America’s
“institutions of higher learning” could not be of lower character. Nor could
they be less effective in preparing young people for the real world. The
examples are legion, ubiquitous.
A professor at Washington
University in St. Louis recently praised pro-Palestinian protesters who
vandalized a Jewish leader’s home on Thanksgiving morning, and described the
smoke bombs and paint damage as “pretty cool.” Heather Hackman, consultant at a recent University of Oklahoma
race workshop, says “making sure you’re not tardy” is simply part of “the
racial narrative of white.” So, being on time is white supremacy.
Furthermore, Hackman claims individualism, honesty, discipline, and rigor are
other traits indicative of white privilege and/or supremacy. In other words,
being competent and respectful isn’t cool. Integrity and character are racist.
Ms. Hackman is on record telling educators that if they don’t plan on promoting
social justice in the classroom, they shouldn’t go into teaching.
Some
“educators” believe that there is no such thing as free will. Others
believe that certain words
are violence and therefore
should be prevented or punished, but that violence to further
causes in which they believe is free speech and therefore protected by the
First Amendment.
Colleges across
the land warn of “microaggressions” should students potentially be exposed to unfamiliar
points of view—or any description of less than pleasant reality. And, should
students be traumatized by the aforementioned instead of learning and growing, safe spaces abound on campuses, some replete with warm milk, cookies,
and puppies for petting.
Universities universally teach/preach that virtually anything
found in the U.S.-- or previously taught in schools-- is an example of colonialism or imperialism, including mathematics.
The nearest thing to a religion on campus today is the unwavering
belief that there are more than two genders and that anyone can be any one—or
more-- of these genders they wish to be at any time. And change them like the
shoes they wear. “Trans” and “genderqueer” rule the day.
The long-term affects of this mass psychosis will be devastating for society at
large.
A number of university professors promote nihilism, the
idea that life is meaningless. (“Nothing matters and what if it did?!”) More
than one take this concept even farther, suggesting that the only way to save
the Earth is through human
extinction. That is a long way from “Be
fruitful and multiply.” But college campuses—and professors—are a long way from
God.
Ironically, there is little honest reflection or
legitimate philosophizing taking place in schools today. If life
is meaningless, why have we come up with so many terms for meaning? Why
do we have the innate capacity to feel great joy, love, compassion….and
sadness, hate, and callousness? Why would this be? It would not be necessary.
Is there not, in fact, meaning in the very act of believing deeply that some
things are meaningful? For example: are love, music, great writing, the look in
your young child’s eyes as he or she is about to open a Christmas gift, a
hole-in-one……or a cold beer and cool breeze on a hot summer’s day not
“meaningful?”
Sadly, and
ironically, modern day America is guilty of educational colonialism.
The nation’s Big Academia is trying to export American colleges’ radical
nihilism throughout the West…and anywhere else that will have it. This
constitutes a real threat to the world.
It is nothing less than vandalism of the mind—and
soul.
And that is
meaningful, whether some wish to believe it or not.
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