It appears that Hasan Piker is not alone in saying that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. As the New York Post reported, a new poll shows that one in five college students say the U.S. deserved the attack that killed nearly 3000 fellow Americans. Forty-two percent said they would prefer to live under socialism, while only 28 percent favor capitalism.
Roughly half of the students — 47 percent — agreed with this extraordinary statement, “While socialist countries like Cuba and the Soviet Union have not been perfect, they offer a better economic model than capitalist countries like the United States.”
These students have been educated in an ideological echo chamber of higher education where conservative and libertarian professors have been gradually eliminated from faculties. They have been taught by faculty who run from the left to the far left. This is the entirety of what they know of socialism. They have no memory or experience with the collapse of such systems in the last century. They hear figures such as Zohran Mamdani offering the “warmth of collectivism” and believe that socialism offers free stuff that the wealthy will have to pay for.
They see Piker prancing around in his Mao suit and have no association with a Cultural Revolution that killed millions.
In “Rage and the Republic, I discuss how this year we are celebrating not just our 250th anniversary as a Republic but the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The book was not a great success in Great Britain. In addition to its foundational support for capitalism, it challenged the mercantilist policies of the British Empire and supported the claims of the colonies in seeking greater economic freedoms.
Smith, however, was immediately embraced by the founders, who saw his work as the perfect economic theory to advance their political theory. Ours was the first Enlightenment Revolution based on a belief in natural rights that came from God, not governments.
Yet, the founders knew that true individual liberty could not be achieved without economic freedom. Smith’s idea of the “invisible hand” offered a model of individual economic freedom in which the individual tastes and choices of citizens drove whole economies.
The combination would prove transformative, as the U.S. became not only the world’s oldest large-scale democracy but also history’s greatest economy. We will need that combination in the years to come to maintain what I call a “liberty-enhancing economy.”
These students have little exposure to the economic concepts that made this Republic the most prosperous in history. More people have been raised out of poverty by capitalism than socialism.
However, socialists like Mamdani can promise free stuff, and these students believe that they are entitled to it.
When socialist François Mitterrand came to power in France in 1981, promising a “rupture with capitalism,” he quickly destroyed the country’s economy. However, he continued to dazzle French citizens with promises of free money, even appointing Andre Henry as the Minister of Free Time to assist citizens in their new socialist leisure.
Notably, this poll shows lower support than the Democratic Party as a whole. Sixty-five percent of Democratic voters have a favorable view of socialism. An even greater percentage of young Britons want to live under socialism, and 72 percent favor nationalization of industries.
The poll again shows that we must first address the ideological echo chamber of higher education if we want to protect this unique Republic.
As I have previously written, parents and students who value free speech must increasingly look to public universities where faculty are subject to constitutional guarantees. Except for outliers like the University of Chicago and other private universities that hold the line on free speech, orthodoxy at private universities remains a barrier for many conservative and independent thinkers.
Public universities may be the final line of defense for free-speech advocates. However, even those universities show the same hiring bias. The difference is that they are more sensitive to public pressure to restore balance.
Legislatures will need to play a more active role in addressing the exclusion of both faculty candidates and speakers on public campuses. Too many faculty members continue to treat citizens like a captive audience. They expect to continue funding their departments while excluding conservative or dissenting views held by many, if not most, citizens in a given state.
If faculty members want to maintain echo chambers for their own viewpoints, they should seek private donors to sustain such intolerance and orthodoxy.
Legislatures can demand evidence that schools are maintaining an intellectually diverse faculty in determining the level of continued support from citizens.
When some of us have argued for such campaigns, academics hypocritically claim that we are calling for political litmus tests or hiring based on political parties. It is an absurd argument that I have previously addressed, including in The Indispensable Right.
The call is for donors and legislators to withhold funding until they see real reforms, including greater diversity on faculties. They are not directing the hiring, but looking at the results. The faculty members objecting to such calls have watched passively (or actively supported) the purging of conservative or libertarian faculty from universities and colleges.
