Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "NYU Professor FORBIDDEN From Teaching About Covid Propaganda!" video.

  1. The COVID hysteria persists, despite being thoroughly and totally debunked. It's like the establishment has nostalgia for the years they could command obedience.
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  2.  @georgemead6608  YES. THEIR STUDENTS ALREADY HAVE A LIFETIME OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AHEAD OF THEM. SATIRE OR IRONY MAY PUSH THEM OVER THE EDGE, ENTIRELY!
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  3. They take JOY in taking down those they envy and therefore despise. They're full of spite deep in their hearts. It's some of the lowest behavior imaginable, because they KNOW better and just don't care!
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  4. Punishing the professor who teaches the course for departing from the Party Line is rich.
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  5. I'm a smart person, but I have my hot-buttons and blind spots. We all do.
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  6.  @beyondrecall9446  So you're saying @ronopbrien7187 has good reading comprehension. We know.
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  7.  @breakupgoogle4584  They never used to teach "critical thinking." They just posed questions that required critical thinking to get the answer. Word problems in math. Open-ended "What if?" questions or debate whose fault World War I was in history class. Etc. Now, they specifically teach "critical thinking" in very contrived ways, where the only thought involved is divining the answer a very opinionated and unsubtle teacher wants. And they stopped doing word problems.
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  8. Not at NYU!!!
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  9. In fairness to his colleagues, legal probably told everybody not to make any contact with Miller, with various real and implied threats. Universities and the risk-averse nitwits that infest their halls (Did I mention that I'm a professor?), are going to do what their chair says, especially if their chair mentions "legal." Half the professors are lazy/incompetent and keep their heads down for that reason and the other half are so into their discipline that "No contact" is easy to do compared to engaging with the real world. If they're really into their teaching or their research, getting a "Don't do something" from on high is actually quite welcome. "At least this e-mail doesn't want me to do extra work to no purpose, like they usually do. This 'ignore someone' e-mail is right up my alley." That's probably too fair. Just the way this guy talks and the fact that he was (correctly) taking on COVID propaganda as early as September, 2020, tells me he's probably on the wrong side of a lot of political issues, there. He sounds like a free thinker, so he's probably on the wrong side of one of their sacred cows, like affirmative action or school choice. A few chance remarks around the water cooler, and the entire institution is literally talking about you. "He's one of them. A deplorable." I've always been one of "them," but as a classical liberal, I'm way ahead of them on war and peace and most social issues, and I've been around the block enough times to know how to hide my free-market-capitalist beliefs, without actually betraying them, at least long enough to get tenure. If I were a progressive I could bang on all day about politics at work, and it would HELP me get tenure. Thank God for long hair and hanging out with lefties, because - let's be honest - they're more fun to party with. My blonde pony-tail was great camouflage, 'til I started going bald in my mid-50s. Can't do the hippie gone to seed thing. But now I'm old enough to be eccentric.
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  10. FOX News is MSNBC in drag.
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  11. If you don't teach propaganda in a contemporary context, students will scoff at how ignorant and gullible people were back in "the old days." Only logical way to run the course.
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  12. Yeah. In 2020 and 2021, they weeded out a lot of their best people across many domains. Now those people are on the outside building a competing paradigm. FWIW, I kept my head down and kept my job, disqualifying me from membership in Miller-Malone-McCullough club.
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  13. Libel law is a wreck. The first bite they took out of it was a different standard for public figures than for private citizens. Now the one leg up the little guy used to have on public figures (unfairly) has been amputated, so people can smear you without restraint and there's fuck-all you can do about it.
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  14. Too bad he's a socialist and therefore blithely unaware of his economic illiteracy and tacit endorsement of all that he rails against.
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