Posted on 06/23/2020 9:02:10 AM PDT by Twotone
Public money should never be used to support a political agenda. Yet, that’s exactly what’s happening at the University of Idaho, which decided to explicitly provide backing for the most radical elements of the controversial Black Lives Matter program.
A university vice provost emailed students this week to announce the school’s “series of Black Lives Matter events” “where discussions surrounding systems of oppression will occur.” That’s what tipped me off to the fact that the school also created a website containing “ways to get involved and support the Black Lives Matter movement.”
The university’s “resources” page contains more than 100 books, movies, articles, and essays. Works by Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. show up along with the 1619 project, the New York Times Magazine’s notoriously biased and historically dubious reimagination of the U.S. as a country built on racism.
Communist writer-activists Angela Davis and W.E.B. Du Bois are cited often. Several listed authors argue for an end to capitalism, promote slave reparations, feminism, and transgenderism. Robin DiAngelo, a liberal activist professor who argues that all white people are inherently racist, is also featured.
The university website contains a link to contact your state and local officials via the left-leaning group Common Cause (instead of the state’s impartial public engagement portal) and urges visitors to “volunteer your time” and to “donate to organizations that support the mission of Black Lives Matter.”
I can safely report I have never seen a government website as this: so one-sided, so devoid of differing voices and thoughts. If diverse viewpoints were included, one might argue it was a true educational endeavor and a public service. The school’s website is painfully and obviously not intended for learning, but strictly for leftist activism.
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Good. Giving in to their demands means they will escalate. I’m glad this is happening to them, and can hardly wait until the blm crowd demands free college for blacks, no more teaching White subjects like math, engineering, chemistry, physics and accounting. Instead, teach marxism, revolution, making babies 101, fatherless parenthood etc.
Giving public money to any university has long been a method of supporting political agendas. The same is true with K-12. I went to a public university nearly 40 years ago. I saw a clear transition during my six years there from relatively neutral politics to in-your-face leftism. I know leftists started their push back in the 50's and 60's but it took until the 80's for them to take over everything. We should not finance the transformation of America. With that being said, I am a huge proponent of education; so I am not calling for the end of education. Fortunately it is now possible for most people to self-educate. Just about all knowledge for a typical BS/MS degree can be obtained through other means. (Less course work that requires labs and specialized facilities). I am uncertain what can be done for advanced research, but I assume if there is a will there will be a way.
Progressive took over the el/hi school systems and most colleges and taught students just what they need to know to become slaves to most radical ideas.
Time to cut their state budget by whatever amount they give away. Idaho legislature, are you listening?
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DEFUND THE BETRAYING MARXIST SUPPORTERS
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