A Good Question

Was psycho-killer Cho taught to hate at VA Tech? An interesting and worthy question. PC teachers at these schools today fill students minds with unrelenting anathema for America and our society. Maybe we should take a serious look at what some teachers are doing.

And then there is the big Marxist website from Professor Brizee, all in fiery red against pitch black, showing old, mass-murder-inspiring Karl flanked by two raised fists. It celebrates revolutionary violence and hate for capitalist America (which is paying for Cho’s education). “Critical Social Theory”—- the euphemism for PoMo (Post Modern) Marxism—- is a big part of English teaching at VT.  The Marxist page links prominently to the British Socialist Worker’s Party, which is currently leading the charge for Islamic fascism through such creatures as George Galloway.

And, talking about Islamist ideas, there is Professor Carter-Tod, who wrote a report about ” “Treatment of Arab American, Muslums and Seiks (sic) Post 911,” for the US Civil Rights Commission.  The racial grievance industry is alive and growing at VT.

Post-modernism and its hatred for reason is another big theme at the VT English Department. Professor James Collier boasts about his book, Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies,  But “the end of knowledge” is the beginning of ignorance.

And of course there is the “diversity” crowd, diversity being a very well-funded program at ole’ guilt-tripping VT. There’s Professor Carlos Evia, who describes himself as ”...soy director de la Comisión de Igualdad y Diversidad en Virginia Tech.” Or in English, “I am also chair of the Virginia Tech Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity.” There’s “research” in “Feminist science fiction” and “The comic strip” from Professor Susan C. Allender-Hagedorn. Scratching racial and gender wounds until they bleed is a big preoccupation at VT. What’s a kid from South Korea to think?

Colleges are full of these America-loathing poseurs who want to tear down society, but offer nothing positive to replace it with. Not only do they teach ignorance and hate, people are forced to take a lot of these PC courses and pay insane tuition costs in the process.

Before anyone blames movies and video games, they should look into this subject.

UPDATE: More disgusting academics.

I am sure if this guy read any of the material he quoted, instead of just scanning for tiny fragments to prove his points, he might have learned something. 

I am surprised that someone who feels so strongly about censorship is paying any heed to this article what so ever.

Posted by  on  04/20  at  10:33 AM

Much of the college “intelligensia” traffic in moral relativism. To them, “good” and “evil” are words the benighted and unenlightened members of the right-wing toss around with abandon. And when confronted face-to-face with someone that could truly be characterized as “evil”, they blame society at large (and capitalism, judging by the quote pulled from the univeristy’s english dept. web site) and very rarely look inward at their own seething, barely-contained catalogue of hatreds and grievances.

Liberal arts professors don’t much impress me. In fact, I rank them just above the Hollywood elite on the stupidity scale. I majored in Anthropology (“dangerously close to a science!” was our motto), so I’ve dealt with more than my fair share of the Truly Enlightened.

Posted by  on  04/20  at  10:53 AM

Testify,

While I’m sure you’re right that the writer didn’t attend the classes or read much, if any of the work he cites, anyone who has read or seen what PC academia creates in liberal arts classes knows what he’s talking about.

Some of the things he cites are dubious, but the argument is valid. There are a lot of haters teaching in our schools. I’m sure there are plenty who will testify to this. (No pun intended)

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/20  at  11:04 AM

That guy is a zealot and/or an idiot.

As for the argument. This reeks of McCarthyism. Its bad news.

You think firing Imus was stifling on ones free speech.  Wait until they start firing proffessors around the world for supporting “Unamerican” views.

Posted by  on  04/20  at  11:40 AM

You misunderstand me. These people aren’t merely unamerican. They are spreading ignorance and hate. Any teacher who does that shouldn’t be teaching. Why should people be subjected to these ideologues at these universities? They’re not teachers. They are propaganda hacks.

That any school keeps such clowns is appalling in itself. Ward Churchill being a recent example.

If there was more balance on school campuses, that would be one thing, but mostly schools have one sided leftist educators in certain areas, like English lit and social science. A truly liberal education would provide a balance of views. Not one, radical side.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/20  at  12:08 PM

Testify, do you really think a professor (!!) who is so illiterate as to title a report “Treatment of Arab American, Muslums and Seiks Post 911” deserves to keep their job, much less tenure?  I’d have been raked over the coals in junior high for all the mistakes in that simple title.  (I count eight errors of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.)
And frankly, anyone who believes in either post-modernism or Marxism as actually useful theories rather that quaint pieces of history should not be teaching, any more than a professor of medicine would keep his job if he taught “the four humours” and advocated purges, bloodletting, and the consumption of goat urine.
This is not McCarthyism.  This is dealing with the incompetent.  Or does “freedom of speech” now extend to forcing us to support deluded fools and idiots?

