673 university professors sign letter
opposing courses on America's founding, Constitution
Fox News,
by
Anders Hagstrom
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
4/26/2023 11:26:14 AM
Hundreds of professors at the University of North Carolina signed a public letter Tuesday opposing legislation that would require university students to take courses on America's government and founding documents. The 673 UNC Chapel Hill professors revealed the public letter Tuesday, arguing the new courses and another bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives would constitute an infringement on the university's "academic freedom."
The first piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America's founding and history. Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/26/2023 11:31:21 AM (No. 1456728)
This is more evidence of how far our nation's colleges and universities have devolved under ultra-"progressive" "professors." Instead of being institutions of higher learning, where diverse ideas are examined and debated, they have become liberal echo chambers parroting the latest liberal / social justice propaganda without much critical examination.
I don't think that many university degrees these days are worth the paper that they're printed on . . .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 4/26/2023 11:32:57 AM (No. 1456730)
Then there are hundreds of professors at UNC that need to be fired.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/26/2023 11:34:19 AM (No. 1456732)
That’s 673 anti-American Marxist professors.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
slipstik 4/26/2023 11:35:50 AM (No. 1456734)
I live here. If they were to have a referendum, I would vote for EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM to be fired. One of the major reasons we have lost the republic is education, if you want to call it that, run by people like this. These people couldn't work at Mickey's. They're worthless.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/26/2023 11:36:27 AM (No. 1456735)
The less you know and understand the easier it is for the elite to control you and F you over. And that is the plan. They want to shun the greatest government document ever written. How did we end up here and what are we going to do about it?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 4/26/2023 11:38:41 AM (No. 1456740)
This is nothing new.There are always required courses. What they don't like is the bill that does away with tenure.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 4/26/2023 11:41:08 AM (No. 1456742)
On September 18, 1787, on the last day of the Constitutional convention, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin whether the convention had agreed upon a republic or a monarchy and the Good Doctor was alleged to have replied, "A republic, if you can keep it.” Welcome to the new era of American monarchy, Biden style.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slipstik 4/26/2023 11:44:53 AM (No. 1456745)
I seldom post twice, but it just came to mind. Where do you think Sars2 was created, the base the Chinese used for COVID 19? Well, by golly, right here at UNC, Chapel Hill, that's where. These fools can create a disease but refuse to maintain a republic. Fire every one of them, EVERY - ONE!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/26/2023 11:48:57 AM (No. 1456748)
Call it a "Sociology" credit.
In highschool, in Texas, it was mandatory that every graduate had taken/passed a TEXAS history course.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kono 4/26/2023 11:48:59 AM (No. 1456749)
I tried to absorb the number of "professors" signing on to a petition/letter stating that position. It's mind-boggling there are that many professors even having that position. I still struggle to imagine having that many "professors" in one school, period. That's massive enough to develop its own weather systems and produce artificial realities completely divorced from reason and truth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mofongo 4/26/2023 11:49:00 AM (No. 1456750)
Who do they think they work for?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MaMe2 4/26/2023 11:50:47 AM (No. 1456752)
Read you own history books, people. When my sons were in college, I told them to figure out the professor's agenda, write papers so they think you are aligned with them... Once I had a discussion with an Economics professor who was a socialist. They know everything. Just as them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 4/26/2023 11:53:10 AM (No. 1456755)
If they don't teach what our U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence are
then they cannot peddle Academic Freedom position. And #6 is right,
it's the losing tenure part that scares them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
greyseal 4/26/2023 12:06:18 PM (No. 1456765)
Jesse (Helms) was right:
Regarding building a zoo in NC he said: "Why build a zoo when we can just put a fence around Chapel Hill?"
I am ashamed to live anywhere close to that cesspool...
greyseal
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/26/2023 12:24:55 PM (No. 1456792)
"The professors argue the legislation "violates core principles of academic freedom" and "substitutes ideological force-feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty."" Right. Ideological force feeding is clearly a responsibility reserved to the Marxist faculty. /s
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/26/2023 12:25:40 PM (No. 1456793)
How about the students' academic freedom?
Universities think nothing of wasting students' time and money by requiring them to take useless courses like Race & Gender Studies, Womens Studies or any other useless courses they have as make work for GAs to teach.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NHChemist 4/26/2023 12:28:45 PM (No. 1456796)
Just stop taxpayer/state support and see how long they maintain their “academic freedom.”
