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By Graham Good
In Humanism Betrayed Graham strong deals a defence of liberal humanism opposed to the intolerant developments, political and highbrow, that dominate contemporary college. He makes use of the McEwen file episode on the college of British Columbia to demonstrate the present political weather in universities, exhibiting how due method was once ignored in favour of ideological inquisition. The highbrow tendencies stable discusses contain what he calls the hot Sectarianism, which rejects individuality in favour of collective identities in line with race, gender, and sexual choice; Presentism, which rejects the thought of heritage as a continuing narrative in favour of seeing the earlier as interpretable in anyway that fits the political pursuits of the current; and a Ahermeneutic of suspicion, during which literary texts are visible as mask for discreditable political reasons. reliable demonstrates that those traits culminate within the prison-like Acarceral imaginative and prescient of Michel Foucault and his fans: the view that tradition is ideology and that tradition doesn't unfastened people yet incarcerates them. strong contrasts this view with the liberal imaginative and prescient of tradition and society represented through Northrop Frye, concluding with an research of the connection among anti-humanist idea between lecturers and the managerial practices of collage administrations, which, he argues, overlook or reject easy humanistic values reminiscent of unfastened individuality, aesthetic greatness, and self sustaining inquiry.
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Prentice 1996: 8) If the concept of academic freedom cannot protect people from this style of mandatory communist-style re-education, the concept is clearly meaningless. fm Page 29 Monday, March 5, 2001 4:36 PM 29 Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation The anniversary of the Montreal massacre in early December provides another occasion for the collective inculpation of white males. The article by Jennifer Bankier in the November 1995 CAUT Bulletin is a good example. Marc Lépine’s murderous insanity is taken to represent sane, nonviolent men through the assertion that his insanity was simply a loss of control over feelings of misogyny that are widespread among other males to varying degrees.
A theatre of retribution is created where history is replayed, but this time the malefactor is shamed and punished for the sins of the past. ” People have come to respect the claim for equal treatment and, perhaps for that reason, to resist claims for preferential treatment. Past disadvantage should be remedied by present equality, not by special new advantages. The new sectarianism should be dissolved rather than preserved in a new form. Treating people as individuals rather than as category members is at least as antiracist, antisexist, and antihomophobic as the group approach, and in the long run it is probably the best guarantee of security against discrimination.
An article in University Affairs (January 1996, 44) quotes Larry Finkelman, a counsellor and psychologist at the University of New Brunswick, as saying: “We need to recognize that there is a spectrum of violent behavior towards women, and that most of us occupy, or have occupied, a place on that spectrum. ” How far will this “need” for men to “admit” their likeness to Marc Lépine be carried in our universities? By a bizarre further twist, Jennifer Bankier, apparently unaware that Lépine’s father was an immigrant from Algeria, makes his crime represent only white male misogyny.