{"id":5109,"date":"2014-02-23T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T02:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2014-02-23T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T02:42:16","slug":"academia-today-justice-over-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/02\/23\/academia-today-justice-over-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia Today: “Justice” over Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Yet another mis-educated elitist and Marxist, this time a student attending Harvard, has declared that freedom is oppression<\/a> and that “Academic Justice” should trump “Academic Freedom.”\u00a0 She writes in the Harvard Crimson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals simply in the name of ‘academic freedom’?<\/p>\n

“Instead, I would like to propose a more rigorous standard: one of ‘academic justice.’ When an academic community observes research promoting or justifying oppression, it should ensure that this research does not continue.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     This, of course is not surprising.\u00a0 The entire impetus of the rabid Left is to destroy society so that they may build a utopia in its place.\u00a0 The old ways are just defined to be “oppression,” and thus opposition to this “oppression” is defined as being for “justice” and against “oppression” regardless of how unjust or oppressive the means of overthrowing society or the ends they wish to establish.<\/p>\n

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     It is also another demonstration of thy hypocrisy of “tolerance” as championed by the Left.\u00a0 They demand “tolerance” when it is their views, beliefs, or behavior they want heard or accepted.\u00a0 However, this is only used as an excuse and tool to push their worldview on others.\u00a0 As Robert Stacy McCain points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“During the early years of the Cold War, as William F. Buckley Jr. documented in God and Man at Yale (1951), elite universities used the \u201csuperstition\u201d of academic freedom to protect faculty who, if not objectively pro-Soviet, at least were decidedly biased against Christianity, economic freedom and American patriotism.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Once they have gained the power, they will silence opposition hypocritically under the claim of “tolerance<\/a>” since they define their opposition<\/a> as being “intolerance” and thus define opposition to those view to be “tolerance” quite regardless of the actual meaning of the word!\u00a0 As Robert Stacy McCain astutely noted<\/a>, this is just the underlying ideology of the neo-Marxist left and can be readily summed up by the words<\/a> of Herbert Marcuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     That Harvard Marxist even gives it all away when she writes:<\/p>\n

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“[D]iscourse about ‘academic freedom’ obscures what should fundamentally be a political argument.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Therein lies the entire problem with Leftists in academia.\u00a0 It isn’t about discovering the truth, it is about declaring the truth and then using academia as a political tool to implement and enforce it.<\/p>\n

     Is academia becoming MiniTru?\u00a0 The sad truth of the matter is that Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” was inspired by the Senate House of the University of London<\/em>, which during WWII was co-opted by pro-Stalinist<\/a> propagandists.<\/p>\n

     Doubleplusungood indeed\u2026<\/p>\n

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