College profs steeped in post-modernism

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, July 5, 2002 | By Mandi Steele

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, July 5, 2002

Quote of the Day by usconservative

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[mykej]

"what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity"

This pops up all the time right here on FR, at least if you read a thread that has anything to do with slavery. And of course there are many here who claim to love the constitution but still think the PATRIOT act is a good idea. Their thinking seems at least as fuzzy as this, if not worse.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"...professors in the U.S. consistently teach a post-modern philosophy that there are no uniform standards of right and wrong..."

Many are also morons, are rude, and have poor taste in grooming and clothing.

[Twodees]

Your reference to "discussions of slavery" must surely mean discussions of the Confederate States of America. Thanks to the indoctrination by marxist professors no discussion of the CSA is allowed without turning the subject to slavery.

I have never met a single American who favors slavery, but to hear it told by many proffesors and many, many brainwashed college graduates, anyone who refuses to equate the CSA with Nazi Germany is an advocate of slavery.

Maybe that's what you meant. It wasn't quite clear.

[Tuor]

"Unless we shore up those ethical foundations both at home, in school and in college, I think we may be in some real trouble further down the line," Balch said.

This guy is a little late, methinks. We're already in real trouble, it's just not especially obvious yet.

Tuor

Give me liberty or give me death.

[RJCogburn]

"Modernity was born in the West, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it is not inherently tied to the history or customs of any one society. It is a constellation of universal values—the secular culture of reason, science, individualism, progress, democracy, and capitalism—that have spread worldwide in different forms and to varying degrees. By the same token, those who reject modernity, who fear and wish to destroy it, are to be found in every nation and civilization. And invariably they hate the United States as the fullest, most persuasive, and thus most dangerous embodiment of that culture."

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[Fzob]

Many are also morons, are rude, and have poor taste in grooming and clothing.

I've had a few that thought bathing is a weekly event.

[dennisw]

btttttttttttttttt

[dennisw]

"Post-anything" means it's leftist garbage. These days at least. Post also really means "anti" for these leftist welfare bums on the university payroll.

[William Terrell]

A majority of seniors – 73 percent – chose the statement "what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity" as the message college and university professors most often transmit.

Maybe these profs could tell me what culturally diverse civilization condoned murder and theft and survived. The one in which they live seems to be the only one, but I don't think survival can't be judged in the present, only the future.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I've had a few that thought bathing is a weekly event. 8 posted on 7/5/02 5:29 AM Pacific by Fzob

You know the type - uncombed hair, eyes popping out of sockets, goofy look on the face, in the case of females, unshaved armpits...carrying around worn, yellowing,dog-eared, paperback copies of the rantings of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Fanon, Derrida, Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir... Lecturing in pontifical, condescending tone to anyone who will listen...Ranting and raving about "Eurocentrism" or "phallocentrism." All for about $25K a year now, I guess. Scary. Who can we call? The Ghostbusters?

[Thebaddog]

Derrida, Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir

I think that those cats are sitting at a bar somewhere in France laughing about their joke they pulled off on the American weenie perfesers.

[madfly]

ping

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh, I think it's pretty obvious......

[Valin]

The professors pass on their personal philosophy of "anything goes"

Some ideas are so stupid they could only find believers on a university campus.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"their joke they pulled off..."

An intellectual practical joke is always more fun if you can mix in a few obscure French and German jargon terms.

The one that was actually pretty funny was this stunt Brit musician David Bowie was involved in in creating a fake modern artist which fooled a lot of people. Think there was a book or zine article. Can't recall title. Amusing "art" hoax.

There's something really sinister though about taking tens of thousands of dollars from kids and their families and serving up this postmodern Marxist-Freudian, deconstructive, avant-garde smorgasbord. The people involved in this ought to be jailed for fraud, false advertizing, and reckless endangerment of youth. They screw up a lot of people's lives. Not to mention denying them a real education.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Tuesday, 7 April, 1998, 04:28 GMT 05:28 UK

Bowie and Boyd "hoax" art world

"Bowie: Moving Readings about the Artist who Never Was" Some of the biggest names in the art world have reportedly been fooled by a biography of a fake artist created by the author William Boyd and the rock star David Bowie. Last week the glitterati of New York gathered for a launch party of Boyd's biography of the apparently rediscovered American painter Nat Tate.

Bowie, a director of 21 Publishing, the company which produced the book, read extracts to the gathering.

Critics on the other side of the Atlantic were due to attend the British launch of the memoir on Tuesday. Several British papers, including the Sunday Telegraph, have already run extracts from the book.

Excerpts were also published on Bowie's own website.

Fake history

However, the Independent newspaper says Tate and the story of how he befriended painters Picasso and Braque, suffered from depression, burned most of his paintings and then killed himself aged 31, is all fiction.

Some of the paintings pictured in the book were reportedly by Boyd himself. Photos of Tate were from Boyd's own collection of pictures of unidentified people.

The ruse was made more convincing by an endorsement on the book's dust cover from the veteran writer and political commentator Gore Vidal.

In the book he is also quoted as remembering Tate as "essentially dignified, drunk with nothing to say".

John Richardson, the acclaimed biographer of the artist Pablo Picasso, was also in on the scam and is also quoted.

Karen Wright, one of Bowie's co-directors at 21 Publishing said the hoax was not meant to be malicious.

"Part of it was, we were very amused that people kept saying 'Yes, I've heard of him'. There is a willingness not to appear foolish. Critics are too proud for that."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_75000/75207.stm

[Euro-American Scum]

The professors pass on their personal philosophy of "anything goes" to their students, and to fix the problem you have to go back and change the way professors are being educated, he says.

No. To fix the problem you need to abolish the tenure system, fire these ageing 60s student radicals who now chair the university faculties with extreme prejudice and leave them to die alone in the gutter, penniless and without hope, since they cannot function in the real world outside the hallowed halls of academia.

I'd suggest they all be sent to the gallows, but I'm feeling generous today. (FBI types who monitor this site -- chill out, it's a joke.)

[Thebaddog]

There's something really sinister though about taking tens of thousands of dollars from kids and their families and serving up this postmodern Marxist-Freudian, deconstructive, avant-garde smorgasbord.

I'm with you on your sentiments about paying good money to educate your kids with this drivel. I made it through UofM in the seventies with a minimum of soft classes and got a good education. I'm worried about sending my kids into the same system though. There's gotta be a lot of cleaning up to get the weenies out if that's at all possible.