'Education' According To The Left.

[editec]

The principles upon which the nation was founded allowed individuals to claim land.
This became private property.

Even land claimed by the federal government was allowed to be used as stated in the post.

You're mistaking what you wish were true for American history, PC.

Most of the land not in the original colonies came to the USA via the Federal government.

The most obvious examples of that are the Louisiana Purchase and Sewards so called folly, Alaska.

This is not the case today.

Obviously not.

The fact that the powers behind the attempts at confiscation do not have the right to simply claim ownership is shown by their need to fabricate reasons to take over private property.

Clearly true. (whether or not their reason is a "fabrication", too, I note)

One example:
1. The Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) is a species of true owl. It is a resident species of old-growth forests in western North America, where it nests in tree holes, old bird of prey nests, or rock crevices….The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red list status for the Spotted Owl is Near Threatened with a decreasing population trend….. In February 2008, a federal judge reinforced a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to designate 8,600,000 acres (35,000 km2) in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico as critical habitat for the owl. Spotted Owl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a. Ten years of research and more than 1,000 published studies detail the threats to its survival, but there's still no sure way to stop its decline. Saving the Spotted Owl : NPR

2. What is the cost of ‘saving’ the bird, and what’s the reason? Have organism’s become extinct? And the result? “From the environmentalists' perspective, the benefits of preserving the northern spotted owl and its habitat far outweigh any of the costs….society ought to preserve this species and the unique ecosystem it represents because of their aesthetic value. “Ethics and the Environment: The Spotted Owl Controversy


3. The Spotted Owl campaign, as is so very many other environmental campaigns, a deceit. It is a way of advancing the real agenda, confiscating property, making land off-limit, and eliminating any human presence. No matter the cost. No matter the result.

Sure I can understand your vexation with d eminent domain condemnations of private property for dubious reasons.

Who can't?

Each case ought to be decided on its merits.

Or are you objected to the entire concept of eminent domain takings?

 

[rdean]

1. In March, 2010, the University of California, at Berkeley, hosted the annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. There is no better place to reveal the effects of decades of Leftist indoctrination, and the impending doom of this once great nation.





2. One young faculty member gives a talk in which he criticizes homeowners for "participating in global capitalism." It is filled with plenty of rhetoric about "the hegemony of absolute space," and "ontological security,' and so on. His point: "We have no claim on family property." He goes further:
"When we succumb to pity for an old woman losing her house we abandon social justice." Mark the theme: no individual's monopolistic rights!

a. One can see the effects: the eco-fascists have imposed the same kind of thinking on the environment: " The delusion has led to the sequestration of productive land unmatched since the age of kings. Over 30% of the American land base lies under no-use or limited-use restrictions….almost 700 million acres. The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are targeting the confiscation of another 213 million acres, bringing the count to nearly half of the continent!" http://r-calfusa.com/Trade/property_rights/100900BLMLeakedMemo.pdf

b. In 1992, the UN-variety socialist, Maurice Strong, announced: “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.” (Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit)




3. Another young speaker lectures about the iconic 1972 photo of a little girl running naked and terrified from a South Vietnamese napalm attack. She is shocked that the girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, has not only forgiven the United States, but is now traveling around the country celebrating American freedom! This incenses the speaker, for whom that old photo conveys such a powerful anti-American message. What happens to the message, she asks, when the girl grows up to do such a terrible thing? Kim Phúc's "loving embrace of America seems a betrayal of the photo." What, she asks, are we "as theorists" to make of the fact that Kim Phúc "appears not to feel anger when we think she should?"

4. Then the author of a paper was entitled "Towards a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Value and Human Domination over Nature." What to make of that title, together with the speaker's 'Valley Girl' patois: "Um, I'm like a grad student at UC Davis?" and, since the "critique of capitalism has faded in significance," she's "sort of reviving a Gramscian-style Marxism." She goes on to describe global warming as "sort of like, a crisis, in the human relationship to nature?" and as "a natural result of the human alienation from nature under capitalism." Then, she cites several authorities who speak of "a sort of, like, physical or spatial alienation?"...but adds that she intends to go beyond them.





