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Posted By RedRiverJ 8 months ago in NewsOn university campuses across the U.S., tenured radicals teach their students that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” and that America is “the world’s greatest terrorist state.” The Middle East Studies Association and more than 200 “Peace Studies” programs share the view that America’s terrorist enemies are in fact the voice of the world’s “oppressed,” and that by challenging the United States they are advancing the cause of “social justice.” Nor is the activity of these faculty radicals confined to academic theory. On every major American campus, radical professors are busily organizing anti-American “teach-ins” and demonstrations against the war, and providing their students with academic credit for joining the radical cause.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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FTA-In the 1930s, the universities were the first German institutions to capitulate to Adolf Hitler. Martin Heidegger, Germany’s greatest 20th century philosopher and the intellectual idol of American academics, hailed the advent of the Third Reich from the rectorship of Freiburg University. Fascism was an idea so messianic in its conception, so elitist in its attitudes, and so anti-capitalist in its social philosophy that intellectuals found it irresistible.
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Interesting to see what you pay for your kids to learn in American Colleges.-
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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Link for Professors, Staff and Invited Campus Speakers.
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david_nwpa8 months ago
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Bunch of dookie! Heidegger is not the greatest 20th century philosopher. He may be revered, but the greatest? No! As for what we pay for our kids to learn, many come away learning plenty about math, science, engineering, law, medicine, art, languages, education, etc. Why do you knock American universities? RedRiver, it makes no sense to bash the institutions that put forth the brighter minds that America offers.
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Beau78908 months ago
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Here's the Cato Institute (not exactly the most liberal organization) on the pitfalls of Reagan's support for "freedom fighters" in Latin America and elsewhere in the world:
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http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa074.html
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Goppy8 months ago
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I recently read a study that explained why there are more Liberals in Academia.
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Something about people on the right having an inability to assess issues dispassionately.
In effect, their ❝ Emotionalism ❞ prevented them from intellectualizing pretty much everything.
That's why they lean to entertainment that is ❝ Emotion Driven ❞ - like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.
Funny, when I was growing up - I respected Republicans because they were so ... STAID ....
Now - they are a bunch of whining, panicky, emotional wrecks.
Did I mention they were whiney?
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aceofspades18 months ago
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you got that right Red - keep em away from those commie anti-American instutions of mass indoctrination & maybe if we are real lucky - they will grow up with the proper sense of America & with tattoos of John W on their asses - just like you
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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American Association Of University Professors
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Main academic professional association dominated by the political left
Supports racial preferences in university hiring and admissions policies
Defended Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian
While the AAUP has fought to preserve tenure, to prevent market-oriented management of universities, to encourage unionization and "equity" in compensation of non-tenured faculty, and to uphold racial preferences in university hiring and admissions, the organization's chief raison d'être remains the defense of academic freedom.
care to read more
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.as...-
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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More from above link.
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The AAUP has supported numerous political ideologues and the terrorist sympathizer Sami Al-Arian of the University of South Florida (USF). The organization attacked USF over its disciplinary action and eventual dismissal of Al-Arian, a tenured professor who was indicted for his leadership role in the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The AAUP claimed that USF was punishing Al-Arian unjustly for what amounted to an "active extramural interest in Palestinian and Islamic developments." (This "extramural interest" included founding an Islamist "think tank" whose directors included two leaders of Islamic Jihad; delivering speeches in which Al-Arian referred to Jews as "monkeys and pigs"; and proclaiming "Death to the Jews" and "Let us Damm [sic] America" -- all while teaching full-time at USF.)
Nice to know what you pay for huh?
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k9kssr8 months ago
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FTA: "A year and a half later, American forces entered Iraq to enforce UN resolution 1441 against Saddam Hussein’s brutal dictatorship, a sponsor of terror, a deployer of chemical weapons, an aggressor in two recent wars, and an outlaw regime in open defiance of 16 previous UN resolutions and international law."
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When criticizing the war in Iraq, people like to forget that Saddam practiced genocide on his own people and attempted to invade Kuwait. There were plenty of reasons to depose him as dictator other than wmd. He was a despot and so were his sons who were destined to inherit his terrorist throne.
