Posted on 07/09/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT by nwrep
I am starting a new monthly series on Freerepublic.com titled "Treason on Campus." This will profile a new US Professor each month, and give a description of the classes they teach, their governing philosophy, examples of anti-Americanism, and any other relevant information I can dig up.
This series is intended to inform and educate readers about the socio-political propaganda carried out on American campuses under the guise of education, and help equip them to counter such destructive influences.
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Amanda Byron, Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution
For the first installment in this series, I have chosen Portland State University (Portland, Ore.) Professor Amanda Byron, a faculty member of the "Conflict Resolution Graduate Program" at PSU.
Among the courses she teaches are the following:
Introduction to Conflict Resolution
Enmification: The Art and Consequence of Enemy Making
Facilitation
Restorative Justice
Of these, the curiously titled course "Enmification" deserves some attention. Here is the course description from her website:
Enmification
The Art and Consequence of Enemy Making
Course Description: This one credit course will explore the United States’ fascination with the making of enemies. We will consider the various influences that contribute to a climate of ready hatred, considering the many political, social and economic motivations, as well as their ramifications.
Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Blazemore G. and Schiff, M. (2001). Restorative Community Justice: Repairing Harm and Transforming Communities. Cincinnati OH: Anderson Publishing.
Keen, Sam (1986). Faces of the Enemy: Reflection of the Hostile Imagination. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
Moyers, Bill (2004). Beyond Hate [Television Broadcast]. Washington, DC: PBS.
Reiber, Robert W. (1991). The Psychology of War and Peace: The Image of the Enemy. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
Zehr, H. (2002). The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Intercourse PA: Good Books.
Ms. Byron describes her personal influences and philosophies in an autobiographical section on her website. Excerpts follow:
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Autobiography
Growing up in atheistic household, I am always amused at how spiritually I define myself, and how diverse the spiritual influences of my childhood truly were. My mother is a secular Jew who came to the United States with her family, refugees from Germany during the Holocaust. My father grew up in the Methodist Church in Texas, but was greatly influenced by his Catholic Mother, and self identified as an athiest. My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings. I have chosen the Sufi path, on which I have been walking for over a dozen years. The initial lure of this path was the ecumenical nature of it, including practices from all of the world's traditions as an acknowledgement of the unity of all religious and spiritual ideals. I married a fellow Sufi, who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church studying Norse Mythology, and who has subsequently become a Muslim. When our son was born a year ago I discovered some of the inescapable bonds to my Judaism, which I am currently exploring.
I have been surprised to find that the story of my mother's life has had the most profound influence on my life, and on who I have become. This is ironic because the story I refer to is not one she tells. As with many refugees, from the Holocaust and from other wars and autrocities, my mother identifies with her successes and accomplishments -- not with the circumstances that victimized her people. I grew up believing that the terms "Jew" and "German" were synonymous (and, ironically in the face of today's cultural climate, that "Christian," "Texan" and "American" were also synonymous). I was taught differently when I was ten years old, babysitting for the Feldmans across the street. Perhaps other Jewish children learn about the Holocaust from their parents, I only know that I did not, which was of great concern to Mrs. Feldman.
I pieced together the story of my mother's adventurous exodus from Germany, and her family's subsequent struggle to learn a new language and culture. The emotions of the story were always downplayed, not wanting to make our history sound desperate or our selves sound like the losers. My grandmother, who was 5 feet tall, told stories of getting into fist fights with SS Soldiers, proving herself to be the victor time and time again. The pictures that were painted always showed my family with chins raised high, too sophisticated and too worldly for the circumstances that they happened upon. And God never found a way into any of these stories.
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As can be expected, Faculty members of the Conflict Resolution Program are activists in their spare time, and promote various leftist radical causes on the campus.
This department also sponsors the annual "War, Peace, and Media Conference", which will be held on July 8-9 this year on the PSU campus. This year's keynote speaker is Medea Benjamin, co-director of the radical anti-war group "Code Pink" . She will also be signing her book "Stop the Next War Now" at this conference.
