Editorial: UC Berkeley wise to research right-wing movements

MediaNews via CoCoTimes ^ | 3/13/9 | Editor

[SmithL]

AT A TIME WHEN the nation has turned to the left, one of the more liberal universities in the nation will be studying right-wing movements. Although the timing is odd, investigation of the right is a welcome academic pursuit.

Thanks to an anonymous $777,000 donation a Center for the Comparative Study of Right-wing Movements will be established at UC Berkeley. Researchers will analyze right-wing groups in the United States and abroad and compare them.

Larry Rosenthal, a sociologist who will oversee the center, is on target in saying that conservative movements have been overlooked in academia, which tends to be populated by left-leaning professors. University studies generally have focused on liberal movements.

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More research about right-wing groups is long overdue. In many national polls over the past few decades, more Americans consider themselves conservative than liberal, although they may disagree on what it is to be conservative.

We trust that the center will be comprehensive and objective in its study of right-wing movements and will be able to shed light on their diversity of thought as well as the impact they have had on policies in the United States and abroad.

[SmithL]

UC wants to be first-in-line to be a re-education center under this new, Stalinist regime.

[coloradan]

Who knows, pigs could fly and the professors might find some merit to the movements they are studying. Not likely though.

[oh8eleven]

We trust that the center will be comprehensive and objective in its study of right-wing movements
LOL ...

[ken21]

i get it.

compare american conservatism to european fascism,

when the reality is,

american liberal-fascism is equal to european fascism.

[Migraine]

Ooooooh... the RESISTANCE is under surveillance! Well, so are the usurpers and interlopers.

[randog]

Are they going to refit their computer keyboards with a “Hitler” key? It would save them an awful lot of typing time.

[edcoil]

The Nazi’s did this. That were the 777,000 came from?

[o_zarkman44]

Berkley, “Lets develop of list of right wing opposition at all levels of society and submit to mastah Odooma for the great purge.”

[ICE-FLYER]

This has already had a final report. They are simply keeping it under wrapps until the requisite times goes by to then “lay it all out.” And like the National Education Association they will make Focus on the Family equal to Ne-Nazi groups. The Family Research Council will be equaled to the Klan and on and on and on...

[o_zarkman44]

$777,777 sounds like a Soros number.

It should have been 666,666

[wastedyears]

I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all.

[philman_36]

They're vile, racist, homophobic, xenophobes....

What will a liberal college research team conclude about right-wing movements?

[detective]

Why would anyone who is not totally insane donate money to have a Berkeley sociologist oversee “study” of conservative groups? Before they even start it is obvious what the conclusions will be. Other than training a new leftist secret police there is no purpose in this whatsoever.

[Reaganesque]

Hello, Gulag! Many of those who were sent to Soviet gulags were sent there because they were “mentally ill” which of course was a euphemism for someone who disagrees with us. The Left is dangerously close to that line of reasoning.

[Jubal Madison]

“the RESISTANCE is under surveillance!”

Could this be fear on their part? I think the far left does fear conservatism, that logically explains some of their actions.-—JM

[indylindy]

Probably one of those unnamed allocations in the Obama Porkulus bill.

We get to pay for some leftwing nuts to study us.

[Right Wing Assault]

And, of course, when they are finished, they will do the same for left-wing groups. Won’t they?

[Drango]

First thing they should study/investigate, is where their $777,000 funding came from.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, studying the subversiveness of following the Constitution will be the new “in” thing. Count on it.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

" is on target in saying that conservative movements have been overlooked in academia, which tends to be populated by left-leaning professors. University studies generally have focused on liberal movements."

Unfortunately, self-examination is not always objective.
You don't hear many liberals or lefties analyzing the utopian mythology and millenarianism of their ideology. The utopian aspects of socialism, liberalism, and secular humanism.

[Earthdweller]

Good luck with that...and while you are at it, study that lint in your innie.

[Migraine]

That’s right! They should fear... OMEGA!

[Doctor Raoul]

Illegal Domestic Surveillence of American Citizens Is Patriotic now I guess.

[HoosierHawk]

Of course, the left-wing agenda couldn't stand up to any thoughtful analysis.

But let's say they are able to define conservatism. Will some of these researchers please share their findings with the RNC?

[Doctor Raoul]

Soros. Rich and a former Nazi.