5. These young people are smart, upper-middle-class kids, with little real-world experience and even less in the way of serious education. One after another of them pronounces with an imperial air of authority on things about which they plainly know next to nothing. Their familiarity with history, literature, philosophy, or any other traditional field of learning is rudimentary at best. What they have is ideology and the jargon to go with it. And they have the arrogance of innocents who have no clue as to have very little they know.
Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution."

a. "The result? Students who develop a suffocating sense of superiority, who pass judgment on authors as racist, sexist, capitalist, imperialist or homophobic before even reading their works. Political correctness is not designed to produce students who think for themselves, but, rather, cadres of self-absorbed reactionaries ready to take their orders from ‘the movement.’"
Pearcey, "Saving Leonardo," chapter eight.


b. One father, a professional film critic, found he could not understand his daughter’s film studies textbook, which was packed with Left-wing buzzwords, including “fibula,” and “syuzhet.” He asked her what they were. “They’re Russian formulist terms for ‘story’ and ‘plot.’”
“Why don’t they use ‘story’ and ‘plot’? “We’re not allowed to. If we do, they take points off our paper.”
From “Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology.” Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. - Los Angeles Times





6. “What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists — all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few ‘conservatives’.”
- Grover Furr, professor and author of books and articles in Russian and English on Soviet history under the period of Joseph Stalin


In place of education, the Left has substituted politicization.
What they have produced is not a generation of educated thinkers, but a cadre
of robots who take their orders from the movement.
Q.E.D.

It's difficult to get through such nonsense. A bunch of edited quotes from over decades supposedly from people I never heard of without any links or evidence.

If you had gone to college you would know better than to make such a posting. It's amateur to the point of juvenile.

In fact, if there is a point buried there, it's buried much too deep.

I'm sure you're used to this "grade", but I will grade you anyway:

1. You 'grade' ME????

Talk about the inmates running the asylum.


2. This is the most significant and insightful statement you've ever made:
"... from people I never heard of..."

You are the best example...the poster child of education by the Left.


As one would have difficulty actually imagining infinity....
.....the same would be true of imagining the depth and width of a list of folks and events you've never heard of.



I appreciate your confession.

What's funny is that you insist the left subscribes to the policies of a bunch of people I never heard of before. And let's review some of those:

Cultural Studies Association Conference - never heard of it. Not interested. It's in California.

One young faculty member - sounds vaguely familiar

Maurice Strong - never heard of him so that means I follow his policies?

Another young speaker - Funny, I was trying to remember the first one.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc - a girl from a single 1972 photo? Everyone but me remembers her. I actually do remember the photo, but the name? I can't even pronounce it.

the author of a paper - another name that sounds only vaguely familiar.

And you tried to pass those off as "names"????

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's difficult to get through such nonsense. A bunch of edited quotes from over decades supposedly from people I never heard of without any links or evidence.

If you had gone to college you would know better than to make such a posting. It's amateur to the point of juvenile.

In fact, if there is a point buried there, it's buried much too deep.

I'm sure you're used to this "grade", but I will grade you anyway:

1. You 'grade' ME????

Talk about the inmates running the asylum.


2. This is the most significant and insightful statement you've ever made:
"... from people I never heard of..."

You are the best example...the poster child of education by the Left.


As one would have difficulty actually imagining infinity....
.....the same would be true of imagining the depth and width of a list of folks and events you've never heard of.



I appreciate your confession.

What's funny is that you insist the left subscribes to the policies of a bunch of people I never heard of before. And let's review some of those:

Cultural Studies Association Conference - never heard of it. Not interested. It's in California.

One young faculty member - sounds vaguely familiar

Maurice Strong - never heard of him so that means I follow his policies?

Another young speaker - Funny, I was trying to remember the first one.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc - a girl from a single 1972 photo? Everyone but me remembers her. I actually do remember the photo, but the name? I can't even pronounce it.

the author of a paper - another name that sounds only vaguely familiar.

