Posted on 03/28/2016 3:22:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV's "Judge Judy," is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal. But it is little mystery why so many college students are illiterate, innumerate and resistant to understanding. Let's look at it.
Student activists at Brown University complained of emotional stress and poor grades after they spent months of protesting for various causes. They blamed the university for insisting that they complete their coursework. One of the objects of their protest was an op-ed in The Brown Daily Herald, the university newspaper, that was deemed racist because it defended the celebration of Columbus Day. Brown University's faculty recently took care of that and renamed Columbus Day "Indigenous People's Day."
Professor Salvador Vidal-Ortiz of American University told his students that capitalism dehumanizes brown people and black people. If his students had one iota of brains, they might ask him why it is that brown and black people all over the world are seeking to flee to countries toward the capitalist end of the economic spectrum rather than the communist end. Campus Reform reports that Vidal-Ortiz, during the Q&A of a book talk at the University of Virginia, said he tells his students that though he is light-skinned, he refuses to be called white. "I will not be labeled as something that I know is violent," he said.
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Professor Salvador Vidal-Ortiz of American University told his students that capitalism dehumanizes brown people and black people. If his students had one iota of brains, they might ask him why it is that brown and black people all over the world are seeking to flee to countries toward the capitalist end of the economic spectrum rather than the communist end.
Oh they know he’s a moron, at least some of them do. But they also know that if they challenge him, they will get an F in the class, will be classified as “haters,” and be hounded from campus.
Not just the colleges, I’m afraid. The whole educational system is broken, from kindergarten on up.
The colleges started to go down the drain a long time ago, accelerated in the 60s, and by now have lost it almost completely—except for use as brainwashers into political correctness.
” College students must be insulated from anything that might possibly upset them....an datz da F’ing deal! “
President of Harvard : )
So true...It’s taken years for leftists to infiltrate most of the institutions of higher learning with the indoctrination of students and now the grammar and high schools in many states are about as bad.
Heavenly days! As I recall, we learned all that in high school American History and Civics!
What’s now happening on many colleges is the inevitable result of radical liberalism let loose. Liberals are always reality challenged. And as W.F. Buckley Jr. said they profess to believe in different views but are shocked and outraged to find out there are different views.
Why should anyone enjoying the perquisites of a Protected Class lower himself to membership in the Oppressor Class? Not for "privilege", surely - he's a university president. He knows all about privilege.
Well stated and right on.
I wonder how Kent State is doing...
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