Re: Montana: Missoula board considering Academic Freedom policy

Desertphile <desertphile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:59:42 -0400, "Steven L."
<sdlitvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

....
Given all the environmental damage in socialist and Communist countries,
that was just flat wrong. And the teacher never presented any
alternative point of view.

Okay, I give up: which country(ies) is/are or were communist?

Quite a number of countries were communist in exactly the same manner as
quite a number were or are democracies.

--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Sydney
scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

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