[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Worst liberal/left wing book that you were forced to read in High School or College?

A short story by William Faulkner. I can't remember (and I can't find) the title. But I remember thinking at the time: They call this LITERATURE? It was the most disgusting thing I had ever read. Even to this day.

[gatechie]

I have to list an entire course. My English teacher for Early American literature was a blatant Feminazi. Every book we read for the course was about a turn of the century woman from upper class circles that committed suicide at the end of the book. The themes were all about how the oppression of women in our culture drives intelligent women, who are persecuted by upper class men, to kill themselves rather than endure the humiliation of the (stupid) male dominated America.

She gave me an "F" on every paper because I chose to take the what's wrong with this picture analysis on every assignment. I had to write every one of them over and regurgitate her liberal worship of women. But she knew my real thoughts from those "F" versions. I threw out the passing papers and saved the failing ones!

[jackbill]

I was fortunate to grow up long before the era of political correctness. Additionally, my college experience was in engineering school, which didn't leave much time for such crap.

As I said, I was fortunate. However, I would have relished arguing with some of the mental cripples on the left at present day universities.

[DaughterofEve]

What memories! I'd forgotten about The Jungle...ughh!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was among my most hated as well.
Also despised what I read of Chaucer but that was in college.

[bert]

"Black Like Me".... the saga of a left ist journalist puke who tinted his exterior to feel the pain.

[manfromlamancha]

Did you know that the democratic underground reviewed this post??? (I lurk their website to see what bats are flying around in their collective empty skull)

[xm177e2]

Barbara Kingsolver "The Bean Trees" High School

The only man in the book portrayed in the positive light is...

An illegal immigrant...
who doesn't speak English...
and might not speak any language at all, because he never says anything, he just follows his wife around like a whipped, subservient, feminist man.

The rest of the book just pushes left-wing values and man-hatred.

It was total crap, total crap, total crap, and even the left-wing guys in my class said it was a man-hating book. The hostility towards males is inescapable.

[537 Votes]

Barbarians at the Gate, in a business 'ethics' class.

The CEO who made RJ Reynolds-Nabisco work was accused of greed for wanting $100 million to organize a leveraged buyout. The parasitical lawyer who outmaneuvered him got $600 million, but was portrayed as the unselfish hero.

[vikingchick]

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. It's been a while, but if memory serves, he does a really nasty hatchet job on small town folk. I'll have to reread it to be sure.

[Lancey Howard]

I was told to shut up by the teacher. I did- to my shame- and got my "A".

You did exactly the right thing.
I continually question my kids about the liberal slop they are being fed in school. We talk about the liberal / socialist propaganda they invariably get from some of their teachers, and I carefully explain the truth about these things. I am happy to report that my kids are now very adept at recognizing crap when they hear it.

However....
A very important part of coaching my kids involves how to deal with these scumbag teachers and their liberal propaganda. I have instructed my kids to smile and agree and to simply puke back on their papers and tests all the liberal garbage the teacher wants to hear. Just get 'A's. Laugh to yourself knowingly, and just get the 'A's....

[SamAdams76]

Get this. When I was in fifth grade, I was assigned Jonathon Livingston Seagull. I don't remember anything about the book except Neil Diamond did an album based on it. Enough said.

[withteeth]

bookmark and back to the top. Great idea for discussion!

(some gary snyder (?) book, Island of Turtles (?) Mostly, the textbooks, though. )

[Mad Dawgg]

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

[Dan from Michigan]

I forgot the exact name of it. It was for a sociology class and was about cultures in media. It was OBSESSED with gayness and was a very long book.

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Anything post modern - Luce Irigeray (sp?) or Jacques Derrida were the worst.

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What do you call a socialist on a college campus?

Professor