Posted on 04/22/2010 6:44:52 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
To see Alinskyites, radical intellectuals, and Woodstock yuppies lecturing fellow Americans on the virtue of civility is tiresome but unsurprising. No one is more authoritarian than a successful left-wing revolutionary: he rises to power by extolling dissent, then stays in power by suppressing it. Were the Tea Partiers rabid left-wing professors instead of patriotic Americans, they would receive tenure and places of honor at high-brow luncheons. Were they veterans of UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, they would serve as nostalgic subjects for a Time retrospective. Were Tea Partiers "demonizing" the American government in the deepest sense -- teaching the young to view the Founding Fathers with patronizing contempt and the documents they wrote as reactionary relics to be replaced by a "living Constitution" -- they would have jobs in the Obama administration. Barack Obama would have the public believe that placard-waving grandmothers sitting in lawn chairs pose a greater threat to the country than Bill Ayers. One would think a former Alinskyite like Obama who wrote a gushing blurb for a book by that domestic terrorist -- a book addressing the subject of educating the young, no less -- and sat placidly through the "God damn America" sermons of Jeremiah Wright might approach the topic of civility a little more gingerly. Claptrap about "civility" invariably comes from pols and pundits who celebrate or condone the most dangerous and rancid violations of it. When not whining about the Tea Party or talk radio, they are usually found busying themselves with poisonous ACLU-style causes of one kind or another:
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Why do I want lectures on ‘civility’ from this crowd??
Agreed. But, we're getting them, every day. What is worse is that our college students are so hamstringed by the politically correct crowd that I'm afraid that they are never going to learn to think for themselves. It's not just political science, or philosophy anymore -- this garbage has infected the sciences.
After the savage beatings that the Bush admin took for eight years, hypocrisy seems to be an understatement for describing the left. Let’s go back and review the columns and air time by various leftists who are now complaining about incivility and see if they were squawking about the left’s daily smearing of Bush. I doubt we’ll find any.
Thank you. This was good. I liked this part:
“Then as now, “civility” was nothing more than a euphemism for the docile acceptance of liberalism’s advance and “incivility” was equated with effective resistance to it.”
Well at least she admitted she was a socialist. That’s something most of the leftist cowards never own up to. Has ACORN become to hot for even Soros to bankroll? I wonder.
The damage is pretty well done before they even get to college. THAT leg was kicked out from under the chair long ago. It’s like they never had a chance.
By the time I was a student, I had a background in history (which was NOT the revised version), a wholesome family life, respect for the Church (any church), the military, etc.
Consequently, I knew instantaneously and for certain that my professors were abusing their status to foist their personal views on the class. AND I knew just exactly which ones they were (all most all of them). I had this sort of gut feeling, a real aversion to them like an animal that won’t eat carrion, and it told me they were all but criminals and spiritually deformed to use their status and influence in that way. I felt very compromised and personally sullied by that.
Their behavior marred my entire college experience. I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I never went back, for anything! I actually have a nightmare where I am a student there again.
The funny thing is that until that time, I voted Democrat and I am pretty sure that my parents did as well. Once I saw what was happening in that classroom, I realized how wrong I was. I just quietly made a switch and didn’t talk to anyone about it. Not long afterwards, I found that my parents had changed as well.
How did I find out? A couple of friends visited me at home, young men returning from Viet Nam. (Dad was a WWII veteran). In a wordless flash (frozen in my memory like a indelible snapshot) I watched my father with these young men and though no one actually discussed politics, I knew my father was no longer a Democrat and that I made a right choice. I couldn’t believe that though my OWN father changed his thinking, he didn’t/wouldn’t EVER stoop to coerce my politics BUT that a ‘professor’ took that liberty with NO authority or compunction whatsoever.
BTW- It’s interesting… that was the first time I ever saw my father speak to any young men I knew with anything like respect or on anything like a equal footing. I was impressed.
It sounds like you came from a wonderful family who raised you right — to have a good head on your shoulders.
Dad was a star!!
Having looked at her picture, SHE looks like a bowel movement!
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