Students Fight Back Introducing NoIndoctrination.org

NRO ^ | 12/2/2002 | Stanley Kurtz

[geedee]

Our conservative college students are fighting back! Where, I wonder, was I and my generation when this liberal propoganda took hold?

[ladylib]

Probably going along with it just like me.

I would like to see something like this done on the high school level. I'm sure there are stories of kids who get brainwashed in their classes and harrassed if they don't go along with it.

[xJones]

That's because NoIndoctrination.org invites students who believe their professors are egregiously biased or intolerant to post complaints against these professors on the Internet.

We must defend the Internet, it's driving the old libs wild.

[Auntie Mame]

http://www.noindoctrination.org needs a better server, it's incredibly slow, even on a cable modem.

But, what a public service!

[homeschool mama]

The public school brainwashing begins with kindergarten. :o/

[Bodacious]

Has anyone had trouble with PETA or Earth First type of brainwashing? My Grandkids use to love anything I cooked, now it's got to be "correct" and non-animal.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

If the people who came here are pushing their ethnic practices and beliefs so hard then why did'nt they simply STAY IN THE COUNTRY FROM WHICH THEY CAME?Simple,they are obviously trying to shove their intolerant ways down our throat and that my friends,IS AN ATTACK ON AMERICA!

[Quix]

My PhD program in San Diego was rife with the stuff in it's beginning stages. But at least then (1974 beginning), they pretended convincingly to provide for all sides to be presented.

In fact, my professor on the Freudian track first flunked me for my term paper titled: FRODO AND DR FRUD. He had included a list of the points we needed to clearly cover with convincing use/explanation. I suggested he read the paper again--that I'd covered the points thoroughly and accurately. He did read it again and gave me an A or A+. At least HE had intellectual honesty.

The intellectual Riff Raff at UCSD gave that up a long time ago. It was fun being the first person to use UCSD's computer to write a dissertation. But I'm glad that's all I had to use there. What a black hole of nihilsm the place was even then. And if not nihilsm--the State-as-God-ism rang even louder.

I don't think such institutions deserve to be called colleges or universities. The accepted range of thought is too narrow. It's a wonder students are allowed to even squeak farts out through such rigid, tense narrow cheekiness.

[ODDITHER]

This type of situation happened to my daughter. As a freshman in College she had to take "Intro to Literature". The course turned out to be taught by a feminist-man-hater-lesbian-foreigner. There was nothing on the list of books to read that even resembled main stream literature. Some was quite pornographic in nature. My daughter called crying because she was supposed to write a paper comparing two short stories and their meanings. When I read them, I was shocked at the content. After further investigation into the course material, I went to see the Dean of the department.

Of course I was instantly regarded as a right-winged-religious nut when I pointed out the inappropriate material. I said, "Don't even go there, it has nothing to do with my personal beliefs." He became defensive and said "well what does it have to do with then". In which I responded, "Truth in advertising". This class was billed as "Intro to Literature", and it should have been billed as "Intro to Feminist writers" or "Intro to anti-male literature". At any rate it has nothing to do with a broad over view of literature as a whole. I then pulled out the reading lists of 10 other Universites for their "Intro to Literature" courses.

He then pulled the liberal mantra that is now used so often . "Professors often teach material based on their life experiences" - In which I responded, "So if a professor was raised in the southern family that were members of the KKK, you would support anti-black literature billed as "Intro to Literature"? I then added that "if that is the case, why did you hire a professor that has such narrow life experiences to teach a broad course, maybe she would be better suited in a feminist studies environment."

He then went into academic freedom etc. I asked if that included grammer and using proper english. He said "Well of course not, this is the English department." I then handed him a copy of her on-line sylibus with 20 corrections to grammer. I added, that at least they could hire English speaking English professors. She had such a thick accent that the students had a hard time understanding her.

In the end, he said he would look into the situation, but he really hesitated to deal with parents concerns. (MY daughter was with me at the time). In his experience it was the parents not the students that had the concerns. THey normally only responded to the concerns of the students. In which I responded, that I was paying the tuition, my daughter was still under age and they better darn well listen to me. I told him that printing the class assignment as a letter to the Editor might be an effective way of getting some light shed - but it would not be printed because of the language in the reading assignment, I said I was taking it to the Higher education board."

As I walked out, I paused and turned back and said - with all of the great literature that they weren't exposed to because of her biases, how can you possibly defend this? Would you have wanted your children to spend time and resources on this filth instead of reading some of the truly great authors? He hung his head.

The next semester, I saw a complete change in the "Intro to literature" course.

[Truth'sBabyGirl]

Here at Bucknell University, my friends and I started the Bucknell Conservatives Club. We boast a successful publication, The Counterweight. You can check it out at www.bucknellconservatives.org. Click on "current CW." Tonight, we proudly welcome David Horowitz to speak in the Gallery Theater in the Langone Center at 7pm ... PA Freepers, come!

[Fish out of Water]

I remember when I was in school a few years ago; Most of the teachers and professors if they expressed political opinions were liberal. I enjoyed challenging them and their ideas, which made me stronger in my convictions that I was right. Those students who just go along to get along will never have any conviction in their beliefs and will be no match in a debate. Instead of running to an anonymous web site to launch complaints about victim-hood, stand up and be counted then we will when the upcoming battles.

[ladylib]

Check out some of the garbage high school students read in their classes at:

http://www.pabbis.com

You won't believe some of it. Not exactly a Great Books curriculum.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ping

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[Redleg Duke]

I don't know about you, but I went to college in the second half of the 60s and most were stoned and on the rug.

[Frapster]

We must defend the Internet, it's driving the old libs wild.

I'm sure the liberal academianuts never envisioned their precious internet being used so effectively by 'conservatives'. Deliciously ironic.

[Redleg Duke]

Last year, my son piped up and told me how afraid he was of guns. I asked him why and he said, "Because the teachers tell me I must be so!"

I had a talk, one on one, with his Principal, who expressed shock. He said he would have a talk with all the teachers.

My son is no longer "afraid" of guns, but has a healthy respect of them and the responsibilities associated with them.

[Aquinasfan]

Excellent idea. This reminds me of my friend's professor at UMass who described himself as a Marxist "operating behind enemy lines."

[Aquinasfan]

I got a "Forbidden" warning when trying to "View Postings." Did you have any luck?

[.45MAN]

The public school brainwashing begins with kindergarten.

This is a true statement but let me add that these are government public schools.. It was Karl Marx that stated that all children should have the right to public schools...