This poll is disturbing, but not surprising. The greatest trick ever played by the activists in academia was to indoctrinate, rather than educate, young people while getting their parents to pay for it.
Before there was AI, there was Cliff’s Notes and Nolo (myself and several others having been caught using Mr. Cliff to escape reading I think was Tolstoy’s War and Peace and instead focusing on more relevant reading of Mad Magazine).
I thank the good professor again for taking the daily time and effort to give us something to think about, so here is my Cliff’s notes for those of us in a hurry this Saturday morning, as I am:
2. “The poll again shows that we must first address the ideological echo chamber of higher education if we want to protect this unique Republic….”
3. “Legislatures will need to play a more active role in addressing the exclusion of both faculty candidates and speakers on public campuses”
4. “The call is for donors and legislators to withhold funding until they see real reforms, including greater diversity on faculties.”
5. “The greatest trick ever played by the activists in academia was to indoctrinate, rather than educate, young people while getting their parents to pay for it.”
6. Mr. Piker is a Mao wannabe.
No, he just likes the outfit. lol
Lin, you’re so bad at this.
These students were born long after 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq. They learned about this with the added benefit of having a wider perspective than older folks who experienced it first-hand.
This isn’t indoctrination. Not at all. They are learning about these issues with greater awareness that older generations still stuck on old perspectives and bigoted nonsense. It’s that simple.
The “poll” even contradicts Turley’s narrative. 72% of students disagreed (with 6% unsure) even the poll’s own subgroup data shows that 17% of self-described conservative students and 16% of moderate students also agreed with the statement. 65% to two-thirds of students said they are proud to be American, 87% affirmed that the First Amendment is still important, and 66% recognized that hate speech is constitutionally protected. How’s that an echo chamber? What…”trick”?
with the added benefit of having a wider perspective than older folks who experienced it first-hand.
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No, they don’t have a ‘wider perspective’. They’re young people who’ve not yet lived.
No little x. The young have the benefit of more information than was available at the time. They have a better and wider perspective. More information and better context gives them a better perspective. That’s not “indoctrination”. That’s learning with a better view of history than we did at the time.
That’s a good answer, X. Because of what you point out, we younger ones are now able to learn more about you, and with all the “better and wider perspectives” we are better apprised in our DSM understanding of why you are the way you are, and why you might feel so rejected and inadequate that you must scroll through comments every day trying to correct others.
They do not read. They do not comprehend. They have difficulty with paying attention for more than a few minutes. They have to check their phones every few minutes. Their solution to nearly everything is to Google it.
I know. I am witnessing it first hand.
Upstatefarmer, remember Ritalin? Kids were like that in the early 90’s.
You think education failed this current generation. But that doesn’t put into account the technology exlosion brought on by smart phones and Google and now AI. You have all the information you could possibly need right at your finger tips. How do you expect education to keep up with it?
Ban phones to kids and teens until they are 21?
What about all the new fads, gadgets, and entertainment that floods into homes and our culture every day?
Capitalism has had a hand in this too. It’s not just “democrats” and “leftists” and “indoctrination”.
It’s all about making life as easy and convenient as possible these days. Because it’s also… very profitable. Something to think about.
They can be read to, UF. It’s part of SI.
They don’t have access to any more information that their elders do. (And a great deal of ‘information’ out there is repetitious junk).
Nope little x. They have a LOT more information and it’s much much easier to access. The older folks still had to deal with the Dewey decimal system, catalogs, microfilm, actual books, etc. now all of that is instantly accessible after a few keystrokes. FYI. There’s always been junk info.
No, they do not, nor do they know how to evaluate it. Your handlers give you really bad arguments.
“72% disagreed”
Disagreed about what, X? I just scanned the whole Report and I do not see 72%.
It’s a math thing dipsh!t. Figure it out. Use that noggin.