And you tried to pass those off as "names"????

1. This is a truly interesting issue, and I look forward to the exposition.

The difference between what you expect, and what I furnish shines a bright light, a light which illuminates the very essence of the OP.
The title I chose was "Education According to the Left."

2. We would probably agree that you serve as an example of 'the Left.'
You also serve as the result of the education according to the Left.


3.While I have no desire nor intention of watering down my OP's to the lowest common denominator of reader, you have been brought up to expect that adulteration.

When I read something that interests me, I fully expect to do whatever research is necessary to bring me to the level required to understand same.....

...I use a dictionary, google, source books, etc. I often read the original work of an author who is quoted.

Really.
I actually enjoy studying.


4. So, you see, friend deanie, "...difficult to get through such nonsense..." and "... from people I never heard of..." are the words or one who demands to be allowed to remain a simpleton.

And ".... if there is a point buried there, it's buried much too deep (sic)."
Not for one who thrives on learning.
And, of course, this is where Leftist 'education' has failed you: it has taught you that
it is unnecessary to broach the world unfamiliar.



5. In conclusion, what has transpired is the most beneficial aspect of debate. I would hope it is read by many, as it explains why conservatives will always win in the marketplace of ideas.

Now, I hope that you will continue to read my OP's, and comment on them, even your critiques such as today's....
....because, in a way you didn't intend, your posts are important to the debate.
Regards.

 

[Photonic]

"Conservation" did more to obliterate our salmon population than anything else because they insisted that all the creek beds be completely sterilized and all organic matter (dead trees/slash) removed from them...which led to the water temp rising and removed all cover for baby salmon.

I want sources for all of those.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You're mistaking what you wish were true for American history, PC.

Most of the land not in the original colonies came to the USA via the Federal government.

The most obvious examples of that are the Louisiana Purchase and Sewards so called folly, Alaska.

Obviously not.



Clearly true. (whether or not their reason is a "fabrication", too, I note)

2. What is the cost of ‘saving’ the bird, and what’s the reason? Have organism’s become extinct? And the result? “From the environmentalists' perspective, the benefits of preserving the northern spotted owl and its habitat far outweigh any of the costs….society ought to preserve this species and the unique ecosystem it represents because of their aesthetic value. “Ethics and the Environment: The Spotted Owl Controversy


3. The Spotted Owl campaign, as is so very many other environmental campaigns, a deceit. It is a way of advancing the real agenda, confiscating property, making land off-limit, and eliminating any human presence. No matter the cost. No matter the result.

Sure I can understand your vexation with d eminent domain condemnations of private property for dubious reasons.

Who can't?

Each case ought to be decided on its merits.

Or are you objected to the entire concept of eminent domain takings?

1. No, I don't object to " the entire concept of eminent domain takings"- but do find that same is used far too liberally, e.g., Kelo.

2. Property rights precede liberty. Perhaps some know that before it became “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our Declaration of Independence, John Locke wrote that man has a right to “life, liberty, and property.” Property Rights Have Personal Parallels - Forbes

3. "... condemnations of private property for dubious reasons."
Kelo is one.
The Spotted Owl is another.

The one world government movement is opposed to American values such as property rights, and individual freedoms. They fabricate enviro-crises for that purpose.


4. The environmental movement is based on voiding of property rights. Land which is not public can be so bound by regulation that it ceases to be private property. In effect, the handmaiden of collectivism, environmentalism’s claim to be of a higher value is a step backward….toward a time when slavery was common.

 

[there4eyeM]

"The one world government movement is opposed to American values such as property rights, and individual freedoms. They fabricate enviro-crises for that purpose.


4. The environmental movement is based on voiding of property rights. Land which is not public can be so bound by regulation that it ceases to be private property. In effect, the handmaiden of collectivism, environmentalism’s claim to be of a higher value is a step backward….toward a time when slavery was common."

Shouldn't this be in 'Conspiracy Theories'?

 

[rdean]

1. You 'grade' ME????

Talk about the inmates running the asylum.


