Posted on 04/07/2009 5:48:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama's extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much-touted "remaking America" means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt? Are the American people really willing to let the government be our nanny, manage our economy, federalize our schools, and decide which businesses can keep their doors open, what health care will be permitted, who will get new jobs and how extravagant will be the foreign handouts as Obama "rejoins the world community"?
One answer to these questions may be what has been taught over the last 30 years in U.S. colleges and universities, where the radicals of the 1960s have become tenured professors. David Horowitz has made it his life mission for the last two decades to expose the hypocrisy of professors pushing propaganda instead of education.
The latest of his several books on the academic left is called "One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy" (co-authored with Jacob Laksin; Crown Forum). "One-party" does not refer just to the fractious Harry Reid Democratic Party -- full-blown Marxist socialism is the "one party" that is indoctrinating students in the classroom.
Horowitz documented 150 college courses at 12 elite universities, from Columbia in New York to the University of California at Santa Cruz, which he calls "the worst school in America" and whose highest-ranking professors are the communist lesbians Angela Davis and Bettina Aptheker. Other institutions along the way include Duke, Penn State, the University of Colorado and the University of Southern California.
Horowitz quotes directly from the syllabus of each course he critiques, lists assigned readings, and reports on the credentials and background of the instructor paid to teach the course. The most offensive departments are women's studies, black studies and peace studies.
These so-called academic departments teach students to hate America, to believe that women, blacks and all minorities are the victims of oppression and racism, and that America is a land of injustice that needs drastic change in our social structure. The universities teach William Ayers-style "social justice," which is the template for a socialist political agenda.
Women's studies departments teach that gender is not a fact of nature or biologically determined, but is a socially or environmentally determined classification that ascribes qualities of masculinity and femininity to people, a peculiar view accepted by feminists as though it were a principle of Newtonian physics. Women's studies instructors consider it a given that women have been subordinated and discriminated against by an unjust male patriarchy and need government action by legislatures and courts to give women their just due.
At Columbia University, students who hope to be teachers are expected to adopt a radical view of American society and to attack the legitimacy of the social order. The courses dish out a running attack on capitalism and the free-market system.
Even at the University of Miami in Ohio, the women's studies department makes clear that its courses are organized around radical feminist theory. To get a degree in women's studies, the first requirement for the senior thesis is that it "must incorporate feminist perspectives."
If any course syllabus promises to include "critical thinking," that means criticizing men and the patriarchy.
The University of Texas uses required texts that take as their starting point the patriarchal structure of society. Twenty-five points of a student's final grade are determined by a gender journal in which students question norms about sexuality.
Typical readings assigned at the University of Arizona reveal the bias of the courses: "Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism," "Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression and Revolution" and "The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism."
A course at the University of Missouri asserts that U.S. institutions exert social control over women's bodies to promote gendered inequalities, especially the media, the legal system and the medical profession. Missouri courses attack femininity as "a tool of self-oppression," and courses are frankly described as "a training course for radical feminists in radical feminism."
Women's studies courses don't assign readings by any of the great women writers: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson or the Bronte sisters. Also blacklisted are those who criticize feminism, such as Christina Hoff Sommers, Carolyn Graglia, Daphne Patai and Camille Paglia.
The cultural Marxists have been teaching college students long enough to deceive two generations. The abuses of the liberal arts curriculum were set forth 20 years ago by Allan Bloom in "The Closing of the American Mind" and nearly 50 years ago by E. Merrill Root in "Collectivism on the Campus."
When are young people and their parents going to stop paying exorbitant tuition for the privilege of being brainwashed by the left?
The Democrat party and its marxist allies are the true reactionaries.
IMHO
The suburban, SUV, soccer mom, country club, soccer club, tennis club, little league, etc lifestyle they grew up in died on November 4, 2008 and the $4 trillion in deficit spending has sealed the tomb. They are destined to be economic serfs. But, Obama! 'He's sooooo beautiful." He's like us! We LOVE Obama!"