Posted by  on  04/20  at  12:37 PM

On VTech English Department webpage:

We are Virginia Tech

We are sad today
We will be sad for quite a while
We are not moving on
We are embracing our mourning

We are Virginia Tech

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly
We are brave enough to bend to cry
And we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again

We are Virginia Tech

We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it

But neither does a child in Africa
Dying of AIDS

Neither do the Invisible Children
Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army

Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
Be devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking
For fresh water

Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs

Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
Dislodged
Because the land was destabilized

No one deserves a tragedy

We are Virginia Tech
The Hokie Nation embraces
Our own
And reaches out
With open heart and mind
To those who offer their hearts and hands

We are strong
And brave
And innocent
And unafraid

We are better than we think
And not yet quite what we want to be

We are alive to imagination
And open to possibility
We will continue
To invent the future

Through our blood and tears
Through all this sadness

We are the Hokies

We will prevail
We will prevail
We will prevail

We are
Virginia Tech

Nikki Giovanni, delivered at the Convocation, April 17, 2007

http://www.english.vt.edu/

liberal profs are idiots.

Posted by  on  04/20  at  02:17 PM

Yeah, they just had to work in that guilt trip about children dieing in Africa and Iraq because ITS OUR FAULT!!! Haliburton!

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/20  at  04:30 PM

I think you guys have built up in your minds what a “leftist Professor” is.  You talk like he is some cult leader leading some lemmings to the kool aid.

It just not like that in reality.

Posted by  on  04/20  at  05:55 PM

Not me. I see them as egotistical, deluded fools. But they seem to suck a lot of people down with them.

Academia was always thus. In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels there’s a whole chapter devoted to Gulliver going to a university where the professors are all crazy nutjobs.

Do I think all academics are like that? Of course not. I have friends who teach at universities. It’s a minority, but it only takes a few bad apples…

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/20  at  07:25 PM

testify,
My first go round in college was in the early 70s.  I then went back to college in 1999-2003.  In the 70s I was a naive kid that was easily led by my professors.  I believed what they said.  They were PROFESSORS.

When I went back to school, I was an adult.  I knew how to research and gather the actual FACTS.  Whenever the profs tried to spew their leftest propaganda, I called them on it everytime.  Rarely did I lose a debate.  I had the FACTS, they had propaganda. 

These college instructors associate with other college instructors and feed off each others liberal agendas.  It is the same with print media types, especially, but other media people are the same.  They rarely associate with people who have differing opinions, therefore they reinforce their liberal take on the world.  I’ve been around the media my entire adult life, print, TV, and radio and I know what I’m talking about.

Posted by  on  04/20  at  07:40 PM

There should be a committee to stop this “un-American” hate mongering.  Any professor you two don’t agree with should have to prove their Americaness.  You could call it the House Committee on Un-American Activities.  It will be great.  After all, the last thing one needs in a democracy is different opinions.  While your at it, get rid of all the Jews in Hollywood. Since you guys obviously hold the bastion for “Americaness” you can make a list for us.  I am sure with thorough investigation you will find countless professors who do nothing but teach how to hate. I am sure it will be much harder to find real, concrete examples rather than just spout off about any one with a doctorate. 

Perhaps i went to a more esteemed university than you two, but my professors always had a rational answer to back up their views whether I agreed with them or not. And I certainly disagreed with a lot of them. In fact, I think most enjoyed being challenged on their views as it shows critical thought. I learned a lot in that process. But obviously my arguments weren’t as strong as yours, NewsJunky, because you managed to just stump the teacher in font of the class with bullet proof arguments and made him bow to your views. Because we all know, there is a definite right and wrong for everything. 

Now, looking objectively at this subject.  How dangerous are these professors. Well, there are around 17 million kids attending college right now. I am guessing that close to a billion people have taken some college courses over the past 250 years. The last time a student in a university went on a rampage like this was…NEVER!!! WOW THE PROFFESSORS MUST HAVE REALLY WORKED ON THIS KID! 

And Toren, why don’t you email the professor about that title or maybe…i dont know, read the paper before you judge it.  Perhaps there is a reason that the title does not jive with your spell checker.  After all, we are talking about Arabic words translated to English.  I know from my Jewish history studies, American press takes a lot of liberties when deciding how to spell a word. In addition, you don’t need to put a comma in front of the word “and” in academic writing.  I am not saying your wrong necessarily, but I will say that you have not done your homework before criticizing these folks.

