Your Tax Dollars At Work: Subsidizing Elite Colleges That Produce Intolerant Bigots

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 4/22/2017 | Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

College Aid: Next time you hear about students attacking a conservative speaker, check the school's tuition costs. Odds are you'll find that they are attending an elite college that caters to the rich. Money can't buy love, but it can, apparently, teach intolerance.

In early March, distinguished author and social scientist Charles Murray was scheduled to talk at Middlebury College, a Vermont school that charges $64,000 a year in tuition. Several students erupted in noisy demonstrations that ended up with the 74-year-old Murray being shoved and Middlebury political science professor Allison Singer in a neck brace.

The attack was so vicious and unwarranted that even some liberals — who normally ignore such outbursts when they target conservatives — were shocked.

They should hardly have been surprised. Elite schools that cater mainly to the children of wealthy parents have become havens for militant, narrow-minded and often-violent bigots.

Researchers at the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution looked at 90 attempts by college students to disinvite speakers — who tend mostly to be conservative — since 2014.

What they found was that these attempts to squelch free speech came almost exclusively from schools that catered to rich kids.

[Sicon]

The insistence by the left that everyone DESERVES and MUST HAVE a college education, and their desire to make college "education" (read "indoctrination") a right, as they have done with health care (really health insurance), is just another scam, another way to take money from free people, and use it to control them. In this case, in a very insidious way, by twisting the minds of their children. Not only are parent's years of trying to teach their kids right from wrong, of trying to instill basic values and sense in them, wasted, the parents (and even those without children) are made to pay for the privilege.

Liberals are sick, evil, people. Until recently, I am not sure I would have said that so directly and unequivocally, but what liberals have done over the past year or so, leaves no doubt as to what they are, and of what they are capable.

[BillyBonebrake]

Middlebury = 3% Black undergraduate enrollment.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The horror !

[rktman]

They’re producing conservative republicans? Isn’t that who’s intolerant and bigoted? At least that’s the rumor I’ve heard. ;-)

[GOPJ]

Our ‘elite’ colleges are money grubbing scammers. In the future the Education Complex and the bankers and politicians who prop them up will be viewed as unethical criminals.

[DeweyCA]

This finding makes sense. Rich kids probably grow up feeling entitled and above the common man, and so they don’t think that the ideas of the common people are worth considering. Rich kids also are often very conscious of peer pressure and therefore must act in PC ways in order to be accepted by their peers (even more than middle-class college kids).