Jason Hill, a professor from DePaul University, recently made headlines for calling to abolish universities, arguing that the principles that once made universities intellectual beacons have vanished.
“Today, after 22 years of being a college professor, and having traveled much of America to lecture, I am sad to say the situation is not the same. 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,” the professor wrote for an article published in The Hill.
He goes on to suggest, “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.”
While immigration has been dominating our culture recently, Hill, like many other conservatives, believes one of the greatest threats to our nation is something totally different. Hill suggest that when colleges openly advocate against principles like individualism and free speech they are doing more harm to the country than good.
Hill explained further, “When the term ‘Western civilization’ is equated with racism, cultural superiority and pervasive oppression, and students in my political philosophy class refuse to study the works of John Stuart Mill or John Locke (or any other white thinker) because they consider them white supremacists, there is no lower level of educational hell.”
While universities have long been intellectual echo-chambers, many have become propaganda and brainwashing machines. While the class warfare mentality grew in strides under the Obama administration, it has extended leaps and bounds after the 2016 election. A reason why many on the right believe that universities are a major threat to our democracy is because the growing acceptance of socialism and far-left ideologies among college students.
Hill laments how college students refuse to acknowledge the modern day failures of socialism.
“We have the spectacle of contemporary Africa, Venezuela and much of Latin America as evidence of the political calumny of socialism, and we have seen the brain drain of other Western countries that advocate socialism. In these countries, citizens resent the enormous financial costs to them in the form of taxation — and they come to the United States for fiscal relief.”
In fact, a recent Gallup poll showed that college graduates are less likely to be proud Americans.