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/26/2023 12:39:05 PM (No. 1456810)
I'd like to see the letter with the 673 signatures.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ironchefw 4/26/2023 12:40:10 PM (No. 1456812)
That's 673 people begging to be fired.
If not fired, shut the university off from receiving federal funds.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
velirotta 4/26/2023 12:47:42 PM (No. 1456816)
There are more than 4,000 universities in the USA. It shouldn't be too hard to ferret out 673 anti-American dunderheads from that many schools. It reminds me of that old saying, "Those who can do, work. Those who can't do, teach." Publish a list of the 673 and see how many of them end up walking the streets and bumming cigarettes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/26/2023 12:49:11 PM (No. 1456818)
There's poisoning the well and then there are university professors.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/26/2023 12:51:49 PM (No. 1456820)
The "professors" have the right to teach true, actual history, or get the heck out of Dodge. That is the extent of their "academic freedom". If they don't like it, they can go try to find some poor fool willing to hire them to do actual physical, useful work. They would probably have a severe allergic reaction to that.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/26/2023 12:54:06 PM (No. 1456822)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? The same university that worked on the initial gain of function for Covid 19, under the direction of Anthony Fauci, in or around 2013? The same Covid 19 that then, somehow, made it’s way to the US-funded Wuhan lab in China? That same UNC Chapel Hill? Thought so…
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Ruhn 4/26/2023 1:24:09 PM (No. 1456844)
If UNC receives federal and state funding, then they can pound sand. Buh-bye, tenure.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
hershey 4/26/2023 1:25:04 PM (No. 1456845)
Is it any wonder why our children graduate so screwed up?? Close all the colleges and remove federal funding from them. From https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Communism/Communism/45GoalsOf%20Communism.htm
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften t
the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
Look around and see how far 'they' have come...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/26/2023 1:38:25 PM (No. 1456856)
I can assure you these same "professors" use their state provided computers, equipment, cell phones, etc... for political purposes, and on school time.
I would also think that is the case at most colleges and universities, and those records could be found with FOIA requests to show how much they all misuse funds, and coordinate political activities while they are supposed to be working.
Had to take a government class in college as part of graduation in California (not sure it's still required, however as it was over 30 years ago).
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
paral04 4/26/2023 1:48:04 PM (No. 1456866)
If they do that, then certainly black history lessons ar3 off the table as well.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
downnout 4/26/2023 1:54:00 PM (No. 1456878)
I don’t know why anyone would send their children to the University of Nut Cases.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2023 1:58:24 PM (No. 1456888)
From "A Few Good Men", You can't STAND the truth!
Truth to leftists is like kryptonite to Superman, or a cross to a vampire.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
hisself 4/26/2023 1:59:26 PM (No. 1456889)
Fire them all!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
moebellini3 4/26/2023 2:15:53 PM (No. 1456904)
Welcome to North Korea and the professors of communism. These aren't professors they're concentration camp instructors for the communist party. Wake up already.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/26/2023 2:17:30 PM (No. 1456908)
673 professors is about 674 too many.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/26/2023 2:58:39 PM (No. 1456960)
The legislature should defund the University - many of these cliwns would end up being baristas at StarBucks
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/26/2023 3:03:42 PM (No. 1456964)
Awesome...thanks for the list!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
red1066 4/26/2023 3:14:56 PM (No. 1456979)
There should be 673 openings for positions at U of N Carolina.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/26/2023 3:15:06 PM (No. 1456980)
These six hundred seventy-three academics don't belong anywhere in American education--hard manual labor would be more appropriate for them--and should move to a place better suited to their political philosophy: China. Higher education, now indoctrination in most places, has devolved into chaos and ideological rodomontade. Major universities, even ones with enormous endowments, are soon going to be unnecessary institutions teaching socialism and intolerance, draining students and staff, before locking their doors for the last time. They did it to themselves. Leftism destroys whatever it touches.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Penney 4/26/2023 8:12:47 PM (No. 1457156)
Who hired these profs to trash American history?! It is good that their treachery is exposed for all to see.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
danu 4/27/2023 3:02:56 AM (No. 1457284)
sadly, could such scholarship be seen as taking time away from torturing helpless animals for faucenstein?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
broken01 4/27/2023 10:45:39 AM (No. 1457570)
Leftist college professors doing all they can to keep the young thick skulls full of mush hating everything good about the country that they live in. One stupid letter at a time.
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