Very, very true. The PC Thought Police are a threat to academic freedom and free thought.
Our colleges and universities are too far gone. Much like our media and most of the politicians in power.
If 75 percent of our institutes of higher learning were to be nuked from orbit- that would be a good start.
Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want to be insulated from life. Rather than fostering a climate of open inquiry, college campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banned words and prohibited scientific inquiry.
Even liberals don’t try to defend Ward Churchill on grounds that he is Galileo pursuing an abstract search for the truth. They simply invoke “free speech,” like a deus ex machina to end all discussion. Like the words “diverse” and “tolerance,” “free speech” means nothing but: “Shut up, we win.” It’s free speech (for liberals), diversity (of liberals) and tolerance (toward liberals).
- Ann Coulter
The clear alternative is those who love God, freedom, and limited government begin taking the reins of education at all levels. This is an Anti-Establishment Movement and Revolution that is just getting started. So Gentlemen, start your engines.
Perhaps one good back door approach is to force the colleges to refund students who do not secure positions related to their (sometimes laughable) field of studies within a year or two of graduation.
We can see how long the clownish “studies” and many English/History/Sociology Departments last.
Culturally, we are doomed.
Brittle Leftists will not accept being questioned - in academia, politics, literature, theater, film, race relations, climate science, or any other field of human endeavor that they are actually capable of participating in. Civilization’s builders will just have to work without them.
No mention of Larry Summers, the Harvard President who was forced to resign because he dared to say that their might be intrinsic differences between men and women.
Without mention of that incident, it is worthless.
But, but... If they keep that ‘academic freedom’ thing going then how will they ever get to their communist utopia?
To communists professors like our current crop the end justifies any and all means. So what if they have to lie and get innocent people killed?
Hopefully it will only be those liberal/Marxist institutions that will die out.
Places like Liberty University, and especially Hillsdale (my alma mater) will grow and prosper in the re awakened freedom of the new era of conservatism.
And apparently the universities told him to go stuff it because they are certainly not places where you are free "to inquire, to study and to evaluate" and have not been for the past 40 years.
College is a commodity just like many other things. If the college is not a value issue, change to a better one. If my kid was majoring in a useless subject, he would have to go it alone.
The only way to save the universities is to put a bunch of PHDs in the soup lines and replace them with non-idiots/non-commies