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ZOT!! Reporting from the Front Line
November 15, 2004 | Néant Humain

Posted on 11/15/2004 8:13:41 PM PST by NeantHumain

I report to you from the trenches. No, not the ones in Iraq, though I wish our troops the very best in these trying times, I am reporting to you from the supposed heart of liberalism: academia. Yes, I am just another college student in the brave red Midwest. However, change is swirling in the wind as it promenades across campus. In it is the sweet smell of victory. Even here, liberalism is crumbling, succumbing to a more conservative status quo.

In an informal poll of people living in my dormitory, nearly as many voted for Bush as for Kerry; and this is a traditionally liberal university! I am glad to see it, too. No longer are my Evangelical brethren condemnded for spreading the Good Word. They may now harrass international students and freshman with near impunity, for their cause is just, it being ordained by the Lord.

As on television and other forms of mass media, intelligent debate has been replaced with quick soundbites between more-or-less liberal students and their more conservative moral superiors. The liberals on campus have proven themselves unworthy of genuine debate; their arguments never amount to more than ad hominem attacks against Bush's intelligence and integrity.

Professors and the university administration now follow a tacit agreement, and that is to avoid controversy and conserve the status quo. Teaching about such ideas as socialism and moral relativism has been sidelined, finally. Ignorance is an acceptable substitute for offering students all points of view and allowing them to form their own conclusions. After all, when young people begin thinking for themselves, burning draft cards and general unrest are not far behind.

Ladies and gentlemen, now is an exciting time to be a conservative!


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To: NeantHumain

You might want to put some ice on that

81 posted on 11/16/2004 6:40:13 AM PST by scott0347 (Commander of the 0347th Lancer Brigade, Operator of the Immaculate Steamroller)
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To: NeantHumain

Did you reincarnate as Jonathan Swift?


82 posted on 11/16/2004 7:02:09 AM PST by sarasota
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To: NeantHumain
"In an informal poll of people living in my dormitory, nearly as many voted for Bush as for Kerry; and this is a traditionally liberal university! I am glad to see it, too. No longer are my Evangelical brethren condemnded for spreading the Good Word. They may now harrass international students and freshman with near impunity, for their cause is just, it being ordained by the Lord."


83 posted on 11/16/2004 7:08:10 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: NeantHumain

Idiot.


84 posted on 11/16/2004 9:43:23 AM PST by Darksheare (X)The belled one(X)
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