Visiting Professor Says East-West Center Was Most Disturbing Experience of her Academic Career

Hawaii Reporter ^ | Friday, November 12th, 2010 | BY POWERLINEBLOG.COM

[LeoWindhorse]

In July 2010 the NEH sponsored a workshop for college professors at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii. The title of the conference was “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War.” As one of the 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, Professor Penelope Blake anticipated an opportunity to visit hallowed sites such as Pearl Harbor, the Arizona Memorial and the Punchbowl Cemetery and engage with scholars who share her interest in studying this often neglected part of World War II history.

Instead, Professor Blake was treated to the most disturbing experience of her academic career, a conference which she found to be driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda. Professor Blake has forwarded to us the following letter dated September 12, 2010, to Illinois Rep. Donald Manzullo, her congressman, documenting examples of what transpired at the conference

[LeoWindhorse]

Local Hawaii Conservative media is now focusing on this story . How this conference slipped by the Conservatives and patriots in Hawaii back in July is still a mystery

[Jonah Hex]

Wow. Just....wow.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yeah, I saw this story posted a couple of weeks back, and the good professor is 100% correct. The current fad in history academe is to vicitimize the poor Japanese and to condemn the U.S. for not fighting fair.

Really stupid revisionist crap!

[BroJoeK]

FYI

Just in case anyone was under the delusion that our side won that war...

;-)

[carcraft]

All I have to do to remember the truth of World War Two is think of the poor Koren women who were , as teenagers, torn form their families and sent to provide sexual service to Japanese soldiers as “comfort girls”. I have read about the rape of Nan-king and that should be required reading for the airheads at this conference. Makes me want to puke!

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

The East-West Center has already been funded by NEH to conduct a similar workshop in the coming summer, plus one for high-school teachers that is likely to be similarly tendentious.

I would like to find out where the NEH plans to hold these two conferences. They are screaming for a "freeping"!

This is exactly the kind of thing the Tea Party is furious about. Conferences like this have their place, unfortunately. We won't argue their right to say whatever disgusting stuff they want. But, it is high time we stop funding the forum where they say it and the classroom where they teach it.

[Rashputin]

This is a perfect example of why our entire University infrastructure needs torn apart and rebuilt right along with completely destroying the democrat party. This is exactly the sort of brainwashing fed students in this country each and every day. Any populace who abandons their own children to systematic brainwashing cannot expect the nation they cherish to long survive such deliberate disinformation. Is it any wonder that when the college age people don’t turn out for elections that the results are far different than when they do?

[LucyT]

Visiting Professor Says East-West Center Was Most Disturbing Experience of her Academic Career

Professor Blake was treated to the most disturbing experience of her academic career, a conference which she found to be driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda.

Local Hawaii Conservative media is now focusing on this story . How this conference slipped by the Conservatives and patriots in Hawaii back in July is still a mystery.

Check out the article.

[gogogodzilla]

I think I'm going to be sick now, after reading what our glorious, educated academicians think.

[thecabal]

have read about the rape of Nan-king and that should be required reading for the airheads at this conference.

I am certain they are well aware of what happened at Nanking. They are not ignorant, they are evil propagandists.

[screaminsunshine]

Our Universities are full of anti-american communists and deed to be purged of the Rodents.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I am disgusted and sickened by the revisionist history and hatred of all things American Military presented at this conference. It is no wonder that Obama hates American Exceptionalism as he does if this is the type of education he received in Hawaii.

Professor Blake is a brave woman. The left will surely put her in their crosshairs. I will be writing to my Congressman and Senators to ask that they support de-funding the NEH for 2011 until all of their conference materials are corrected as Professor Blake outlines.

[Carley]

Peter Jennings was of the same mind.

Attack on Pearl Harbor was America’s fault because we were attempting to destroy Japanese culture.

A neighbor (a former teacher) just remarked at a meeting that it was our fault that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because...our fleet should not have been there in Hawaii.

The so called intelligentsia in this country are subverting our culture while we are NOT paying attention.

[dennisw]

In July 2010 the NEH sponsored a workshop for college professors>>>>>>>

NEH= National Endowment for the Humanities. A Federal agency. Your tax dollars being squandered by disgusting affirmative action leftist bureaucrats being paid outlandish salaries. The Federal bureaucracy is mostly leftists who will only hire their own. Starve the beast.`

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

A neighbor (a former teacher) just remarked at a meeting that it was our fault that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because...our fleet should not have been there in Hawaii.

Never mind the inconvenient fact that the US PAC Fleet was based in Pearl because of naked Japanese imperialism and aggression, which extended back to 1905 and the Russo-Japanese War.

[Carley]

Trust me. Several people jumped all over this genius.

I suspect there are hundreds of thousands of teachers with this mindset spewing this to our children all across America.

I am still livid.

[aruanan]

A neighbor (a former teacher) just remarked at a meeting that it was our fault that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because...our fleet should not have been there in Hawaii.

Just like the reason young black males are attacking students of the University of Chicago is because the University of Chicago should not have been on the South Side. Oh, wait, the U of Chicago was there before the South Side turned into a near total crap hole and it stayed there in spite of the South Side being a near total crap hole and is the only reason the South Side isn't a total crap hole.

[Carley]

I am sure that Ayers and Obama spent the Annenberg Challenge millions on revitalizing and restoring Chicago’s South Side to glory.

[aruanan]

I am sure that Ayers and Obama spent the Annenberg Challenge millions on revitalizing and restoring Chicago’s South Side to glory.

Like that would ever have happened. It was the private U of Chicago that decided back in the 60's (I believe that's when it was according to my first thesis advisor) that it would not move to Wisconsin as had been considered but would, instead, stay where it was and revitalize the area. It gave subsidies to professors to buy housing in the area (and it was REALLY nice housing) and bought up most of the commercial property in Hyde Park. U of Chicago is the largest landlord in Hyde Park. Hyde Park/Kenwood is in the top 25% of safest neighborhoods and is surrounded on three sides by neighborhoods that are in the top 25% of the most dangerous neighborhoods.

[jazzlite]

This has been developing since the 1960s when colleges were turned upside down and inside out by liberal, drug infested professors who successfully used the ignorance of youth to incite riots against our Judeo-Christian values. They gained a foothold and took over. Now it is difficult to find a college or university not controlled by the left and that good old Marxist tool, political correctness. It took 40+ years for the Woodstock, free sex and drugs advocates, to gain enough jobs in academia and government to do their dirty work on the nation. We are now there and the majority are awake and figuring out what to do. It remains to be seen whether the country is salvageable. If it is, some serious investigations will have to take place about the detrimental effect of tenure, for example. The people are going to have to continue to “vote the bums out” and to hit the streets every time further erosion of our freedoms begin to take place. A major problem with colleges is not just with the professors, either. The boards are made up of very rich leftists, too. They bring in lots of endowment money and this is just another “Soros-like” method of gaining the reigns of American power. Can we clean this up considering the complexity and the interwoven nature of evil with good? Time will tell.