Dr. Deandre Poole, the vice chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party, was teaching a class at Florida Atlantic University and told his students to write Jesus on a piece of paper and then place it on the ground and stomp on it. Notice he didn’t have them write Muhammad on that piece of paper, hmmm….I wonder why?
What he didn’t count on, and neither did the school, was that someone would have the temerity to actually have a problem with stomping on Jesus. That student, Ryan Rotela, complained. What did the school do? They told Ryan not to return to class, not to speak about this incident to other students and that he may face suspension. Then they backed the Democrat teacher:
“Faculty and students at academic institutions pursue knowledge and engage in open discourse. While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate.”
Of course when the incident made national news the University backed down:
“We sincerely apologize for any offense this has caused. Florida Atlantic University respects all religions and welcomes people of all faiths, backgrounds and beliefs.”
Many people wonder how it is that over 60% of the youth in this country voted for a Democrat. This kind of indoctrination is why. It’s going on all over the country and has for many years.
Take this post by Warren Blumenfeld, a just retired professor of education at Iowa State University. He writes about a course he gives:
Each semester I teach the course CI 406, “Multicultural Foundations in Schools and Society,” in the School of Education. I base the course on a number of key concepts and assumptions, including how issues of power, privilege, and domination within the United States center on inequitable social divisions regarding race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sex, gender identity, sexual identity, religion, nationality, linguistic background, physical and mental ability/disability, and age. I address how issues around social identities impact generally on life outcomes, and specifically on educational outcomes. Virtually all students registered for this course, which is mandatory for students registered in the Teacher Education program, are pre-service teachers.
Gee, you think this kind of bunk being mandatory for teaching students will have an effect?
He goes on to lament that a few religious students had the gall to write in their final essays that he and his teachers assistant, both gay, were both going to hell.
It’s heartening that some students were courageous enough to write their actual opinion, whether you agree with them or not, rather than what they knew the professor wanted to hear but this is what he complains about:
“…our campus environment, one that emboldens some students to notify their professor and graduate assistant that their final destination will be the depths of Hell.”
Wait a second…I thought our universities were a place for the “free and open exchange of ideas”?
Unless of course you happen to be religious and are so bold to actually voice those religious beliefs it seems.
Kurt at The Gay Patriot:
While the professor uses the language of “reason,” “analysis,” and “evidence” to find fault with what the students wrote (and while I’m sure there is much to find fault with in their writings), it also seems evident from the way the course is described that the only type of analysis or reasoning that will be deemed acceptable is the sort that derives from leftist premises. The idea of faith is an affront largely because, by its very nature, faith calls for accepting the irrational.
What’s even more interesting to me–and alarming to Blumenfeld–is that he describes the way in which alternative groups have arisen “to promote their version of their faith and to help insulate students from the so-called ‘secular humanist indoctrination’ of public secular universities.” To him this is the worst sort of apostasy which is wreaking the worst sort of havoc on our campuses, but to some of us, it is an encouraging sign that more people are starting to resist the left’s hegemony in academia.
So let me get this straight. The professor is alarmed that some students don’t believe, as he does, in this left wing “multicultural” baloney and that he can’t bring them to his side?
Is this what universities are all about now? Ensuring that all students believe in the same philosophies?
In so many universities, what passes for open academic inquiry is often more like indoctrination. In the name of diversity, multiculturalism and tolerance, academics trash Western civilization and traditional moral values on the perverse rationale that those values are intolerant and thus undeserving of tolerance and favorable treatment.
…Liberals hold themselves out as open-minded, tolerant and supportive of academic inquiry, but many of them are contemptuous of views they reject. If you do not subscribe to the left’s views on politics, social science, religion, affirmative action, sexuality, etc., your views are not only not worthy of protection but deserving of scorn, ridicule and sometimes even punishment and recalibration.
But guess what. These tactics tend to work. No matter how many courageous conservatives fight back against the left’s intolerance and no matter how many black conservatives refuse to toe the liberal line that requires them to think like liberals — lest they cease being authentic blacks — more and more on the right are throwing in the towel instead of standing up for what they believe and facing ridicule and abuse from the left.
Many, for example, are jumping on the bandwagon to support same-sex marriage to receive their pat on the head from our progressive culture. Some have been persuaded, no doubt, but many are just afraid to be branded as bigots or homophobes for taking a principled stand in support of traditional marriage.
Long ago, leftists learned that bullying and persistence work, and they are being rewarded for their efforts by those whose social and political opinions are determined more by a craving for popular approval than by deeply held convictions.
The few kids who do keep those convictions are usually shunned, as Ryan Rotela found out.
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but to some of us, it is an encouraging sign that more people are starting to resist the left’s hegemony in academia.
God, I hope so.
I don’t see the problem.
Merely put “Barack Obama” on the paper. He is the “Chicago Jesus” afterall.
