Want To Be Radical? Invite A Conservative To Your College

The Federalist ^ | October 2, 2014 | David Harsanyi

[right-wing agnostic]

The perverted habit of glorifying people like Mumia Abu-Jamal has been part of tedious campus “radicalism” for the past 45 years. Still, I can’t get too worked up over the fact that a bunch of twits at Goddard College invited a murderer to their school. For one, these sorts of incidents help me compile a list of schools for my kids to avoid.

What is interesting, though, is how academics and administrators continue to rationalize moronic behavior:

“As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model,” Goddard College Interim President Bob Kenny explained, “…choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that.”

Oh, where to begin? For starters, college conformists who fumble around for ideas that offend conservatives are neither radical nor critical thinkers. The thing is, if these graduates truly had the capacity or ability to engage in worthwhile dialogue, they would have invited an orthodox theologian or a libertarian economist to their school. Someone to challenge dogma rather than confirm their puerile worldview. Surely President Kenny understands this. If they really wanted to be radical, they might invite Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a women’s rights advocate and liberal, who wasn’t fit to receive an honorary degree according to the open-minded students at Brandeis University.

[Night Hides Not]

I’m radical in that I have no tattoos.

[left that other site]

Me neither...and i have been a Biker and Rock Musician for over 40 years.

LOL...

[NoLibZone]

Invite George Zimmerman!