Monday, February 14, 2005

 

A Tenured Radical



A Typical Tenured Radical

The saga continues in the predictable chain of events involving Ward Churchill, the "ethnic studies" professor (1/16th Cherokee!) who told us that 9/11 victims weren't victims at all but compliant henchmen in the imperial capitalist "machine." When threatened with the possibility of losing his cushy job at the University of Colorado he, of course, threatened to sue. He appears to have realized that $90,000 a year plus benefits in a utopian community (Boulder, Colorado) is one of the best job situations one can score. His pampered lifestyle as a university professor probably doesn't sound nearly so "oppressive" now that he risks losing it. I bussed tables at a restaurant in Boulder while in college and I can verify that it's hard to feel "oppressed" there - even if you are 1/16 pseudo-Cherokee.

Of course, Jacobin swine at CU, and around the country, are now defending Churchill's, "right to free speech," and the ACLU (of course) has another worthy extremist to champion. Can one imagine how this would have played out if a professor had made derisive statements about gays, minorities, or women? Churchill had praised the terrorists of 9/11 as "gallant" in their "sacrifice." What would be the response if an American college professor had referred to a "gallant" KKK?

Phase II
Now Churchill is doing the classic leftist backpedal. He now feels the need to clarify "what he [really] meant," yet he simultaneously insists that he "refuses to apologize" or "back down" (how heroic).

Of course the real issue here is not one Jacobin pseudo-rebel but the fact that universities, like media and entertainment, are full of such "perspectives." They openly wish for nothing short of the complete destruction of America's successful and free constitutional system.

Some will be impressed by Churchill's last-minute attempt to extricate himself from his own Marxist logic. Unfortunately for him, he has a long written record of typical Marxist rant. He stated that he would like to see his country "eliminated" from the planet. All polemic nuance aside, he's a typical communist authoritarian ideologue. Calling him such is not McCarthyism, it's a description of what he is, backed by his own writings. A statement of admiration for the terrorists of 9/11 and disdain for the victims is not a mere "unpopular viewpoint," as some clowns on the left have described Churchill's views. Justly removing such a scoundrel from a privileged position is not crushing "freedom of speech." (He's being paid by extorted funds--taxes). After considering his statements that the victims of 9/11 were little "Eichmans" (a reference to an infamous bureaucrat in the Hitler regime during the holocaust), "working for the engine of capitalism," I wondered if it might be appropriate to consider Churchill himself a little BERIA (Stalin's head of the Soviet secret police) working for the engine of socialism.

Churchill has barely acknowledged that those killed on 9/11 were not just symbols to him of the country he hates, but were actually individuals, diverse and unique. There are no individuals aside from themselves in the Left's worldview. One is either an oppressor or an oppressee and never stands alone as either, which brings us to the following essay regarding the left's inability to see anyone apart from some collective template:


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Fox News noted an interesting, and typically bizarre issue in Ed-land, a public school system that feels the need to address "diversity issues" and "racism" in -- Math class!

"...According to benchmarks for middle school education, the top objective for the district's math teachers is to teach "respect for human differences." The objective is for students to "live out the system-wide core value of 'respect for human differences' by demonstrating anti-racist/anti-bias behaviors."...[see a true depiction of the Left's view of "diversity and differces" here].

...The principal's page for Memorial Spaulding Elementary School, for example, reads: "We know that the context for optimal learning is a school which has a passion for children and for democracy, an intolerance for racism and for prejudice, a commitment to the creation of an anti-racist, prejudice-free learning environment, and a genuine desire to turn the concept of 'just society' into reality. We hope to be that school."...

..."I think of [multicultural education] as a set of practices that confront the various forms of racism and institutionalized racisms that do exist in schools, as well as the larger society, and thinking of ways of breaking down and deconstructing forms of racism," Christine Sleeter, professor emeritus at California State University at Monterey Bay and co-editor of "Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference," said. "I think that a whole lot of people are fumbling around with, 'what are the issues?'..."


