Say Anything Blog

We all know that our universities have become havens for the water-bearers of political correctness, but if this doesn’t ring a very loud alarm bell about the fact that our colleges are becoming political indoctrination centers - then nothing will. The emphasis in the following quotes are mine:

NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.

So…anyone with a view that is divergent from the one held by the University requires “treatment”? Note the use of the word “requires”. The students aren’t given an option whether they want to participate or not. In Orwellian fashion, they must be “treated”.

It gets better. According to the school all white people by the very fact of their birth, are racist, and the school is training people to force the students to accept that view:

The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to “sustainability” door decorations. Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs).The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

I can’t begin to find the words - without the unchecked use of profanities, that is - that describe how I feel about this. Those kids are being forced to submit to political re-education. Not asked. Not cajoled. Forced. This is ugly and dangerous, and if we don’t wake up and wake up soon this will spread like a cancer.

And bear this in mind….a cancer is a mindless thing that spreads inexorably and eventually kills its host. It never occurs to the cancer that when the host dies, it dies too.

And this is a clear illustration that the liberal/progressive-politically correct mindset is the intellectual cancer of our time.

Thanks to Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard, and Weasel Zippers for this one.