My Brother was Brainwashed by Communist Professors: A conservative Christian admires Noam Chomsky?

frontpagemag.com/PoliticallyRight.com ^ | January 27, 2003 | Daniel Larson

[Aquinasfan]

a strong desire to read anything by Noam Chomsky

Is he all they have? What's up with the Noam fetish? (My theory is that it's the name)

[PeterPrinciple]

"Stupid political decisions— like voting for Ralph Nader— could be attributed to outside factors, such as immaturity or malnutrition"

Wasn't there an article about a student who caught scurvy while in college?

[cricket]

Big brother needs to invite 'little brother' to dinner with David Horowitz. . .

. . . and encourage him to visit 'frontpagemazazine.com'.

. . .of course, David's 'Radical Son' (and any of his other books would be helpful too) should be required reading for any student heading off to a Liberal Indoctrination Center as well. . .

[metesky]

He earned a bachelors degree in philosophy from a prestigious college

All major cities have hundreds of philosophy majors, most of them driving cabs.

the state program that he works for

Figures. All the cab companies must have been full up.

[aruanan]

But then he went to college and came under the influence of a radical professor who is a former student of the intellectual fraud and unrepentant leftist, Cornel West. This professor became Jack's mentor, inviting him to her house for dinner and even arranging for him to join her...

Which goes to show how important the personal element is. People, especially kids, will believe what you say more readily because of how you are with them than because of how true it's supposed to be. Those who really want to help them grow up will then guide them into critical thinking. Others, like the leftist professor above, will just use their enthusiasm to make acolytes.

[Brett66]

He thinks that this withholding is “stupid” and “unfair.” Conversely, he thinks that there should be more state funding for social services. He obviously hasn’t figured out that part of that money will be coming from his paycheck. Maybe someday he’ll make this connection.

There's still reason to be optimistic, just that realization alone has led to many liberal to conservative converts.

[Jeff Head]

This is happening all over the nation.

I have my oldest daughter (one of our five children), ho is a mother of one and expecting number two, who is also taking some part time classes here at BSU (Boise State University - but perhaps more appropriately named BS -U when you hear what they are teaching) while her husband goes full time there completing a Computer Science degree.

Anyhow, she is finishing some general ed requirements towards a marketing degree and is enrolled in a "social problems" class. She is being taught exactly the same garbage dexcribed in this article ... that abject marxists/leftists are somehow God's gift to mankind, that Fidel Castro is the savior and hero of cuba and welcomed by the vast majority of cubans and only the "capitalist" rich exploiters have fled that country. (Luis, pipe in here)

She is working on an assignment now where the given and the basis of the discussion starts from the perspective that "the liberal media" is a myth and the assignment is to prove that the liberal bias does not exist. They have been given a pamphlet/book and a web site (www.fair.com) to use to prove this thesis, indicating that somehow, because rich people own the media, that they are necessarily pure capitolists and therefore can have no "liberal" bias. My indication is that the bias is "Unamerican" because they embrace the socialist, marxist ideals leading this nation and its economy away from the principles and true free markety principles the nation was founded upon.

This is true whether they seek to bring the American populace economically down by foisting abjectly socialist/marxist programs upon us through useful idots of all sorts (rabid environmentalists, PETA, socialists, marxists, etc), or if they seek to do so by establishing a bastardized world market economy that destroys the self-reliant, independent, soveriegn nature of America's free market ... exporting and exploiting that system for their own global interests. Both efforts are part and parcel of the same program ... to bring down this great Republic IMHO and try and confuse Americans in the process.

Being my daughter, and being raised as she has been, she is determining to prove just the opposite and willing to risk her grade in the process while she proclaims the truth. I am proud of her, but digusted at the wholly blatant efforts (which I have known of for many years because it also extends down into primary and secondary education where we have fought it) to undermine and castagate the principles that made this nation what it is.

I am going to flag my daughter (and many others) to this thread (who is herself a new FReeper) and hope she gets some good dialogue with patriotic/conservative/liberty loving Americans (besides her dad) who know the truth and will give her advise and direction in her efforts. ... Kate, there is likely to be all sorts of good advise coming your way, perhaps sprinkled with some things you may not agree with. That's fine, filter and sift through it all in the thought process to defend and stand up for what you KNOW it right.

SJackson, thanks for posting this ... it is an issue and problem we all need to be aware of. The attempt continues in great force to destroy any vestage of faith, American ideals and foundational principles in our youth ... but those raised properly will ultimately rise above it as the teachings of their youth perculate to the fore as a result of real life experiences which so many of these supposed "great thinkers" and tyrant wannabe's or collaborators are totally devoid of.

JEFF

[Mr. Mulliner]

I had to read a lot of Noam Chomsky when I was in school, but that was all linguistics. His political tripe was never assigned in any classes I had. But his influence on other students and nearly all the faculty was unmistakeable.

[Mr_Magoo]

Jeff,

Just have Kate give her "professor" an autographed copy of your book. The resulting spike in blood pressure will cause a stroke . . .

No more problem "professor".

:-)

[Jeff Head]

LOL!

Maybe he could get through all five volumes and help fund my next book which I will call "The Stand at Klamath Falls - How rural western farmers stood up against entrenched environmentalism and the Federal Government and won.".