Fortunately, the ridiculous esoteric lingo that these elitist snobs use will be there downfall. I went through the teacher training program at -- of all places -- The University of Colorado in Boulder and can tell you that this politically correct nonsense is the standard in Ed-School philosophy. The Jacobins rule there, as they do in the Sociology departments, Humanities, and to some degree, all the nooks and crannies of academia. They want the same pathetic mentality to trickle down into the primary and secondary schools -- and, it has!

As stated before, the above example was found on the Fox News website. Fox will no doubt receive numerous complaints for addressing such an issue, yet we've been subjected to decades of mainstream reports on a thousand pet "crises" of the left. Viewing any season of special news reports on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, and CNN would find one believing that they live in a horrid society filled with poverty, racism, faltering health, and capitalist "injustice." It's about time we have an alternate news source that can give equally wide exposure to issues like the preceding item on "politically correct" math in public schools. America's school system is a bloated bureaucratic web of P.C. nonsense -- I'm glad someone is taking note.

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A accurate statement on the Socialist worker's state of Germany from Davids Medienkritik:

America You Just Don't Get It…
(By Ray D.)


Despite Germany's Fascist past, despite the fact that Germany wants to export weapons to Communist China, despite the fact that Germany has turned a blind eye to atrocities in Chechnya, despite the fact that Germany openly allows housing discrimination, despite the fact that German police openly and legally racially profile, despite the fact that Germany has virtually no minority representatives in its national government, despite the fact that Germany has been dependent on the US since World War II for its defense and reunification, despite the fact that Germany has a massive, chronic unemployment problem…over five million out of work and climbing, despite a hopelessly complicated tax system, a declining educational system, despite the fact that Germany has a national ID card and a national registration system far more intrusive on private rights than anything in the Patriot Act, despite the fact that German state television continues to present the situation in Iraq twice as negatively as it was under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and barely draws a distinction between democracy and dictatorship, despite the fact that Germany continues to trade with the world's most vicious dictators…

Despite those facts…

Now this: Extreme right-wing parties [this would mean Socialist/Collectivist factions with a nationalistic or racist overtone] have won election to two state parliaments and are growing in numbers by the day. Life has become so "wonderful" under the Socialist-Green German government that hundreds of Germans are turning to neo-Fascist, neo-Nazi parties for answers. Neo-Nazi and hard right parties are experiencing a rebirth and all that the "mainstream" parties can do about it is argue and hold symbolic marches. How about they put their brains together and do something real to solve Germany's problems? How about the German media stop bashing America and the liberation of 50 million oppressed Muslims so much and focus a little bit more on Germany's problems? That's right, focus more on your own country, what a novel idea!

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Junk Science is a good site to get some information to balance out what you won't see in mainstream news land.

People seem to hate it when anyone dares take on the Global Warming sacred cow. Like many who take interest in the spin being put on this issue, I'm not "anti-environment" or "blind to the looming threat of environmental disaster." This is a complex issue and the usual con-artists are out in force. I want to know the facts and one of the facts is, there is no "consensus" on the causes, extent, and future development of "global warming." The beloved Kyoto Protocal would be virtually worthless in addressing the issue but is championed regardless because of the general philosophy it promotes -- bureauratic control and redistribution of wealth.

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Observation
Why do you figure a guy like Oliver Stone - someone who hates American's military when it's used to fight autocratic regimes - admires an imperialist military leader like Alexander The Great enough to make a movie about him? Perhaps military assertiveness is okay if it was long ago (and not American).

...more reveries next week...

Comments:
response to “The Lightning Empiricist”:The “lightning” of the prior analysis is more akin to molasses and bureaucratic tedium.

…Is this supposed to be a response to my comments on Ward Churchill? Someone’s got too much time on their hands – another “oppressed” intellectual perhaps?

I’ll be more impressed when the same concern for “free speech” is directed to the president of Harvard University (who had the nerve to suggest that women and men may be different) and the young captive audience of stale PC Marxist dogma that still grips most of America’s colleges (and, in watered down form, in its secondary schools).

Churchill is still a despicable, highly paid creep of Leftist orthodoxy. Let him “practice free [hate] speech” on his own dime (as you have done).
 
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