It’s been many years since I attended a college class, so I wonder if stories like this are the exception, or the rule? Just how far gone is academia?
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It’s been many years since I attended a college class, so I wonder if stories like this are the exception, or the rule? Just how far gone is academia?
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It has not been so many years since I attended college, and while I never saw this particular issue, I saw enough. One Anthropology professor went so far as to defend institutionalized child molestation by Papa New Guinean tribesman on multiculturalist grounds (“It’s their way, and we cannot judge other cultures by our standards.”). And there was a lot of Howard Zinn assigend to my not-then-but-later wife in her Poly Sci courses.
This isn’t new or unusual. What is unusual is that the author, Christofanelli, was able to capture video to support his allegations.
I recall an incident in my undergrad History class – a wrote a short paper on Vietnam that was factually correct, but violated the worldview of the teaching staff. After some discussions with the TA, I was told to “fix” my paper. Apparently, it could not receive a passing grade if it didn’t repeat the silly mouthings the staff made in class.
In the TA’s office, there was a nice little flag of Lenin exhorting the proletariat to work harder, if that’s any clue to where the staff was coming from.
It was a good lesson – in the real world, not everyone wants the truth presented to them, that sometimes the outcome of research is pre-determined.
Sound familiar?
This hardly surprises me at all, but then again, I work in an academic environment and I did graduate work in the humanities. What this story reminds me of the most, though, is the case of an older cousin of mine who earned her degree over many years through taking evening and part-time classes at one of Indiana University’s non-flagship campuses. I remember her telling me about classes she took that sounded appalling–one was a “women in history” class that was all focused around leftist icons such as Emma Goldman. I recall her mentioning some classes about labor studies, too, and I could just imagine what those were like. They were all so transparently political, though, I was amazed that she couldn’t see through them, but apparently she couldn’t or didn’t. In the last election, she and her family were big Obama supporters. Her sister remarked that she didn’t understand why she became such a Democrat; I thought back on what my cousin had told me about just a few of the courses she took, and I wasn’t surprised at all.
I remember a particular “business and computer ethics” class, required for computer science majors, that was visibly propagandist. Sometimes I wonder if I passed because the teacher was terrified of my coming back. Her presentations, like many leftist arguments, sounded really good as long as you didn’t dig beneath the surface.
I have a friend who wanted to be a landscape architect. In the mid 90s, she attended a class at UCI on the subject where the professor required that all students write a letter to their congressman/senator to the effect that global warming was killing the planet and something must be done about it.
When I was in college in the 70s, of course, the old guard humanities professors were being systematically weeded out by the new left brownshirts.
I took a health insurance and risk management class from the business department. We didn’t learn anything about health insurance in a business environment and we never really got into any risk management but we did watch the Rainmaker.
Basically, the class consisted of our teacher bitching about health insurance companies and the death of the American Dream. She didn’t really like the guy in class who claimed that by going back to college in his 30’s that he was living the American Dream. She stopped calling on him when he raised his hand and it didn’t take long before she stopped calling on me too.
Well my engineering schooling and the 1 econ course was fine at a top 50 private engineering school. Other than the black sigma and what ever else Corporate cult mumbo jumbo in a professional development course.
But took some courses at a local Community college and had both sides of the issue. Had a econ teacher that was die hard anti bush and pretty much told us how stupid he was in class, a ethics teacher who made us watch Bowling for Columbine and anti Iraq war while pushing Buddhism. Though also had a sociology teacher who was also a cop. Pretty much said only people to trust is Fox News and Weekly Standard, and brought in footage of the Jeremy Glick and Bill O’riley interview and was extremely hostile to Glick pretty much saying/implying ‘If I pulled him over someone who was as smarmy as Glick I’ll throw the book at him’.
Would say lower level this kind of stuff happens more often. Be it low level state universities /colleges , high schools.