Timely piece and worth a read and discussion....
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2981677/conservatives-should-never-have-surrendered-higher-education-to-the-left/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2981677/conservatives-should-never-have-surrendered-higher-education-to-the-left/
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Conservatives should never have surrendered higher education to the Left
By Becket AdamsApril 28, 2024 6:00 am
The biggest mistake conservatives ever made was surrendering higher education to left-wing radicals.
Everything everything! that conservatives rightly identify as an illness in modern culture flows from this. From racial tensions to attacks on the nuclear family, the problem can be traced back directly to those who dominate higher educational systems.
In fact, at the non-collegiate level, it wasn't until around 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, that certain conservative parents of K-12 students were even exposed for the first time to the realities of what their children were being taught. Though the remote learning experience motivated these parents to get more involved in their children's education and to investigate closely what, exactly, is being taught in the schools they've entrusted with their sons and daughters, one can't help but ask why this wasn't being done in the first place. Why did it take nationwide school closures for conservative parents to notice what their children were being taught?
It is because the Right, for too long, has not cared about education the way it cares about national defense, the Second Amendment, illegal immigration, or the right to life. It has more or less surrendered the matter to the Left.
People on the Right joke about how weird academia is and how nutty left-wing professors seem to be and then go right on sending their children to these same schools.
It's true that certain parts of the Right have responded to the illiberalism of higher education by founding their own schools. Yet, this is surrender by another, albeit more proactive, name. Implicit in the founding of explicitly conservative colleges is the belief that the Ivy Leagues and state schools are unsalvageable.
Now, after decades of near-total liberal dominance, we are witnessing violent clashes on our most prestigious campuses between police and college students cosplaying as Hamas terrorists, all while Jewish faculty and students flee to secure their own safety.
It's shocking. It's unsettling. It's also entirely predictable.
Colleges and universities have become hotbeds of left-wing activism, especially since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas invaded Israel and murdered some 1,000-plus civilians. Since that time and Israel's military response, students have staged protests, even erecting encampments, calling for, among other things, the destruction of Israel. They hold signs with messages such as, "Fight for worldwide Intifada." Student demonstrators such as the ones at Columbia University march all over the country in protest, chanting, "Globalize the Intifada," "There is only one solution: Intifada, revolution," "Burn Tel Aviv to the ground," "Go Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets, too," "Say it loud, say it clear: We don't want no Zionists here," and "Free our prisoners, free them all Zionism will fall."....
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