Jason Hill, DePaul professor, slams liberal colleges as ‘gravest internal threat to this country’
Professor calls universities the ‘gravest internal threat’ to U.S.
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"Jason Hill, who teaches at Chicago’s private DePaul University, blasted universities in a hard-hitting op-ed earlier this month as “propaganda machines” that indoctrinate students to reject Western culture.
“The core principles and foundations that keep the United States intact, that provide our citizens with their civic personalities and national identities, are being annihilated,” wrote Hill.
“The gravest internal threat to this country is not illegal aliens; it is leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country.”"
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"Moreover, “today’s scholars in humanities and social sciences increasingly declare that modern argumentation is a white, Western form of domination and linguistic imperialism that silences racial and ethnic minorities and devalues their ‘lived experiences,’” Hill said.
“One cannot argue with such people. The only alternative is to shut them down.”
That means universities as currently constituted have got to go, argued Hill, who has written on civil disobedience and identity politics, social and political philosophy, cosmopolitanism and race theory."
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While I do not agree universities must be shut down, some kind of philosophical counterweight must
exist. One that provides humanities and social science majors--particularly future doctoral candidates headed for professorships--a balanced mix at least of ideological philosophies and political psychology, in particular, while depoliticizing core history courses.
Doctoral candidate exams also need to be reconsidered for less bias towards the "godless" schools of thought. While not yet as militant radical Left as say,the Sorbonne of the 70's, the anti-Western, anti-American indoctrination culture in many humanities and social science departments has surpassed the point of too far--perhaps the point of no return--for this generation at least. Essentially, the political correctness needs to go. Freedom to interpret and share ideas seems nearly lost to modern enclaves of radical liberalism.
What do you think?
Well before I went to college I only had the viewpoints from my family and friends. In college it not only was the viewpoints and beliefs from my professors but also from all my classmates from many different cultures and countries. I wouldn't say anyone was pushing me to be more liberal and a democrat, it's just once my eyes were opened and I saw perspectives and beliefs that were different from what my family and friends taught me in school I became more liberal. In college you get to interact with lots of people and in many ways just the interaction with so many people created a wealth of knowledge that I did not have before.
So I believe your premise is wrong. I don't believe professors are in anyway pushing their students to become leftists, it just seems to happen that way when people are exposed to a wide range of beliefs and viewpoints that are different than what their family and friends taught them growing up.
I find tragicomical and disingenuous the attempted condescension laced assertion that post exposure to an objectively unbiased humanities and social sciences core curriculum; one equally representative of conservative, liberal, Christian and secular diversity of epistemologies, dialectics and raw historical ethos and philosophies from antiquity to present, more often results in the young American mind aligning their belief systems voluntarily with atheism, cultural Marxism, and postmodernist thinking.
In other words,
if new university students were offered a core curriculum truly representative of
all historical social and political viewpoints, rather then fed predominantly Hegelian, Marxist and French postmodernist laced ones--supported in many cases by falsified academic papers, published works, field studies and antipositivist sociology passed off as science, then the average freshman student would likely choose a conservative toned syllabus, or in the very least have a chance to begin with a balanced source of historical information from which to make truly informed, balanced decisions. Rather than the prevailing winds of bias toward the historically liberal point of view and worse--the Marxist and cultural revolutionary one, and an anti-American social and political history ethos in particular.
Again, for the second time in as many days, I offer to a Liberal American mind knowledge of their idiocy in attempting to use the
No True Scotsman Fallacy with the impunity of ignorance.
