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| 2004-09-25 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 I've had several conversations with my high school son about political and historical events where he'll spout the standard leftist, liberal party line. Just tonight he mentioned how he understood why the Palestinians were so mad, seeing as how their land had been taken from them. When I explained reality to him - as I had earlier when he was taught communism was just an alternative form of government, no worse than our own - he got really angry at the lies and half-truths he's been taught over the years. Later he said "Then why am I in school, anyway?" And: "The world's really nuts isn't it?" I really think he gets it. Maybe he'll have a firm enough foundation to withstand the LLL assault he'll probably get in college. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-09-25 9:45:49 PM |
| #2 ...Carol T. Christ, president of Smith College. Reflecting on her own experience (before Smith, she spent 30 years at the University of California at Berkeley), she says she knows professors who have a broad range of views on the economy, the Middle East, and the war in Iraq. At Berkeley? I dont think so. She must be the type who think Stalin and kimmie-boy-the-baby-killer are conservatives.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-25 1:13:07 PM |
| #1 "If liberals and leftists were excluded from faculties to anything like the degree conservatives are, there would be a national howling going on," says Mr. Horowitz, the son of high-school teachers who lost their jobs during the McCarthy era because of their membership in the Communist Party. Per survey cited in the article: Less than 20% are conservative. 48%+ are lift/liberal. No wonder college kids swing left - they aren't geting the whole story. An enforced ignorance is a powerful wepon in the hands of the state and statists. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-25 12:13:54 PM |