This Is A Great Opportunity To Destroy Academia
Townhall,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
7/9/2020 2:59:48 PM
Never let a good crisis go to waste, which in the current crisis means we must use the fact that our universities have shown themselves to be petri dishes swimming with anti-American ideologies, combined with pre-existing trends, to lance this particular cultural boil.
Let’s be clear: Academia today is a pack of rabid reds, and we need to put it down like Old Yeller. And academia itself has loaded up the 12 gauge.
They will say that we oppose academia because we are stupid Neanderthals, just like Trump is (That’s Lie #2 in my new book!). No. We would be stupid to let this undead institution on.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pegmo 7/9/2020 3:09:56 PM (No. 472552)
Let's do it!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pinger 7/9/2020 3:24:02 PM (No. 472561)
How any loving parent could send their kid to one of the academic indoctrination camps is truly a mystery.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/9/2020 3:34:39 PM (No. 472577)
A hint on how to do it on Steroids...
Each University or other Public Institution runs on Federal (OUR) Money.
IF they do not allow total freedom of speech, no exceptions, CUT THEM OFF 100%!
IF they do not diversify their faculty to be 50/50 Lib/Conservative, CUT THEM OFF 100%!
IF they do not do both, CUT THEM OFF 100% AND cut off 100% of the student loans.
That will get their attention...then if it doesn't I'm sure there some laws they are breaking with the use of their huge endowments.
Bottom line, go straight for the throat, forget about hand slaps!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/9/2020 3:44:45 PM (No. 472588)
Schlichter is one of the best at teeing up an argument but like many of today's conservative writers, his proffered solutions tend to be rather vague. Our government once taught me that it was my duty to kill communists but then lost its verve for such, right on the precipice of victory. Now that we have communists openly trashing our country, and being celebrated by many of our fellow citizens and political leaders, we are not being given any sort of logical roadmap for fighting to preserve our great country. The spontaneous uprising of angry, normal Americans that many have long predicted does not appear in the offing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mauigirl 7/9/2020 4:49:33 PM (No. 472643)
I rarely miss a Schlichter essay.
This was one of his very best.
Thanks OP!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/9/2020 5:17:35 PM (No. 472676)
Never mind destroy, parenthesize "academia" .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NHChemist 7/9/2020 6:41:56 PM (No. 472770)
I stopped giving to my college years ago. I would suggest that making the colleges responsible for loans and removing all deductions for college loan interest. If you get a home equity loan, or refinance, you would have to prove that the additional money borrowed went to home improvements, not cash in your pocket. This would support home ownership, not the spending that contributed to the crash in 2008. Bowdoin College now has the Sexuality, Women and Gender Center (SWAG for short). When I went to Bowdoin, it was all male and women were not allowed in dorm rooms. Education is now secondary to indoctrination.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slsusnr 7/9/2020 8:32:53 PM (No. 472875)
I want a magic wand for my birthday. I'll wave that sucker and make the Department of Education disappear in a nanosecond.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 7/9/2020 9:24:15 PM (No. 472915)
@#3 - Only Congress can cut off funds in the manner you suggest. Trump can sign an EO but the Court's would overrule him. You'd be hard pressed to get 50 congressional GOP members to vote in favor. They want their kids in these universities regardless. Either way, it' a sad situation.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2020 2:18:57 AM (No. 473042)
Sounds like a great idea. I especially like the loans and taxing endowments.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 7/10/2020 7:44:43 AM (No. 473154)
If he's talking to me, he's preaching to the choir.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/10/2020 9:37:50 AM (No. 473310)
I was once working at a University in the North East. I was speaking to the assistant to the Dean of the School of Medicine. She took me into the deans office, pointed to the wall full of diplomas and certifications and stated the following. "The more of those someone has, the dumber they are".
Something that I've learned is that many many people who specialize, i.e medicine, engineering, law etc can be brilliant in their fields but complete morons elsewhere. A person may be able to perform brain surgery and still incapable of turning on a garden hose.
From experience, the overall smartest people that I know, often have no college education. And those that do have a college education, rarely work in the field for which they studied.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/10/2020 10:24:31 AM (No. 473365)
The rules should change to get them off the public teat. If you are not open and fair you get no support. Let them dig deep into their now taxed endowment earnings to support the students they want.
Frankly, universities are a hotbed of incompetence. I know people that work in universities and the stories they tell about "workers" who do almost no work are appalling. They spend their time playing games, online shopping, and doing wellness activities like knitting and Yoga. You could get rid of 8 of these employees and replace them with 1 100% functional worker and not suffer.
Further, many of the students they get in are unqualified. They need remedial math and english classes before they can start college level classes. That's insane. If you can't do college level work, you shouldn't be admitted. If you cannot summon the focus to master the skills, you don't belong in college, which is why so many drop out after we foot the bill for their first failed year or two. Why don't we refuse to finance the first year of education and only help with costs after a successful year. Success begets success.
Maybe we should also evaluate college course content as we do K - 12, i.e. a course in Philosophy 101 should cover "these" topics and students should be required to show mastery of that content with at least a 70% performance level. Colleges that fail to agree to these levels get no funding. This would also give students leverage to go after colleges that don't perform. If their courses don't present the proper levels of education, they could demand refunds. Of course it is up to the student to learn but the colleges also need to teach.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2020 12:30:01 PM (No. 473546)
#13, nice ideas, and I mean that seriously. But when the measurements are done by peers, and the yardsticks are created by the departments....we will have the Gender Studies Department setting up standards, and meeting those standards.
The reality is that the Gender Studies Department, along with a number of other departments need to be bulldozed flat, and all the staff fired, with prejudice. Not re-hireable in any capacity.
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