Academic Cheerleaders for Terrorists
Phil Orenstein • November 23, 2009 • Uncategorized
Dr. Candace de Russy once again takes us to the root of the malevolence plaguing higher education that “the public increasingly grasps.” She writes in American Thinker about the prestigious platform the University of Massachusetts-Amherst recently gave to domestic terrorist leader Raymond Luc Levasseur to speak in its annual Colloquium on Social Change. I mentioned this travesty in a recent post as covered in the New York Post.
This is not a unique event but a distressing trend as she catalogues numerous former terrorists and ex-cons within academe elevated to the ivory tower status. She proceeds to answer why universities are “so smitten with former terrorists or otherwise extremist, violent individuals,” that would be the equivalent of pedophiles running day care centers.
Excoriating the degenerate bunch of terrorist cheerleaders in academia, she calls for concerned citizens to unite and take action against this madness:
At root, professors who pay court to terrorists are indulging in a radical, degenerate, and socially debilitating form of moral discourse. They are purveyors of postmodernism, a view according to which the “grand narratives” of former times — narratives which privilege truth over falsehood, goodness over evil, freedom over tyranny, and normality over deviance — are deconstructed in favor of a conception according to which radical departures from traditional norms of civilization are valued for their own sake. The more brutal, the more extreme, the more perverted this “acting out,” the better. What matters is the gory, ugly theater of it all, in order to deliver a tremendous slap in the faces of normal citizens. A litany of reasons to blame America for the ills of the world provides the constant backdrop for these rabid, counter-cultural rituals.
My own idea is that in 2010 we have a revolutionary election process at the polls to put dozens of honest representaives into Congress and state public office who understand the problem at the heart of higher education and legislate the terrorists and their sympathizers out of the classroom. Let the crackpot professors march with their fomenting rage till doomsday for their “academic freedom.”
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