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2006-09-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

Fjordman : The Failure of Western Universities

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-09-04 10:33|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The money quote:

Western Universities have moved from the Age of Reason to the Age of Deconstruction.

While Chinese, Indian, Korean and other Asian Universities are graduating millions of motivated engineers and scientists every year, Western Universities have been reduced to little hippie factories, teaching about the wickedness of the West and the blessings of barbarism.

Posted by Ulelet Uniting8249 2006-09-04 13:20|| 2006-09-04 13:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Paul Findley, a former US Congressman, said that the cancer of anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic sentiments was spreading in American society and required corrective measures to stamp out. It was announced that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) would be launching a massive $50 million media campaign involving television, radio and newspapers.

Or they could simply stop their co-relgionists from kiling Jews, Christians, Budhists, Hindus, and non-Wahabist Muslims.

Posted by DMFD 2006-09-04 18:02|| 2006-09-04 18:02|| Front Page Top

#3 In 2005, Bin Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp, the parent of Fox News. In December 2005 he boasted to Middle East Online about his ability to change what viewers see on Fox News. Covering the riots in France that fall, Fox ran a banner saying: Muslim riots. Bin Talal was not happy. I picked up the phone and called Murdoch [...] [and told him] these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty, he said. Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.

Posted by 2b 2006-09-04 18:44|| 2006-09-04 18:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "Western Universities have moved from the Age of Reason to the Age of Deconstruction."

You know how the word "Marxism" has over the years transmuted into "liberalism", then "progressivism", without the ideology actually changing?

Well in a similar way, the term "critical thought" has come to displace "deconstructionism", which is now viewed as negative by some threshold number of the population, so its propnenets decided to pretty it up with a name change.

And deconstruction was and is the enemy of reason.

A recent interview with George Soros had the man saying that "reason was not enough" for analysis of the world, that "critical thought" was required.

Think about that. "Reason is not enough".

Millenia of Western progress (the real kind) thrown aside for deconstruction or "critical thought" or whatever euphemism will be dreamt up in the coming years.

Know thine enemy. The Left stopped being part of the true thread of the West a long time ago.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-09-04 18:54|| 2006-09-04 18:54|| Front Page Top

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