Good question. Amazingly, it was a line in a new
network television program, Chicago Justice, another in the long list
of Dick Wolf-produced crime-legal shows. Carl Weathers of Rocky fame speaks the line; he plays the
district attorney of Chicago. It was shocking to hear the question
uttered in a prime-time drama. Of course there was a murder in this
television episode, and the murderer turned out to be a young girl besotted
with her radical leftist, anti-gun professor. Her victim? A pro-gun
conservative on their campus.
Real
life these days is stranger than fiction. Even Orwell could not have
imagined how far we have surpassed all he imagined in 1984 – especially on college campuses.
Higher education in America has been utterly destroyed by the left since
the tenured radicals of the 1960s took control of it. Now our campuses
are virtually totalitarian in nature. Stanford
just admitted an applicant
who is not black but who wrote "Black Lives Matter" a hundred times
on his application. Forget all the serious students who took the
application question – "What matters to you and why?" – seriously.
They are toast, cast upon the funeral pyre of diversity and freedom of
thought in favor of the anti-merit (racist), pro-ethnic diversity but
anti-diversity of thought mindset of college admissions officials.
Wellesley
has demeaned itself by printing a fascist screed by
a student who writes poorly and has not a clue about what our Constitution says
or means. She is opposed to freedom of speech.
Too
many of these young people think no one should be able to utter a word they
find unacceptable. Not a word. Like those who think persons who do
not take human-caused climate change seriously should be jailed, our universities have become Orwellian factories
that churn out properly indoctrinated robots who dare not deviate from the
party line. The professors are indeed making their students stupid.
There is no education going on at most universities these days – only the
ever escalating indoctrination to blinkered dogma by professors who are
products of their own college pseudo-educations. They have been
intellectually incapacitated and then are turned loose, hired by prestigious
universities, to incapacitate their unwitting students, who have been similarly
indoctrinated by their high school teachers to swallow whole whatever nonsense
college throws at them. Conservative students, an actual minority, are
shunned, berated, and downgraded by fellow students and professors. They
either submit to their professors' singular ideology or are damned.
There
are glimmers of sanity on the horizon. College Fix, Chronicle
of Higher Education, Campus Reform, FrontPage, and Minding the Campus are sites that fight back against the
rushing totalitarian tide of university indoctrination. David Horowitz
does tireless and often thankless work on campuses to fight the anti-Semitism
that has become de rigueur. He is usually shouted down, as have been
Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, etc.
Our
young people have been taught to hate, to revile, to shut down any speech with
which they disagree. This happens at the most prestigious colleges in the
country, colleges that cost fifty and sixty thousand dollars a year to attend.
Parents who are paying for this are dupes. They are, as Dennis
Prager often says, guaranteeing that their children will not graduate with the
values with which they were raised. That is the plan of the left.
Their professors will teach that the nuclear family is the most
destructive institution in the West. They will teach that gender is a
social construct. Students will not be taught that capitalism has lifted
more people out of poverty than any other -ism in history. They, our
vaunted professoriate, will teach that a toddler's rubber duck is a symbol of
the horrors of capitalism, racism, and the destruction of the environment.
They will disparage great English and American literature as racist and
invalid. Shakespeare has been nullified on most university campuses, his
image defiled along with the other dead white males of our literate,
intellectual past.
The
bottom line? There is a cancer spreading on our university campuses.
Anyone who has had sons or daughters in college over the past eight years
knows how catastrophically universities have lurched to the radical left.
Do
not let your kids go to college unless it is Hillsdale or a reasonable
facsimile thereof. Keep them home; give them great books to read; let
them work at any job that comes their way and watch Prager University videos.
They will be more informed, better citizens, better people, and better
parents for skipping college at this moment in time.
Perhaps,
if Carl Weathers can ask the question "since when did people start going
to college to get stupid?" on a prime-time television program, the leftist
grip on higher education and all things cultural will soon begin to loosen.
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