The Evil that Must Not Be Named on Campus

American Thinker.com ^ | January 6, 2018 | George Harbison

[Kaslin]

Academia turns a blind eye to the reality of actual socialism, the ideology practiced by Marxists while they sought the perfection of communism...someday. Socialism is ruining Venezuela today, and the whitewash pervades elite culture, even when the evil strikes close to home for an elite American small college.

I attended Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) in the mid-1970s. I enjoyed my time there, made some great lifelong friends, and graduated with a sincere appreciation of the benefits of having a liberal arts education as it was practiced at the time.

Over the years, my political perspective has moved well away from the liberal orthodoxy that now prevails at Kenyon. As a result, I have had a somewhat strained relationship with my alma mater, accentuated by three events that led to dust-ups with the college's administration:

1. an embarrassingly inappropriate "welcome back to campus" speech/diatribe at a class dinner by a leftist professor on the occasion of my tenth class reunion;
2. Kenyon virtually ignoring the 2005 death of matriculate William Rehnquist, while simultaneously displaying his name on its list of "Notable Alumni" on its website; and
3. an absurd and offensive assertion by a member of the Religious Studies department, published in Kenyon's alumni bulletin, that "[w]e have fundamentalist Christians in the United States who are just as exclusionary as the more radical Muslims."

With this as a backdrop, I have been watching with great interest Kenyon's reporting of the plight of one of our own, Leopoldo López (Class of 1993). López has led, for many years, the political opposition against Venezuela's repressive governing regime.

Leopoldo López addresses a crowd, July 10, 2012 (photo: zfigueroa)

In response to his opposition efforts, López was jailed by the Venezuelan government in February 2014.

[Crucial]

I thought is was going to be “white success”.

[poinq]

Kenyon is a liberal re-education camp. They are as liberal as Brown or Oberlin or Grinnell. These schools have a big pot of money that allows them to do what they want, say what they want. And teach what they want. I would never send one of my 5 children there.

[reasonisfaith]

Socialism is exactly like pedophilia.

As an industry whose primary product is pain, suffering and death for vast numbers of innocent people, socialism and pedophilia must be packaged as something very different, something that completely obscures what they really are.

[Pontiac]

Reference is also made in the lecture to the cumulative (and consistent) socialist death toll of 94 million people, suffered in dozens of countries dotting the timeline of the 20th century, as painstakingly documented in The Black Book of Communism

Think their short about a hundred million.

[Keyhopper]

The so called children should take a 6 month field trip to one of these socialist countries and give a research papers on the experiences when they return

[Scrambler Bob]

and give a research papers
= = =

With the notes the have taken on their (non-existant) toilet paper????

[Pontiac]

The so called children should take a 6 month field trip to one of these socialist countries and give a research papers on the experiences when they return

They would get the same treatment that reporters and celebrities get.

They would have a tour guide (handler) that would ensure that they got a tour of the side of communism that the communist want people to see.

Namely the side of the elite members of the communist party. The best hospitals the best housing. The best markets (that actually have food in them).

The communist would make sure that they came away thinking that everyone in community countries gets a good education and a good job. No one goes hungry and everyone is happy.

[iontheball]

It is an extremely serious problem today in this country where absolutes no longer exist. Thus, the popular view is that communism and socialism are not as bad as they have been made out to be. Communist and socialist from all walks of life in this country freely conduct anti-American activities every day and there is no law to stop them, no downside. The only thing in existence any more is public rebuke from those who still remain patriots, which occurred in professional football. Even then, it took President Trump to really launch the castigation. However, as the new generation takes over, I predict public censorship of anti-American activities will disappear.

[Keyhopper]

No, they have to shadow the regular people.

[Pontiac]

The communist would not consider a student writing a dissertation or thesis a regular person.

That would be someone who requires handling.

[PTBAA]

Perhaps everyone in Venezuela should declare themselves to be foreign reporters.

We can start a cottage industry here selling Canadian Press passes (the socialist elites take care of each other).

[T Ruth]

By all rights, the terms "Nazism" and "socialism" ought to have the same, profoundly hideous connotation.

Doesn't he know than "Nazi" is German shorthand for Nationalsozialismus, i.e., National Socialism?

[ModelBreaker]

He looks like an Hispanic Jack Kennedy.

[Mears]

My oh my,he is gorgeous.

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[Kaslin]

He sure is.

[Tax-chick]

Sr. Lopez is a relative of Thor Halvorssen, the international human rights activist and founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum. Mr. Halvorssen is a native of Venezuela.

People who think “Hispanic” is a “race” simply have to ignore the existence of a Swedish Venezuelan, as well as German Hondurans and all the other varied panoply of Central and South America.