Posted on 04/05/2005 4:44:40 PM PDT by AaronBlack
Jrofosho: Your first film is currently being produced and you choose to document what you call political correctness on college campuses across the country. Why did you decide to do a film on this subject? When I first went to college, I was immediately immersed in an environment of suffocating political correctness. After four years of being repeatedly assigned Karl Marx--but never the Federalist Papers- after four years of repeatedly being told that I am an oppressor simply because of my skin color, I realized there was something seriously wrong with higher education. There was a lot less actual education than I expected; much of it seemed to center on trying to convince me of how evil western society is.
Colleges and universities talk a good game about diversity, but it was never diversity in any way that mattered intellectually. Sure, there was plenty of diversity in the various forms of leftism that were taught, but the ideological spectrum barely expanded beyond moderately liberal to extreme left. Anything outside that range was dismissed as "racist," "sexist," "homophobic," etc., "stop words" employed to prevent further discussion of controversial issues.
What amazed me was, there was very little serious coverage of this in the establishment media. Millions of people were spending tens of thousands of dollars a year for an education, and they were being ripped off. To me, that's a huge story, and nobody was covering it in a systematic way. That's what inspired me to work on this film.
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His website is: http://brain-terminal.com
I like ECM a great deal, but I prefer his protesting the protestors videos. His college campus one fell flat, IMHO. It was too long and didn't really pack the punch that it should have.
But he has a great future.
I agree that Protesting the Protestors was better, hopefully, he'll be a "regular" in the 08 election line-up of Talking Heads ;>
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