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College professors encouraging Marxist indoctrination
Posted on 9/15/20 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 9/15/20 at 8:54 pm
I haven’t been in college since the 90’s. Things have changed dramatically if it is my guess. The mandatory classes I had to take such as sociology and political science were useless classes towards a medical degree. It seems that the socialist havens are our universities and we are throwing our young adults to the wolves to be indoctrinated into Marxist ideology. Recently I had a family friend that was taking a political science class and the professor had guest speakers. They were members of the democratic socialist party of America. They were asking students if they wanted to get active in organizations. When they came to my friend she stated yes she would think about getting involved and she mentioned turning point USA. The entire class mocked her and the guest speakers encouraged them to mock her. Is this the norm on college campuses today? Are conservative organizations allowed on campuses in the actual classrooms?
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Posted on 9/15/20 at 9:05 pm to louisianalegend
Some of us work very hard to provide a clear, concise, preferable counterpoint to the far left elements in higher ed.
One of the best things you can do is express the virtues of education to your children in hopes that they pursue careers in higher ed. They won’t ever reach their maximum earning potential by doing it, but there are few areas of society more important and more in need of patriots than college classrooms. I promise, some of us are trying to swing the pendulum back in the right direction. Here’s to hoping that people keep seeing the light and that future generations of level headed conservatives join us
One of the best things you can do is express the virtues of education to your children in hopes that they pursue careers in higher ed. They won’t ever reach their maximum earning potential by doing it, but there are few areas of society more important and more in need of patriots than college classrooms. I promise, some of us are trying to swing the pendulum back in the right direction. Here’s to hoping that people keep seeing the light and that future generations of level headed conservatives join us
This post was edited on 9/15/20 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 9/15/20 at 9:06 pm to louisianalegend
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Marxist indoctrination
Water is wet.
Posted on 9/15/20 at 9:29 pm to funnystuff
I agree with you completely with a need for more conservatives teaching. Are there conservative guest speakers in higher ed?
Posted on 9/15/20 at 9:34 pm to funnystuff
Keep it up. We are in dire need of your support!
Posted on 9/15/20 at 9:48 pm to louisianalegend
Guest speakers certainly lean liberal. Unfortunately. Shapiro is about the most conservative any campus will put up with, and even that usually draws the loonies out of the woodwork. And too often, the administration folds as soon as the demonstrators raise the smallest complaint. They care more about avoiding controversy than facilitating discourse. Sometimes you can get some military brass to filter through the liberal cancelation machine. The Baker Institute (Rice University) seems to do a relatively good job at bringing in folks from all sides to provide leveled, well rounded academic debates.
But the cancellation problem is part of why we need more backbone in academics. FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) keeps a running list of disinvited speakers on college campuses and the list is astounding. They even went after the Dalai Lama on several occasions
But the cancellation problem is part of why we need more backbone in academics. FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) keeps a running list of disinvited speakers on college campuses and the list is astounding. They even went after the Dalai Lama on several occasions
Posted on 9/16/20 at 6:16 am to funnystuff
Where do you teach funny stuff?
Posted on 9/16/20 at 7:07 am to louisianalegend
Honestly, I’d rather not say online. Don’t want a left wing version of some chan autist tracking me down, pulling one offensive post from 3 years in the past, and blasting it to the administration to get me canceled
And yes, that was a forced laugh to mask how depressing it is to know that that is a real possibility in 2020
But I will say that it’s a liberal arts school, so being a conservative leaning individual definitely puts me in the minority of the faculty.
And yes, that was a forced laugh to mask how depressing it is to know that that is a real possibility in 2020
But I will say that it’s a liberal arts school, so being a conservative leaning individual definitely puts me in the minority of the faculty.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 7:31 am to funnystuff
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Don’t want a left wing version of some chan autist tracking me down, pulling one offensive post from 3 years in the past, and blasting it to the administration to get me canceled
The fact that this is a legitimate concern is the best mirror for the erosion of our first amendment rights I've ever seen. And I don't even consider myself a conservative. The left is unhinged.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 7:51 am to funnystuff
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Honestly, I’d rather not say online.