No, clown. there are dozens of questions and choices. YOU said “72%. 72 percent disagreed with WHAT, X? Which question? Which premise? always twisting your way out of a corner YOU SAID, YOU PROVE IT. we’re waiting
Again, read. All you have to do is read and add a smidge of comprehension. Try it. It will do wonders for you.
Use that noggin. Figure it out.
More B+S George?
No sweetheart. You just don’t want to apply yourself and actually read. You’re working really hard at letting everyone know you can’t figure it out.
X got caught again in his own lies about what Turley said, and tries to weasel his way out by shifting the burden. God what a joke he is.
Nope. You’re just too lazy to exercise the most basic function. Reading. All the information is already on the thread. You just have to figure it out. You want others to do the thinking for you. Come on cupcake. You can do it.
Lin,
Thank you!
lol
I just have to say that I am finally reading War and Peace, and I find that Tolstoy’s observations of human nature, the horrors of needless wars and his description of Napoleon, which eerily resembles a certain leader of our time, is a brilliant work.
“And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.” Tolstoy, W&P.
Thanks for the Cliff Notes — Back in the day, I preferred Monarch Notes.
These students grew up under Trump and MAGA. They have never seen the US be a good country, all they have seen is militarism, brutality, a hate. Capitalism has failed them. They know they will be poorer than their parents.
So of course they have understanding with those who hate this county and those who oppose run away capitalism.
They were taught to hate everything that was good and great about America. They have never known real struggle as they have had everything handed to them. They cry about how hard it is for them on their tic tock videos from their newest iPhone with the newest Air Buds, while drinking a $10 Starbucks coffee and still living with their parents, dependent on them to pay for everything.
What is good and great about America? Not freedom, not our culture, not our values, not our diplomacy, not our research, not our education.
STFU, seriously, how f’ing addled, myopic, brainwashed, uneducated, unworldly, illiterate, can a person be? Go to France, go to S. Africa (or anywhere in Africa), go to Spain…nevermind, clearly you’re an idiot.
I’ll give you one example though. My landscaping guy is a multimillionaire and can walk the streets in safety.
Trump has been trying to make the US a good nation, but obama and the neocons, coupled with organized crime have crippled it.
Frankly, I’m shocked the number of economically and socially illiterate college students is only 20%, that alone is evidence that Trump has been doing some good (and Musk saving free speech in buying X).
Brutality, hate, militarism? BTW, you left out terrorism., of which Muslims are good at. Surprised you didn’t include that. But your accusations also sounds like China, Russia, Iran, India, Cuba etc. have done, and still do.
Sounds like Someone has a adolescent’s limited view of reality and history. Capitalism failed them, you say? How so? Their entire lives have been about whining; their parents gave them all they could, but it just not enough, I guess. They want more I suppose, thinking socialism will provide it.
Their parents generation screwed then over with selfish politics that wrecked our nation. They see our country as being no better than the ones you listed because we don’t act any better.
all they have seen is militarism, brutality, a hate
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Another nonsense statement. The people Media Matters send not only think in talking points, they think in very crude talking points.
Just another fine example of how public education and so-called higher education has failed.
These would be the same youth who would be totally dependent on everyone else working to provide for them what they refuse to work for themselves. That is socialism for you.
There’s tremendous slack in the school system. That having been said, you could improve service delivery considerably and discover that most of your pupils just aren’t listening. The young bring energy and enthusiasm to the table. Not much else.
x (the good one)
Oh, it is much worse than that. Had a recent incident where one of my professor’s suspected some of the class was using AI for the reading assignments. The deer in headlights look, the uncomfortable feel in the air proved her right.
We are going to have an entire generation who is solely dependent on AI to do all their “work” for them. They cannot think for themselves. The funny part is, they think using AI makes them . . . smart.
FYI, professors also use AI. In the past students used to either cheat with cliff-notes, or pay someone to do the work. It’s always been a thing in higher education.
