As summer comes to a close and college students head back to campus life, the indoctrination of young minds will continue this Fall. It’s no secret that over the last few decades, colleges and universities have become vehemently biased toward the left. As a result, instead of producing college graduates mature enough to enter the workforce, many require safe spaces and therapy to overcome the simple stresses of life such as opinions, bad grades, or the election of a new president.
Forget teaching students about topics they will need to function in the real world, the concept of social justice, which encompasses identity politics ranging from class warfare to race relations, is the new liberal arts.
Let’s take a look at a few courses scheduled for this fall:
At Grinnell College in Iowa, feminist professor Karla Erickson, whose background is in American and Women’s Studies, is scheduled to teach a course called “American Whiteness.” This course is meant to teach about “whiteness as a specific racial formation with a distinct history, proactive and defensive politics, and institutional and personal investments,” and explores formal and informal advantages of whiteness.
Another example comes from Vassar College, where every incoming freshman must attend a mandatory two-week orientation that “emphasizes social justice and ‘belongingness’ should disabuse them of that notion.” These incoming freshmen will also be required to complete a series of three diversity-themed workshops.
Stanford University is scheduled to offer an anthropology course called “White Identity Politics,” focused solely on studying whiteness and ways to abolish it or come to terms with “white identity.” Interestingly, Stanford’s anthropology department is so shameless, they didn’t even try to hide its indoctrination methods by calling the course a more subtle name.
Red Alert Politics recently reported that Brown University of Rhode Island is offering a course called “Feminist Theory for a Heated Planet.” This course will focus on the notion that feminists have been critical of the idea that man is supposed to rule over nature. It is poised to teach that humankind is not the most significant entity in the universe.
Multiple schools including Princeton University and Oregon State University are offering courses regarding “Fat Studies.” Oregon State’s course is a three-credit class designed to explore “forms of activism used to counter weightism perpetuated throughout various societal institutions.” Princeton’s course will use performance art and dance to “examine the changing history, aesthetics, politics, and meanings of fatness.”
Lastly, the University of Madison-Wisconsin is offering a graduate course entitled, “Class, State, and Ideology: An Introduction to Social Science in the Marxist Tradition,” which will explore the “harms and forms of injustice associated with capitalism.”
This class, while promoted as an academic study, is clearly a propaganda course. Dr. Erik Olin Wright, the Berkeley-born and educated sociologist teaching the course, lists his own work, “Envisioning Real Utopias,” on the class syllabus. A 2012 biography from the American Sociology Association states that Wright thinks real utopias are “participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil; the production cooperatives of Mondragon, Spain; and even the collective self-organization of Wikipedia.”
If none of these upcoming Fall courses are convincing enough to confidently claim liberal bias, consider the Harvard “Resistance School” offered earlier this year. The four week course was taught by former Clinton, Sanders, and Obama campaign staff and taught “practical skills for taking back America.”
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are close to 5,000 postsecondary Title IV institutions. Even if each school only had one such left-leaning class (in most cases there are many more than one per campus) this would result in countless experiments to indoctrinate students so that they come out of college worse off than they came in. Instead of growing and maturing enough to be ready for the workforce, they become dependent liberals that either cringe or riot when they hear another viewpoint.
Immaturity has become the prototype of higher education today; institutions that were originally meant to teach students how to think, now teach students what to think.
That is the biggest disservice for students, their futures, and the future of this nation.
