Posted on 08/21/2019 6:19:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Academia is no longer liberal. It may have been as recently as the 1990s. Academia is not even anti-Republican -- although they generally dislike the party as compared to Democrats. Today, academia has a thorough and profound reactionary supremacist view of Republican Presidents. Republican Presidents are racist haters and want to destroy every innocent human being on the planet. In 1992, I was working through my doctoral program in communication study at the University of Kansas. Our graduate student group was helping to gather public data that would guide the new townhall debate format to be used in Presidential debates that fall. I was discussing the results of public surveys that supposedly indicated the “issues” that the public wanted to have discussed in the townhall debate.
In the mid-1980s I was traveling with our collegiate debate team from Texas to a tournament in Kansas. We stopped at a Pizza Hut in Oklahoma for lunch and a waitress attempted to take our drink order. One of our more outspoken team members asked what the drink options were and she responded that they had ‘Pepsi products.’ What ensued was a lecture from multiple debaters about the evils of Pepsi funding the ‘Reagan war machine.’ It would be wrong to purchase Pepsi drink products, they explained, and they demanded water as their beverages of choice. Events like this were among hundreds of other compiled events within academic culture conditioning me toward blue privilege. One of the outspoken characteristics of blue privilege in the academic community is a collective and common outrage at Republican Presidents -- whether presiding or forthcoming. It is this aspect of blue privilege that is important to understand as so many of us ‘go back to school.’
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That incident had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with good manners.
The Left has thrown manners and civility overboard in their derangement against all things Conservative - and apparently it started early.
The author calls it “blue privilege” though back in the 80’s the color for Dems was red. The media arm of the Dem Party flipped the colors for the 2000 election. Maybe they were worried that young people might learn that all the political and literary references to red as in ... red China ... meant totalitarian.
With Reagan, the data indicates that Reagan has routinely been put in the top 10 (he should be #3 behind Lincoln) by historians. That’s not too bad, given they had to pad their side with dolts like FDR, JRK, and LBJ.
“Academia is no longer liberal. It may have been as recently as the 1990s. Academia is not even anti-Republican — although they generally dislike the party as compared to Democrats. Today, academia has a thorough and profound reactionary supremacist view of Republican Presidents.”
I barely got through this before I started mega-barfing.
Even in the academy people are such followers. Racism of Republicans was never an issue before the Democrats start using it as a single beat war drum. Republicans supported MLK, supported the civil rights movement and the Democrats were part of the oppression of Blacks in the south. You would think these academics would know American history! But NO. They just keep repeating the modern day mantra that Republicans are racist — a mantra devised solely because they can’t win against Donald Trump. They are sheep or worst, rats following the Pied Piper to the slaughter come the 2020 election.
If you want an unthinking party of morons leading you — vote Democrat. Such followers... and not even academically smart followers.
Even in the academy people are such followers. Racism of Republicans was never an issue before the Democrats start using it as a single beat war drum. Republicans supported MLK, supported the civil rights movement and the Democrats were part of the oppression of Blacks in the south. You would think these academics would know American history! But NO. They just keep repeating the modern day mantra that Republicans are racist — a mantra devised solely because they can’t win against Donald Trump. They are sheep or worst, rats following the Pied Piper to the slaughter come the 2020 election.
If you want an unthinking party of morons leading you — vote Democrat. Such followers... and not even academically smart followers.
This is absolute, unadulterated propaganda: I returned to university in 2004 to study music.
Even music theory (!) was subverted to attack conservatives and republicans. Music History, taught by an openly homoerotic male, was often used to undermine the Christian message in much of Western muisc, from Gregorian through Classical.
There was one - exactly one - nominally conservative teacher: an adjunct, part-time, teacher who taught music technology (notation software, MIDI, et cetera). He was the most humble and courteous one I had, and he actually voiced thanks to taxpayers for funding public education - something I have never, ever heard from any other teacher.
In 2011, at a ten-year musical remembrance of 9/11, which I attended at the invitation of former classmates, the new president of the university, a man with an Arabic name, and, I strongly suspect, a Muslim philosophy, used his address to denounce those who exploit such a tragedy to disparage those from other cultures. He eulogized so-called multi-culturalism. There was no mention of Islamic Jihad or any kind of terrorism.
No, academia is more leftist than ever. The school put up a Black Power statue while I was attending there, and had anti-Israel demonstrations almost every day of the week.
“(he should be #3 behind Lincoln) by historians”
A little suspending of habeus corpus and sending an army to burn down a few states and he could have locked up that #2 slot.
That was actually the point of the article. They have gone totally out of their gourd.
All those traitors should have been charged.
Lincoln could have pardoned the traitorous lot of them later.
Makes you wonder if King George would have charged all of his traitors, doesn’t it.
Of course he would have. At the very least, every signer of the Declaration would have been hanged. This was SOP.
Should have been Lincoln’s SOP. As I said, charge them all (they therefore forfeit their plantations, i.e., “40 acres and a mule”) THEN pardon them all. Nothing unconstitutional, nothing illegal.
Charity and good heartedness always come back to bite you in politics.
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