You don’t reminder just copying what the encyclopedia said for school assignments?
Use AI? Prove it. Name the profs. Cliff notes usage was and is not cheating you idiot. That’s why they’re called then notes?
Cliff-notes IS cheating. The whole point of Cliff-notes was to avoid reading the actual book. Reading the book IS what imparts learning AND improve critical thinking skills. Cliff-notes avoid that by just giving you the ‘gist’ of the book without the need to actually read it.
Professors use AI to catch plagiarism AND also create lesson plans and organize class projects. You didn’t know that? Of course you didn’t.
So, using AI IS cheating too! THAT is higher education! HA!
No, it’s like using a calculator. You use a calculator all the time, right? Or do you do ALL your math in your head (not likely)?
Smart people still use calculators for the simplest tasks. A calculator is a handy tool. AI is also a handy tool.
Here is the difference:
An educated person can still do the math with out the calculator. Might take them longer, but they still have the knowledge.
Someone who is not educated, does not know the math, has to rely on a calculator is not educated.
Someone who is not educated, has to rely on Google or AI or whatever. Does not make them smart, more capable, or educated. Take away their phone and they are lost.
aw, georgie just had to read Lin’s note this morning about Cliff;s Notes, so now he’s gonna put that in his comment? Folks, doesn’t get any funnier than this.
X says, “In the past students used to either cheat with cliff-notes, or pay someone to do the work. It’s always been a thing in higher education.”
So, you admit it is not higher education! HA!
Obviously you have no idea what is taught in public schools. Nor do you have any idea what goes in higher education. You have stated that yo have no HS diploma and never earned a college degree. So where do you come up with such stupid opinions about education? You’re an admitted PIG FARMER in upper NY state.
Oh, no! Poor, poor annony! Has to make up lies about me. I have never stated I did not have a high school diploma. I have had to repeatedly inform you in order to enlist in the USMC, one has to have a high school diploma. And in order to get into college, which I am currently attending, one has to have a high school diploma. Oh, and I am a multi-diverse farmer. Kinda like diversification of ones stock holdings. Which is why I am doing so well with my investments.
Cry more! Lie more! We all see through you! 🙂
Well, now prove it. You’re a pathological liar Pigger. You we never in the service, you’re too stupid. Multi-diverse farmer, in other words, you’re a PIG FARMER w/o an education. It shows.
We see thru? Really? It’s just you stupid.
Oh, no! Annony is having a mental meltdown! Why dont you prove to us how you are not a GenZ, failure to launch, living with his parents, unemployed, here all day making “stupid” comments? Just look at all your time hacks.
HAHAHAHAHAHHA!
Pres. Eisenhower would never ridicule someone for their line of work. Because he did it once and became ashamed of himself.
Gee, who to side with? Someone well-versed in public education or a farmer…
LOL at farmer being used as a pejorative. JFC, you’re a buffoon.
Be interesting to see the cross-tabulations between the responses on the one hand and a respondent’s family history metrics on the other (e.g. how many generations back in your history do you have to go before at least half your pedigree was born abroad?) – presuming you could phrase the question in a way these respondents could understand it.
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What’s distressing reading the responses is (1) how little they know and (2) how willing they are to respond when they actually know next to nothing about anything going on outside their own skin. See, the question about the Soviet Union and Cuba. You think these twerps would be pleased to stand in long queues for the opportunity to buy rationed goods from a state store?
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While we’re at it, we’ve reached a point where about 47% of each cohort obtains a baccalaureate degree. This is the upper half of the distribution. What if the lower half actually gives more sensible answers? What does that say about schooling in this country?
LOL!!!! ROFL!! Wow. Turley really turned up the rage-baiting to 11. He really loves the dimwitted and the gullible.
