Political Correctness - A God That Failed?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/29/Victor_Davis_Hanson_Where_the_University_Went_Wrong

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses problems he believes have risen from the advent of political correctness in the university.

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Victor Davis Hanson discusses The Gods that Failed: Where the University Went Wrong.

This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Spring Retreat 2008.

Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
He was a full-time farmer before joining CSU Fresno, in 1984 to initiate a classics program. In 1991, he was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award, which is given yearly to the country's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin.

Hanson was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992-93), a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991-92), a recipient of the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002), and an Alexander Onassis Fellow (2001) and was named alumnus of the year of the University of California, Santa Cruz (2002).

He was also the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (2002-3). He received the Manhattan Institute's Wriston Lectureship in 2004, and the 2006 Nimitz Lectureship in Military History at UC Berkeley in 2006.

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[Halo4Lyf]

@jwh30385 If an employer deems that labor is only worth $2/hr to him, then he should be allowed to offer that pay. And he'll get demolished by competition that offers better pay. Plus, it's the laborer's responsibility to make himself more valuable to the employer.

That may sound harsh, but it avoids the evil of what the unions did to GM and Chrysler... where manufacturers become pension programs that occasionally make things on the side.

[pretorious700]

The US labor department endorses idiocy like mandatory minimum wage not because of egalitarian concern for the downtrodden workers, but because the lion's share of their budgets are in support of such policies.

[migkillertwo]

"and he'll get demolishd by competition that offers better pay"

IF it is more productive than 2$ an hour

[Alphaman7100]

Nobody is saying we must flood African countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood Asian countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural. Nobody is saying we must flood South American countries with mass immigration to make them more multicultural.

Multiculturalism and mass immigration into White countries and White countries only is GENOCIDE.

Anti racism is a code word for anti White.

[bxjam85]

I'd exclude the Judaic-Christianization of Greco-Roman civilization as a period of enrichment. It may show the promise of enrichment one day, but the enrichment will have to be a reversal, in the grand form, of the Judaic-Christian slave revolt in morality. I'd also exclude the Reformation and the Enlightenment as periods of enrichment.

[bxjam85]

@Halo4Lyf I agree. Unionism and socialism should be suppressed in my opinion.

[Halo4Lyf]

@sqgl Here's why: alcohol has well-understood and predictable effects on human physiology that are easily recovered from given a little time. Cannabis, not so much. Therefore, there is such a thing as responsible alcohol consumption. I know, because I myself drink in moderation. I'll even concede that there may be such a thing as smoking pot in moderation, since I have a few friends that do so.

But I still don't want it legalized. If for no other reason than to piss losers like you off.

[sqgl]

@Halo4Lyf It has nothing to do with advocating smoking pot or not. I told you: alcohol causes much more harm. Stats here in Australia in 1977 showed 97% of drug-related deaths were from Alcohol & Tobacco, 2 % from Pharmaceuticals, 1% from all of the illicit drugs put together. US is similiar I bet. If you don't care about that, then you are wilfully ignorant of who pulls the strings regarding our laws. We had the Grand Prix in Melbourne and the major sponsor was Fosters beer... is that sanity?

[Halo4Lyf]

@sqgl No, I mean *a* Constitutional Convention. As in, an Article V Convention. You're aware that the Constitution provides a means for itself to be amended, right? A handful of amendments is really all that's needed - a balanced budget amendment, an amendment phasing out Federal entitlements, one preventing Congress from delegating regulatory power, things along those lines.

Really, our last problem is how many fucking potheads we have locked up. I couldn't really care any less than I do now.

[sqgl]

@Halo4Lyf "A Consitutional Convention will do just fine" I take it you mean *the* Constitutional Convention... nice idea but it isn't seving most Americans too well at the moment. More transparency is the key. My parents escaped a communist country so I am not totally Left Wing myself. Privatising prisons was a bad move - at least with government there is a *chance* of transparency. USA has 1% of it's population encarcerated. Many of them mentally ill or pot smokers yet alcohol causes most harm.