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2004-05-13 Home Front: Culture Wars
Being eaten from the inside, I can almost taste the blood!
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Posted by Long Hair Republican 2004-05-13 12:15:42 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 As fast as our cultural elites can lead us. Lets all eat cake.
Posted by Lucky 2004-05-13 12:38:49 AM||   2004-05-13 12:38:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is news? Hell, the very term "politically correct" is a lightly chocolate-coated version of the Marxist "ideologically correct", and has all it's linguistic ancestor's disasterous consequences.
Posted by mojo  2004-05-13 1:04:44 AM||   2004-05-13 1:04:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I met a classical Marxist this morning. She gave me a regular with cream and three sugars.
Posted by tu3031 2004-05-13 9:26:35 AM||   2004-05-13 9:26:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Those CM's sure make good fries, though. mmmm
Posted by Cthulhu Akbar 2004-05-13 9:56:57 AM||   2004-05-13 9:56:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Liberal Arts majors make the best fries
Posted by Frank G  2004-05-13 10:06:42 AM||   2004-05-13 10:06:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess I'm too old, but these comments (#3-#6) are way over my simple head. The article is good though.
Posted by Jake 2004-05-13 10:45:12 AM||   2004-05-13 10:45:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Liberal Arts majors make the best fries

I dunno; Fine Arts majors put more creativity into it.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-05-13 10:47:43 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-05-13 10:47:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 That makes us even, Jake. I understand the comments but the article's way over my head.
Posted by tu3031 2004-05-13 10:52:39 AM||   2004-05-13 10:52:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 We have found common ground. We're both too short.
Posted by Jake 2004-05-13 11:00:15 AM||   2004-05-13 11:00:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I have always refered to the people in the article as PC Totalitarians. This article lays out what most people examining the situation at universities has realized for a long time.
It was a half-century ago that Krushchev, supreme ruler of the USSR proclaimed that the west would make the rope to hang itself with. In that vein, I suggest we stop the nonsense by ending all non-technical state funded university courses. Unless we are dealing with medicine or engineering or maybe certain business oriented courses of study (accounting / computer programming e.g.), we pare back all funding. INCLUDING LAW SCHOOLS! If the PC Totalitarians want to spew their dictatorial garbage, let them do it with private funds, and not taxpayer funds.
Air America, "left-wing talk radio" is dying a proper slow death, so should it be with the modern "Liberal Arts" education.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-13 11:12:08 AM||   2004-05-13 11:12:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 BigEd, isn't that like punting on the war of ideas? If nothing else good comes out of the current WoT, it at least is exposing the hollowness of the politically correct and multi-cultural BS. Within ten years there will be a dramtic shift in the make-up of university faculties and curriculum, only it will not involve the elimination of the liberal arts. It will involve a replacement of the current illiberal arts curriculums with true liberal arts.
Posted by Sam 2004-05-13 12:39:59 PM||   2004-05-13 12:39:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 BigEd - wasn't that Lenin (rope to hang oneself)? I remember Krusty Khrushchev stating "We will bury you" but not the other thaaang.
Posted by Raj  2004-05-13 12:55:53 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com]  2004-05-13 12:55:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Raj - possibly. But whether it was Lenin or lil' Nikita the point is the same.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-13 1:58:33 PM||   2004-05-13 1:58:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "The media fracas over Iraq, the Bush administration's unilateralism, and the 9/11 Commission, have overshadowed the transformation taking place in the ranks of young Americans. A surprisingly large number have embraced President Bush's worldview, often described by foreign policy commentators as "neoconservative," so highlighting its departure from cold, calculating realpolitik.

This shift coincides with a surge in the number of active young conservatives. Membership of the College Republicans has tripled in the past three years, while a study by Harvard's Institute of Politics found that two-thirds of American college students supported the war in Iraq. Liberal college professors bemoan the conservatism of their students, many of whom participated in pro-war patriotic rallies to counter the traditional anti-war protests on most college campuses. All this activity amounts to what The Economist has called a youthquake for President Bush.

In short, for thousands of future conservative leaders, September 11 was a watershed event, this generation's Vietnam. Fortunately, the lessons of Vietnam and September 11 could not be more different. The lessons of September 11 are threefold."

This quote is from an article today in NPR, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/fly200405130856.asp
This is why I think campuses will get more conservative. It is harder the sell the - "all cultures have equal value and worth" and "they're not bad, just different" BS when you see beheadings and children wearing bomb vests on the news.
Posted by Sam 2004-05-13 2:38:23 PM||   2004-05-13 2:38:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 It is harder the sell the - "all cultures have equal value and worth" and "they're not bad, just different" BS when you see beheadings and children wearing bomb vests on the news.

Problem is, the people in charge of the news do their damndest to see to it that we get little to no chance of seeing those kinds of things. Can't have Americans getting pissed at barbarians, ya know. Barbarians getting pissed at Americans though, is perfectly okay.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-13 3:31:31 PM||   2004-05-13 3:31:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Capitalist Pig! I real Marxist would have gone without the cream, sugars, and the coffee.
Posted by ed 2004-05-13 9:51:48 AM||   2004-05-13 9:51:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Sam, I hope you are right, but a local incident involving UCLA's Republican Club makes me pessimistic. The goons in the administration were harassing the club until they were frightened by publicity, largely from a local talk radio host, Al Rantel.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-13 12:54:20 PM||   2004-05-13 12:54:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Face it, we're fighting 2 wars: the WOT and the Culture Wars.
Right now, the Left is making common cause with the IslamoNazis.
I guess they're thinking when they "win," then they'll have to fight between themselves as to whether Marxist Socialism or shar'ia wins the day, although the 2 systems have an awful lot in common.
But pure Marxism won't tolerate any religion except its own, even the Religion of Pieces.
Posted by Jen  2004-05-13 3:35:10 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-05-13 3:35:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Isn't it hard to fit the Liberal Arts Majors into the fryer?
Posted by Sgt.DT  2004-05-13 4:02:29 PM||   2004-05-13 4:02:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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