For those of you who don’t do math here’s why this is pure silliness:
Turley highlights that 22% (roughly one in five) agreed that the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks, but omits that 72% of students disagreed (with 6% unsure). That’s why he “only” mentioned one in five. Because mentioning 22% sounds less…worrisome? Furthermore, the poll’s own subgroup data shows that 17% of self-described conservative students and 16% of moderate students also agreed with the statement—meaning the sentiment is not exclusive to left-wing campus indoctrination. LOL!
Also, there’s a problem with the methodology of the survey. The survey of 803 undergraduates was conducted via an online opt-in panel rather than a random probability sample. As polling disclosures note, a true statistical margin of error cannot be calculated for non-probability volunteer panels, and online opt-in youth panels frequently suffer from lower respondent attention or “troll” answering on provocative questions (such as whether America “deserved” 9/11). Meaning this is not a serious survey.
Turley frames the 42% to 28% split on socialism versus capitalism as a massive ideological victory for socialism, leaving out that 30% to 31% of students said they had no opinion or were unsure.
When young Americans say they favor “socialism,” broader polling consistently shows most define it as European-style social democracy (universal healthcare, subsidized tuition, stronger social safety nets) rather than Soviet-style state ownership. Even in the Buckley poll, the question about Cuba and the Soviet Union used a leading, two-part framing (“While socialist countries like Cuba and the Soviet Union have not been perfect…”) that nudges respondents toward agreeing with a critique of current American economic struggles.
And of course we are not told who ran the “survey”. He does not mention that the Buckley Institute is a conservative nonprofit founded to challenge liberal campus orthodoxy—giving it an institutional incentive to frame survey questions and press releases around campus radicalism.
Oh, and he left out this important part of the survey.
65% to two-thirds of students said they are proud to be American, 87% affirmed that the First Amendment is still important, and 66% recognized that hate speech is constitutionally protected.
Pretty disingenuous of him to ‘leave’ that out.
LOL! Again….wow.
No, it is not disingenuous. He looked at the more specific responses they offered.
He cherry-picked the results to rage-bait the gullible. If he were honest he would have pointed out a large majority of students did not agree with the views of a very small minority.
The survey was an essentially a push poll. Not a serious attempt at polling. It was strictly an on-line voluntary poll. Not a random call traditional poll.
Cherry picked…. P R O V E I T.
The proof is in my post sunshine. All you have to do is…read.
Dimwitted and gullible… talking about yourself as usual.
If Turley is so concerned about saving human life, there is an old Soviet spy bombing innocent people in Ukraine. Maybe Turley could use this platform to expose these atrocities.
Why dont you get your own blog instead of polluting PT blog with your inane stupid comments.
Will never happen. Turley loves dictators.
Why should he, plenty of other blogs do it.
Maybe Ukraine could negotiate a settlement instead of let its people get bombed over US corruption and NATO illegal expansion rhetoric. Or not…because letting his citizens get bombed has been very profitable for Zelensky.
ABOLISH TENURE.
And how do you expect to accomplish that? Stupid comment.
Co-ordinate state and federal legislation. The federal legislation on inter-state trade in faculty services debars offers of contract employment extending beyond six years and debars promises of contract renewal. State legislatures debar such promises at private institutions and eliminate them entirely at state institutions.
Does this mean that Turley wants to control what they think?
What a stupid comment.
Russia and China are communist and both nuclear world powers. It’s just no fun, no freedom, no free time. Let’s do it and while we’re at it, adopt Islam for even less freedom. lol
They have no memory or experience with the collapse of such systems in the last century.
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This is the reason ⬆️
A reason.
memory or experience you say? But you do huh? What an astoundingly stupid comment.
Yes he does, and you don’t.
No he does not, and you don’t too.
So…if I encounter one of the 50 percent that think we deserved it….ask the dumb ass if he is thinks the next time it would be just fine if he were to be one of the victims and why should he be one?
This is where the American media fails us.
