CAMPUS OPPRESSION
DECEMBER 7, 2005
By Toby Westerman
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Recent reports of threats issued by a leftist professor at a New Jersey community college against one of his young students attracted national press attention. The conservative press rallied to the cause of 19-year-old Rebecca Beach. Conservative commentators and journalists presented the incident as an example of "indoctrination" and "left-wing propaganda," but gave no indication as to how widespread the situation is.
Academia's dirty little secret is that intimidation of students over political, social, and religious views is common, and has been common for decades.
America's colleges and universities, through their faculty and administrators, are forcing a politically correct indoctrination upon students already "multi-culturalized" from their earliest school years, according to Glenn Ricketts, Public Affairs Director of the National Association of Scholars (NAS). Founded in 1985, the
National Association of Scholars seeks to advance the cause of open discussion and freedom in American academia.
"There is a uniform mantra on race, gender, sex, class, and so on. In the name of diversity, everybody says the same thing. If you are looking for any kind of intellectual variety…it doesn't exist," said Ricketts.
Although students appear "increasingly suspicious" of the "politically correct" atmosphere on campus, they "risk being failed or otherwise penalized, if they buck the professor's world view," Ricketts noted.
Many of today's most ardent enforcers of the "PC" environment on campus were once loud street activists challenging the composition and direction of the academic system. After pursuing their own careers in academia, the one-time radicals - now established and politically correct - do not tolerate any challenge to their own views.
The proponents of academic freedom turned oppressors, and targeted the most vulnerable, their own students.
Ironically, the public pays the salaries of the professors and administrators who enforce a brand of political correctness hostile to America's most deeply held beliefs regarding religion, family, morality, and patriotism.
The taxpayers are paying for the indoctrination of their own children.
"It is amazing to see what ranking professors and administrators think they can do on the public nickel, all in the name of academic freedom - which, objectively speaking, they are more likely to suppress," declared Ricketts.
While noting that some progress has been made in lessening the politically correct atmosphere on campus, Ricketts observed that there still remains "a long way to go," until students and faculty can engage in truly open discussion in a non-threatening, unoppressive forum of ideas.
Despite their privileged position, the politically correct academic finds himself at odds with the very society which supports him. "They hate the system, but they are the system," observed Ricketts.
Across the United States, the politically correct army of professors and administrators decry American society while cashing their checks "earned" as they practice the art of student intimidation, even to the point of ruining the lives and careers of those who oppose them. The politically correct academics wrap themselves in self-righteousness, cry "police state" if held accountable for their ideas and actions, all the while denying the same freedom of thought and expression to those dependent on them.
The crime of academic oppression is widespread and deserves the intervention of state legislators, and the possibility of the loss of federal funds. It makes no sense to fight for freedom half-way around the world when the basic rights of free discussion and expression of thought are denied at colleges and universities across the nation. The future of America depends upon it, those whose careers have already been ruined, should live to see it.
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