Bush Bashing Disguised as Philosophy Class · 06 January 2004
by R. Lindquist
As I sat at my local Borders bookstore reading Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, I overheard a college student talking about her "philosophy class" to a friend. She was shocked that the instructor began the course with "If you like Bush or Rush Limbaugh, LEAVE NOW!"
This student was more than willing to talk with me about it. She stated that at Cuesta College, Calif., teacher Jacqueline Marcus is forcing her students to read anti-Bush rhetoric to pass an "Introduction to Philosophy" class.
She stated that students are to retrieve their required reading homework assignments, which were highly "anti-Bush" from Marcus's website (see copy). Many of the students immediately dropped the course according to this student.
As of 12/10/03, the student's statements were confirmed. With a logo of Cuesta College at the top, the website links students to four required reading assignments at "Mother Jones," a radical Bush-bashing site. Students are referred to sites such as "Move-On." Also included is a large picture of Howard Dean campaigning before a crowd and slogans of "Howard Dean for President 2004!"
"I could not believe this was presented as a 'philosophy' class," the student stated. She didn't agree with what was being hammered at her.
[Within 24 hours of posting this article, forphilosophy.com has been changed, it's much more subtle, yet as of 12/11, one can still find Bush-bashing while campaigning for Dean. To see links and previous required reading, click here.]
State funding should not be used so that predatory teachers can attempt to sway the presidential election 2004! Teachers should not mandate liberal left rhetoric under the pretense of philosophy!
This left agenda at colleges and universities is nationwide. In Ohio, a class about Vietnam is taught by a professor who, "turned out to be a '60s leftist who regarded America as an imperialist monster and the Vietnam War an expression of America's inherent racism and capitalist greed," reported David Horowitz.
A student, a member of the ROTC, tried to drop the Vietnam class but was denied by the professor. "The student completed the course, but received a failing grade from the professor because he chose to be in the armed forces," Horowitz says.
David Horowitz has begun a movement for the "Academic Bill of Rights" which calls for intellectual diversity, balanced reading lists, a ban on political bias by professors, equalized funding for student groups and on-campus guest speakers, and a non-hostile environment for conservative students. Contact "Students for Academic Freedom" to find out how you can get involved. http://studentsforacademicfreedom.org/
It is shocking that our tax dollars are funding the left's hatred of President Bush, campaigning for Dean and consistently promotes hatred of America through college and high school courses. Something MUST be done about the unbalanced liberal left agenda in public schools even as our elementary schools are becoming ever more similar to Nazi Germany schools:
"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side', I calmly say 'Your child belongs to us already. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"
- Adolf Hitler, 1939
There are evil principalities under new names at work in America that are out to destroy this once great nation and the freedom afforded it by our Judeo-Christian heritage. Give me liberty or give me death, God save us from the liberal left!
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