Taking on the Campus Left
Antimulticulture
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21709
By Bill Steigerwald
March 23, 2006
David Horowitz's new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics
in America, will make him no new friends in academia. Not that the
conservative commentator and former Marxist has many friends left at
American universities.
Horowitz, the author of three New York Times best-sellers including his
autobiography Radical Son, earns his daily bread blasting the left-liberal
radicals he says have corrupted higher education from coast to coast and
turned some college departments into "political parties that would give the
Communist Party a run for its radical money." I talked to Horowitz March 16
(Thursday) by telephone from his offices in Los Angeles, where he is
president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture:
Q: We've known for a long time that many campuses are dominated by
left-liberals. Is it worse than people think?
A: It's worse than I thought and I thought it was worse than most people
think. What's happened is that a generation of radicals got tenure and
carried their political agendas into the university. Not only have they
introduced a blacklist that has excluded conservatives, libertarians and
believing Christians from faculty positions but they have actually
transformed whole fields and departments and made them into ideological and
indoctrination and recruitment centers for the radical left.
Usually the fields end in "studies": women's studies, black studies,
religious studies -- one of the worst fields in the country -- whiteness
studies, queer studies, peace studies, global studies, cultural studies, all
different forms of Marxism and various derivative radical doctrines.
They've destroyed the field of cultural anthropology (the study of other
cultures). What they've turned it into is, well, Marxism again. You can go
to Guatemala and hang out with terrorists and other quote "progressive"
unquote groups, write up your experiences and publish them as a book, throw
in a few Frenchified words like "imbrication" and invent some other nonwords
like "fluidarity" -- which is kind of solidarity but across borders -- refer
to yourself as a "gringa," and you'll become a tenured professor at Duke,
like Diane Nelson, who is a director of undergraduate studies in the
cultural anthropology department with a degree from Stanford.
This woman is a blooming idiot. Yet she has a $130,000-a-year job for six
hours a week in class, four months paid vacation every year and the ability
to run around the Duke campus recruiting children for communist causes. Does
anybody out there think this could be possible?
Q: Give us a quick synopsis of your book.
A: It's about Diane Nelson -- and 50,000 professors like her. My book is a
collection of profiles to show a pattern that exists in the universities:
the pattern of hiring radical extremists to faculties, the pattern in which
they are powers in the profession -- department chairs, heads of
professional associations, like the American Historical Association and, of
course, the American Anthropological Association.
Another pattern I show is professors who are promoted beyond their scholarly
output; they don't have the credentials for teaching what they teach -- a
professor of saxophone who's the director of peace studies at Ball State; an
animal biologist, who has written the most widely used text in peace
studies, on war and peace; people who are just completely unqualified. If
you have the right politics, you get promoted.
Also there are bigots -- professors who are anti-Semites. I have a professor
in there who told an Armenian student the Armenians deserved to be massacred
... professors who hate Christians and who violate all the sensitivity rules
of the university but have no repercussions because the groups they are
attacking are groups that it's OK to attack.
Q: What's the typical ideological profile of one of your 101 professors?
A: A professor who believes the terrorists are freedom fighters and America
is the Great Satan. They all believe in some version of Marxism, though they
call it feminism, post-structuralism, post-modernism. They believe private
property is evil. War is caused by corporations and American generals.
America is an oppressive, racist, homophobic, imperialist society and the
reason we are being attacked is because of what we do to other people. Jews
are monsters who have turned Palestinians into suicide bombers because
Palestinians have no other choice. That's your fundamental creed of the
tenured radical.
[ed. And, Social-Darwinism, in fact evolution entirely taught as "fact" for
purely political ends...]
Q: You say as many as 60,000 of the country's 617,000 professors are
radicals. What's the worst damage they are doing?
A: I estimate that maybe 3 million students a year will go through their
classes, where they will hear anti-American propaganda, or libels, as I
would call them.... It's mainly that they are indoctrinating students and
recruiting them to radical causes.
Q: You say you are exposing these professors not because they have biases
but because they have decided to preach and not teach.
A: The indictment in the book is of professors who abuse the university
system for political agendas. In some of the profiles, the book does take on
some of their misrepresentations. Grover Furr, of Montclair State, thinks
that Stalin was a democrat and the collapse of the Soviet Union was a moral
catastrophe. He's a medievalist, but he's managed to get a course - and this
is part of what I call the consumer fraud that is going on - in which he can
teach his ridiculous opinions. I do think that when you see the 100
professors strung together, it makes a deep impression on you with the
problem we have in this country with a Fifth Column.
Q: Are non-liberals being discriminated against?
A: The longest, most extensive blacklist in the history of America, which
goes together with the biggest witch-hunt in the history of America, is the
blacklisting of conservatives within university environments. By witch-hunt,
I mean if you laugh at the wrong joke, or you use the wrong phrase, you are
a racist, a homophobe or a sexist - "Gotchya!" And if you are tarred enough,
and it doesn't take more than a few shots, your career comes to an end. So
you have a large group of people on university faculties who are just
intimidated.
There are actual liberals - I don't like to apply the term "liberal" to
people who are intolerant, malicious and who are witch-hunters and
blacklisters. There are a lot of people in the university who are not that,
but they are pretty much a silent majority out of fear of being censured.
In the public sphere, the dominant ideology of the university is left.
Otherwise, a Diane Nelson could not have gotten tenure, could not be the
director of undergraduate studies and would have been fired a long time ago
by her peers. But they are afraid of her.
Q: What advice do you give to nonliberal parents who are about to send their
kids to college?
[ed. Don't bother, get into the real world and make some dosh. Chasing
"arts" degrees will only holding you back for the most enthusiastic years
of your life - and nobody wants to hire a college know it all anyway...]
A: When your student goes to college, get him connected with a sensible
group. If you're a sensible liberal, um, jeez, I don't know what the heck ..
Q: The Democrat Party?
A: Well, no. The Democrat Party has suffered tremendously. That's why it's
lurching so far to the left. College Democrats are a dangerous political
group for a true liberal. You won't find many Joe Lieberman supporters among
university faculty, so I don't really know what groups they would join. But
conservative students should get connected with college Republicans and read
regularly a conservative Web site or journal. That would be helpful. You can
tell from my book that you don't want your student going into any cultural
anthropology course or department. Stay out of them. Economics departments
are the best in the liberal arts schools, without question -- except for the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It's a Marxist department.
--
Jim
http://www.geocities.com/anti_multiculture/index.html
Unite Against Multiculturalism!
"Abolish Multi-Culty and String Up the Traitors!"