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Professors call Founding Fathers ‘terrorists,’ founding ideals a ‘fabrication’
The College Fix ^ | 11-16-16 | William Nardi - Roger Williams University

Posted on 11/20/2016 2:43:59 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

A humanities course currently taught at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs teaches that the Founding Fathers were hypocrites, terrorists and money-hungry barons who used hyperbole and fear to rile up the colonists to revolt against England.

The “Resistance and Revolution” class is co-taught by history lecturer Jared Benson and sociology instructor Nicholas Lee, who also suggest that it was Mikhail Gorbachev – not Ronald Reagan — who brought down the collapse of the Soviet Union, and that wealthy CEOs deserve to be in a “moral prison,” among many other assertions.

Calling the Founding Fathers “terrorists,” Benson and Lee voice criticism and cynicism against many of the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, teaching students the founding ideals were “merely a fabrication for a social movement” — a means to an end for the colonist elites who were tired of England’s control and needed the gullible masses to help them break free. They argued the Revolutionary War wasn’t really about freedom. The educators suggest that the only people truly affected by taxation were the rich. However, the rich could not wage war on their own and needed the poor to fight for them.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antiamericanism; college; curriculum; foundingfathers; professors; revolutionarywar
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Is this a taxpayer funded institution? Fire the profs, or yank the funding.
1 posted on 11/20/2016 2:43:59 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Founding father/Revolutionary War ping alert!


2 posted on 11/20/2016 2:45:32 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I guess this idiot professor, who probably learned everything he knows about American History from Howard Zinn, doesn’t know that the “shot heard around the world” which started the revolution was a response to the Brits trying to confiscate the colonists’ firearms.


3 posted on 11/20/2016 2:46:55 PM PST by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A lecturer and an instructor. On the fast track for tenure, no doubt?


4 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:04 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; NonValueAdded

Founding father/Revolutionary War ping alert!


5 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

They should all get lined up, and wait for the opportunity to Kiss My AMERICAN Arse!


6 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:17 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Po-mo revisionist horseshyte, and opinion masquerading as fact. Students in this class should demand a refund.


7 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:28 PM PST by IronJack
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I SAY DEFUND THE UNIVERSITIES, let the fend for themselves


8 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:41 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Send them to North Korea.


9 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:52 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Remembering it was the left that saw to the closing of America’s mental institutions.


10 posted on 11/20/2016 2:49:11 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: 14themunny; 21stCenturion; 300magnum; A Strict Constructionist; abigail2; AdvisorB; Aggie Mama; ...
Federalist/Anti-Federalist/Revolutionary War ping.

A genuine perversion of history.

11 posted on 11/20/2016 2:49:53 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hit these pip-squeaks where it hurts - their wallets


12 posted on 11/20/2016 2:50:37 PM PST by lesko
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Defund them.


13 posted on 11/20/2016 2:51:03 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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Is this a taxpayer funded institution? Fire the profs, or yank the funding.

Let the old professor-fart babble away. The students aren't listening anyway. They've already bought their term papers, copped an exam from a T.A. and are thinking of where they're going for their first beer that night.

When the students become human beings, that is, WORK, pay their OWN rent, car insurance, medical insurance and so on, THEN they will remember Professor Traitor...and NOT give to their alumni fund and NOT sent THEIR own children there if said Professor Traitor still happens to be around.

We all USUALLY do grow up.

14 posted on 11/20/2016 2:51:19 PM PST by cloudmountain
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Remembering it was the left that saw to the closing of America’s mental institutions.

It's how they got their teaching jobs.

15 posted on 11/20/2016 2:51:45 PM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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*I guess this idiot professor, who probably learned everything he knows about American History from Howard Zinn, doesn’t know that the “shot heard around the world” which started the revolution was a response to the Brits trying to confiscate the colonists’ firearms.*

Good post. This is ANOTHER reason for Trump to be in charge - he must do what he can to rein in Marxist Academia and their influence over our young for the betterment of Our Nation...


16 posted on 11/20/2016 2:52:06 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What does the professor call Lenin? Stalin? Mao?


17 posted on 11/20/2016 2:52:29 PM PST by marktwain
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I thought that Colorado Springs was a conservative town, with the Air Force Academy, Cheyenne Mountain, and the USOC.

Is there nobody there to stand up to these people?

-PJ

18 posted on 11/20/2016 2:54:55 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Both Jared Benson and sociology instructor Nicholas Lee, belong LOCKED IN Solitary Confinement,... Permanently.
19 posted on 11/20/2016 2:55:42 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: marktwain

Heroes of the revolution!!


20 posted on 11/20/2016 2:56:02 PM PST by Lent
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