Sadly, this is one of the smartest things anyone in any position of importance can say on an internet forum in 2020.
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And yes, that was a forced laugh to mask how depressing it is to know that that is a real possibility in 2020
Amen and amen.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 7:53 am to louisianalegend
Joe McCarthy was right.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 7:55 am to funnystuff
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Guest speakers certainly lean liberal. Unfortunately. Shapiro is about the most conservative any campus will put up with, and even that usually draws the loonies out of the woodwork. And too often, the administration folds as soon as the demonstrators raise the smallest complaint. They care more about avoiding controversy than facilitating discourse. Sometimes you can get some military brass to filter through the liberal cancelation machine. The Baker Institute (Rice University) seems to do a relatively good job at bringing in folks from all sides to provide leveled, well rounded academic debates.
Hell, anymore Dave Rubin has a hard time getting invited to do a lecture on a university campus.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 9:22 am to IslandBuckeye
Joe McCarthy was a drunken buffoon.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 9:16 pm to TGFN57
I would say the government needed to take the Marxism threat more seriously way back then. It’s hard to imagine parents that believe in God and spend their hard earned dollars on education for their kids get robbed of their children’s souls by taking the chance on sending them to a university. My sons I think I will push to go into a trade and open a business. I worry about my daughter though. The scary thing is I don’t want her to be a political pawn of some activist organization that was introduced by a covert Marxist professor.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 9:41 pm to funnystuff
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One of the best things you can do is express the virtues of education to your children in hopes that they pursue careers in higher ed.
Another thing you could do - strictly for political purposes - is establish a new draconian tax on University endowments. Maybe have a portion of taxes be based on some benchmark for alum student loan payback. This might motivate some colleges to focus on teaching kids marketable skills outside of unpaid gigs burning shite down and stopping traffic.
Universities hold approaching a trillion dollars in endowments. Some are ridiculous - $37 billion at Harvard, $27 billion at Yale, $25 billion at Stanford. And is there any question that these universities (and universities broadly) haven't joined the political wars? So why not bring them into our crosshairs like the Right has been in theirs for about 3 decades?
Posted on 9/17/20 at 10:43 pm to louisianalegend
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College professors encouraging Marxist indoctrination
This is another thing we've been hearing for years. I'm so pissed off at Republican politicians in Texas who didn't give two shites about indoctrination in leftist state universities. We've seen this coming for years. When our politicians could have come up with a plan they dropped the ball. Republicans have ruled the roost here since GW Bush's first term. So now, in the second decade of the 21st century 3/4ths of college kids lean hard left and Beto was almost elected senator.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 10:48 pm to TGFN57
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Joe McCarthy was a drunken buffoon.
who was right dickhead
Since when does anyone in the the party of the Kennedys or nancy pelosi whine about drunken buffoons?
Posted on 9/17/20 at 11:15 pm to louisianalegend
I graduated in 2010 and apparently it’s changed a whole lot since even then. I’d assume the college of engineering leans a little more conservative than other areas though.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 11:51 pm to braindeadboxer
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I graduated in 2010 and apparently it’s changed a whole lot since even then. I’d assume the college of engineering leans a little more conservative than other areas though.
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Posted on 9/18/20 at 12:09 am to louisianalegend
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I haven’t been in college since the 90’s. Things have changed dramatically if it is my guess
Hysterical right wing propagandists have been saying that higher education is Marxist indoctrination since before the 1980s. If you were in college in the 90s, you were in a Marxist indoctrination camp, according to the right wingers at that time.
But you probably don’t recall college as being a Marxist camp. Because it wasn’t.
My daughter is a junior in college. She’s not in a Marxist indoctrination camp either.
This is just another right wing appeal to irrational fear and emotion. It isn’t true. For some bizarre reason it has become a right wing belief that education is bad. Of course uneducated people are easier to manipulate. But it seems this runs deeper. The right wing really wants everyone to hate education.
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