CU in the Crosshairs
Excellent article by RMN’s Mike Rosen covering the ongoing battle at University of Colorado.
Richard Rorty is a philosophy professor at the University of Virginia. He's also editor of an unabashedly socialist magazine, Dissent, and a hero of the academic left. Here's his political assessment of academe: "The power base of the Left in America is now in the universities, since the trade unions have largely been killed off. The universities have done a lot of good work by setting up, for example, African-American studies programs, Women's Studies programs, and Gay and Lesbian Studies programs. They have created power bases for these movements."
Hey, Mike, the movements have spread far beyond the university level. The entire re-education system is infested with this kind of thinking. In the 1970’s these programs were a joke but the Left kept after it. In the 1980’s they combined with PC language police to stifle opposing voices and began the trickle-down into K-12.
As with politics, the blogosphere is giving voice to the silent generations of years past.
(via BlogFather)