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The Roots of Campus Madness

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Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppression by the white patriarchy, and that nearly everyone in America is racist and bigoted, including their own professors, most of whom are liberals or progressives devoted to fighting these social ills. Of the 58 Evergreen faculty members who signed a statement “in solidarity with students” calling for disciplinary action against Weinstein for “endangering” the community by granting interviews in the national media, I tallied only seven from the sciences. Most specialize in English, literature, the arts, humanities, cultural studies, women's studies, media studies, and “quotidian imperialisms, intermetropolitan geography [and] detournement.” A course called “Fantastic Resistances” was described as a “training dojo for aspiring ‘social justice warriors’” that focuses on “power asymmetries.”

If you teach students to be warriors against all power asymmetries, don't be surprised when they turn on their professors and administrators. This is what happens when you separate facts from values, empiricism from morality, science from the humanities.

If you raise up a brood of vipers don't be surprised if you get bit.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...campus-postmodernism/?wt.mc=SA_Facebook-Share
 
If you raise up a brood of vipers don't be surprised if you get bit.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...campus-postmodernism/?wt.mc=SA_Facebook-Share

What continues to baffle me is that much of this pap is being spread in tax payer supported colleges and universities.

If this kind of indoctrination and propaganda was part of the curriculum in a private setting, I would be less concerned.

However, when state and perhaps even federal funds are provided, it's a real problem.

That's why I think student loans should only be available for those students seeking STEM related degrees.

If someone wants to be trained to be a liberal fascist, let them dig up the money to pay for it themselves.

Leave the loan pool to students who plan to contribute to society.
 
What continues to baffle me is that much of this pap is being spread in tax payer supported colleges and universities.

If this kind of indoctrination and propaganda was part of the curriculum in a private setting, I would be less concerned.

However, when state and perhaps even federal funds are provided, it's a real problem.

That's why I think student loans should only be available for those students seeking STEM related degrees.

If someone wants to be trained to be a liberal fascist, let them dig up the money to pay for it themselves.

Leave the loan pool to students who plan to contribute to society.

When I was on a college advisory committee, the state paid more for STEM hours than for Humanities Hours,
for that very reason. State School hope the graduates will stay in that state, and pay taxes.
 
When I was on a college advisory committee, the state paid more for STEM hours than for Humanities Hours,
for that very reason. State School hope the graduates will stay in that state, and pay taxes.

When I went to college, protestors of one issue or another we among the fringe groups that wandered around. Nobody paid much attention to them, and the school restricted their activities to specific places on campus where such activity was allowed.

Today, many of these college administrators and professors are encouraging and supporting the indoctrination.

Starve the beast, eliminate student loans for non-STEM related course work. That would suck if a student were seeking a liberal arts degree, but what use is a degree in that area of discipline anyway?

Taxpayers shouldn't be paying to create tomorrows welfare recipients.
 
When I went to college, protestors of one issue or another we among the fringe groups that wandered around. Nobody paid much attention to them, and the school restricted their activities to specific places on campus where such activity was allowed.

Today, many of these college administrators and professors are encouraging and supporting the indoctrination.

Starve the beast, eliminate student loans for non-STEM related course work. That would suck if a student were seeking a liberal arts degree, but what use is a degree in that area of discipline anyway?

Taxpayers shouldn't be paying to create tomorrows welfare recipients.
Unfortunately many of those liberal arts majors, go on to become grade school teachers.
 
Unfortunately many of those liberal arts majors, go on to become grade school teachers.

Which only perpetuates the crime they are committing on the children.

The whole college/university business, along with the student loan scam it has created, is one of the bigger crimes that have been allowed to be inflicted on new generations who don't know any better.

I am massively frustrated by the lack of attention on this serious problem.
 
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