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Colleges: A Force For Evil
Townhall.com ^ | August 8, 2018 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 08/08/2018 3:09:41 PM PDT by Kaslin

Many of the nation's colleges have become a force for evil and a focal point for the destruction of traditional American values. The threat to our future lies in the fact that today's college students are tomorrow's teachers, professors, judges, attorneys, legislators and policymakers. A recent Brookings Institution poll suggests that nearly half of college students believe that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Of course, it is. Fifty-one percent of students think that it's acceptable to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree. About 20 percent of students hold that it's acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking, over 50 percent say colleges should prohibit speech and viewpoints that might offend certain people. Contempt for the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees is probably shared by the students' high school teachers, as well as many college professors.

Brainwashing and indoctrination of young people has produced some predictable results, as shown by a recent Gallup Poll. For the past 18 years, Gallup has asked adults how proud they are to be Americans. This year, only 47 percent say they are "extremely proud," well below the peak of 70 percent in 2003. The least proud to be Americans are nonwhites, young adults and college graduates. The proudest Americans are those older than 50 and those who did not graduate from college. The latter might be explained by their limited exposure to America's academic elite.

Johnetta Benton, a teacher at Hampton Middle School near Atlanta, was recorded telling her sixth-grade students, "America has never been great for minorities." In a tirade, she told her class: "Because Europeans came from Europe ... you are an immigrant. You are an illegal immigrant because you came and just took it. ... You are an immigrant. This is not your country." To exploit young, immature young people this way represents an act of supreme cowardice. The teacher should be fired, but I'm guessing that her colleagues share her sympathies. At the same school, students were given a homework assignment that required them to write a letter asking lawmakers for stricter gun control laws.

One might be tempted to argue that the growing contempt for liberty and the lack of civility stem from the election of Donald Trump. That's entirely wrong. The lack of civility and indoctrination of our young people have been going on for decades. UCLA history professor Mary Corey told her class: "Capitalism isn't a lie on purpose. It's just a lie." She added that capitalists "are swine. ... They're bastard people." An English professor at Montclair State University, in New Jersey, told his students, "Conservatism champions racism, exploitation and imperialist war." An ethnic studies professor at California State University, Northridge and Pasadena City College teaches that "the role of students and teachers in ethnic studies is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." The University of California, Santa Barbara's school of education emailed its faculty members to ask them to consider classroom options concerning the Iraq War, suggesting they excuse students from class to attend anti-war events and give them extra credit for writing about it. Rodney Swanson, a UCLA economics professor, told his class, "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world."

There is little question that colleges stand at the forefront of an attack on America and Western values. Leftists often say that the U.S. is the world's worst country. But here are some empirical facts they might explain. According to a recent Gallup Poll, about 13 percent of the world's adults -- 630 million people -- would like to move to another country. Roughly 138 million would like to live in the U.S. -- making us the No. 1 destination, followed by the U.K., Canada and France . There's something exceptionally appealing about America and the Western world that leftists choose to ignore or lie about.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: colleges; evil; freespeech; universities

1 posted on 08/08/2018 3:09:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Opps. I Meant.

Colleges: Domestic Terrorist Training Camps.

3 posted on 08/08/2018 3:17:35 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Kaslin

Evil.

Mr. Williams nails it.

Evil. No other word better describes the basic nature of our colleges and universities.

It pains me to even think this; it probably identifies me to my enemies as another ignorant right wing Trump supporting redneck, but I truly believe the majority of our colleges and universities ought to be closed immediately.

Without a doubt, these colleges should be denied any and all grants, subsidies, student loan payments and any and all other federal and state based monies.

Students should not be able to borrow any taxpayer based loans to go to college. The GI Bill should immediately be under a cease and desist order to prohibit any funds from being paid to any universities.

Starve the beast. It is mainly taxpayer dollars that are being used to DESTROY America as we know it. And this must stop now. Immediately. Or our society is lost.


4 posted on 08/08/2018 3:21:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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I’ll add this to my rant against colleges and universities.

It helps to know and identify our domestic enemies.

Right now the media (enemedia) is rightfully targeted as an American enemy. But Washington politicians and bureaucrats, Hollywood and our entertainment industry, and Educrats in our institutes of higher learning are also dangerous and should be treated as our domestic enemies.

If/When CWII starts - these will be the major targets to destroy and then take back to our side.


5 posted on 08/08/2018 3:26:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Kaslin

What these ‘know nothings’ don’t get AND don’t care is that ‘hate speech’ is just speech that the Left disapproves.
God help us.


6 posted on 08/08/2018 3:27:28 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: Kaslin

Our colleges are turning out godless America-hating Marxist/fascist bastards.


7 posted on 08/08/2018 3:32:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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They were evil when I graduated in 1975 in California. Thank God for some students who were trying to bring Truth to us. The Lord saved me in 1977, in spite of the education.😊
8 posted on 08/08/2018 3:36:19 PM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: Kaslin

I look forward to the day when groups of alumni start entering class-action suits against their alma maters for sticking them with inferior educations inadequate in preparing them for dealing with political and economic world they live in.....


9 posted on 08/08/2018 4:30:04 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Kaslin

Not my alma mater.


10 posted on 08/08/2018 5:48:35 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Kaslin

bump


11 posted on 08/08/2018 6:17:19 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Where are the Obama-Creamer audio tapes?)
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To: Kaslin

Colleges will teach this crap until people refuse to buy what they are selling.


12 posted on 08/08/2018 9:22:32 PM PDT by keats5
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