I was driving home from class yesterday and heard Rush Limbaugh talking about this guy
who is recording lectures at UCLA and posting them on his website to expose the bias present in college classrooms.
Of course, Rush was goo-goo-ga-ga over this idea because it's someone trying to bravely expose the insidious truth that college professors are nothing but a bunch of Communists who want to turn this country into Cuba. Or some bullshit like that.
The fact that UCLA is trying to stop the taping of lectures was only proof positive to Rush that the professors didn't want their secret Communist teachings being exposed to the general public. They were afraid, he told me, AFRAID that the secret would be OUT!
Well I'm here to defend UCLA against this line of utter horseshit coming from the purveyor of that site and from Rush Limbaugh 'n Friends...
My defense is very simple:
The people that pay to go to UCLA should be able to tape and listen to lectures. Other than that, it's stealing and non-UCLA students/alumni should have to pay UCLA to listen.
That would make UCLAprofs.com a criminal venture.
There's are many reasons people go to college. Maybe it's for the lectures. It's for the professors. It's for the history. It's for the sports. Whatever.
But in order to have access to those things, you need to pay a fee.
Joe Conservative just can't walk into any college campus, sit down and be part of a class. He has to pay for that right.
So what this guy who's taping lectures is doing is stealing from the University.
It would be like me having a subscription to Rush Limbaugh's Secret Members Only Area and then copying and pasting all that info on to a webpage so that everyone can read it free of charge.
Would Rush want me to do that? What if I was just doing it to prove he was biased? Or racist? Or some other slanderous charge?
I mean, Rush purports to be a "Professor Emeritus" at the EIB Institute, doesn't he? Well, then I want access to the lectures that he makes people pay for and I want them free of charge.
Maybe I'll set up a website called EIBprofs.com and put all the info in the paid section on there. Or better yet, I'll follow the jerkoffs at UCLAprofs.com around and transcribe everything they do and put it on a website.
Just to prove they're biased, you know?
Some people, I tell ya...
(Cross Posted at Street Meat)