Posted on 11/20/2016 2:43:59 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
A humanities course currently taught at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs teaches that the Founding Fathers were hypocrites, terrorists and money-hungry barons who used hyperbole and fear to rile up the colonists to revolt against England.
The “Resistance and Revolution” class is co-taught by history lecturer Jared Benson and sociology instructor Nicholas Lee, who also suggest that it was Mikhail Gorbachev – not Ronald Reagan — who brought down the collapse of the Soviet Union, and that wealthy CEOs deserve to be in a “moral prison,” among many other assertions.
Calling the Founding Fathers “terrorists,” Benson and Lee voice criticism and cynicism against many of the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, teaching students the founding ideals were “merely a fabrication for a social movement” — a means to an end for the colonist elites who were tired of England’s control and needed the gullible masses to help them break free. They argued the Revolutionary War wasn’t really about freedom. The educators suggest that the only people truly affected by taxation were the rich. However, the rich could not wage war on their own and needed the poor to fight for them.
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Founding father/Revolutionary War ping alert!
I guess this idiot professor, who probably learned everything he knows about American History from Howard Zinn, doesn’t know that the “shot heard around the world” which started the revolution was a response to the Brits trying to confiscate the colonists’ firearms.
A lecturer and an instructor. On the fast track for tenure, no doubt?
Founding father/Revolutionary War ping alert!
They should all get lined up, and wait for the opportunity to Kiss My AMERICAN Arse!
Po-mo revisionist horseshyte, and opinion masquerading as fact. Students in this class should demand a refund.
I SAY DEFUND THE UNIVERSITIES, let the fend for themselves
Send them to North Korea.
Remembering it was the left that saw to the closing of America’s mental institutions.
A genuine perversion of history.
Hit these pip-squeaks where it hurts - their wallets
Defund them.
Let the old professor-fart babble away. The students aren't listening anyway. They've already bought their term papers, copped an exam from a T.A. and are thinking of where they're going for their first beer that night.
When the students become human beings, that is, WORK, pay their OWN rent, car insurance, medical insurance and so on, THEN they will remember Professor Traitor...and NOT give to their alumni fund and NOT sent THEIR own children there if said Professor Traitor still happens to be around.
We all USUALLY do grow up.
It's how they got their teaching jobs.
Re : Post #3
*I guess this idiot professor, who probably learned everything he knows about American History from Howard Zinn, doesn’t know that the “shot heard around the world” which started the revolution was a response to the Brits trying to confiscate the colonists’ firearms.*
Good post. This is ANOTHER reason for Trump to be in charge - he must do what he can to rein in Marxist Academia and their influence over our young for the betterment of Our Nation...
What does the professor call Lenin? Stalin? Mao?
Is there nobody there to stand up to these people?
-PJ
Heroes of the revolution!!
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