There is No Greater Threat to This
Civilization Than Modern Universities
The Resurgent,
by
Peter Heck
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
6/18/2020 4:40:37 PM
When the great American experiment in liberty officially comes to an end, there will be plenty of finger-pointing and blame-assigning taking place. Plenty of Founding Fathers observed that the natural progression of things was for government to grow and liberty to contract. But when we’re wanting to pinpoint what institutions, what things played the biggest part in facilitating the demise of freedom, I am going to predict that a fair reading of history will show that few entities had a bigger hand in destroying our civilization than the American university system.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 6/18/2020 5:01:43 PM (No. 449025)
It is not the fault of the college, but of the student's parents. If they do not know what their child is being taught, and/or they do not care, then they are not fulfilling their responsibilities as parents. If the college is teaching garbage, then pull the student out ; if the parents cannot find out what the student is being taught, pull the kid out !
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 6/18/2020 5:09:26 PM (No. 449036)
It's not just colleges. This Marxists ideology starts in elementary school.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2020 5:14:49 PM (No. 449046)
I'd have to agree. Unless you can extract all the extreme leftist content, and that seems impossible at this point, they are a threat to civilization.
The 'trade schools' in engineering, accounting, building construction, various hard sciences and medicine are still very much needed. The rest has become more harmful than useful, sad to say. I have, many times, valued my Western Civilization courses that were mandatory in college. I learned a great deal about great art, architecture and such things that I would likely not know, and in my travels in Europe, I have really been able to appreciate much of the history, because of that education, which I might well have missed.
Sad that kids don't get that view of the greatness of Western Civilization any more, instead get hate and lies and leftist propaganda.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
leonardo 6/18/2020 5:17:54 PM (No. 449049)
Many Universities and left-biased mainstream media are ENEMIES of America.
The fools in control at these entities today are studies in Leftist-bias, political correctness, and collectivism. They should move to Cuba but they will not ... instead they will transform America into the Cuba-Nirvana that permeates their dysfunctional minds, where individual opinion is condemned unless that opinion is theirs. RIP America.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/18/2020 5:59:45 PM (No. 449077)
No more public funding or grants to universities or colleges unless they demonstrate academic diversity, aka, freedom of thought and expression. For every course on Evolution there must be a course on Creation, etc.
For every "Ethnic Studies" program there must be a "White European Studies" program, etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/18/2020 6:18:00 PM (No. 449095)
And the entire thing funded by interest free loans, non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Otherwise, you could never afford to get brainwashed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/18/2020 6:38:35 PM (No. 449115)
Remove all taxpayer money from colleges and universities. De-fund, dismantle, demolish.
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In the digital age there is no reason at all for brick and mortar bastions of Marxism. Go fully online with local testing sites and the savings in administration costs would be phenomenal. Put the diversity administrators out of work.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fayebeck 6/18/2020 7:06:26 PM (No. 449143)
God Almighty first post and it's the parents fault.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hotcorner 6/18/2020 7:14:05 PM (No. 449151)
I absolutely despise having to pay for them. They add no value.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
D S Craft 6/18/2020 7:36:00 PM (No. 449172)
Bingo! I've been saying for years that the political and cultural issues we currently see in the United States are not because of the media, while they are certainly a player, or government bureaucracy, though they contribute too, or corporate America. No, the issue lies with education, starting with higher education. This is where minds are molded and attitudes are formed. This is where crazy beliefs are born and cultivated. All of these scummy journalists that are so prevalent in todays national media had their opinions shaped in higher education. Going after the media or the deep state won't make any difference; they'll just be replenished by the wave after wave of marching morons exiting our universities each and every year. Higher education MUST be made safe for conservative ideas again and this is going to require federal government intervention (much as it pains me to say that - I hate to see government get involved). The Progressives penetrated higher education and entertainment over 100 years ago and then spread to primary education (you first have to educate the educators), so reversing this will require addressing higher education first.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/18/2020 7:39:34 PM (No. 449178)
No college or school that accepts or lobbies for taxpayer money, unless they have equal political representation in the Supervisors, Board members, Educators and what have you - or at least proportional membership with the community they're in.
You want an all liberal school, pay for it yourselves, swampies. We do.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/18/2020 11:18:48 PM (No. 449318)
I couldn't disagree more. THe greatest threat to the country, nay, the world, is the Democrat party. Its evil will surpass even the ChiComs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DARling 6/19/2020 1:24:13 AM (No. 449338)
Corona virus plus rioting may take a chunk out of enrollments this fall. Tax receipts will be down from the virus, and I'll bet endowments will be down because donors are disgusted by the white-bashing administrators. If there is less money available to hand out scholarships like candy, fewer students will be exposed to leftist nonsense. If donations are targeted towards specific STEM programs, the deserving students will be far too smart and busy to have time for the rantings of leftist agitators.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/19/2020 3:11:22 AM (No. 449397)
1) Tenure should be revoked.
2) Only "Selected" black lives matter.
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I certainly have more respect for the guy that worked on my car today. We are graduating idiots who don't have the sense gawd gave an animal cracker. No common sense whatsoever.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
franq 6/19/2020 8:08:30 AM (No. 449559)
#16, the time is coming when that will have to be cr@cker to get by the internet filters.
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