The Totalitarian Mindset on College Campuses

Centres of Learning or Centres of Indoctrination? In the 1980s and early nineties books like "The Closing of the American Mind" and "Tenured Radicals" alerted Americans to the appalling state of their colleges and universities. Formerly, a university or college was seen as oasis of reason in a sea of intolerance. Now the reverse is true. Just look at the reception that Tom Tancredo got in North Carolina University or Anne Coulter got here in Carelton. Student "radicals" now have licence to determine who will or will not be permitted to speak on campus, and universities administrators who share their agenda can hide behind the need to maintain "security" in deciding to cancel politically incorrect speech. You are more likely to get a hearing for your ideas in the local bar or pub than you would in a college tutorial or seminar, where any one of a legion Red Guards or Fem Guards would shout you down before your words had left your mouth. Perhaps John Anderson, author of "The True Face of Campus Progress" (attached) should take a tour of Canadian campuses, beginning with Queens. If he thinks America is bad, wait until he samples our bullshit factories. Colleges are the boot camps of political correctness. If there are any students who enter them with an open mind, they are soon divested of it by passing through a four year gauntlet of indoctrination. It is almost amusing to engage any university graduate in Canada who obtained a liberal arts degree in the past three decades in a conversation. Their opinions are laughingly predictable, and set in concrete. If you haven't spoken to one yet, don't bother. Just listen to any CBC program and you will get the picture. The students of today are the CBC producers and journalists of tomorrow. Tim Murray Advertisement: Political Correctness in a Bottle Hey kids, it is expensive to get a univerity education. 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