Posted on 07/09/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT by nwrep
I am starting a new monthly series on Freerepublic.com titled "Treason on Campus." This will profile a new US Professor each month, and give a description of the classes they teach, their governing philosophy, examples of anti-Americanism, and any other relevant information I can dig up.
This series is intended to inform and educate readers about the socio-political propaganda carried out on American campuses under the guise of education, and help equip them to counter such destructive influences.
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Amanda Byron, Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution
For the first installment in this series, I have chosen Portland State University (Portland, Ore.) Professor Amanda Byron, a faculty member of the "Conflict Resolution Graduate Program" at PSU.
Among the courses she teaches are the following:
Introduction to Conflict Resolution
Enmification: The Art and Consequence of Enemy Making
Facilitation
Restorative Justice
Of these, the curiously titled course "Enmification" deserves some attention. Here is the course description from her website:
Enmification
The Art and Consequence of Enemy Making
Course Description: This one credit course will explore the United States’ fascination with the making of enemies. We will consider the various influences that contribute to a climate of ready hatred, considering the many political, social and economic motivations, as well as their ramifications.
Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Blazemore G. and Schiff, M. (2001). Restorative Community Justice: Repairing Harm and Transforming Communities. Cincinnati OH: Anderson Publishing.
Keen, Sam (1986). Faces of the Enemy: Reflection of the Hostile Imagination. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
Moyers, Bill (2004). Beyond Hate [Television Broadcast]. Washington, DC: PBS.
Reiber, Robert W. (1991). The Psychology of War and Peace: The Image of the Enemy. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
Zehr, H. (2002). The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Intercourse PA: Good Books.
Ms. Byron describes her personal influences and philosophies in an autobiographical section on her website. Excerpts follow:
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Autobiography
Growing up in atheistic household, I am always amused at how spiritually I define myself, and how diverse the spiritual influences of my childhood truly were. My mother is a secular Jew who came to the United States with her family, refugees from Germany during the Holocaust. My father grew up in the Methodist Church in Texas, but was greatly influenced by his Catholic Mother, and self identified as an athiest. My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings. I have chosen the Sufi path, on which I have been walking for over a dozen years. The initial lure of this path was the ecumenical nature of it, including practices from all of the world's traditions as an acknowledgement of the unity of all religious and spiritual ideals. I married a fellow Sufi, who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church studying Norse Mythology, and who has subsequently become a Muslim. When our son was born a year ago I discovered some of the inescapable bonds to my Judaism, which I am currently exploring.
I have been surprised to find that the story of my mother's life has had the most profound influence on my life, and on who I have become. This is ironic because the story I refer to is not one she tells. As with many refugees, from the Holocaust and from other wars and autrocities, my mother identifies with her successes and accomplishments -- not with the circumstances that victimized her people. I grew up believing that the terms "Jew" and "German" were synonymous (and, ironically in the face of today's cultural climate, that "Christian," "Texan" and "American" were also synonymous). I was taught differently when I was ten years old, babysitting for the Feldmans across the street. Perhaps other Jewish children learn about the Holocaust from their parents, I only know that I did not, which was of great concern to Mrs. Feldman.
I pieced together the story of my mother's adventurous exodus from Germany, and her family's subsequent struggle to learn a new language and culture. The emotions of the story were always downplayed, not wanting to make our history sound desperate or our selves sound like the losers. My grandmother, who was 5 feet tall, told stories of getting into fist fights with SS Soldiers, proving herself to be the victor time and time again. The pictures that were painted always showed my family with chins raised high, too sophisticated and too worldly for the circumstances that they happened upon. And God never found a way into any of these stories.
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As can be expected, Faculty members of the Conflict Resolution Program are activists in their spare time, and promote various leftist radical causes on the campus.
This department also sponsors the annual "War, Peace, and Media Conference", which will be held on July 8-9 this year on the PSU campus. This year's keynote speaker is Medea Benjamin, co-director of the radical anti-war group "Code Pink" . She will also be signing her book "Stop the Next War Now" at this conference.
Her whole story is one cascading lie after another... a pantheon of fantasies are her medium of infinitization...
My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings. I have chosen the Sufi path, on which I have been walking for over a dozen years. The initial lure of this path was the ecumenical nature of it, including practices from all of the world's traditions as an acknowledgement of the unity of all religious and spiritual ideals. I married a fellow Sufi, who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church studying Norse Mythology, and who has subsequently become a Muslim. When our son was born a year ago I discovered some of the inescapable bonds to my Judaism, which I am currently exploring.
This is fantastical, especially considering it started with this...
Growing up in atheistic household, I am always amused at how spiritually I define myself, and how diverse the spiritual influences of my childhood truly were.
In fact, it is nothing but a fantasy world where the medium of infinitization is a pantheon of phantasms, one cascading lie after another... Who is the prince of phantasms in the kingdom of air and darkness?
uh, yeah, that's a mark to shoot for. i wanna be that...right...
**Well...one more reason not to contribute to the alumni association of my old alma mater...as if I needed one. **
And hopefully you will let them know why you are no longer contributing!
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Sorry to be so late with this.
Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
News Flash: Many churches have bought into this phoney baloney.
WHOA!! I was holding my breath til I saw the name. My cousin is also a prof at this college and she would have fit the agenda here. We haven't spoke since the 2000 election. When I'm counting my sins at night - I feel badly about it - but sometimes the enemy within can be close.
I think she should explore why nutburger college "professors" are fascinated with making enemies of normal Americans.
Oh I do...when they send me stuff I send it right back with a cross note.
Oh No....yet ANOTHER self-loathing Jew....
This lady sounds like she is disintegrating as we speak.
I passed this on to talk show host Lars Larson, and he said he appreciates it and it sounds like he will talk about it on his talk show.
I emailed Lars Larson and he just talked about this and plugged Freerepublic for like 3 minutes. Freerepublic is getting a lot of attention on his show. He also said to the listeners he will send the link to any listeners who want it.
Absolute perpetually-adolescent egghead wacko dipwad.
Next week, she'll 'discover' that she's half-Ninja.
I took this class and found it very informative. It teaches one to see others as human and to treat others with respect. You seem like a reasonable person who would share these values. It concerns me that you are a parent, prepared to "ping" a professor because you are threatened by their ideology. Academia is a place where students are encouraged to think freely, critically, and for themselves. Diversity in thought is what ensures the survival of a culture of people. Thank you
Check.. so then, She is my ENEMY... got it..
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