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HIGHER EDUCATION GOES P.C.

It's that time of year again--time for students to return to college for the start of fall classes. It's also the time of the year when the Young America's Foundation points out how much farther those colleges are leaning to the left.

The Young America's Foundation took a look at 56 of the country's top private and public universities and came up with their "Dirty Dozen" list of the politically correct classes. Among them:

--The University of California-Santa Barbara's "Capitalism and Racism" course emphasizes "the political uses made of racial categories that accompanied the emergence of modern capitalism, new divisions of labor, and specific economic incentives."

--DePaul University's "White Racism" class describes white racism as "a set of socially organized attitudes, behaviors and beliefs about differences between blacks and other groups of color in the United States."

--Williams College's "Practicing Feminism: A Study of Political Activism" offers "hands-on training at feminist-friendly social service agencies and nonprofits." The course tries to answer questions like "What constraints and opportunities confront feminists as they struggle for social change?"

What about the courses that teach about conservatism? I'm glad you asked. These courses often compare conservatism to the Ku Klux Klan or to Adolf Hitler. (The term 'Nazi' is actually an acronym for the national socialist party of Germany.)

So much for the basics like American history and literature. American higher education is fast becoming a smorgasbord of leftist indoctrination into socialism and class warfare. YAF program officer Rick Parsons says the quality of courses has declined steadily in the seven years since YAF began compiling its study.

Parents, ask yourselves: Is this the kind of "education" you thought your child would get with the $30,000 you pay each year?

And students, ask yourselves: Just what kind of job do you intend to get with a "White Racism" course on your transcript?
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010830-13942920.htm
 
Gee -

I dunno. I took a seminar in college on Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and I survived as a leftie. I learned plenty about some things I supported and about some things I opposed. There's nothing stupid about probing the connections between racism and capitalist development. A prime field hand in 1860 was worth as much as a Mercedes Benz is today. Southern slaves in 1860 were collectively worth three times the amount invested in railroads or manufacturing in the entire country. Good questions can and should be be asked about these things, and I firmly believe that college is question time, when people should learn to think critically.
 
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