Posted on 01/28/2021 9:23:11 AM PST by DeweyCA
I blame their parents.
Senators Hawley and Cruz did not go wrong...neither did President Trump. The "incited insurrection wasn't. Only the media and elected like AOC lied about it and made their "feelings" the point.
Who wants to go to commie camps anyway?
Let them sit in their bubble.
We need to obliterate every last Stalinazi Satanic indoctrination plantation in the U.S. The damage they’ve done to our country is incalculable.
“They think that they have the right to purge conservatives from universities, or at least to make them shut up.”
Without federal funding of student loans, research grants, diversity programs, and other activities, these universities would have to dramatically restructure their economic models. Much of the leftist program would be defunded.
Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley managed to come out of a name-brand university conservatives, despite all the pressure. Thomas Sowell came out of Harvard a Marxist, but later became a conservative in spite of his education. I came out of a leftard family conservative because the constant repetition made the standard bromides become less and less sensible to me. I am thankful that I refused to go to university, or who knows what horrors I would be spouting as absolute truths. People walk away in spite of their educations. But in no way does a standard university education help them to get their heads straight.
The future Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley would be better off in a community college getting a two-year degree, and reading the classics on their own. Four-year degrees could lead to (gulp) law school or journalism school, or horror of horrors a PhD.
There Are No Guardrails On The Left
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3929301/posts
America is entering a terrible period in its history at an accelerating pace, now that the Left has taken control of all the critical reins of power in the government, the mainstream media, social media, and big tech. Unfortunately, history teaches with laser clarity that there are no guardrails restraining the behavior of the Left when it is so empowered.
They’ve been discriminating against conservatives in admission, especially admission to grad school. That is in addition to denying certification in social work and psychology to conservatives.
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement - 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/
A Confession of Liberal Intolerance - New York Times, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html
It is just getting worse over time, but it IS from the top.
One of the Most Liberal Groups in America
College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/11/08/college-administrators-are-more-liberal-other-groups-including-faculty-members
A “brand name” university doesn’t brainwash its students and shut down free speech and thought. I went to a brand name university in the mid-1970s. I was active in a conservative organization. Faculty and students were liberal for the most part, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. I had one political science professor who was a self-described communist. I never had any problems there. That was a brand name university.
I wonder your name-brand is like today. Jonathon Haidt of HeterodoxAcademy.org has said that the 1990s was when universities really went leftist. That is when so many of the old profs retired and the draft-dodging baby boomers gained power. The mid-1970s, when you went to college, is a LONG time ago.
That was then. This is now. The ‘70s are long gone. I was in a hippy dippy open high school for a while, and then a genius school run by priests. The priests respected my Orthodox Jewish practices and faith, although they took strong issue with my refusal to study consistently or do homework. The hippies, kids who used to be my friends, were horrible. There was almost no homework or studying.
I don’t keep in touch with what has gone on there, but I expect it’s pretty much like anywhere else these days. The cancer spread.
The only way to get to the national stage is by the connections made that the elite schools.
Yeah, after the 70s is about the time things started going ‘round the bend. I don’t think I would like to spend ten minutes in most of the universities we have now.
One experience from college always stands out in my mind. I had a leftist history professor. We had to write a review of a book. I knew she liked the book. I hated it, and ripped it to shreds. I got an A on the paper, and her note: “I don’t agree with you, but you did a great job in presenting your case.”
WHAAAA! Such whiny babies.
So much for their diversity and unity. No way will they ever achieve their One World.
No more of that. They’d burn you at the stake. The more prestigious the college, the bigger the fire. A two year community college is a better place to get educated.
For all the humanities and liberal arts stuff, commute by train or bus, and read until your stop. That’s how I went through Shakespeare, Pound’s Cantos, studied ancient Greek, Arabic and lit crit, and something really long and boring by Wordsworth about how he became a boring—I mean great—poet.
Um, no.
Or Trump wouldn't have been president.
And brainless morons like AOC wouldn’t be on the national stage.
Last time I looked, AOC not only did NOT go to an elite school, her only claim to fame before politics was that she was a bar tender.
That’s a good way to go, even if you need a degree and have to go through college. Most of what I have learned that is truly worthwhile, I learned on my own, or maybe on a job. I have always been a reader, and I went into college with a firm foundation of what I believed. I don’t know if a lot of young people have that and, if they do, it gets undermined by the pressures of college. For all of the talk about diversity, diversity of thought doesn’t count, I guess. That can produce nothing but a stagnant society full of stagnant people.
A friend of mine was one of the best-educated people I met. As a young man, he started school to train for physical therapy, but had to quit because he got married and the kids started coming. He worked as a bread truck driver. But he read voluminously, taught himself Russian and Old Slavonic, and liked to translate old Russian books into English as a hobby. On top of that, he had tons of valuable experience from life. We used to sit up late into the night and talk about issues great and small.
I remember the commies from University of Chicago back over 50 years ago. They bragged about how easy it was to compromise American atomic scientists. Their voices dripping with contempt - just butter them up - tell them how only THEY can save the world by leveling the playing field between Russia and the US...and they all talked. Except Edward Teller. And they hated him. No contempt in their voices for Teller - just pure unadulterated hatred.
The reason commies hate us so much is we offer hope to the enslaved...same with other totalitarians. Our existence undermines totalitarian's ability to totally deprive their citizen of any hope.
I remember the commies from University of Chicago back over 50 years ago. They bragged about how easy it was to compromise American atomic scientists. Their voices dripping with contempt - just butter them up - tell them how only THEY can save the world by leveling the playing field between Russia and the US...and they all talked. Except Edward Teller. And they hated him. No contempt in their voices for Teller - just pure unadulterated hatred.
The reason commies hate us so much is we offer hope to the enslaved people's of the world... Our existence undermines the totalitarian's ability to totally deprive their citizen of any hope.
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