Sociology professor Christian Smith.
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January 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The “academic BS” peddled by America’s universities threatens “the very viability and character of decent civilization,” a Notre Dame professor warned in a scorching Chronicle of Higher Education article.
“BS is the ascendant ‘culture of offense’ that shuts down the open exchange of ideas and mutual accountability to reason and argument,” sociology professor Christian Smith wrote. “It is university leaders’ confused and fearful capitulation to that secular neo-fundamentalist speech-policing.”
Smith blasted the “the ideologically infused jargon deployed by various fields to stake out in-group self-importance.” This bureaucratic babble “insulate[s] them from accountability to those not fluent in such solipsistic language games.”
There is “invisible self-censorship” on campuses and “subtle corrective training aimed at those who occasionally do not self-censor,” he wrote.
“Anxiety…haunts some faculty at public universities in very conservative states about expressing their well-considered but unorthodox beliefs, for fear of being hounded by closed-minded students and parents or targeted by grandstanding politician,” Smith warned.
“Countless millions of students are receiving compromised and sometimes worthless college educations” thanks to academia’s many dysfunctions, which include rampant “waste” and “idiocy.”
“The manure has piled up so deep in
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