I can see someone defend him as a "freedom fighter".....he was...in an entirely horrid sense and against his own people.-
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Gransater8 months ago
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I do not believe I have seen one instance of someone defending Saddam and his actions towards his own people. He is universally aknowledged as a nasty individual, along with his offspring.
I also don't believe anyone is forgetting about his deeds towards his own people. The question put forth, is whether that was sufficient reason for invasion and subsequent destruction of a sovereign country. I would think that the excuse of hunting WMD's by now has been well documented as eigther fabricated, distorted and or non existent.
As to silencing professors, I notice a lot of noise about the leftist oriented professors. Where is the noise about the rigthist professors. I could hear a feather fall, if I listen for that noise. Are they nonexistent? Are they accepted Because they lean to the right? As Cowboy G so eloquently put's forth a little further down, isn't it better to have these people out in the open.
Why are you trying to silence them by force? If they are to be silenced, do so by providing counter arguments, validated by fact and or history. Once you make a fool of them, they'll go away on their own. The way conservative minded people are trying to silence them, only makes them stronger. Too many people underestimate the smarts of young people nowdays, and thereby make fools of themselves. -
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Dionys8 months ago
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"When criticizing the war in Iraq, people like to forget that Saddam practiced genocide on his own people and attempted to invade Kuwait. There were plenty of reasons to depose him as dictator other than wmd. He was a despot and so were his sons who were destined to inherit his terrorist throne"
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But if it's our job to depose horrific dictatorships and evil nation states, shouldn't we have started with China instead of granting them most favored nation status (Clinton) and made them our biggest loan-backer (Bush)?
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icono18 months ago
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Interesting to note that when the Nazis and Communists took control of any nation the intellectuals and 'College Professors' of that nation were closely watched for 'radical ideas against the state' and if found to be a 'possessor of such ideas' they where either subjected to harsh imprisonment or executed.
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If radical Islam were to gain a political dominance in this nation the vast majority of liberal College professors would have to get serious about the religion of Islam quick and become very conservative in their thinking and speaking or they too would be eliminated.
It is one thing to be a radical from the comfort of your classroom or living room in a free speech society, but it is another entirely different situation to be a 'radical' in a very politically and religiously closed and repressive society. -
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stephen-johnson8 months ago
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If a student plans to go to college for a scientific, engineering/architecture of business degree, fine. But increasingly, the liberal arts degree isn't worth the time and cost to obtain it. Critical thinking has long since given way to Marxist and multicultural indoctrination that is hostile to the very Western civilization that gave birth to the modern college.
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The funny thing is that if the radical professors beloved terrorists - uh, freedom fighters - were to prevail, the professors would be the first to be behead. They are the real useful idiots.-
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Goppy8 months ago
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We should all follow the Christian Conservative - Neo-Conservative - and Modern Republican approach to education, right stephen-johnson?
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No more skience - only Bible study.
No more music - waste of time
No more theatre - waste of time
No more History - too much influence from "Liberals".
No more English - too many books with "Liberal" ideas and overtones.
Only Math and Bible study.
Yes, the world of The Modern Republican is an exceedingly dreary place.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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Premiere Nikita Khrushchev of the former Communist Soviet Socialist "Republic" said: "We will destroy you from within!"
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If parents do nothing, it will become a reality. And there is another enemy of freedom who is now saying much the same thing--radical Islam. If our children are being taught to believe that the barbarians are their friends, the kids will be easier for this enemy to destroy and, ultimately, result in a murdered or converted-to-Islam generation. Remember, your children are now being raised to embrace appeasement and hate their own country. If you don't intercede—and now—this will be yours and our entire legacy.
Sounds like it is come to pass, and now we will live it.-
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CRYMTYPHON8 months ago
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We notice you keep quoting those who hated America,
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to tell us about America.
Does it not occurr to you that these people did not understand
democracy, or America?
Not its strengths; not its weaknesses?
