A Wrong Turn Left

A Wrong Turn Left
It just gets better and better. Many of you know perhaps one of my biggest rants and raves lately is just how absolutely political the college-classroom has become. Taking a shot in the dark, I would almost guarantee at least 75% of college professors vote democratically, and I would go even further to say at least 50% of them have or consistently are using their classrooms as a platform for the democratic agenda. I’ve suggested this before, but now I am almost advising it of you. If you think my numbers are skewed, just try it out. Go to 10 college classes this year with a friend if you aren’t in college, or with your son or daughter, or just go sit in a liberal arts class, a political science class, a history class, just about any class you can imagine. Almost guaranteed the professor will find some way to get their views across. The craziest part? The class can have nothing to do with any sort of political view or politics in general, yet somehow, magically, the platform is constructed and justified in just about any imaginative way you could think up. Believe me; I heard it first hand from a professor at my school. Let me give you some examples of just exactly what I am talking about.
This semester, I signed up for a history class that I am required to have in order to graduate. The class is History 111, and the content base was going to be over the pre-civil war era. So, off to Saturday morning class I went, completely unaware of just how politically motivated and spiteful someone at a publicly, government supported institution could be. Little did I know. The first words out of the adjunct professor’s mouth? A shot at Idaho for being ultra-conservative. Then, some more political bias with some hateful words for George Bush, followed by shots at even God. I don’t think anything conservative based in this man’s mind is an option to even consider as a right, just cause. By the end of the class, I was itching to hop onto my student account and with-drawl from his class and his vile-speak about republicans, Christians and the United States in general. So what you say? The professor may have been biased, but the content of the class couldn’t be, right? Well, considering the text required and main one used in the class was a Howard Zinn work, I got the picture of how this class would be run. (And if you don’t know who Zinn is, check out his Wikipedia profile and you’ll get the overall gist of his views in a toned down manner.) Oh, and this is just the start.
The week before my encounter with that wonderful history class, I learned that a nursing professor had given her students a very interesting assignment. Her students were to attend either the Jesse Jackson or Al Gore presentation, as both of them were in Boise around the same weekend. No alternative speaker with an alternative point of view, either Al Gore or Jesse Jackson. Yes, the 2 far-left former presidential hopefuls. Now, Jesse Jackson, supposed to be here for Human Rights week right? Well, I just wonder what calling President Bush a Chicken-hawk and inserting anti-Iraq war-speak that you get every-day from NBC, MSNBC, CNN and CBS have to do with Human Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr.? When I asked the professor about why, her reasoning did not surprise me. The aim? As far as the Jesse Jackson assignment went, it was to get the students a dose of “diversity” that was “very different from the population in Idaho.” And to the Al Gore side of things? That the environment is a concern for nurses, especially public health nurses. Now this is a nice way of putting it, but I think we know the underlying theme here. Of course the professor stated that the students never have to agree with her view points, but that this was a part of the “higher education excitement and privilege”. BULL. It was a way to force students to hear an agenda, one that is spread every single day on the campus by numerous professors. I could have told you the day Boise signed up to have these 2 men come and speak what the speeches would entail. Sure Jesse Jackson would blanket it with scripture and human rights rhetoric, and make references to Martin Luther King Jr., and the Al Gore concerns about the environment was a nice cover-up to relate the speech to nursing and public health and our community, and it would have been nice if that was the end of it. But did anyone seriously have any doubts what both speeches would be? No, and if you think otherwise then you are lying to yourself. I don’t want to hear about the “diversity opportunity” and “other side of the issue” that the students had by listening to Jesse Jackson. They get the other side every time they turn on their TV and listen to the news. I don’t want to hear about how Al Gore’s concerns about the environment are legit, because they aren’t. The real Inconvenient Truth is that Al Gore is using an environmentalist issue as a political plug for himself, in which he was completely off base, and the general scientific community agrees.
Something that I’m noticing is coming as a surprise to many people is the dating system that the public university seems to be converting to (although it really isn’t a conversion because they are using the same point in time as their measuring device, let me explain.) Many of my text books and teachers now have gone to the BCE/CE dating-system, and don’t acknowledge the traditional BC/AD system that we have used since…forever. BCE/CE stands for Before Common Era and Common Era. So, there they go, trying 2 deny a system based solely on the fact that BC stands for Before Christ. Yet, perhaps the irony of the situation escapes their minds, because BCE and CE are still based on one thing…the Birth of Christ. So, maybe instead of using that system, they should be using the Big-Bang theory system, which states the universe is 4.6 billion years old, so maybe instead of dating my paper 1/1/2007, I should be dating my paper 1/1/4,600,000,000. Maybe that will satisfy them a little more. I mean, if you are going to pretend that calling it the BCE/CE era takes away the focal point of when the date-system it uses started, then why not go all out and just do away with the fact that we are living in 2007.
Hopefully this enlightens any of you who are unaware of just how far left college campuses are going. It is getting out of hand, and the conservative voice on a college campus are becoming few and far between thanks to the success of Anti-Bush propaganda spread by the national media. And my school isn’t even far reaching as some of the “elite” universities, so I would die to know what they are saying there. Oh wait, I do know. “Hate the war, hate the president, global warming, Pelosi is a Goddess, Hillary in ’08, Obama is the savior of the world, and ah yes…Katrina is Bush’s fault”. You know how I know? I listen to the media and my college professors. But, don’t take my word for it. Listen for yourself. But just be careful…if you disagree, you are a horrible human being who doesn’t want to save lives by killing embryos, see the amazing victory we’ve already had in Iraq, and embrace the fact that the USA is the greatest country on Earth in this here year 200…oh wait, this here year 4,623,289,120. -AJW