tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post1612683804406003548..comments2024-03-24T21:06:57.039-07:00Comments on FOUSESQUAWK: Speech Fascists Taking Over at Washington State UniversityGary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-15678529827734951602015-09-01T17:13:43.097-07:002015-09-01T17:13:43.097-07:00Sputtering outrage always loses. Attention to deta...Sputtering outrage always loses. Attention to detail is what wins. Even Patton knew that. You'd be very ineffective as an officer of a combat outfit, however effective you might be as a front line private.<br /><br />As I expected, the whole tempest in a tea cup is blowing over. These were individual actions that were squelched by the campus administration doing its job once it became known.<br /><br />Ho-hum.<br /><br />And to paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, no-one can make you "white" without your consent.Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-84535713184968545602015-09-01T10:00:59.406-07:002015-09-01T10:00:59.406-07:00You starting off with a good suggestion-sputtering...You starting off with a good suggestion-sputtering outrage then lost me in details.<br /><br />PS. They are not adjuncts (I am an adjunct.) Two are graduate teaching assistants. One is an associate professor (who a few years ago referred to some College Republicans as "white sh--bags."<br /><br />Kool.Gary Fousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-34813850284840591842015-08-31T19:42:29.194-07:002015-08-31T19:42:29.194-07:00Either students will take this lying down, in whic...Either students will take this lying down, in which case they deserve it, or they will react with spluttering outrage, in which case they will be easily isolated and shamed, or they will give this some sober thought and provide the pointed, carefully considered response that this rabid nonsense deserves.<br /><br />A good starting point is that a person who faces penalties for violating a rule is entitled to notice of what actions will trigger the penalty. That is why we have ex post facto laws, and why "vague and overbroad" is a favorite term of both civil lawyers and criminal defense attorneys, as well as of any office manager who ever received a subpoena. This long string of vituperative language laced with broad expansive language can certainly be challenged on this ground.<br /><br />Then, the fact that adjuncts are generating broad criteria for general behavior (as distinct from specific requirements germane to the course content) which could be, but are not, applied generally to all courses, all lectures, all social interaction in the entire university, invokes the obvious necessity for the university administration to either make these criteria universal, or reign in the adjunct teachers who think the classroom is their personal fief.<br /><br />That should give the students a good start, if any of them are reading Fousesquawk.Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.com