Gag...
Academia is dominated by the left from kindergarten thru graduate school.
So is entertainment.
So is the MSM.
Kinda like an axis of propoganda.
When are they going to stop sending their children to public schools, where the damage begins? When are they going to realize that "free and compulsory education" is a form of welfare, with the usual evil consequences?
My daughter keeps asking her pro-Obama classmates how his administration has helped them, up to this point. Deafening silence ...
She says everyone in the Automotive Technology and Corrections Management classes are right-wingers, though ;-).
The fact that tsips question their sexuality doesn't surprise most of us in the Big 12... ;^)
LOL!
One of my biggest gripes is students who are too afraid to stand up for their beliefs when some Ward Churchill-wannabe goes spouting indoctrination points from his version of Mao's Little Red book. "I'm afraid I'll get a low grade". C'mon, have the courage of your beliefs! I know plenty of people who'd hire you for getting a "D" in "Womyn's Studies 101" or "Comparative Studies- The Superiority of Cuba's Healthcare System 202", especially if they knew you busted the balls of the Marxist Indoctrinator every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 10 AM. Parents need to raise their kids to be courageous enough to stand up to these Apparatchiks and damn the consequences.
To be fair, most Engineering and technical professors are either politically conservative or at least neutral. Also, most students simply go to some of these classes just to get a grade, and the biggest question coming from them is, "Uhhh, will that be on the test?"
60's Radicals have taken over everywhere I guess
Dear Community: In the last few weeks a number of people have asked me about the meaning and goals of socialism. Partly this is a response to charges that President Obama is actively creating socialism in the United States.
Most Americans have little or no knowledge about socialism, communism, and Marxism. These topics are generally forbidden and discouraged in our educational system. Questions abound in the U.S. about these ideologies and alternative economic systems..
For example, is the Peoples' Republic of China communist? Was the Soviet Union really communist? How can Communist China be the fastest growing capitalist economy in the world, until recenct months??
Did you know that at various times over half of Western Europeon voters have voted for socialist candidates and that at least six of these nations are ruled by socialists or social democrats currently? And these six nations have an average standard of living higher than that of the United States?
Did you know that a guiding principle of most socialists is democracy at all levels of society. So why not learn about actual socialism instead of depending on Fox News? This next Fall Term I will offer a course called Introduction to Marxism and Socialism and we will explore all of the above questions and much more.
The course is open to everyone whether you are taking it for credit or not. For forty years I have been a democratic socialist and one of my special academic interests is the development of what is know as "Neomarxism." I am clearly aware of the various strengths and weaknesses of Marxist analysis and the prospects of socialism.
But I truly believe it is time for us to have an intelligent discussion/discourse on the insights available for a more democratic and humane society for the future. Surely it is time to at least rethink the dominant ideologies of our society (laissez faire, neoliberalism, trickle down, etc.). There must be an alternative to predatory corporate capitalism and the awful party dictatorships justified by Stalinism and Maoism.
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A wasted life.
There truly is no hope for the nation, is there?
That's easy;
We allowed our party and ideologies to become separated and dysfunctional right before a key election and lost everything.
I have nothing against this professor spouting Marxist talking points. What I do have a problem with is if you nephew just sits there quietly and is too s-s-scared to refute his talking points.
In my college, my friend who I could best describe had Obama mania, woke up and smelled the coffee :D. When he found out about the Obama Youth Brigades, oh man he admitted he would have voted for Mcain. I just pointed him towards this site, and said, you seemed to know everything about him (and he did know everything he said) but are you ready to see the truth? I pointed him here and I’ll probably point him to Drudge too. There’s hope, the college students are waking up, some won’t completely, but there getting there :D.
He does not.
UMass remains strong in the sciences and engineering. In the humanities and social sciences, it's a foot-long crap grinder.
Is he willing to take a D or F for his beliefs?
He willing to be kicked out of the class for his beliefs.
Also, beware of Non-Stop Party Classrooms.
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