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‘Higher’ education a threat to America: Even More than COVID, They are the single biggest threat to Western civilization
American Thinker ^ | 03/07/2021 | Eric Utter

Posted on 03/07/2021 10:51:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind

American colleges and universities pose an existential threat to our nation that hosts and so lavishly supports them. In fact, they are the single biggest threat to Western civilization, now over 2,000 years old.

If you are like most people, you probably think the previous two sentences were overly bold, hyperbolic, preposterous. Maybe even crazy. And you would be wrong. The rot emanating from institutions of higher learning in the United States is more dangerous even than the coronavirus. The virus of wokeism eats away its hosts’ mental capacity and renders them ignorant, bitter, hostile, unstable, overly emotional and intellectually impotent. COVID-19 will eventually disappear, but the brain damage inflicted by today’s universities likely will not. Neither mask mandates nor social distancing can protect us from the ravages loosed on us by modern American academia. Lockdowns don’t work, either. All of these may, in fact, be symptoms of the disease they have wrought.

This is unspeakably sad, as these self-same institutions once existed in large part to challenge and enlighten students and introduce them to the great works of Western civilization and the foundational principles of American society and Judeo-Christian ethics. They taught students how best to think, not what to think. Like a free and impartial press, these institutions were once beneficial-- indeed critical-- to the health of a free democratic republic. We have neither now.

Today’s colleges and universities serve only to further the goals of their elitist benefactors by indoctrinating their charges into a ubiquitous and homogenous Marxist mindset, one at loggerheads with the notion of a free, democratic republic based on the rule of law and governed by, of, and for the people.

Today’s colleges and universities give lip service to “tolerance,” fawn over “diversity,” and purport to be open and welcoming to all.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: college; education; highereducation; universities; westerncivilization
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey, here’s a neat idea: When the government schools open up, let’s all send our kids back into these MARXIST indoctrination centers. ANOTHER generation of largely unemployable, city & cultural destroying radicals is just what we need.


21 posted on 03/07/2021 2:45:45 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: knarf
"Stupid" is forever
"Ignorance" can be fixed.
22 posted on 03/07/2021 3:00:29 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Cultural Marxism” is its name. Done on purpose, long history.

https://ammo.com/articles/cultural-marxism-gramsci-how-disciples-of-gramscian-marxism-subverted-america

Realy good article. Long read.


23 posted on 03/07/2021 4:00:29 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: beef

Trade schools or enter the workforce immediately.

Worst case if they insist on going to college, start with community college and then go to a good state college.


24 posted on 03/07/2021 7:20:52 PM PST by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: Altura Ct.
 
 
That is why I don’t understand the big push to ‘reopen schools’.
 
One thought is they need a school shooting or two to ram through their ready gun ban bill. The more schools open the better the chances.
 
 

25 posted on 03/08/2021 6:11:27 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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