re: WSJ piece about Jill Biden gets author cancelled from Northwestern

Well, as to the claim of "relaxation of standards;" that is the author's opinion. Sure, you might could prove from an admissions standpoint as schools that there has been a shift in the rigidity of the admissions criteria, so a more forgiving and inclusive admission threshold for applicants. However, it appears that he is saying that in his perception there has been a relaxation of standards, which in many cases is hardly debatable. Higher learning institutions are definitely letting as many people as they can in, in order to make more money. This is coupled with the fact that a much larger population percentage now has undergraduate, and accordingly, doctorates than days of old. This is all field specific though, as there are always going to be a few specific fields that are unattainable to an average person; however, a doctorate of education is not one of them.

Also, if you are putting everything down based off of a perceived fallacy I have put forth ("entitled to my own opinions fallacy"), I would suggest that presupposing that an assertion is false merely because of the presence, or perceived presence, of a fallacy, is in fact a fallacy. This is the problem with analyzing fallacies, there is more than often than not a never ending pattern of showing a fallacy. It doesn't disprove anything. But I return to my initial assertion, which that there is really nothing to "prove" when opinions are involved.

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at a large east coast university

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Ahh the basis of your posts are becoming more apparent. Don't you got some finals baw.