If there was a policy in place against political grand standing, the prof. knowingly violated it and should be kicked to the curb. That would make this a simple matter of pissing upwind, rather than a question of whether or not thestudents should be seeing this material in class

All this because we don't agree with you.

You give lip service to them but as soon as the speech becomes a challenge to the dominant conservative culture you want to squash it.

What's wrong is a community college teacher flagrantly abusing his position of authority in a naked attempt to sway his students to his own way of thinking regarding a presidential candidate--and on the eve of an election. Using taxpayer money.

It would be one thing if this were an attempt to study propoganda techniques, or how to "lie by telling the truth," or discussing what constitutes a bogus argument. But simply showing the film without any kind of context is tantamount to showing *Birth of a Nation* in a positive light, or displaying and endorsing the work of Leni Riefenstahl. It's an egregious abuse.

As far as it being shown in an English composition class, again as a documentary it has educational value as a topic on which student can write papers. Teachers often introduce subject matter and ask student to write about it without such censorship on the part of the administration. Because it was such a powerful film it would probably elicite powerful feelings on the part of the students which would need to be controlled in order to write coherent english sentences.