What happened to civilized debate?

[Mark S.]

Originally Posted by hacker15

Tolerance and compromise have never been strong suites for the far left. Not that the far right is much better at these things. I just wish more people could accommodate a moderate position. Intolerance is never understandable regardless of what side you’re coming from. To take offense at everything you don’t agree with is not the way we grew as a nation and it will spell the end of our democracy. When the demagogue rules through intimidation and out shouting the opposition, everyone loses. All you have to do is look at some of the posts on this very forum to see the results of this behavior.

Nor are they for the far right. Too bad the thousands of college debates and speeches where no one gets rowdy aren't reported.

[cjive134]

Originally Posted by LUVMYSIGP225

It doesn't surprise me that they want to squash the freedom of speech. They are trying to squash the 2nd Amendment.

The liberal administration in many of these schools is largely to blame for brainwashing and playing on gullibility of the younger, naive, students. I live near Kent State University, and I know that they still make the students go to an orientation upon arriving there, and the orientation focuses on the shooting by the National Guard in the '60's. I can tell you, they aren't promoting enrollment in the National Guard. It is definitely a one sided story. All of these immature, impressionable 18 year old kids show up thinking that they are big people now that they have graduated high school. They show up looking for guidance, and their first class is a class on activism and war protest. They still walk around with candles and cry about the shot students from 30-odd years ago, like they were their sister or something. Listening to the song Ohio by Crosby, Stills. F&*kin retards. They don't say a word about the students looting, urinating on police or throwing bricks from the roofs of buildings on to troops. Definitely aren't talking about the arson committed by the students.

I just recently enrolled in a Master's program. I am going back to school as a 37 year old adult student. I had a tough time finding a school around here that wasn't going to force bull$hit, liberal courses down my throat.

There are conservative schools that subjust kids to bias aswell. Kids, you have to remember, are still trying to find what it is that they can be passionate about. Sometimes they let that passion get the better of them. As for your masters study, I think that different points of view aren't a bad thing. Right or wrong, sometimes it can lead to understanding, and that is never a bad thing. Something I like to follow, even if I forget to sometimes, is that the truth usually can be found somewhere in the middle ground. Usually .