The evidence of widespread pattern of active discrimination against the admission and grading of conservatives on campus is so overwhelming that one is logically unable to discount a generalized theory of conspiracy on American campuses. How can this be so? Because the underlying philosophy of the left is that our system is so corrupt, so racist, so incapable of reform because of its essential evil nature, that it is illegitimate. Illegitimate, it deserves no respect, and certainly no adherence to a bourgeois sense of fair play. To play fair is to inevitably be the victim of unfair play because the game itself is corrupt.
We see the out workings of this in the history classes which my son in an elite Eastern University is taking in which any effort to view the world since 1400 as at least partly the product of the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, is actually forbidden in favor of a study of slavery, disease borne by white people, racism, colonialism, and every other conceivable approach that can be reduced to the equation people of color = good; white people = bad.
So the question is, given a generalized mindset which infests professional academia, do we have a conspiracy or a virus? The problem with either conclusion is that neither is amenable to reasoned argument because both are systems that shutdown honest inquiry. So we can no more discuss the virtues of the British Empire in the Victorian age than we can discuss the possibility that global warming is an unscientific proposition. The powers that be simply shut the argument down.
I have no doubt, no-to-illegals, that your experience undercover is truly reflective of a general mindset in academia. I experienced the same thing 50 years ago and I can only imagine that the virus (or conspiracy) has spread and deepened. As Kenny Bunk reminds us, if we add racialism to the picture we get a rationale to avoid honest debate because at the mere hint of racism all honest inquiry stops.
Diogenes lamp suggests that our salvation might lie in technology. He clearly has a point. There is simply no rational justification for making 200 young people sit in a room to listen to a professor read notes which are 10 years old as he serves up the same stuff year after year. All of this can be put on the Internet and there are great savings to be had. Technology also works in our favor a different way. We have seen students expose professors with video and audio recording of their leftist rants. The biographies and prejudices of professors are now up for study on the Internet in virtually every University with the result that the students at least to some degree are forewarned about what they are expected to believe and regurgitate. Ultimately, the forces of technology will drive the ivory tower to either reform or collapse like Babel because the present system is financially, intellectually and morally insupportable.
Meanwhile, generation after generation of young minds are figuratively brainwashed while they pay tens of thousands of dollars every year to buy a ticket into the world of commerce, a ticket which is degrading in value year after year. Generation after generation tends to vote as they are brainwashed. A whole new subject thread could be open concerning the tendency of middle, degree bearing, white, suburban Americans to vote, whether consciously or unconsciously, against their race, their class, their economic advantage, their future, their physical safety, and, most unfathomable of all, their own children.
