How To Confront And Cross Examine Incompetent Marxist Educators

Townhall.com ^ | July 12, 2019 | Mike Adams

[Kaslin]

Each summer, I spend several months at Summit Ministries in Manitou Springs, Colorado. While I am here, I give pro-life lectures as well as lectures on student free speech rights. Many of the students who attend Summit’s two-week worldview conferences ask me questions about how best to deal with difficult teachers and professors. Just this morning, a student asked such a question that was so important it requires a column-length response. First, let me supply a little background information. 

The student in question attends a public high school. Last year, he took a world geography class that was taught by a socialist. In the class, the teacher tried to advance his socialist ideas. In the process, he claimed that a) communist countries founded on Marxist principles are “not that bad,” and that b) students’ unfavorable impression of communist nations is the result of brainwashing by their parents.

That kind of indoctrination is arrogant. It is also disappointing for at least two reasons. First of all, we expect to hear about socialist professors using the college classroom for indoctrination. But it is truly disappointing to hear this happening in a high school setting. Second, it is deeply disappointing to hear of teachers going beyond merely propping up socialism (to the point of defending communist regimes) and actually attacking the students’ parents in the process. These parents are the very people who pay the taxes that allow the teacher to earn a living.

Obviously, a careful response to such arrogance is in order. But not until a couple of guidelines are laid out for students. They follow in reverse order of importance:

1. The first guideline is that students who take on socialist teachers must be mindful of the fact that there is no chance that they will influence the teacher. Their real target is the impressionable student who needs to have a stone planted in his shoe to get him to critically evaluate the teacher’s indoctrination.
2. The second guideline is that under no circumstances should the anti-socialist student make an affirmative argument in favor of capitalism. If he does that, then the teacher will simply respond with a canned answer that he has contemplated previously. A far better approach is to hit the socialist teacher with tough questions, which force the socialist to defend the record of socialism as it has actually been implemented in communist regimes throughout history.

There are many questions that can be used to plant a stone in the shoe of students while undermining the efficacy of the indoctrinator who is posing as an educator. In fact, I have several that I provide for students who are forced to take the classes taught by the committed Marxists in the Department Sociology and Criminology at UNC-Wilmington (where I teach). One such colleague actually teaches students that capitalist nations are more likely to kill their own citizens than communist nations.

One source I have found to be indispensable in confronting communist apologists is The Black Book of Communism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, page 4). The book contains some vital statistics that I’ve used to formulate tough questions that can be used by students tired of in-class indoctrination. I have modified them to match the specific case brought to my attention this morning.

1. Communist China has killed at least 65 million of its own citizens. Would you say that communism was “not that bad” for those 65 million murdered citizens? Before you answer, note that my source is not my parents. My source is an academic book published by Harvard University Press.
2. According to the same source, the Soviet Union killed at least 20 million of its own citizens. Would you say that communism was “not that bad” for those 20 million murdered citizens? 
3. According to the same source, communist North Korea has killed at least two million of its own citizens. Would you say that communism was “not that bad” for those two million murdered citizens? 
4. According to the same source, communist Cambodia has killed at least two million of its own citizens. Would you say that communism was “not that bad” for those two million murdered citizens?
5. Finally, and still according to the same source, Vietnam has killed at least one million of its own citizens. Would you say that communism was “not that bad” for those one million murdered citizens? 

In all likelihood, the student will not get past the first couple of questions before the socialist indoctrinator has an emotional meltdown that rivals Chernobyl. But when he does recover, the student can also hit him with the following thought experiment, which is followed by one last question:

Imagine there are two countries. One country has so many illegal immigrants crossing its borders that it has to build a wall to keep them out. The other country has to build a wall just to keep its own citizens in. Which country would you say is “not that bad?” (Author note to the historically ignorant socialist: This is a blatant attempt to compare America with East Germany, which actually called itself a “democratic” socialist republic).

Students who are tired of socialist professors using the classroom as a political platform should feel free to use any of my questions in class without attribution. If they are subjected to retaliation, they should also feel free to send an email to my official address at UNC-Wilmington. I’ll be glad to intervene on their behalf and defend each student’s right to present fair questions to their unfair and grossly historically ignorant professors.

These professors exhibit what Thomas Sowell refers to as the willingness of many to sacrifice integrity to the truth in order to advance a cause. That lack of integrity was a key factor in the success of communists who imposed their horrors with impunity. And history will repeat itself if we are unwilling to confront Marxist apologists who masquerade as competent educators.

[pilgrim]

Kaslin, Thanks!

That is a keeper sharing with others!

[Track9]

John Dewey. Another socialist from Vermont.

