Tag Archives: Higher Ed

Academia Today: “Justice” over Freedom

Posted on February 23, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Yet another mis-educated elitist and Marxist, this time a student attending Harvard, has declared that freedom is oppression and that “Academic Justice” should trump “Academic Freedom.”  She writes in the Harvard Crimson: “If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and … Continue reading →

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The Least Free Places in America

Posted on February 6, 2014 by The Political Hat

     The institutions that are supposed to foster free speech and open debate are, in all irony, paragons of suppressing dissent: College campuses.      Greg Lukianoff, President at The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), explains how what should be an … Continue reading →

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What is Old is New Again: College Leftists Threaten “Physical Action”

Posted on January 30, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Back when Leftist campus radicals were more than a sad pathetic joke, “direct action” was one of the methods and threats they used to get campuses to do what they wanted.      What is old is new again, as the University … Continue reading →

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When Maleness is Considered a Pathology

Posted on January 20, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Is the problem with society due to men being men, and boys aspiring to that?  According to feminist activists, that answer is YES, and that “masculinity” is nothing more than the most cartoonish parody of caveman masculinity.      Feminist activist Jennifer … Continue reading →

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Public Schools’ Priority: “Challenging Heteronormativity In The Primary Classroom”

Posted on January 16, 2014 by The Political Hat

     A research paper submitted to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto has revealed shocking practices of Toronto Public Schools.      The “Socialist Studies” blog reveals the “anti-heteronormative” agenda of the school district, as well as … Continue reading →

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WTF?: “Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies”

Posted on January 8, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Academic research in the social sciences is not about finding the truth.  It is about having a narrow-minding worldview and validating it through cerebral onanism.  A so-called “ecofeminist writer, scholar, activist, and documentary filmmaker,” Greta Gaard,  expostulates about “Feminist Postcolonial … Continue reading →

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Through a Racial Lens

Posted on December 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The professor at a Minnesota community college, who was reprimanded for creating a racial hostile environment after White students complained about her rants about “structural racism,” has penned her own personal response to the incident.  Her statement makes it very … Continue reading →

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Genders, Genders, Everywhere, Or Any LGBTQ To Be

Posted on December 10, 2013 by The Political Hat

     An increasingly popular trend has been choose your own gender.  Not limited to the simple male/female binary, new “gender-neutral” pronouns are being pushed on younger and younger people, who are now given the choice of up to seven or eight … Continue reading →

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Being “Anti-Racist” Doesn’t Justify Racial Harassment

Posted on December 3, 2013 by The Political Hat

     A “Professor of English and African diaspora” at a Minnesota community college was recently reprimanded for pushing, in class, the idea of “structural racism” and upsetting some White students enough that they lodged a complain for the racially directed derogatory … Continue reading →

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Oppression of the Grammar NAZIs

Posted on November 27, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Graduate students in the School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA staged a sit-in to protest a most vile form of evil oppression by White oppressors.  Just what was this vile evil being thrust upon poor downtrodden and oppressed … Continue reading →

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