Every anniversary of the WTC Attacks they should flood the airways , social media, print media, and radio air waves with video, audio, and still pics of the Jumpers…..who chose to die on the pavement rather than burn to death in the Towers.
Yes…that would be ghoulish, grotesque, and so heart breaking…..but it would put the face upon the evil perpetrated against innocent people merely going about their daily lives earning a living to care for their families.
I am harsh when I encounter such ignorance….and except for the criminal penalties for assault and battery I would be far more direct in my response to such stupidity.
If you can watch this video and not be moved by what you see….there is something seriously wrong with you….watch every second of it and imagine the sound of a human being impacting pavement at terminal velocity of about 120 miles per hour. Then ask yourself…did those people deserve “it”.
Ralph, why don’t you just kill people whose opinions you don’t like.
This is what comes from teaching revisionist history and allowing woke ideology to invade our schools. This scares the _____ out of me and I fear for my grandchildren.
teaching revisionist history huh? Got proof? And George Washington cut down a cherry tree.
Articles such as this always bring to my mind a scene from a Mel Gibson movie. Gibson plays a cop in, 48 Hours. A man is on a ledge intending to jump and commit suicide. Gibson is sent up to the ledge to talk him down. He goes out on the ledge and begins yelling about wanting to do it. Gibson then handcuffs himself to the jumper and says, “Let’s do it”, and jumps. It cured the man. Let’s do it, kids.
happy holidays
Mel Gibson movie= Leathal Weapon
thanks, stitch, yes, lethal weapon…
The movie you are talking about is Lethal Weapon. 48 Hours didn’t have Mel Gibson in it. All these kids that think socialism is the answer to life’s problem should be forced to live in Cuba for a year.
Many of these “young people” have been homeless as children and relied on what little food they got in schools. Their parents are in prisons and or drug addicts. They are feral people. It’s the bottom 1% in reality. What to do? I’d say orphanages similar to boarding schools. The cost is less than juvenile detention centers. Others are varying degrees of mental illness or congenital conditions. God bless em.
I never visited the USSR but I was in East Berlin before the wall fell and I’ve been to Cuba. The poverty in Cuba was unreal, it made rural Mexico (with their dirt floors and buckets in lieu of toilets) look like the Hamptons. They told me the average monthly salary in Cuba was 8 USD. Meanwhile, a liter of milk cost 2 dollars. One Cuban woman explained that yes they got food ration cards but if the rations weren’t enough you had to purchase the extra goods. She said her baby loved milk, couldn’t get enough of it, and the entire monthly stipend went for that. People think the 80 year old cars are picturesque. The pollution is like being trapped in a dumpster that has been set on fire. The stench as I got off the plane is still my most vivid memory of Cuba, besides the rampant sexual tourism by middle aged gross European men who can buy anything and anyone in Cuba for the price of a coffee at home. Cuba could be an incredible paradise, the people are amazing, but they fell for this bull hockey 70 years ago and have spent 70 years regretting it. Meanwhile I used to live in Italy, a so-called democratic socialist state. Nothing works, they’re taxed to death, there’s never any recourse, and hospitals routinely screw up routine surgeries and then say “oops” because when the government is your health care provider you can forget about accountability. I used to read about people who had the wrong leg amputated or the wrong kidney removed and all they got was “oops.”
What a heap of adolescent nonsense.
Prove it.
You wrote it.
You think that might have something to do with brutal US sanctions?
No. Communism.
The sanctions are not brutal.
In Iran, the government can beat a woman to death for not following their Gasht-e Ershad (Guidance Patrol; also called “morality police”) and “improper” clothing.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/death-of-Jina-Mahsa-Amini
So one instance and you extrapolate that so that every Muslim women is a target or already dead. And, so what? No different than your kind harassing and attacking men and women for having different opinions.
That students favor socialism so much offers textbook symptoms of Bonhoeffer’s* Theory of Stupidity. In brief, it states: “Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential.”
*Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was executed by the Nazis in 1945.
