Posted on 05/14/2004 3:18:41 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Ben Shapiro is 20 years old, has a screenname on FR (I'm sworn to secrecy!), has cool parents who invite fellow politically conservative Jews over for BBQ's, has had a syndicated column since he was 17, and just came out with a book detailing the ways in which universities indoctrinate you and your children with leftist, anti-America propaganda.
If you've heard Ben on Al Rantel's show or other radio talk shows, you know he's a very bright guy and is interested in presenting facts and evidence to make his case, not tearful complaints about being a political minority on campus.
If you haven't read Ben's book yet, here's a typical angry brainwashed review:
4 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
Is the author BRAINWASHED?, May 7, 2004 Reviewer: A reader from Los Angeles, CA Unfortunately, the option of zero stars was not available for this book. This is conservative reactivism at its worst. The author obviously misunderstood the purpose of a university education. The point of higher education is to open your eyes, not to further close them to the possibility of new ideas. Coming from the MECCA of campus "liberalism," Berkeley, the leftist exterior is a faccade for latent conservatism.
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This review kind of proves Ben's point, I think.
Personally, I love reading about college life, and since I pretty much only read political non-fiction, this is right up my alley. Way to go, Ben!
"The point of higher education is to open your eyes, not to further close them to the possibility of new ideas."
And this is why all conservative speakers are protested/boycotted. Hmmm. Somebody let us know when Ben will be on Dennis Miller's show. I actually like it. He can deliver some real zingers.
What we need to do is rally together to make him #1.
We did it for Clay Aiken (by "we" I mean Claymates)last year.
1. Tell everyone on FR to check it out
2. Once we get some reviews from other FR guys we start the buying blitz
3. We link this book to every website we can find
4. spreading the word comes in many forms not just speech; so work on a list
5. write to favorite TV and newspapers to boost his sales by them mentioning it. This must be done many times.
6. make sure we ALL buy the book or more than one copy. *gift ideas* Fathers Day is just around the corner.
Can you obtain permission from the author/publisher to possibly post a decent excerpt...enough to maybe whet the appetites of some here to buy the book..
You haven't heard it all until you've heard it from the inside.
Los Angeles, CA - It won't come as a shock to any American that today's Universities are filled with left-wing professors and a very definite liberal bias. Ben Shapiro, a graduating UCLA student, has lived it for the past four years, and what he reports is shocking, informative, and unfortunately for parents and students, worse than y ou ever thought possible.
Shapiro, who was fired from the UCLA student newspaper for taking on the rabid pro-Muslim bias of the paper, provides an insider's look at academic indoctrination. In Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth, Shaprio reveals:
Exit polling data that shows students become more liberal as they progress through their college career. Shapiro reveals why.
Segregated graduations: lavender Graduations for gay students, Latino Graduations, African-American graduations, Asian pacific Islanders graduations, Filipino graduations, Jewish graduations, Iranian graduations - melting pot? What melting pot?
9% of Ivy League professors surveyed voted for Bush - and it shows.
After eliminating moral absolutes, professors are free to advocate anything - even murder.
Student groups, from the Muslim Student Association to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance, from the African Student Union to MEChA, receive funding to push perversion and hate.
September 11 on Campus: Actual Quotes from Professors: "Anyone who bombs the Pentagon has my vote," "the people who caused 9-11 might fit into Locke's definition of justified resistance".
Dirty Words in the Classroom: profit, free-enterprise, and patriotism.
Perfectly Acceptable: sex columns in the student newspaper encouraging casual sex and same-sex experimentation, forays to strip clubs for university credit, pornographic acts for art finals, and the "America as terrorist" theory.
Actual Classes: Black Marxism, Same Sex Desire in Modern Literature, The Poetics of Palestinian Resistance, The Sexuality of Terrorism, and How to Be Gay: male Homosexuality and Initiation. One university actually offers a Marxist Studies minor.
Brainwashed Blurbs:
"Ben Shapiro's writing is smart, informative and incisive. He is wise beyond his years without losing the refreshing fearlessness of youth." --Ann Coulter
"Most older Americans suppose that our universities are forums of open inquiry, free thought and unique tolerance. Ben Shapiro, America's youngest syndicated columnist and a senior at UCLA, knows otherwise. In Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate, he tells the truth -- that universities are forums of left-liberal indoctrination, where dissent is discouraged and penalized, with more restrictions on free speech than any other part of American society. Parents who are paying for tuition might want to take note, and see what their hard-earned money is paying for.