2. This is the most significant and insightful statement you've ever made:
"... from people I never heard of..."

You are the best example...the poster child of education by the Left.


As one would have difficulty actually imagining infinity....
.....the same would be true of imagining the depth and width of a list of folks and events you've never heard of.



I appreciate your confession.

What's funny is that you insist the left subscribes to the policies of a bunch of people I never heard of before. And let's review some of those:

Cultural Studies Association Conference - never heard of it. Not interested. It's in California.

One young faculty member - sounds vaguely familiar

Maurice Strong - never heard of him so that means I follow his policies?

Another young speaker - Funny, I was trying to remember the first one.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc - a girl from a single 1972 photo? Everyone but me remembers her. I actually do remember the photo, but the name? I can't even pronounce it.

the author of a paper - another name that sounds only vaguely familiar.

And you tried to pass those off as "names"????

1. This is a truly interesting issue, and I look forward to the exposition.

The difference between what you expect, and what I furnish shines a bright light, a light which illuminates the very essence of the OP.
The title I chose was "Education According to the Left."

2. We would probably agree that you serve as an example of 'the Left.'
You also serve as the result of the education according to the Left.


3.While I have no desire nor intention of watering down my OP's to the lowest common denominator of reader, you have been brought up to expect that adulteration.

When I read something that interests me, I fully expect to do whatever research is necessary to bring me to the level required to understand same.....

...I use a dictionary, google, source books, etc. I often read the original work of an author who is quoted.

Really.
I actually enjoy studying.


4. So, you see, friend deanie, "...difficult to get through such nonsense..." and "... from people I never heard of..." are the words or one who demands to be allowed to remain a simpleton.

And ".... if there is a point buried there, it's buried much too deep (sic)."
Not for one who thrives on learning.
And, of course, this is where Leftist 'education' has failed you: it has taught you that
it is unnecessary to broach the world unfamiliar.



5. In conclusion, what has transpired is the most beneficial aspect of debate. I would hope it is read by many, as it explains why conservatives will always win in the marketplace of ideas.

Now, I hope that you will continue to read my OP's, and comment on them, even your critiques such as today's....
....because, in a way you didn't intend, your posts are important to the debate.
Regards.

You enjoy memorizing radical right wing propaganda talking points. That's not considered "study". That's considered "propaganda".

Now, explain to us what the right wing "studies". Something that includes "data" and "debate".

 

[Photonic]

Shouldn't this be in 'Conspiracy Theories'?

Yes. But it isn't your fault they haven't been educated enough to understand there are very real environmental threats that effect humanity as a whole and the world we live in.

If they need to fabricate some way for them to remove blame from themselves or ignore it completely so they can continue to consume whatever they want without feeling guilt, then they don't really deserve anything to begin with.

 

[PoliticalChic]

What's funny is that you insist the left subscribes to the policies of a bunch of people I never heard of before. And let's review some of those:

Cultural Studies Association Conference - never heard of it. Not interested. It's in California.

One young faculty member - sounds vaguely familiar

Maurice Strong - never heard of him so that means I follow his policies?

Another young speaker - Funny, I was trying to remember the first one.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc - a girl from a single 1972 photo? Everyone but me remembers her. I actually do remember the photo, but the name? I can't even pronounce it.

the author of a paper - another name that sounds only vaguely familiar.

And you tried to pass those off as "names"????

1. This is a truly interesting issue, and I look forward to the exposition.

The difference between what you expect, and what I furnish shines a bright light, a light which illuminates the very essence of the OP.
The title I chose was "Education According to the Left."

2. We would probably agree that you serve as an example of 'the Left.'
You also serve as the result of the education according to the Left.


3.While I have no desire nor intention of watering down my OP's to the lowest common denominator of reader, you have been brought up to expect that adulteration.

When I read something that interests me, I fully expect to do whatever research is necessary to bring me to the level required to understand same.....

...I use a dictionary, google, source books, etc. I often read the original work of an author who is quoted.

