Posted on 11/29/2002 8:32:22 AM PST by 1bigdictator
The Left Hates America By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid November 27, 2002
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The author of the new book, Why the Left Hates America, told the recent Accuracy in media conference that if some alumni knew what was happening on American college campuses, they would never donate another dime to so-called higher education. Dan Flynn, executive director of Accuracy in Academia, has been run off one campus and shouted down at another while trying to bring a pro-American message to students at major universities. Citing surveys showing that college faculty members are overwhelmingly liberal and leftist, he said their Marxist anti-American mentality is being passed on to their students.
Flynn’s book caught the attention of Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly, who had Flynn on the air to help explain the behavior of Hollywood leftists such as Sean Penn. Penn took out a $56,000 advertisement in the October 18 Washington Post attacking President Bush for the war on terrorism and his threat to stage a military strike on Iraq. "I beg you, help save America before yours is a legacy of shame and horror," Penn said.
Dan Flynn told the AIM conference that this kind of attitude is evident on college campuses, where America is viewed as a negative force in the world, even after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3000 people on American soil. Flynn said some academics have whitewashed the role of Islam and claimed the attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy.
In some cases, it gets worse than that. Flynn cited the Brown University student who said the American flag was a symbol of hate and should be used as toilet paper. On the other hand, when students exhibit pro-American feelings and sentiments, they face strong opposition and harassment. At Central Michigan University, the dormitories were scoured for pro-America symbols and they were then ripped down. At Lehigh University, an American flag was ordered removed from a campus bus. At Marquette, a proposal for a moment of silence in honor of the victims of 9/11 was cancelled because it "might alienate foreign students." Flynn said, "If you hate your country, the campuses are indeed a very tolerant place."
They are also tolerant of bizarre alternative lifestyles. Flynn cited the case of Yale, where ROTC is banned but students can take courses such as "The Story of Incest" or "Drag Queens, Transsexuals and Queers." At the University of Massachusetts, an ROTC cadet had graffiti scrawled on her door. Like Yale, Harvard won’t tolerate ROTC on campus. Yet it took $5 million from the family of Osama bin Laden for an Islam studies program and refused to give it back after 9/11.
The anti-Americanism goes further, to an embrace of communist heroes. Flynn cited a campus library named after W.E.B Dubois, who praised Stalin, won the Lenin Peace Price and renounced his American citizeinship; a branch of the City University of New York that awarded scholarships named after Vietnamese Communist Ho Chi Minh; honors and tributes for Soviet spy Alger Hiss at Bard College and Washington College; and four college commencement speeches given by convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal from behind bars.
Reed Irvine can be reached at ri@aim.org
WHERE have these authors been?? Like, this is some kind of revelation???
Hey, where's the ACLU when you need 'em?
A sophomore @ Evergreen State College was so inspired by the hateful enviroment there, that he killed a cop in Red Bluff Ca last week in the name of striking back against the "police state" in this country........
For the record, that gleaming edifice is smack dab in the middle of the UMASS Amherst campus, home to Professor Jenny Traschen, despoiler of the American flag, and all around U.S. basher.
They don't exist on college campuses. You cannot criticize the PC. That is the whole problem. So many hypoctites there.
Just wait until those students graduate and see how much of their first real paycheck goes to taxes.
The leftist poli-sci and sociology professors were intimidating the attractive coeds to have lesbian sex with them to "prove they don't nee a man." I can still vividly remember one beautiful girl crying about this.
The leftist priest who ran the community center was trying to get in bed with the young men who slept over there, telling them he was "lonely."
Yes, it is a scandal and it seems that America takes at least 50 years to catch up with things like this.
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