They are bullied by professors who basically pick fights with children.
But the Hoppe precedent gives them another angle. They can file a complaint with the administration over anything they disagree with. By the Hoppe example, logic is no defense. And if they suffer retribution for reporting a professor, they can pile on even more!
I talk a lot about the "all is lost" crowd. They are the ones who are lost.
We are going to win because the tide of stupidity that is sweeping across the country and our campuses is going to sink the Professor-Priesthood. And sooner than you think.