Posted on 04/19/2009 4:43:50 AM PDT by Scanian
Penn State University's "Department of Counseling and Psychological Services" has a video presentation that should leave any decent American shocked, saddened, and yes, even enraged. Credit David French of National Review Online for posting what might be the most definitive four minute expose on the tragedy of higher education in America. Indeed, Penn State's shameful video production of "The Worrisome Veteran" can provide all Americans some priceless insights into the kind of surreal institutions liberals create when left unchecked.
"The Worrisome Veteran" is part of Penn State's "Worrisome Student Behaviors" video series which is designed to provide faculty and students the ability to "minimize risk" when encountering problematic students on campus. Each video presents actors reenacting possible confrontations that may occur in various environments and suggests appropriate responses. The subtitle of the "Worrisome Veteran" presentation is: "I deserve a better grade or else . . ." In other words, to the progressive staff at Penn State, students who are veterans returning from the war in Iraq are simply potential criminals who've forgotten how to reason politely.
How can conservatives learn something about our educational establishment from this awful video? Let me count the ways.
First, as the performance opens the frightened English professor, a woman, is discussing the threatening student with her division dean, an African-American man. Within seconds then viewers are encouraged to conclude that the perpetrator is a conservative white male - the pariah of higher education. As the scene gently cuts away from the dean's office to the professor's classroom guess who the offending veteran is? A white male. The geniuses at Penn State know what a safe target is, and he's not a woman or a minority. In other words, progressives own the moral high ground in education.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It may be just me, but I assume veterans are actually less worrisome because they’re more mature when they attend universities like Penn State. In fact, vet friends of mine seem a lot less infantile than their non-vet classmates and their instructors (as proved in the AT article). What’s more, they’re more worldly and heck of a lot more articulate. I’m sending this to my vet friends, now; I’m sure they’ll be rather bemused.
Or maybe I just cracked the code?
This is exactly correct. A very good friend of mine is in the Virginia National Guard. He did two tours in Iraq and is currently going toe-to-toe with the Taliban in Afghanistan. During his first tour in 2004, he fought in the 2nd Battle of Fallujah, and then in December, damned near got blown up by a suicide bomber at Camp Marez (he was walking out of the chow hall just as the bomber was going in---he had to help pull what was left of his buddies out of the debris).
When he returned home in 2005, he enrolled in a local college to study military history and political science. However, he found the libs on campus hostile to him and everything he had done, with one teacher in particular, who taught Western Civ, riding him day in and day out. Needless to say, he quit in disgust after the first semester, and volunteered for his second tour. It worked out for him in the end, since he has since went to NCO and Airborne School, and he is now an E-7.
The long and short of this Penn State video and the attitude demonstrated therein is that these young liberal assistant professors and teaching assistants are not used to having their leftist world view challenged and "feel" threatened when a vet, inevitably more mature than the teacher in question, pushes back against their anti-war prejudices and grades. The universities and colleges of course want to side with the poor "helpless" teachers rather than the more worldly vets who dare to challenge them and their bias.
Do “white males” still try to enroll in U.S. Colleges?
I am not a veteran, but I spent a number of years as a student and researcher in the University environment and I can attest to the difficulty of being grown-up and informed and going head-to-head with @sshat faculty. It is something you need to prepare for and be measured in your presentations and response. Consistency, over the long haul, will usually shut their cake holes, but simply spouting off will only aid them and embolden the sea of useful idiots that will spring up in their defense. I found that over time other students would begin to chime in and disagree. There is some period of time that must pass before the fear of retribution or disgust with PC kicks in and other students decide to begin speaking out. Like vampires, once determined opposition is encountered and consistent, the fascists usually retreat and shut-up.
Good luck.
Yes, you cracked the code. The leftist elites (and that includes Hugobama) are trying to pick a fight with patriotic U.S. citizens - and I mean fight in the violent sense of the word.
It’s time to start defunding our public propaganda system.
Passing it on to all my veteran friends.
What is new is the fact that the campaign seems more thoroughly developed, and our engagement in Iraq (as opposed to Viet Nam) is still on going.
Btw, I thought the vet in the film, seemed highly articulate, and it isn't plausible that his grammar on his papers was as poor as the teacher described.
Silly Matthew. He actually thinks he can get a prof fired? I guess he never heard of tenure, in addition to the fact that the elite Lib educators stick together.
BTTT
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