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I think this could be an enormously valuable project madfly. A forum dedicated to "deconstructing" the rhetoric of transnational progressivism (to reveal the hidden agendas and outright fallacies that lurk at the heart of all such rhetoric) strikes me as being a project well worth undertaking. |
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"Transnational Progressivism Expose". An ongoing research thread with this article for openeners. Like we did last year with the "Environmentalists Organizations Exposed" threads |
You have the interest and the means. Consider identifying relatively unique key words to tag articles posted on F.R, which clearly indicate the pervasive influence of Transnational Progressivism.
Key word examples: ascriptivegroups, proportionalism, multiculturalism, worldcitizen... To categorize a particular article under one or more of the following:
Bureaucratic leftism diminishes the role of the individual
* The group over the individual:
* Victim vs. Oppressor :
* Fairness requires group proportionalism:
* Democracy as power sharing by groups:
* Victims' values rule:
* Out with national narratives and symbols:
Bureaucratic leftism weakens the nation-state:
* Denigration of state sovereignty:
* Citizen of the world:
* Immigrant rights prevail:
...As laymen and analysts alike have observed over the years, the major foundations — particularly Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and MacArthur — have for decades spent millions of dollars promoting "cutting edge" projects on racial, ethnic, and gender issues. According to author and foundation expert Heather Mac Donald, for example, feminist projects received $36 million from Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon, and other large foundations between 1972 and 1992. Similarly, according to a Capital Research Center report by Peter Warren, a policy analyst at the National Association of Scholars, foundations have crowned diversity the "king" of American campuses. For example, the Ford Foundation launched a Campus Diversity Initiative in 1990 that funded programs in about 250 colleges and universities at a cost of approximately $15 million. The Ford initiative promotes what sounds like a Gramscian’s group-rights dream: as Peter Warren puts it, "the establishment of racial, ethnic, and sex-specific programs and academic departments, group preferences in student admissions, group preferences in staff and faculty hiring, sensitivity training for students and staff, and campus-wide convocations to raise consciousness about the need for such programs."
These NGO's and funds all began from the same seed. I see this when I look at the "Timeline For Global Governance" or any site that are funded by the "usual suspects". In opposition, I know there are plenty of conservative, constitutional, liberty minded groups out there (US based) and they may share some common goals in this fight, a move to join forces with a common denominator, would be a great step, however impossible this sounds.
Can it not be prooved that spread of progressivism in our universities has been a long term attack on our sovereignty and not the natural outgrowth of modern intellectual debate among free thinkers?
Americans and freepers who glean more information and send more emails to their officials may be able to temporarily stop bills from passing in congress, but these succsses are not publicized at the college level. Perhaps those of us who are old enough to have received an education before junk science, social studies, gender studies, PC-ness and diversity, etc. replaced the basics, should change our lifestyles and return to school to take on the professors and adminstrators as a vocal, questioning, "paying customer". This might be the best use of those "hours of community service" every American has been asked to volunteer for our country. I don't know. Individualism and isolation seem to be more a curse than a convenience in this age of information with a muzzled press.