Really.
I actually enjoy studying.


4. So, you see, friend deanie, "...difficult to get through such nonsense..." and "... from people I never heard of..." are the words or one who demands to be allowed to remain a simpleton.

And ".... if there is a point buried there, it's buried much too deep (sic)."
Not for one who thrives on learning.
And, of course, this is where Leftist 'education' has failed you: it has taught you that
it is unnecessary to broach the world unfamiliar.



5. In conclusion, what has transpired is the most beneficial aspect of debate. I would hope it is read by many, as it explains why conservatives will always win in the marketplace of ideas.

Now, I hope that you will continue to read my OP's, and comment on them, even your critiques such as today's....
....because, in a way you didn't intend, your posts are important to the debate.
Regards.

You enjoy memorizing radical right wing propaganda talking points. That's not considered "study". That's considered "propaganda".

Now, explain to us what the right wing "studies". Something that includes "data" and "debate".

Ohhhhh.....nnnnnnooooooo....

I hurt your widdle feelings?


I can tell, because you wrote "Now, explain to US...." when, in reality.....there is only you.

Did it make you feel better to pretend that there are lots of folks supporting you?



Now, as far as ".... the right wing studies," I will tell you that I was just working on an OP that draws heavily from Eric Alterman's book “Why We’re Liberals.”
It'll be about how the Left makes a mistake insulting religious folk. See, intelligent Liberals understand that mistake.
Here's part....he wrote: "You don’t need to be a Christian conservative to object to the kinds of cultural messages regularly communicated to children and teens by American entertainment culture…."
From page 240....check it out as soon as you get a library card.


So....you still claiming 'right wing studies'....or did I just skewer you again?

Amazing, isn't it, how you've been hoist by your own petard?
(Bet you don't know where that's from....do ya'? Huh...do ya'?)


Now....just between the two of us.....aren't you just a leeeeettttle bit disappointed in how you've turned out?
Don't you wish government schools had actually educated you?
What's that sound.....are you grinding your teeth?


Write soon....y'hear!

 

[MondoBongo]

Phan Thị Kim Phúc - a girl from a single 1972 photo? Everyone but me remembers her. I actually do remember the photo, but the name? I can't even pronounce it.

You know what? I didn't recognize the name either, but "a girl from a single 1972 photo" is enough for me to know exactly the photo in question. She was burning from the napalming of her village and running naked down a dirt road with other innocent civilians fleeing their village. She suffered pretty severe burns as a result of this. It is one of the most famous photos of the 20th century and was instrumental in making Americans sour on the idea of continuing the war in Viet Nam. I cannot believe you would marginalize her in such a way as to simply refer to her the way you did. It's callous beyond belief.

 

[NYcarbineer]

"The one world government movement is opposed to American values such as property rights, and individual freedoms. They fabricate enviro-crises for that purpose.


4. The environmental movement is based on voiding of property rights. Land which is not public can be so bound by regulation that it ceases to be private property. In effect, the handmaiden of collectivism, environmentalism’s claim to be of a higher value is a step backward….toward a time when slavery was common."

Shouldn't this be in 'Conspiracy Theories'?

Or in the 'Worst of Rush Limbaugh' circa 1990.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Confiscation isn't.

Most of that land hasn't been confiscated, having been federal land since its acquisition.

Yep....All of the Louisianna Purchase, the Oregon Territory and the Mexican Cession...So, pretty much everything west of the Mississippi.

Well, it was confiscated from the native people.

 

[PoliticalChic]

So you would log the forests bare, and let the creeks and rivers run brown with soil that would come down? What of the present use of the forests as water storage and recreation?

PC, what you are argueing is that unless the forests are used for the generation of more wealth for the already wealthy, they are not being used. For your information, this nation consists of a lot more than just the wealthy.

Nah...I'm not suggesting anything.

I'm out-right telling you that sequestration of forests is destroying them.

Proof?
Sure:

Holly Fretwell is a Property and Environment Research Center (PERC): Senior Research Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Montana State University. She spent a year auditing the health Forest Service’s 446 million acres under it and the Bureau of Land Management’s command.

