The academia and higher education in this country has retarded to the point that graduates of one of the nation’s most prominent universities are not able to sit through a talk by someone who presents a different view from what that heard in Sunday mass when they were thirteen.
So before the president of Notre Dame University starts patting himself on the shoulder for having the courage to invite Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and the strength to persevere through the ensuing controversy, he should think about what is wrong with is educational system that many of his graduating students could not tolerate sitting through a speakers to whom they are ideologically opposed. Have those students been prepared for differing views in the past four years? Have their ideals and knowledge been confronted with unpopular views? Where they even, for practice sake, been asked to debate an issue.
The place where new ideas, provocative hypothesis and dissent from status quo and social norms were once debated and set the course for the rest of society to follow, seems to shy away from controversy; somehow a dirty word that is equated with taboo or vulgar.
Not a new phenomenon by any means; many academics have continually faced retribution and prosecution in this country for presenting ideas and theses that challenge the political discourse and apparently threaten the authority of well established system. Many Palestinians, Native American, progressive, and anti-capitalist academics have been denied tenure, deported, fired, or otherwise censored and silenced. There were very few defenders of those who championed unpopular causes, but decay is a trend, and as it spreads, you will see more examples of the academy serving less and less admirable goal.
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