Campus Populist

Campus Report ^ | April 11, 2008 | Bethany Stotts

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Campus Populist

by: Bethany Stotts, April 11, 2008

Campus Progress (CP), a program of the Center for American Progress, argues that “30 years of heavily-funded conservative organizing has made its mark” on universities and it’s time to push back. To that end, CP recently promoted a new book highlighting the successes of countercultural “uncorporations” and political activists.

“I come to you as a Democrat, by the way, but I get very disgusted with my party leaders sometimes. You know, like gratifying Bush’s illegal domestic spying program by making it legal. I got an email from a guy saying he hoped that Bush would get caught smoking marijuana because then Congress would legalize marijuana. [laughs] I don’t know,” said Jim Hightower, coauthor of Swim Against the Current. Hightower made several other disparaging references to President Bush and Vice President Cheney during his presentation, comments which were invariably met with peals of laughter by the CAP audience.

Hightower also called Milton Friedman a “guru of corporate excess.” ....

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In Swim Against the Current, Hightower writes that he is encouraged by the new generation of business students determined to “bridge the disconnect between corporate profit and the social deficit.” “So they realize that all is not well and, I don’t know, maybe they all had good mommas. They just have some values and are demanding it now in the schools, demanding that there be—that environmentalism, that ethics, at least those two—and to some degree, even worker rights, human rights be a part of the core mission of the companies that they are interested in working with,” he said at the event.

The reverse insinuation is, of course, that business students who do not follow the progressive model had bad mothers who taught them few-to-no values. In fact, Hightower writes...

[Da Coyote]

They’re going for the journalism, political “science”, “education”, gender studies, and ethnic studies majors - right? Of course the first prerequisite will be a good junior high reading course designed to allow those poor gullible twits to read the advanced concepts to be presented. Heh!

[LiteKeeper]

What world does this person live in?

[johnny33]

Who publishes Hightower's book? An uncorporation? The guy uses a corporation to make his living and then goes and bashes them.

In his book, Hightower refers to corporations as “legal fictions”

A corporation is a clearly defined business structure. Funny how liberals want to rename everything for political reasons.

Hightower blamed illegal immigration on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

So illegal immigration was never a problem before NAFTA? This guy is such a joke.

[VegasCowboy]

They just have some values and are demanding it now in the schools, demanding that there be—that environmentalism, that ethics, at least those two—and to some degree, even worker rights, human rights be a part of the core mission of the companies that they are interested in working with,” he said at the event.

Um, no. They just have no idea how the real world works yet. Ethics are the only one of these qualities you need in business. Worker rights? Environmentalism? What a bunch of nonsense. Codeword Commie stuff, and no one who succeeds in business (and thus creates jobs) does so because of "caring" about the environment.

[ccmay]

You know, like gratifying Bush’s illegal domestic spying program by making it legal.

What is he trying to say here? Gratifying? Maybe he meant justifying. What a dope.

Of course anyone who would screw with the legal foundations of the limited-liability corporation is a kook who shouldn't be in charge of a two-bottle milk route, much less the levers of government power.