Learning to love terrorists

U.S. News ^ | 10/8/01 | John Leo

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

America still doesn't understand what has happened to its colleges. A campus culture has arisen around very dangerous ideas. Among them are radical cultural relativism, nonjudgmentalism, and a postmodern conviction that there are no moral norms or truths worth defending–all knowledge and morality are constructions built by the powerful. Add to this the knee-jerk antagonism to the "hegemony" of the West and a reflexive feeling of sympathy for anti-Western resentments, even those expressed in violence. This is a toxic mix, and it is now crucial for those both on and off the campus to start saying so.

Right on the money!

[concerned about politics]

Man kinds greatest sin is the total love and deep concern for SELF.
The Liberals have managed to master it.

[comitatus]

As we search to find some good that may come out of the attack by Islamist terrorists (not a "tragedy"), one ray of hope is that the kinds of reactions on our campuses Leo outlines here will be publicized widely. Perhaps the rest of America will finally learn how thoroughly these utterly despicable creatures have taken over academia and what vile claptrap the are teaching our children.

[Nogbad]

Bring back the draft. And make college students go first.

[joyce11111]

Jean, maybe more articles like this will wake up some of the left leaning people here, and, see what their way of thinking has wrought.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

I doubt it Joyce. The sheeple are still asleep, especially on the left coast. Until these attacks start hitting home emotionally, physcially and financially will the entire nation rally against the enemies foreign and domestic in the necessary fashion.

[World'sGoneInsane]

Yes, and start at Berkeley. We don't really even have to seriously draft them, because they all will be living up with you! Oh okay, I'm sorry, but it works for me.

[Long Cut]

I have become extremely weary of the words;"tragedy" and "events of Sept. 11" myself. It was an ATTACK, a MASS MURDER, a SLAUGHTER and a thousand other things, and to call it a "tragedy" is to (sorry) piss on 7000 graves.

[ladyinred]

These are the future leaders of this nation. It is bad enough to have seen the example of the sixties "college grads" we just endured, this will be a continuation of the Clinton's, The Second Generation.

[TerryInRiverside]

At the mostly blue-collar California State University-Fresno, says Victor Hanson, who teaches there, "Maybe 90 percent of the faculty sympathizes with boutique anti-Americanism, and 90 percent of students are firmly behind the goverment, with the strongest support coming from the Mexican-American kids. The students understand what the faculty doesn't–that fostering humanity means stopping people who kill."

I'm proud of these Mexican-American kids. Maybe it's time to rethink the argument about affirmitive action?

[eniapmot]

Where are the hard-hats?

[eniapmot]

Among them are radical cultural relativism, nonjudgmentalism, and a postmodern conviction that there are no moral norms or truths worth defending–all knowledge and morality are constructions built by the powerful.

Oh...now the mainstream presses feels it can mention this?

[madison46]

Good idea. Those 'kids' will learn as they grow older...problem is, they have a LONGER way to go than I did. We need more US revolutionary history in our schools to instill that pride in our kids.

madison46
ex-DLC member(I learned)

[rebdov]

I am sickened by the calls for healing as if we had some disease. The need for dialogue as if terrorists wish to meet you for tea and scones. I really think that many naive folks believe that the worst is over.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[L`enn]

I believe these jerks, when they saw the events of the last two weeks unfold, saw it as their long-awaited opportunity to get in on the free-love hippiedom of the 60's, that but for the poor timing of their births, were brutally denied the experience of wallowing in. Lets just hope this will be more like the protests of the 80's vs the Contras as opposed to the Vietnam protests, and noone will listen to them except to laugh.

[Squantos]

I sure wish Liver Eating Johnson was still around .....I bet he'd love "terrorist's" . Albeit with a side of onions.

Stay Safe.

[Califreeper]

The "college experience," at least since the mid-sixties, has been one of total leftist, pacifist indoctrination by faculty. My perfectly "normal" group of high school graduating seniors in 1967 was distinguished a few years later by whether or not they attended college, and where they went if they did so. Berkeley and UCLA alumni -- total lefties, every one. Community college grads, not so bad. Of those who did NOT attend college, many males supported the government and Vietnam conflict and a great number of them served there. Females, like me, went to work and became part of the feared and hated "establishment." I'd like to think that HAD I attended college with my peers, I would've been STRONG enough to disregard the gross blatherings of those disgusting "professors."