Ruth R. Wisse at The Wall Street Jounral’s Opinion Journal has a must-read piece titled, Gliberalism — Universities are among the most cynical institutions in America.
It’s not so much that universities are cynical, rather it’s that they are blatantly anti-military:
Military service is a form of protection that the young must offer the rest of us. The age of undergraduates, 17 to 23, coincides with the universal age for military conscription. When the United States ended its draft in 1973, it turned the protection of the country and its vital interests over to a force of volunteers. At that point, the word ought to have issued from the academic community that democracy will henceforth depend on the readiness of the best and the brightest to volunteer for duty. Instead, faculties shaped by the antiwar movement drove ROTC and its recruiters from the campuses. Adding hypocrisy to injury, they later blamed the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gay enlistment for a ban that was already in effect!
That first sentence is the absolute truth. But, sadly, today’s Liberal professors and educators are trying to convince today’s youth that, not only is it not their responsibility to serve as our nation’s defenders, but that it’s an evil and contemptable vocation to even consider. Others simply tell them that it’s beneath them.
Granted, there are exceptions, like Harvard professor of economics Gregory Mankiw:
No one benefits more from the freedoms that the military defends than academics, who use the freedoms of expression more liberally than the average American. It seems particularly reprehensible for us to free ride as completely as we do.
But this kind of thinking is a rare exception.
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But, sadly, today’s Liberal professors and educators are trying to convince today’s youth that, not only is it not their responsibility to serve as our nation’s defenders, but that it’s an evil and contemptable vocation to even consider
This is something you have experienced?
Preston — Yes, it is something I have experienced first hand. I went back to school to complete my degree in 1995, after serving in the US Army and Desert Storm.
As an adult returning to a classroom full of mostly teenagers and adults too young yet to legally buy a beer — and as a recently decorated combat veteran — I was much more aware of the bias and untruths that many of my professors were preaching in class. And I was completely undaunted by professors who tired to use their lecturn as a bully-pulpit. Nor did I ever let it go unchallenged.
But it’s more than just my experience Preston. It’s the experience of ROTC that is vandalized or kicked off campus. It’s the experience of every student every taught by the likes of Ward Churchill, Deb Frisch, Kathleen Ensz, Sally Jacobsen, or Robert Jensen.
Preston, that you don’t see this or don’t know this is not surprising — you’re not looking for it. The Professors’ world views so often conincided with your own that it didn’t seem odd at all. Talk to any conservative student or Professor (good luck on finding one of the later, as they are a dying breed) about their perception and experiences with Liberal bias and anti-military sentitment on college campuses.
I think you’ve moved the goalposts from professors and educators are trying to convince today’s youth …that it’s an evil and contemptable vocation to even consider to professors who use their lecturn as a bully-pulpit
In any case, I’ll ask the former Marine in my class tomorrow if he’s feeling oppressed by liberals in the ivory tower.