Posted on 10/06/2001 1:37:49 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
I decided to post this topic because it has come to the attention of many people the injustice that the University System has wreaked havoc upon in regards to the propagandizing of news, events, and public tragedies.
Thus, we must start where a lot of this nonsense is conceived. That's right, the university system. It is in these institutions where many of the biggest anti-American, non-common sense individuals spew their garbage. Furthermore, it is in the University Professors where much of the root of the problem is manifested.
Thus, without further ado, tell me about some of your most liberal/leftist professors, and the ways that they revealed an absence of common sense and logic in their ideological rants.
My freshman year of college (1995), I had a professor known as Dr. Price. She was a boomer of around 48 years old with blonde hair and slightly above average looks. However, this was about the only pretty side she had, for early on in the quarter, I realized that she was liberal to the core. Her exteme ideology was revealed to the class the day she pulled out her "feminist guide to non-sexist language" papers. She passed them out diligently, and then she decided to go over the different words to the class. For example, she started with a spill about why we should be careful about using particular words, and how words have power in what they convey to the individual. She then went on to say the words. For example, she presented the class with the word, "mailman". She says that this represents male rule, and is discriminatory towards women, and thus in fairness, we should say, "letter carrier". She then went on to "landlord". Again, she said that such a word conveyed male dominance, and thus we should use the words, "property owner". There were many words and alternatives that she continued to give, and it was obvious that it was bothering the class. She continued, that is, until one of the girls in the class said, "we don't care". Other followed with similar words. You should have seen Dr. Price, for she was fuming. She was very upset by our lack of liberalism, and then she said, "well, let's just carry on. We're in college now, and we have to make sure that we use appropriate language". Again, voices coming from the class stated, "We don't care". This time she was very upset and she yelled, "Why is it that everytime I present something to you, you guys reject it". Obviously fuming, she stepped out of the class.
Aside from Dr. Price, I had another female professor who was liberal to the core. Her name I can't exactly recall, except that I remember her last name started with an H. She was a sociology professor of mine. Again, this occurred during my freshman year. One day, we were studying racism, prejudice, etc., and Dr. H stated that blacks cannot be racist, for racism can only be directed from a majority group, preferably white males, towards a minority group, namely blacks. The whole class was like, "how can blacks not be racist, when the dictionary does not make any distinction between races and their roles in racism". She stated, "well, I'm telling you the definition that is largely accepted throughout the academic world", or something to that effect. Again, the class pressured her, but it did not help, for she was too far lost into her flawed ideology.
These were two of my most liberal college professors. What about yours?
Oops...I forgot...Environmentalists !!!
The stringy haired troll of a teacher (who lived in Santa Cruz, go figure) looked at us and said "you're late. AND you have Bush signs. tramp.
I also had a professor who put up pictures of George Bush and a Monkey on the overhead at the same time, to illustrate similarities between human emotions and their simian counterparts, but he was cool. I'd take a class taught by him again, in a heartbeat.
I wish I could sponsor this effort, but I don't have the time or the skills needed, and I am out of the US.
But, what I have in mind is a website where people could post the names, address, phone numbers and contact information for every one of these "post-modern" neo-communist feminist "critical studies" a-holes in academia. The list could also include anecdotal or scholarly references to their worst offenses.
Someone might ask, "Wouldn't such a website have a chilling effect on the ability of these individuals to speak their minds?"
My response: "I sure as hell hope so!"
The irony is that I entered college with fairly liberal beliefs. But the all-encompassing atmosphere of PC politics felt forced and illogical. I soon embraced the exact opposite of what my professors were indoctrinating me in. By the time I graduated, I had irreversibly moved to the right. Logic and rational thinking will do that to a person. And I have my college professors to thank for opening my eyes to their own misguided political beliefs.
I went to a large eastern university with campuses in the Far East and Europe to provide educational opportunities to people serving abroad. I had a political science professor who was an American living in England. He had left the U.S. because he thought the country was beyond salvation. He was a screaming leftist, a member of Britain's Race Relations Board and an indefatigable opponent of the Vietnam war. His lectures parroted the left's line of 1969-73. Almost all of his students were serving members of the Armed Forces or very recent veterans. To his credit, he allowed open discourse in his classes, and would often join us at the club after class for a quick drink. He had made an impression on me that I wasn't able to shake for many years. I have seen the light.
It was May, 1970, at the Univ. of Illinois, and right after Kent State.
One of my younger professors in Asian History started the class with the admonition to go out and join the protests. Class dismissed!
Boy was I mad!!
As the class quickly dispersed, I walked up the aisle and told him that his responsibility was to teach the darn class, he was being paid to do so by the taxpapers of the state, and if any students wanted to cut the class, that was their choice, with any consequences.
He looked surprised at this burst of logic, and even seemed to consider it, but nonetheless, it was too late, and we were already among the last in the room.
Subsequently, other, older history profs of mine were challenged by students to cancel classes, and they refused.
Some students left, but most stayed.
The memories of those tumultuous days will always be with me.
I was eating lunch in the student union with a black girl who was in my class when this loser sat down with us and launched into a long story about how he was having trouble with roaches in his apartment, and didn't she agree with tenants' rights?
My friend, who was from a solidly middle class family, looked at him with disgust and said, "My family has NEVER had problems with roaches, and we own our own home."
He scuttled away pretty quickly. Ha!
Not to say I didn't have liberal profs too, but I've done everything possible to purge them from memory.
I had a professor my freshman year who was a daughter of a Canadian diplomat. She told us she grew up in a mansion with servants, etc. Even tho she was Canadian, she taught at an American college and hated America. This bothered me.
At the end of the school year, she had a party for the class. Turns out she was a single mother of a 5 year old boy, a typical five year old who was excited by the crowd.
At some point everyone noticed him with a joint in his mouth, clumsily trying to light a match. My professor finally saw him and got hysterical. She ran over and screamed at him, "I told you not to play with matches!"
This is a true story. And to my mind, when I witnessed this happen, I concluded: people who hate America arent very bright people. Haters of America necessarily are incapable of ordering the importance of things.
Had an anthro. prof who did alot of work with the last S. American tribe to never see white people. She reminisced about how sweet, and simple, yet superior these people were to us, and laughed with pure love of these people as she described how they almost killed her with bows and arrows because they thought she was a ghost.
She went onto call capitalism evil because a charity supplied this Tribe with wood burning ovens, FOR FREE mind you, yet the chairty made the opening to the oven only 1 foot and a 1/2 when this tribe cut their wood in two feet pieces. She said that proved that capitalism was insensitive and evil.
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