This indoctrination and intimidation was in force during the mid-60s. I heard professors scream at conservatives and act like they were ready to have a coronary if someone voiced a difference of opinion from the Party Line.
I was a backward country kid, who was in way over his head. Oh, how I would like to relive those days with my current life experience and love of confrontation.
I think it was on the Sean Hannity’s radio show many years ago when a caller said he was a student at a college, and one professor had his class write about someone they admired, and that if anyone said anything positive about George Bush, they would get an F.
What bothers me more than this stuff going on, is that the administrations of the schools know it is going on, and even defend it. This is why I believe our schools have been infiltrated, just like we do other countries, to try to turn people away from the conservative way of life.
What gets me with secondary schooling today is the plethora of useless social and humanity classes where they try to justify them with math and complicated jargon. The natural sciences are absolute and are backed with observable laws and mathematics. You get it right and are graded accordingly.
You wonder why males are heading for the trades and tech positions in the job force. I over simplify- too many lawyers and too few engineers. The left wing garbage would disappear over time.
What should bother us all is the fact that only one kid in that class had a problem with Poole’s exercise. How many do you think were in that class? 15? 20? 35? Yet, only one kid had the moral conviction to say “No, you don’t.”
Now, if Poole really wanted to be an equal opportunity blaster, he would have had Christian kids stomp on a paper with “Jesus” written on it, Muslim kids stomp on the word “Mohammed” and Jewish kids stomp on the words of the Torah. Instead, being the Godless creton he is, he chose only Jesus.
He may be a cretin, but I’ll wager a coward as well; for he knows if he asks young Muslims to stomp on the Prophet, he is likely to have a close shave in the near future.
If we let piss ants like this get away with his anti-Christian/anti-American bigotry by trying to be politically correct and understanding, we are participating in the Left’s perversion. Take a stand for yourself, but more importantly for the America we remember.
@Skookum: #7
“Take a stand for yourself, but more importantly for the America we remember.”
Unfortunately, a lot of the younger generation only remember what they grew up with on TV, what they read in the magazines, what they hear on TV and radio, what they see in the movies, and what music they listened to. How many parents are monitoring all of this stuff?
The kids can tell you the names of a lot of entertainers, but I wonder how many of them could name very many of our founding fathers. I doubt that vary many of them could say why the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights were written.
Whenever I hear about kids graduating from high school and can’t get a job because they don’t understand the job application, or apply for college, and find out they have to take extra courses first to be qualified to start college, I ask myself, “Where are the parents?” I understand that a lot of parents didn’t get a good education, but asking their kids what they learned in school would help both the parents get educated, and help the kids remember what they learned that day. It would also help the parents find out what their kids are being taught and what they aren’t being taught.
that the student was not suspended by the class instructor may have some significance. The student went to the instructors supervisor who suspended him for being abusive and threatening.
and wingers are always complaining about the educational system in the USA. Why don’t any of them choose teaching as a career? Curt after your retirement and after you get your pension how about going into teaching as your next job ?
@john: #10
Why don’t they complain to the school their kids go to? As I have mentioned different times: Where are the parents while all of this is going on?
My ex and I were fortunate to have raised our kids in Iowa. Iowa is always one of the highest rated states for schools, and the school our kids went to was rated very high. If a student was getting lower grades, the teacher sent a letter to the parents.
I have said that educating the kids like Iowa does is why they are loosing people. They have a lot of #1 and #2 rated course in the country. Big corporations from other states hire the students away.
@john:
So called “wingers” aren’t exactly welcomed in liberal schools.
And that bullying is the name of their game. It’s how the left controls the debate, or they think they do anyway.
@Mitch: It works well with weaklings, submissive followers, and insecure personalities, but others resent being told the politically correct way to view all things.
The more important question is whether the purpose of university is to stamp out close minded “yes men” for the world wide Leftist movement or to turn out free thinkers who figure out their own political philosophy over time.
The professors when asked will tell you about the value of enriching young minds that can evaluate life in a free spirited method; in reality, their sole purpose is to stamp out free thinkers who can evaluate life from within the Leftist template, and just how intellectually involved do you need to be in order to parrot the Leftist talking points, churned out daily through the propaganda media known as network news.
@Skookum: I do- every chance I get, and it has cost me some “friends” who couldn’t argue their side coherently, and thus just labeled me racist, and a bigot, among other things.
I told them not to blame me if their ’60s liberal hippie agenda was not working out and was a total failure- they just couldn’t believe that king obammma I would do anything to hurt them-after all, hadn’t they always believed?
Thanks Blake, I have fewer friends as well, but if you lose friends over these political discussions, they were only superficial acquaintances.
There are still people who believe Stalin, a far worse homicidal maniac than Hitler, to be a sweet and benevolent dictator. Such people will argue fact with lies and passionate emotionalism. Their contribution to society and life becomes based on a premise of lies, and yet our Left and our educational system won’t correct the lies that permeate our culture; because the end result is far more important than the lies that become the means of perpetuating the myths.
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