Saturday, April 15, 2006

Ward Churchill

I am watching Ward Churchill on C-SPAN debating David Horowitz about politics in the classroom. One of the inanities to come from Churchill's mouth is that there is no objective truth. This is one of the foundations of leftwing thought. Truth doesn't matter, only feelings and perceptions. He also believes it is impossible to be objective as a teacher in the classroom. Again, this is absurd. As Horowitz said, "you can teach about a controversy" without being either in favor or against it.

The crowd heckled Horowitz while he made his opening statement, and sat spellbound while Churchill made his.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

To some point it's true. Any person who tells a story be it history or not tells it with a bias. I'm not saying they do it on purpose. There is a very good book "How we know what isn't so" that reviews every story is told with stroy teller bias. Why because every storytell thinks there is something more important than other parts of the story. Even the stroy you just told is only true from your point of view. As any police officer can tell the more witnesses to a crime the more versions of what happened. That's why more information is always needed.