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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Kudos to you Godzilla. I think you have summed up the situation very well. Intellectual freedom is a very important part of any advanced society. If all you get are a bunch of yes men (or women) you end up with intellectual paralysis. Thinking outside the box is a good and healthy idea. However that is not what "Confusionism" (Spelling mistake intended) is all about. Confusionism is anti-change. It is natural to see why this happened. The nail that sticks up, gets hammered down. *Sigh*. |
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rok_the-boat
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Double post deleted.
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rok_the-boat
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
Sounds like two issues at work here: 1) Whether or not Japanese colonialism was a bad thing, and 2) whether or not a professor has the right to present a dissenting viewpoint of history, without losing his job. The whole point of academic freedom is to give room so that ideas can be debated and judged on their merits.
If people felt the guy was wrong, he should have been engaged in a debate, not fired. |
In the USA - maybe, maybe not (think recent-Harvard); in Korea, not a chance. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| Godzilla wrote: |
At the end of the day the prof has done something very 'un-Korean' and gone against the herd. He's done his research and put forth a convincing argument and should be lauded for his actions. Anything that makes Koreans think outside the box about their past is to be encouraged, rather than allowing them to swallow the whole myth that all these Chosun period dramas portray.
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Bingo! Well put. |
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