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0 pointspstuart2d ago0 comments

I checked out their website -- it was carefully clean of leaking any agendas or biases out.

I'm all for challenging assumptions and what not, but that should come with a willingness to change one's mind when confronted with compelling evidence. I see a paucity of that from the people who push this kind of stuff.

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cyanydeez1d ago

Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has requested a 15 minute job interview regarding your skepticism.

pstuartOP1d ago

Personal insults don't move the conversation forward.

My point is simple: the opaque nature of the site is suspicious, and the wording about "debating" CEOs, etc is an interesting choice as well: rather than "engaging", "learning from", "hearing from" etc.

I'm all for what they ostensibly represent: social/poltical science and the constitution. Both subjects all citizens should be able to have critical reasoning skills about.

The fact that the current regime is flagrantly ignoring the constitution, that it's adherents don't mind at all, and that they are likely aligned with this org is worthy of scrutiny.

dfansteel1d ago

The University of Iowa has a Social Sciences department that has professors in for Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and other fields. It’s an accredited institution.

pstuartOP1d ago

But this isn't about the University of Iowa, it's about the "Center for Intellectual Freedom", which was created specifically to promote conservative values.

I'm all for challenging assumptions and learning about differing viewpoints, but this smells of indoctrination.

Conservatives hate colleges because they are "liberal hotbeds", but "reality has a liberal bias" and a lot of education on reality runs counter to their ideology. Case in point: studies on Critical Race Theory are considered to be blasphemous by the right but those studies are based upon the fact that the United States was built on systemic racism and is still deeply ingrained is a depressingly significant portion of the population.

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cyanydeez1d ago

Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has requested a 15 minute job interview regarding your skepticism.

pstuartOP1d ago

Personal insults don't move the conversation forward.

I'm all for what they ostensibly represent: social/poltical science and the constitution. Both subjects all citizens should be able to have critical reasoning skills about.

The fact that the current regime is flagrantly ignoring the constitution, that it's adherents don't mind at all, and that they are likely aligned with this org is worthy of scrutiny.

dfansteel1d ago

The University of Iowa has a Social Sciences department that has professors in for Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and other fields. It’s an accredited institution.

pstuartOP1d ago

But this isn't about the University of Iowa, it's about the "Center for Intellectual Freedom", which was created specifically to promote conservative values.

I'm all for challenging assumptions and learning about differing viewpoints, but this smells of indoctrination.

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