[mewzilla]

Another solution: Home/private/parochial school.

[ETL]

As a college student in the 80s I had of all things an “American Studies” teacher tell us on the very first day of the classes that he thought President Reagan was an “a-hole”. When I confronted him at his cubical in a large shared teachers office space about it, he answered as if annoyed, but trying to mask it, “I knew there would be someone like you in the class”. And I had only simply said to him that I thought it wasn’t fair from him as the teacher to make such a remark before a classroom of young and impressionable people. I was very polite and civil about it. NOT as I am now. If this had happened today I would have for sure put that communist bastard in his place.

This was during the 80s when the commies were really going after Reagan on the Contras vs the communist Sandinistas. Commies like a then-young Barack Hussein Obama at Columbia College, an undergrad portion of Columbia University. Ironically, his comrade, communist revolutionary, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers,at the time, was attending a nearby teachers’ college called Bank Street College. BSC and CC were within a few blocks of each, so it’s quite possible that the knew each other back then. Also nearby was the still communist-infested infamous Riverside Church, AND the Union Theological Seminary where communist-concocted “Black Liberation Theology” was created by communist James Cone. BLT of course is what Obama sat listening to at “reverend” Wright’s so-called church...for 20+ years! The UTS is actually sandwiched between CU and Riverside Church.

PS- It might be a good idea, depending on one’s state-law about it, to bring along an audio recorder of some type. But check first!, as it is illegal in *some* states to record someone without their permission. Not here in New York though. We have a one-party rule here, in which it is ok as long as one party in the conversation (you) is aware that its being audio recorded. Not sure about video recording here. Law could be different on that.

[Getready]

Always not a bad idea to learn how to poke a figurative stick in their eyeball or up their you know what. Figurative....mind you, but with same effect as a real one.
Tell them that you have read about the Red Terror in post revolution Russia and no further discussion is needed.

[Kaslin]

You’re welcome.

[wastoute]

There is one very certain way to remove a dangerous idea from the head of a malignantly stupid person.

[bert]

you omitted the “only”

[mewzilla]

I’ve seen the textbooks our district/state uses.

Those books are the strongest argument for home/private/parochial schooling.

[MarDav]

Back in 1990 or so I began attending Hunter College inNYC in pursuit of a Master’s degree in order to maintain my NYC teaching license. In the first session of a course on communications the professor gave out a text written by Antonio Gramsci, noted Marxist. He then proceeded to inform us (standing there in his neatly ironed guayabera shirt) that class would be ending early as he was to have the honor of presenting Daniel Ortega with some sort of an award at a school-sponsored event). That was the only session of the course I attended, withdrawing from the school shortly after.

Never got a Masters (graduate schools are full of despotic leftists—on a subsequent attempt to obtain a Masters, the small minded feminist tried to run roughshod over me telling me I would have to take some undergrad courses to prove I could handle advanced graduate studies), lost my teaching credentials for NYC (moved on to NJ where a Masters was not required).

[ETL]

Back in 1990 or so I began attending Hunter College inNYC in pursuit of a Master’s degree in order to maintain my NYC teaching license. In the first session of a course on communications the professor gave out a text written by Antonio Gramsci, noted Marxist. He then proceeded to inform us (standing there in his neatly ironed guayabera shirt) that class would be ending early as he was to have the honor of presenting Daniel Ortega with some sort of an award at a school-sponsored event)

Wow! My thing in the mid-80s happened at Hunter College too! Except, as I mentioned earlier, it was an American Studies teacher. However, I suppose it could be the same guy. Can't recall his name right now, but might recognize it if I saw it again.

[junta]

Yes, this man is brilliant.

[Jane Long]

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[LouAvul]

Communist China has killed at least 65 million of its own citizens.

Liberals have no problem with those numbers. That's approximately the number of unborn Americans they've killed so far. They're fine with that.

[ETL]

From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
https://revcom.us/a/063/ayers-en.html
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."

Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama

Note the red communist star on his shirt.

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[Pollard]

3. Don’t use ancient sounding expressions

“”” There are many questions that can be used to plant a stone in the shoe of students “””

Plant a stone in the shoe?

I’ve never heard that in my life

[\/\/ayne]

While explaining about The Communist, Professor Kengor includes some detailed history of the start of American Communism in the 20th Century.

[Pravious]

I had a similar experience with my daughter’s grade school principal. After they’d had an assembly where some black activist whined that there weren’t “enough” black kids in the school, the conversation rolled around to “celebrating” “Black History Month,” and I asked when they were going to celebrate “White History Month.”

Wanna trigger one of these leftists? Ask them THAT question.

[SE Mom]

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