The University as Madrasah

American Thinker ^ | 27 Sep, 2020 | Rick Fuentes

[MtnClimber]

A progressive and tenured professoriate who luxuriate in a rewarding lifestyle and station have held sway over the student body politic in higher education for generations. Bred of a style of campus Marxism seeded in the sixties and disbelievers of free-market capitalism, they shunned the rigors of the competitive workplace and snuggled up to academia as the best excuse for employment. Their avocation is a latter-day version of critical race theory (CRT), the brainchild of a Harvard law professor and early mentor of Barack Obama that breaks everything down to race, law, and power and views the American DNA as strands of intolerance, greed, and systemic racism. Its most recent variant ascribes social and racial injustices to frame a system so corrupt in its origins that it must all be burned to the ground. It embraces a social studies syllabus that has replaced an even-handed warts and all view of American history with an all warts set of grievance studies.

With increasing audacity, progressive faculty in social sciences and gender studies programs are preaching a groupthink that brings undergrads to a low opinion of themselves and their country. They impugn whole races and genders over privilege and power, promote class warfare as atonement, and give a wink and nod when rioting overtakes propitious moments of social unrest. Allegiance to this thinking requires the abrogation of all opposing views.

[MtnClimber]

The madrassas are playing football again. My university, the Florida Gators, won. But, both teams took a knee so they are both big loosoers to me.

[sauropod]

I am sorry to hear that they took a knee.

Here’s hoping mt alma mater didn’t do the same.

[Combat_Liberalism]

A hard working visible campaign to defund tenured radicals needs to be started in earnest the day after the president is re-elected.

Smash them in the mouth with a dearth of alumnae dollars.