Actually, many of these professors profess to be libertarians and believe that current conditions are as bad as Clinton. This one guy even had the audacity to call Clinton a "conservative".

I believe there are many disconcerting and worriesome issues with current conditions. It is a VERY dangerous time. That is why I am writing the Draogn's Fury Series books.

My advise to my daughter has been to just skip over the "labels" of conservative, liberal, etc. and focus wholly on whether the principles being pushed by these various groups support those principles that underly the constitutional republic we have based on faith, morality, self-reliance, independence, soveriegnty and the unalienable rights of the individual. If the principles being espoused do not, then from whatever direction they come they are "Un-American" and destructive to those values and principles that made eour Republic and way of life what it is (or at least what it should be).

Best

[betty boop]

David's 'Radical Son' ... should be required reading for any student heading off to a Liberal Indoctrination Center as well....

Agreed, cricket. It is a great and, at times, deeply moving and poignant book (as for instance, when he writes about his father, an unreconstructed Communist). Horowitz was somehow able to recover from the madness of his radical Yippie years. So it is reassuring to note that the disease of cultural Marxism is something one can recover from. Horowitz certainly did!

[Mudboy Slim]

"RAT Professors Poison Minds of Yutes!!"

"Humans are neither the strongest nor the fastest species, but we are the smartest. Therefore, it makes sense to educate ourselves. Without education, we would probably still have a life span of nine years and would spend our evenings sacrificing each other to the sun god. That’s why education is good. It does, however, have its bad points. For one, a college education costs about as much as a three story Victorian home. What is worse, higher education today usually requires students to sacrifice their brains— not all of their brains, just the part that allows them to use logic. So, today’s college grads have to pay back loans every month until retirement and they also have to forfeit the most important part of their brains— that’s a pretty high price for a college degree."

The RadicalRaightWingWhacko PARENTS who pay their children's tuition can END PROFESSOR TENURE, by aggressively lobbying the UniversityEFFETEELITE who allow this anti-American, PRO-Communism Brainwashing to occur!!

It's up to US to stop allowing our children to be handicapped by IgnorantDOLTLib'ralProfessors' skewed interpretations of reality!!

FReegards...MUD

[RAT Patrol]

Being my daughter, and being raised as she has been, she is determining to prove just the opposite and willing to risk her grade in the process while she proclaims the truth. I am proud of her, but digusted at the wholly blatant efforts (which I have known of for many years because it also extends down into primary and secondary education where we have fought it) to undermine and castagate the principles that made this nation what it is. Go Kate!!!

Thanks for the ping JH. I'm going to have to come back and be more thorough later.

[tallhappy]

From the description of his "before" life, this sounds like a natural transition.

[LS]

There is so much evidence---hard-core, scientific evidence---that the media is overwhelmingly biased to the left that it is preposterous to begin with the "premise" that the media is not. Lichter, Rothman, and Lichter have done two studies showing the media elites voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Dem candidates since 1992; Peter Brown, an editor for the Orlando Sentinel, conducted a LARGE study in which he found the media was overwhelmingly single, unmarried, non-church-attenders, and much more likely to have an "elite" lifestyle; and we have several "content analysis" studies of LEXIS/NEXIS that shows that terms like "hard left," "left-winger," "ultra-left" or "ultra-liberal" NEVER appear in major news stories, but terms like "hard right," "ultra conservative," and so on appear CONSTANTLY.

MERELY the distorted headlines show the bias. Instead of, "Iraq guilty of violating UN Resolutions," it is, "Bush challenged to show Iraq guilty . . ." I could go on and on.

The problems with the media are INSTITUTIONAL and METHODOLOGICAL---the commitment to a relativistic notion that there is no truth, and can BE no truth which means that "every issue has two sides." In other words, "A" says the earth is round," well there MUST be "another side," even if it is demonstrably proven that the "earth is round." Moreover, the notion that just because the Dems say it, we must print it is manifestly biased. Notice that they do not print everything the National Right to Life committee puts out, or the Libertarian Party, or even the Green Party. I am working on a book on this, about half finished. Feel free to contact me for further info.

[Doug Loss]

It sounds like it's time for an "intervention." We need to take some lessons from the cult deprogrammers; that's the level we're at these days.

[harpseal]

Jeff this sort of liberal brainwashing is rampant throughout American Colleges and Universities. The brainwasjed are the cannon fodder of the leftist elite but they think they are the elite. It needs to change but I do not see change happening. The liberals attract the alienated because they say they represent free thought but there is no freedom on the left only liscentiousness and conformity to their ideaology.

[Valin]

He also told me that he often listens to the socialist radio station, National Public Radio (NPR), but he doesn’t think of it as left-wing, he just considers it normal. Moreover, he thinks that conservative programs are just out there bashing anyone who doesn’t agree with their way of thinking. He’s heard the Boston area conservative radio host Jay Severin do this, and he has never listened to Rush Limbaugh, but he has “heard of him.”


Something I'm sure you have noticed over the years is that those on the left really do live in a very small world. They would never be caught dead with a copy of National Review, or listening to "rightwing" talk radio. It's like they think they'll get contaminated and suddenly become a carding member of the KKK or something.
OTOH many on the right have a much more wide-rangeing in their reading.

[LiteKeeper]

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