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At a great many colleges and universities across America, traditional academic standards and norms are being replaced by the “progressive” trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion. That serves the interests of the people who are intent on transforming the country so it will fit their vision. That vision doesn’t look kindly on dissent or freedom.
In today’s Martin Center article, Joel Gardner addresses this enormous problem. Gardner, a graduate of the University of Virginia and its law school, has been in Charlottesville for six years, working on a book about his alma mater and how it has changed over the five decades since he was a student.
While most higher ed leaders blithely tell us that things are fine on campus, Gardner disagrees, writing, “The fact is that there is an endemic rot of indoctrination, politicization, and intellectual intimidation that is eviscerating the historical purpose and nature of our institutions of higher learning.”
The root of the problem is that many faculty members use their classrooms for preaching rather than teaching. They preach the left’s social justice agenda as much as possible. In doing so, they undermine free thought and civil debate. They are also turning campuses into places where it’s hard to have fun.
Gardner points to surveys on student attitudes, such as the one conducted by FIRE, finding that 60 percent of students agree that they have suppressed statements about their beliefs out of fear of reprisal.
Moreover, decisions on admission of students and the hiring of faculty and administrators is now dominated by considerations of “diversity” rather than individual excellence. Gardner sarcastically notes, “The one area of university life that this agenda has thus far not intruded is athletics. One does not often hear that college football and basketball teams are anti-Semitic or anti-Asian based on the dearth of those groups on such teams.”
We need to reverse the politicization of our colleges and universities, but Gardner questions whether their leaders will recognize the problem and have the will to do anything about it.
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Are you surprised the Collages today are funded by Communits and therefore is the standard of teaching.
70 Card Carrying Communists in Congress
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.
(DSA: Democratic Socialists of America)
DSA members in congress – 70
Eleven DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee.
John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].
DSA members of 111th Congress.
Co-Chairs
Dis-Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Dis-Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs
Dis-Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Dis-Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Dis-Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Dis-Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Senate Members
Not so Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
House Members,Hon. Neil Dis-Hon Abercrombie (HI-01)
Dis-Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Dis-Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Dis-Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Dis-Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01),
Dis-Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Dis-Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Dis-Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Dis-Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL),
Dis-Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Dis-Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01),
Dis-Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Dis-Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09),
Dis-Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Dis-Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Dis-Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Dis-Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) recently deposed
Dis-Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Dis-Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Dis-Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Dis-Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Dis-Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Dis-Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Dis-Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Dis-Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Dis-Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Dis-Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Dis-Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Dis-Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Dis-Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Dis-Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Dis-Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Dis-Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Dis-Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Dis-Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Dis-Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Dis-Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Dis-Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Dis-Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Dis-Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Dis-Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Dis-Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Dis-Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Dis-Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Dis-Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Dis-Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Dis-Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Dis-Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Dis-Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Dis-Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Dis-Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Dis-Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Dis-Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Dis-Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Dis-Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Dis-Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Dis-Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Dis-Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Dis-Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Dis-Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Dis-Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Dis-Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Dis-Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Dis-Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Dis-Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Dis-Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Dis-Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Dis-Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Dis-Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963
Looks to me like Joe McCarthy was right! The “educators have painted him as a kook for the last 70yrs , i wonder why! DONT BELIEVE YOUR TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS! RESEARCH THINGS YOU EWANT TO KNOW BEFORE GOOGLE ,TWITTER FACEBOOK AND ALL THE REST ELININATE THE TRUTH!!!!