That our kids are exposed to radical ideas at universities,
far left and far right, - extreme federalist and uber-libertarian,
christian youth groups and the local atheist pamphletiers,
- is strength .
A university or college campus is a playing field of ideas,
where the thing you give weak lip-service too
is brought alive; - freedom of thought .
It scared Krushchev, Hitler, Mao, and King George.
And RedRiverJ.
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cowboygrandpa8 months ago
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Ya know I agree.
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The extremely liberal and conservative professors are indeed fueling a hatred of America.
The professors who teach that it is wrong for America to defend her citizens are wrong.
Yes we must by all means defend our citizens and not allow the Fascists/Communists to take over.
Where was the cry from the right when Bush was trying to destroy our constitution in order to secure our freedoms. Oh that was OK right, because he was a "conservative".
The only thing Bush was trying to conserve was the wealth he and his friends have. The cost he was willing to charge us ??? Our freedoms !!!
America will never perish from thoughts that differ from ours. But she will perish if you remove the right to freedom of speech (even though some comments are so stupid it would be better if they were left unsaid) ,freedom of peaceful assembly(even if I think the reasons are wrong) ,freedom to worship as one sees fit (even though it irritates me to see Jesus Christ ridiculed by unbelievers).
So even though I don't hold to your beliefs of government controlled thought police. You have the right to think it is called for.
This country is about more than making money, it is about the freedom to believe as you will. Do I agree with the Communists or Fascists??? NO !!!!!
But I would rather have their ridiculous organizations and mouthpieces out in the open instead of underground. The best way to make something grow is to repress the freedom of it.
As far as Vietnam and Cambodia. We were never supported by our Government or theirs.
It was all about making a show to China and Russia that we would fight and lose people for something we had no intention of winning. Just like Korea, just like Iraq, just like Afghanistan...
When you have seen the death and carnage it costs, you know no war is worth fighting unless you plan to win it.
We have set up little coups d'etat in order to topple governments that were not right wing.
We have been responsible for the deaths of many yet we scream that we are for freedom.
James 4:1-3
"4 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures."
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NoWayMan8 months ago
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when the real fascists come rolling in, the first people they round up are the "tenured radicals" that this piece wishes to vilify.
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and of course “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” simply because there are at least two sides to every story. -
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CRYMTYPHON8 months ago
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The quoting of a few weirdos from a few universities in the last couple of decades , does not convince us that U.S. universities have a higher proportion of radicals than does
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the local donut shop.
The inability to distinguish between anecdotal argument,
and actual evidence , - is the sort of thing that got
RedRiverJ and Wolfie2007's tenure denied.
Sorry guys; I think there are some online university degrees that advertise on hotair.com.
And I would think it a hoot to attend the classes you taught.
Or, - are we doing that now?
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Dionys8 months ago
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"“one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,”"
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True.
"“the world’s greatest terrorist state.”"
Considering that we supply lots of people with weapons employed in terrorist acts and started a "pre-emptive" war on a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, al-quaeda or pretty much anything resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and displacement of millions.. it's a valid argument.
"are in fact the voice of the world’s “oppressed,” and that by challenging the United States they are advancing the cause of “social justice.”"
Probably true in some situations, though certainly not all.
"Nor is the activity of these faculty radicals confined to academic theory"
This thought's been around for decades. It's hardly radical. But I guess calling them 'radicals' is just more of the same GOP tactics employed in claiming everything Obama does is "socialist." In other words -- divisive lies. Keep spreading the lies. 2012 isn't far away.
"anti-American “teach-ins” and demonstrations against the war"
America's always been about free speech. So there's nothing anti-American about it. Considering the percentage of those who no longer support the ridiculous war in Iraq, it's hardly anti-American to protest it, either. In fact it's pro-American. It's just not pro-war-mongering, pro-military industrial complex like the GOP hawks want. -
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k9kssr8 months ago
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Goopy,
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I've heard you refer to McVeigh as a right winger before. McVeigh was an atheist and hung out with dopers. He was a radical....doesn't sound like a conservative to me.
I'd really like to hear how you can categorize him the way you do, especially since a friend of mine died during the bombing.
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