American
colleges and universities pose an existential threat to our nation that
hosts and so lavishly supports them. In fact, they are the single
biggest threat to Western civilization, now over 2,000 years old.
If
you are like most people, you probably think the previous two sentences
were overly bold, hyperbolic, preposterous. Maybe even crazy. And you
would be wrong. The rot emanating from institutions of higher learning
in the United States is more dangerous even than the coronavirus. The
virus of wokeism eats away its hosts’ mental capacity and renders
them ignorant, bitter, hostile, unstable, overly emotional and
intellectually impotent. COVID-19 will eventually disappear, but the
brain damage inflicted by today’s universities likely will not. Neither
mask mandates nor social distancing can protect us from the ravages
loosed on us by modern American academia. Lockdowns don’t work, either.
All of these may, in fact, be symptoms of the disease they have wrought.
This
is unspeakably sad, as these self-same institutions once existed in
large part to challenge and enlighten students and introduce them to the
great works of Western civilization and the foundational principles of
American society and Judeo-Christian ethics. They taught students how
best to think, not what to think. Like a free and impartial
press, these institutions were once beneficial-- indeed critical-- to
the health of a free democratic republic. We have neither now.
Today’s
colleges and universities serve only to further the goals of their
elitist benefactors by indoctrinating their charges into a ubiquitous
and homogenous Marxist mindset, one at loggerheads with the notion of a
free, democratic republic based on the rule of law and governed by, of,
and for the people.
Today’s
colleges and universities give lip service to “tolerance,” fawn over
“diversity,” and purport to be open and welcoming to all. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Conservatives are shunned, canceled,
threatened, fired, or assaulted as the case may be. Professors and
students openly rejoice in the physical misfortune -- or even death -- of those who do not share their radical political agenda. “Activists” demand the removal of statues
of historic figures… if they haven’t already defaced and toppled them.
Even as they savage the past, colleges are repeating it by increasingly
racially segregating their students and initiating separate, racially-based departments, dorms, and graduation ceremonies.
Colleges are degrading or eliminating their grading and behavioral standards in an effort to “help” minorities. How patrician and racist is that? They argue that absolutely everything is racist, unaware that by doing so they have refuted their own claim. Many are in favor of slavery reparations,
or the massive transfer of wealth from those who never owned slaves to
those who never were slaves. They are pushing to defund the police. And eliminate political opposition.
Big
Academia is also wildly infatuated with the proposition that there are
an infinite number of genders, that sexuality is a “construct” on a
“spectrum,” and that drag queens are sacrosanct, the backbone of our
civilization, so the avoidance of one or more is akin to a criminal act.
Universities have come to believe sexuality is Black and white, too, insofar as it is somehow different
for each race, and therefore also requires separate classes, teachers
and venues. Their fervent embrace of transgender theory has led at least
one to teach that Jesus was “non-binary.”
Telling the truth about almost anything is now strictly verboten on campuses across the fruited plain. Universities have threatened to expel students for saying “a woman is a woman” and “a man is a man.”
Colleges
aid and abet students in their attempt to repeal truth and cancel
history. Which has led to some students’ avowed desire to repeal the Constitution. And professors to state that free speech is “racist.”
Universities
haven’t just been given a free ride, they have been lavishly, almost
obscenely, funded in recent years. Some have endowments making them wealthier than many nations.
Grants, loans and debt forgiveness have allowed them to rapidly raise
their tuition rates to obscene levels as well, even as they have the
gall to denounce capitalism, business, and the “greedy rich.”
It is time for these indoctrination centers to be defundedc--
and deprived of the free ride and unearned esteem they have been
granted for the past several decades — if we Americans are to once again
live up to the ideals that made us great.
But a threat to the nation? Really?
What
would you call an institution that rewrites history, denigrates and
attempts to destabilize the country it is supposed to serve, seeks to
resegregate society, and wishes to erase all distinctions between men
and women?