[Just mythoughts]

How compassionate, the liberals now want to peer review conservatives into groups. So will they study this by political affiliations, educational level, economic status or religious membership?

[AJ in NYC]

Center for the Comparative Study of Right-wing Movements

Let me guess... a Soros funded group?

[darkangel82]

Arrest them for this criminal waste of tax money.

[tomkat]

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[pogo101]

My reaction too. A UC Berkeley prof of SOCIOLOGY will head this up, and it’s going be objective? Right.

Yet another high-minded liberal condescension “study” — what Michelle Malkin calls the “Conservatives In The Mist” mindset. “Oh, look at the primitive conservatives! They look so much like us (liberals).”

[GOPJ]

We trust that the center will be comprehensive and objective in its study of right-wing movements and will be able to shed light on their diversity of thought as well as the impact they have had on policies in the United States and abroad.

I trust that they'll be just as "objective" as a John Birch Society group investigating "left wing" groups. I'm sure we could bunch together the violent weather underground and somehow paint everyday dems with the same brush. That's what they'll be doing.

[tomkat]

[devistate one four]

I just had a VAST right wing movement..come check it out.

[devistate one four]

I think we should give them something to look at.

[devistate one four]

He!! Yeah

[JSDude1]

So another Southern Poverty Law Center that (may point out a few extremists, but WILL end up slandering everyone else as “righ-wing”, “radical”, “extremist”, never mind the left has been doing this since before the sixties, and especially in the last eigh years with ACORN, etc..

[JSDude1]

UC wants to be first-in-line to be a re-education center under this new, Stalinist regime.

I am not affraid, and will continue with my anti-government rhetoric (and organizing).

[cdbull23]

They should let Professor Gregor run this institution. I took his class and thought he was great -- tenured professor who was VERY conservative (w/no party affiliation).

I took two very interesting classes with him that dealt with a wide array of topics, but specifically Fascism (and connections to Communism / Marxism), issues with China, etc.

James Gregor

[freekitty]

You know what, I do not care what Berkeley has to say unless it is “We surrender, you are right.”

[Professor_Leonide]

Tell us if UC-Berkeley finds any rightwing movements because I’m sick of the Obama worship.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I trust that they'll be just as "objective" as a John Birch Society group investigating "left wing" groups. I'm sure we could bunch together the violent weather underground and somehow paint everyday dems with the same brush. That's what they'll be doing.

As a former member, I have the JBS's four-volume Biographical Dictionary of the Left. It has articles on everyone from Eugene V. Debs and Robert F. Williams to Henry Kissinger and Lyndon Johnson.

[oh8eleven]

Thanks to an anonymous $777,000 donation
All roads lead to Rome ...

[JudgemAll]

What do they mean by “right” wing.

KKK is filled with left voting Mexicans and “former” white liberals

Black gangstas in government continue to trash moderate blacks who do not wear their favorite swastika like tatoos and ways of cursing.

And the list goes on to include gays and other groups (liberal) seeking sacrifice altars for their every problem and satisfaction in getting away with murder, abortion “girls” and pedophiles out there notwithstanding.

[GOPJ]

Trust me - you'll never see some JBS book quoted in the New York Times, ( unless they're mocking it) but you will see this liberal hit piece quoted forever by the liberal suck-up press.

Want to make some bets on how Berkeley's hit piece will be treated?

Group think is alive and well...

[Smogger]

It is funded by an 800K anonymous donation.

[Uncle Hal]

I am sure their research will be fair and balanced. Conservatives are not some kind of animal to be studied like rats. Unbelievable.

[cartan]

Here is an idea for a start: Have a look at the German neo-Nazi party NPD: Sure, they are against immigration, but other than that they agree with the communist party Die Linke on pretty much every single point, including their love for socialism, and their fanatical hatred for America and Israel…

[SES1066]

So now we are getting the academics out looking for members of the VRWC (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy). Gee, I can hardly wait for a clear even-handed look at such well known groups as John Birch, American National Socialists, KKK and other upstanding main street conservatives. /sarc

You get the idea that having this done at Kalifornia Universities does not fill me with confidence.

[TurtleUp]

Soros. Rich and a former Nazi.

Former? I suspect that "current" is a better word.

[PsyOp]

"Center for the Comparative Study Demonization of Right-wing Movements."

fixed.