Good idea and good job.
Thanks,
Eaker
Y'all come check this out.
Isn't that the park down by NASA?
It's ironic that she teaches how the U.S. is bad for its emnification, even as the Prof hosts Chief Code Pinko Medea Benjamin. Creating an enemy is one of the favorite Pinko tactics straight from the playbook of the radical leftist activist Saul Alinsky, who no doubt is a model for the Code Pinkos.
(Senator Clinton's college senior thesis was about Alinsky and the thesis has been kept hidden, no doubt because Hillary drank his Kool-Aide.)
Just in case, you didn't see the last thread on our FReep of Code Pink at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, I cross-reference it below. We had a great FReep of the Pinkos last night at WR, but it will take a few days for me to sort my photos and write up the report.
FReepers vs. Code Pink at Walter Reed July 1 - Join us July 8!
DC Chapter ^ | July 6, 2005 | BillF
Posted on 07/05/2005 10:59:50 PM PDT by BillF
On Friday night, June 24, DC Chapter FReepers and friends had a fabulous fun FReep of Code Pinkos in complete disarray outside a gate of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It was great to have several additional local FReepers join us for the first time in this 12th FReep in the Walter Reed series in just over thirteen weeks. With at least one out-of-town FReeper braving heavy holiday traffic, we had an awesome turnout for a holiday weekend.
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The honor roll of those in attendance: tgslTakoma, Albion Wilde, Jack Deth, Justanobody, daughter of tgsl, Coop, his lurker friend Ken, Jimmy Valentine's brother, trueblackman, kristinn, lurker Joan, and BillF.
Opposed to our twelve patriots, the leftists peaked at eight America-hating traitors for a short period, but most of the time they had four or less. In fact this was their most pathetically disorganized attempt yet. Perhaps their pathetic showing was because they were flummoxed from trying to counter our FReeps. Whether we caused their disorganization by dispiriting them, your attendance this coming Friday can help us. Let's demoralize the leftists and prevent them from demoralizing our brave, war-wounded troops in Walter Reed. [snip]
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Hardly, just a bit more outspoken.
Thanks for the ping.
This left wing POS pseudo professor is just the tip of the iceberg of the anti Americaism in Portland.
My mother is a secular Jew who came to the United States with her family, refugees from Germany during the Holocaust. My father grew up in the Methodist Church in Texas, but was greatly influenced by his Catholic Mother, and self identified as an athiest. My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings.
Not hard to see where the conflict started.
After this country is destroyed by this left wing pos and is taken over by whomever - jihadist - communists or others her ilk will be herded into barbed wire enclosures along with the rest of us.
Keep tearing it down!!
Sadly, no. He's just one of the rare ones whose views got publicized. These kind of people proliferate throughout our education system, from K-12 to college, to graduate school. And we pay for it. If just ONE professor somewhere in this nation in a public college tried to include a conservative agenda in his curriculum that was nothing more than the mirror of the agendas spewed by Churchill and the thousands like him, we'd hear about it non-stop in the media.
The media are our #1 practical enemy, closely followed by the education system. The liberals set out to control the MINDS of the people, beginning with our kids, and to a large degree they've succeeded.
MM
I've got one of those too but I think the theory differs.
A description of the poor students who were duped into taking her excruciating course.
Mennonite colleges have this stuff. It's pacifist nonsense.
What this means is that 10 yrs ago, she met someone who claimed to be tortured and added it to her resume as "ten years experience".. which is a typical libbie twist to make the grandiose delusional self-importance.... more palatable.
Grandmother has been telling some pretty creative lies.
Yeah, that's pretty messed up. Sounds like a line from Dr. Evil.
But it's "empowering" for her to believe that it did.
You are correct sir.
Sad to the bone it is.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting article.
Is this the stamp of someone who can't even get approval from fellow Islamo-leftists?
You're welcome.
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