I see strong similarities of that on this blog. And also the recent midterm election results.
@gdonaldallen
They don’t favor socialism. They favor what they ignorantly *imagine* socialism to be.
Why are the conservatives losing? Isn’t their way of life and philosophy superior? Why are people drawing away from the better life that conservatives promise will happen if only the followers drink the koolaid?
Notice that it says the U.S. deserved the attack, not the roughly 3,000 Americans. The U.S. had killed more than a million in the Middle East by supplying arms and supporting some of the most awful people to have ever lived. U.S. policies there continue to kill even more. While I doubt the killing would entirely stop were the U.S. to pull out of the region and stop economic involvement, it would eliminate getting more blood on its hands.
And what foreign policy has in fact mandated the killing a million middle easteners?
Let’s just say international economics is not your strong point, and an idiot’s interpretation of US foreign policy history.
The U.S. had killed more than a million in the Middle East by supplying arms and supporting some of the most awful people to have ever lived
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This has no reality outside the mephitic space between your ears.
Also the US has brutal sanctions and blockades on Iran and Cuba because Trump does not like their government.
You mean the U.S. government doesn’t have the right to set its own trade policy?
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Iran has been gratuitously troublesome to its neighbors for nearly 50 years. They’ve earned a blockade.
Their tyrannical government has been in place long before Trump entered politics.
Yeah, and even Biden and Obama followed the same policy. Are you stupid or sumptin?
Anyone who’s embracing communism should be stripped of their US citizenship & deported immediately. We cannot tolerate treason within our ranks.
How is communism treason? No laws against it. You obviously are a very stupid Karen.
Just what is the cure for long-term, systematic indoctrination and can we recover these poor tools of the prog/left? I don’t think “re-education” would have any effect on them since I don’t believe that they have within them an established rational core of moral beliefs. They seem to have been raised in an ego-centric world view that shares little for human values other than those they have been programmed to adopt such as trans, woke, socialism etc.
What a heap of twisted geriatric garbage.
Why are those you dislike so much better at getting their message across than you are?
And, what then is the message? Enlighten us please.
whimsicalmama,
This is one of the MOST sheltered, pampered, coddled generation. They have never known real work, suffering, adversity. They have had nearly everything handed to them. And then they cry when their DEI degrees do not get them a, starting, six figure salary and the only job they qualify for is as a barista at Starbucks. Which is about what their DEI degrees are worth. They obviously did not learn about the historical failures of socialism as we all know, the so-called higher education system is nothing more than a leftist echo chamber. So, no, they were not actually educated about the historical failures of socialism, but indoctrinated that socialism is . . . something better.
Very few people take victimology degrees. One of the more popular is women’s studies. Well, nearly 2 million BA degrees are handed out each year, but only about 1,500 in women’s studies. Victimology has damaged certain academic disciplines, especially American history and sociology. Most who attend baccalaureate-granting institutions study occupational majors. Programs in teacher training and social work are scandalous and library administration has long been humbug. Nowadays, you’d be advised to attend to study technology, engineering, business, nursing, &c. On the academic side, perhaps economics, statistics, mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, geology &c are worth your while.
So I see, one in five say that America deserved 9-11, so let me guess, these are the same people who favor Socialism, getting free stuff from an America that deserved 9-11. Logic that may stem from reading MAD magazine.
What, me worry?
I wonder how many of those 1 in 5 are here on a student visa? The internationalization of the student body as well as the professorial class has drastically changed under everyone’s noses.
Last I checked, about 3.5% of all college students in this country were imported from abroad. That was about 15 years ago. Of course, you get quite a mass of resident aliens and people from families of quite recent vintage.
Import Third World, become Third World.
You could say. The thing is, the largest bloc of post-1965 immigrants have been from Latin America. All but three Latin American countries have elected governments and have had such for 35 years or more. The leftist parties are competitors in Latin America. They do not dominate.
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