--Michael Barone U.S. News & World Report Co-author, The Almanac of American Politics
"Welcome to P.C. 101. In this trenchant insider's expose, Ben Shapiro bears witness to the modern American campus freak show. You'll get up close and personal with the Marxist loons, moral relativists, multicultural zealots, and America-haters who are corrupting young minds. Brainwashed reveals the ignominious lows to which higher education has sunk. Get deprogrammed: Buy this book." --Michelle Malkin
Nationally syndicated columnist and author of Invasion
"A worthy successor to God and Man at Yale and Harvard Hates America in exploring the belly of the academic beast." --David Horowitz Founder of Students for Academic Freedom Author of Radical Son and Left Illusions
"Sharp thinking, tight writing, crazy-but-true stories: Ben Shapiro sees campus brainwashing and raises a rational protest. This is a good book to give both freshmen who need warning and voters/alumni who need to take action." --Dr. Marvin Olasky University of Texas professor and World magazine editor-in-chief
"Ben Shapiro is the Political Prodigy. He's young, in academia's trenches, and he will probably fail his poli-sci course just for writing this book. His writing is brilliant and biting -- if I had not been told he was an undergrad at UCLA, I'd never know it by reading this book. Brainwashed is a fantastic insight on and analysis of today's university system. What Animal House did for the toga party, Brainwashed should do for American resistance to campus radicalism." --Rusty Humphries Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host
"Ben Shapiro's courage and insight should provide inspiration not only for other young conservatives on campus, but also for their parents. His book is a welcome sign that all is not lost for this new generation." --Michael Medved Nationally Syndicated Radio Host Author of Hollywood Vs. America
"Don't tell me a book this brilliant was written by a college kid barely out of his teens. It's got to have been written by a gutsy old sage who somehow got himself embedded into UCLA and whose piercing observations have the power to save the oncoming generation from tyrants with tenure." --Barry Farber Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
"A brilliant new voice for a new generation of activists: Don't miss Ben Shapiro's new book!" --Hugh Hewitt Nationally syndicated talk show host Author of In, But Not Of
"With wit and verve, Ben Shapiro - America's youngest national columnist - provides a first-hand account of how liberal pieties masquerade as the only truth in today's corrupted universities. With luck, his critique will help others begin to the take those steps needed to fix the campus and return it to its esteemed place in our national life." --Daniel Pipes Founder of Campus Watch New York Sun columnist
"Overwhelming majorities of our teachers -- our supposed torchbearers in the dark -- are liberals. Though they cannot admit it, their personal beliefs invariably season their teaching methods. After all, teachers are charged with educating us about what they think is most important. The result is that they invariably stamp their students with morally deficient liberal rhetoric.
In Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate, Ben Shapiro rips the liberal university system to shreds. With an arch wit and insider's perspective, Shapiro exposes how liberal group-think has spread bacteria like through our education system and is threatening to squash genuine debate in our schools." --Armstrong Williams Syndicated Columnist Tribune Media
"Shapiro has a razor-sharp pen. His pointed criticism is directed at the overwhelming percentage of college professors who believe Islam is good and Christianity is bad, who don't accept that capitalism beat socialism because capitalism is ending centuries of destitution, and who worship skin color diversity but who blithely create strict campus rules against diversity of speech." --Jill Stewart "Capitol Punishment" syndicated columnist, radio and television political commentator
"With courage, wit, and dramatic flair in abundance, Ben Shapiro demonstrates that our institutes of higher learning have become wastelands of Leftist indoctrination, poisoning young minds with an endless barrage of propaganda for every fashionable cause on the planet. This book reveals how deeply entrenched a noxious culture of hatred for America and Western values has become among those who teach our nation's young men and women. Shapiro delivers a sobering wake-up call for all Americans, detailing the pressing need to - as the Left might put it - take back our colleges and universities." --Robert Spencer Director of Jihad Watch Author of Onward Muslim Soldiers and Islam Unveiled
"Been there. Done that (Tulane, A&S, '91). Ben gets it exactly right about the modern collegiate brainwash. Thankfully, beer and Mardi Gras saved me from full indoctrination. But Ben Shapiro's unassailable book, most assuredly, is the healthier blueprint to avoiding Marx and Engel's witting accomplices." --Andrew Breitbart Co-author, Hollywood, Interrupted
Praise for Ben Shapiro
"Benjamin Shapiro... future president of the United States." --Larry Elder
"If you haven't yet partaken of Ben Shapiro's writings you are missing out. His columns are crisp, witty and topical. More than that, they are provocative, controversial and courageous." --David Limbaugh
"After battling in the trenches of liberal college student press, Ben Shapiro has emerged as a forceful and unequivocal writer to bring views that are underrepresented in mass media." --Ward Connerly
"That invigorating breeze from the west is Benjamin Shapiro, whose crisp commentary proves that wisdom sometimes comes with youth, too." --Jeff Jacoby
"Wise beyond his years . . ." --WorldNetDaily
"A columnist who sees the world as it really is and knows how it could be." --Al Rantel, KABC LA
Direct link to the book on Amazon ( you gave the general Amazon link):
Ben Shapiro: Brainwashed: How Universities Idoctrinate Ameica's Youth".
We need an LA round up so we can plan this field trip together. It'll be fun!
I haven't read the book, but reading about it I'm guessing at what he says, and I'm here to report that my own experience isn't as bad as one might expect. I sit in on classes at two major universities from time to time. (One of these is renowned for its left wing bias.) Yes, the professors tend to be left, but not all are, and the ones that are almost universally welcome challenges.
ML/NJ
I saw this young man on Scarborough (I think) last night and he was brilliant - so well spoken.
What is the URL of his website?
Why didn't I consider that possibility?
FYI!!!!
Is that MSNBC? He said he was on that network last night. I'll have to be in the live studio audience to see him on Dennis Miller! Who's with me?!
Big BUMP for Ben Shapiro!
...and I might even be able to bring along a few FRiends. :o)WHEN?
Sounds like a terrific read by our fellow freeper; thanks for the post.
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