F.H. Buckley and The New York Post bring us this article on the Obama administration’s use of federal money to brainwash students on American college and university campuses in order to make them into good little community organizers. In our previous post, we noted the importance of culture as it relates to politics. The left has long understood this fact. If you want to control the future, you work to change the present.
The right could make some serious changes in this area by killing funding for left-wing brainwashing and replacing it with programs that are pro-capitalist, pro-American and pro-Patriotism. The left survives to a great degree on other people’s money. We should take it back and use those funds to promote our own agenda.
A study by the National Association of Scholars, released on Tuesday, reveals how Obama’s ultra-liberal progressives have begun to turn American higher ed into a vehicle for left-wing activism and propaganda.
“Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics” shows how the Obama DOE has indoctrinated college students through progressive “New Civics” programs that seek to repurpose higher education away from the study of Western institutions, and even away from scholarship in general, in order to make little left-wing community organizers of our students.
The goal of the New Civics movement, concludes the NAS, is to teach students “that a good citizen is a radical activist,” putting “political activism at the center of everything that students do in college, including academic study, extra-curricular pursuits, and off-campus ventures.” Instead of a civics education that studies the foundations of American government, New Civics teaches students “how to organize protests, occupy buildings, and stage demonstrations.”
If you’ve seen how conservative speakers are silenced on campus, deplored the way in which conservative academics are ostracized or bemoaned the way in which much of American higher ed has been turned into an unsafe space by left-wing fascists, it didn’t come out of the blue. It was sponsored by the Obama administration.