The effect of fifteen years of sequestration of public lands has been a disaster. Thinning, salvage harvesting, cleaning deadfall are expressly forbidden by environmentalists, the areas are considered by the Forrest Service itself to be in immediate danger of exploding in a once-in-a-millennium fire that would burn so hot that not only would the seeds in the soil die, but also the dirt itself would be burned to dust. Fretwell, “Who is Minding the Federal Estate?” p. 54.

 

[rdean]

So you would log the forests bare, and let the creeks and rivers run brown with soil that would come down? What of the present use of the forests as water storage and recreation?

PC, what you are argueing is that unless the forests are used for the generation of more wealth for the already wealthy, they are not being used. For your information, this nation consists of a lot more than just the wealthy.

Nah...I'm not suggesting anything.

I'm out-right telling you that sequestration of forests is destroying them.

Proof?
Sure:

Holly Fretwell is a Property and Environment Research Center (PERC): Senior Research Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Montana State University. She spent a year auditing the health Forest Service’s 446 million acres under it and the Bureau of Land Management’s command.

The effect of fifteen years of sequestration of public lands has been a disaster. Thinning, salvage harvesting, cleaning deadfall are expressly forbidden by environmentalists, the areas are considered by the Forrest Service itself to be in immediate danger of exploding in a once-in-a-millennium fire that would burn so hot that not only would the seeds in the soil die, but also the dirt itself would be burned to dust. Fretwell, “Who is Minding the Federal Estate?” p. 54.

15 years? What are you doing? Blaming Bush? Stop with blaming Bush. It's tiring.

 

[PoliticalChic]

So you would log the forests bare, and let the creeks and rivers run brown with soil that would come down? What of the present use of the forests as water storage and recreation?

PC, what you are argueing is that unless the forests are used for the generation of more wealth for the already wealthy, they are not being used. For your information, this nation consists of a lot more than just the wealthy.

Nah...I'm not suggesting anything.

I'm out-right telling you that sequestration of forests is destroying them.

Proof?
Sure:

Holly Fretwell is a Property and Environment Research Center (PERC): Senior Research Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Montana State University. She spent a year auditing the health Forest Service’s 446 million acres under it and the Bureau of Land Management’s command.

The effect of fifteen years of sequestration of public lands has been a disaster. Thinning, salvage harvesting, cleaning deadfall are expressly forbidden by environmentalists, the areas are considered by the Forrest Service itself to be in immediate danger of exploding in a once-in-a-millennium fire that would burn so hot that not only would the seeds in the soil die, but also the dirt itself would be burned to dust. Fretwell, “Who is Minding the Federal Estate?” p. 54.

15 years? What are you doing? Blaming Bush? Stop with blaming Bush. It's tiring.

You acting like you're 15? What are you doing? Changing the subject? Stop changing the subject! It's juvenile!

 

[LeftofLeft]

1. In March, 2010, the University of California, at Berkeley, hosted the annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. There is no better place to reveal the effects of decades of Leftist indoctrination, and the impending doom of this once great nation.





2. One young faculty member gives a talk in which he criticizes homeowners for "participating in global capitalism." It is filled with plenty of rhetoric about "the hegemony of absolute space," and "ontological security,' and so on. His point: "We have no claim on family property." He goes further:
"When we succumb to pity for an old woman losing her house we abandon social justice." Mark the theme: no individual's monopolistic rights!

a. One can see the effects: the eco-fascists have imposed the same kind of thinking on the environment: " The delusion has led to the sequestration of productive land unmatched since the age of kings. Over 30% of the American land base lies under no-use or limited-use restrictions….almost 700 million acres. The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are targeting the confiscation of another 213 million acres, bringing the count to nearly half of the continent!" http://r-calfusa.com/Trade/property_rights/100900BLMLeakedMemo.pdf

b. In 1992, the UN-variety socialist, Maurice Strong, announced: “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.” (Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit)




3. Another young speaker lectures about the iconic 1972 photo of a little girl running naked and terrified from a South Vietnamese napalm attack. She is shocked that the girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, has not only forgiven the United States, but is now traveling around the country celebrating American freedom! This incenses the speaker, for whom that old photo conveys such a powerful anti-American message. What happens to the message, she asks, when the girl grows up to do such a terrible thing? Kim Phúc's "loving embrace of America seems a betrayal of the photo." What, she asks, are we "as theorists" to make of the fact that Kim Phúc "appears not to feel anger when we think she should?"