I have been on this site for a couple of years now and I have learned a lot from you guys.  But this is total garbage.  You guys are just making stuff up.

Posted by  on  04/23  at  04:56 AM

T,

I think you’re making some rather broad judgments here. Sweeping generalizations. No one said anything like that.

It’s all about competency. Rank ideologues who twist the facts to fit some extremist political agenda are not competent to teach. A good example are racial politics hacks who basically teach racism in the form of identity politics. There was a teacher named Andrea Dworkin who used to make claims that just about anything men created is a form of rape. That Beethoven’s music was rape, etc. Ward Churchill being an example of a fraud who taught stuff that had no basis in reality, only his personal and rather strange world view. He suggested that the victims of 9/11 deserved to die because they were nazis. Another black professor in the 90s teach that white people have no feelings because they are “ice people” and therefore are inherently racist and oppressive of others.  These kind of professors are actually taken seriously. They really deserve to be kicked to the curb.

The article I posted is talking about the kind of extremist views some of these English lit teachers have, that condemns straight white males and regularly bashes American culture, which could have contributed to this kids derangement. I thionk it is an idea worth exploring.


A lot of these crank professors would be laughed at in the “real world” but on campus they are supposed to be not only taken seriously, if you take their classes you have to kowtow to them if you want to pass the class. And considering how expensive tuition is these days, that’s appalling. Some person who is easily swayed by this kind of propaganda can become a radical nut. On the deep end, a wack job like Cho.

I don’t think rank ideologues of any stripe should be teaching in college. But what makes it worse is how biased academia is toward the left. There is little tolerance for any views that aren’t in alignment with that view. Especially in social sciences and some others. This means that schools are ramming left wing politics down people’s throats.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/23  at  10:48 PM

Testify: the paper is in English, the title is written in English, it must therefore conform in English standards.  QED.  Sorry you don’t like that.
As to how I know what these profs are like…why, I took the outrageous liberty of looking at their websites, where their demented leftist intolerance and hatred is clearly presented in their own words.
I give you but one example:

The True Import of Present Dialog, Black vs. Negro, by Nikki Giovanni

Nigger
Can you kill
Can you kill
Can a nigger kill
Can a nigger kill a honkie
Can a nigger kill the Man
Can you kill nigger
Huh? Nigger can you kill
Do you know how to draw blood
Can you poison
Can you stab-a-Jew
Can you kill huh? Nigger
Can you kill
Can you run a protestant down with your
‘68 El Dorado
(that’s all they’re good for anyway)
Can you kill
Can you piss on a blond head
Can you cut it off
Can you kill
A nigger can die
We ain’t got to prove we can die
We got to prove we can kill

What utter rubbish.  Cho wrote better than that.
This is real poetry:

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

But who teaches Eliot any more?  He’s a dead white guy.

Posted by  on  04/24  at  11:21 PM

In the past 25 years, VT has become one of the most liberal universities in the US. Shortly after 9/11 anti-American hate banners were hung from windows. While not all students and professors feel this way, it is a majority opinion, especially among faculty.

How do I know this? I have actually been there.

Toren, an ironic note on Eliot that you probably already know if you’ve read his poetry - he hid his Americanism for decades and yet in the end his poetic voice was purely American.

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper.”

Posted by joy  on  04/25  at  06:43 AM

The power of Eliot’s poetry is amazing.  As well as I know The Hollow Men…at one point I had it completely memorized…reading it can still raise the hairs on my arms.
As much as I love Eliot—he’s my favorite poet—he was a flawed person.  While his anti-Semitism never reached the levels of his mentor, Ezra Pound (another poet whose work I love) he still had a problem.
But what do you do?  I still listen to John Adams, despite his tragic descent into knee-jerk leftism, because I love his music.  I’ll admit to usually skipping his works when they have lyrics, however.  The instrumental stuff is fine…a C# has no political bias.
To me the most important thing is that Eliot’s anti-Semitism never comes out in his poetry, whereas Giovanni makes her position clear as a bell.  In fact, of the “poems” of hers I read, none were anything more than a carrier for her leftist hatred.  This is a problem I have with most modern PC poets—their work is essentially trival.  Societal satire and criticism can be done well in poetry (Butler’s Hudibras is an excellent example) but the work of these modern “poets” is a blunt instrument lacking the skills and sly subtlety established in 2000 years of such poetry.
By dead white men.

Posted by  on  04/25  at  12:08 PM
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