Quote: Jim Jackson said: Show me that *anybody's* discriminating against anybody else.
I still don't see it.
The question on the essay that's a part of this argument doesn't count as "discriminating." Yes, on face it appears to be a Liberally slanted question. But we're just armchair quarterbacking on that one, unless somebody can dig up a Constitution scholar willing to say/argue that the basis of the prof's question is inaccurate/ill-founded.
This prof could just be tossing out a question to make his students stretch their reasoning ability. A kind of "show me you're developing better writing skills by taking a position you disagree with and supporting it anyway." I'm not saying that's good pedagogy (I'm not saying it's not...I have no comment on it...my training's in the Sciences where we develop experiments to test our theoretical assertions).
I've seen it happen. Like, right in front of me. Last year, a teacher in one of my classes, a guy I later found out to be quite respected in literary and philosophical circles, said in his introductory class something like: "I assume that, if you're here, you're all intelligent enough to belong to left wing parties or lean towards that side." I laughed my arse off, but then a friend of mine raised his hand and said he was what in the US you'd call a conservative. There were a couple of others (that I know of) who didn't say anything because they felt ridiculed by the professor. The professor said something like "Is that so? Huh." and carried on with the class. If that had happened the other way around I would have probably walked out.
