Morning, y’all, Jebediah Murphy here on another beautiful White Trash Wednesday. I must say, this is amusing
(CNSNews.com) – To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore.
The science class requirement has prompted one conservative student to declare that "we should stop calling these schools ‘bastions of knowledge’ since they’re really bastions of leftist thought."
The controversy at Roger Williams University (RWU) in Bristol, R.I., began the week before Earth Day, when the professors teaching the laboratory portion of "Core 101: Science, Technology and Society" required their students to watch Gore’s Oscar-winning film in class.
The course is one of 12 that students at the university must take in order to graduate.
I guess it all depends on what one’s definition of "knowledge" is. If it includes hysteria, lies, and faulty science, plus treating the movie as some sort of holy writ, which, btw, has made the Goracle quite a chunk of swag, I reckon you are for it.
Why not show The Great Global Warming Swindle in the sense of fairness? Yes, yes, I know, that would cause problems with Climate Change dogma, heritics to be smeared with feces.
"Penguins, polar bears and your unborn children have no vote in this. They must live with decisions we make today," the assistant dean said.
Since when does the left actually care about unborn children?
"As educators, we’re charged to encourage your intellectual growth," Hughes added. "That can (actually, will) be uncomfortable at times, and we’re also here to help you deal with that discomfort. It’s truly what makes being a human such a joy, privilege and challenge."
Saw III makes people very uncomfortable, how about requiring it to be shown to graduate? Or maybe The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to the men?
"Those who understand that there are multifaceted points of view" are "really troubled by this," student Dana Peloso, president of the school’s chapter of the College Republicans, said. But others "are so na/’efve" that they take Gore’s position "as gospel, the final word on global warming. They see Al Gore is a former vice president, so it’s got to be true."
Gospel.