4. Then the author of a paper was entitled "Towards a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Value and Human Domination over Nature." What to make of that title, together with the speaker's 'Valley Girl' patois: "Um, I'm like a grad student at UC Davis?" and, since the "critique of capitalism has faded in significance," she's "sort of reviving a Gramscian-style Marxism." She goes on to describe global warming as "sort of like, a crisis, in the human relationship to nature?" and as "a natural result of the human alienation from nature under capitalism." Then, she cites several authorities who speak of "a sort of, like, physical or spatial alienation?"...but adds that she intends to go beyond them.





5. These young people are smart, upper-middle-class kids, with little real-world experience and even less in the way of serious education. One after another of them pronounces with an imperial air of authority on things about which they plainly know next to nothing. Their familiarity with history, literature, philosophy, or any other traditional field of learning is rudimentary at best. What they have is ideology and the jargon to go with it. And they have the arrogance of innocents who have no clue as to have very little they know.
Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution."

a. "The result? Students who develop a suffocating sense of superiority, who pass judgment on authors as racist, sexist, capitalist, imperialist or homophobic before even reading their works. Political correctness is not designed to produce students who think for themselves, but, rather, cadres of self-absorbed reactionaries ready to take their orders from ‘the movement.’"
Pearcey, "Saving Leonardo," chapter eight.


b. One father, a professional film critic, found he could not understand his daughter’s film studies textbook, which was packed with Left-wing buzzwords, including “fibula,” and “syuzhet.” He asked her what they were. “They’re Russian formulist terms for ‘story’ and ‘plot.’”
“Why don’t they use ‘story’ and ‘plot’? “We’re not allowed to. If we do, they take points off our paper.”
From “Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology.” Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. - Los Angeles Times





6. “What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists — all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few ‘conservatives’.”
- Grover Furr, professor and author of books and articles in Russian and English on Soviet history under the period of Joseph Stalin


In place of education, the Left has substituted politicization.
What they have produced is not a generation of educated thinkers, but a cadre
of robots who take their orders from the movement.
Q.E.D.

What universities need are more graduates reading, writing, thinking critically and analytically. Universities need more math and science graduates. China, Russia, India must be laughing their asses off at US

 

[PoliticalChic]

"The one world government movement is opposed to American values such as property rights, and individual freedoms. They fabricate enviro-crises for that purpose.


4. The environmental movement is based on voiding of property rights. Land which is not public can be so bound by regulation that it ceases to be private property. In effect, the handmaiden of collectivism, environmentalism’s claim to be of a higher value is a step backward….toward a time when slavery was common."

Shouldn't this be in 'Conspiracy Theories'?

Shouldn't you be in the 'Home For The Cryptically Inane'?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Most of that land hasn't been confiscated, having been federal land since its acquisition.

Yep....All of the Louisianna Purchase, the Oregon Territory and the Mexican Cession...So, pretty much everything west of the Mississippi.

Well, it was confiscated from the native people.

Well, then, Japan should open a case at the Hague....


"Powell said that Kennewick Man was not European but most resembled the Ainu[6] and Polynesians.[9]"
Kennewick Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[NYcarbineer]

Mississippi is the most conservative state in the U.S. I don't see a stampede of Americans to MS to get their kids educated.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Mississippi is the most conservative state in the U.S. I don't see a stampede of Americans to MS to get their kids educated.

When, and where, can I expect to hear about your decision to...finally....'get educated'?


Rumor has it, it will be shortly after Richard Simmons has his first born.