The Toxic Academy

American universities have become toxic, as Dennis Prager explores in Townhall. Examples? Consider these from the University of California official "Micro-aggression Manual" -

"There is only one race, the human race."
"America is a melting pot."
"I don't believe in race."
"America is the land of opportunity."

These are all statements that a majority of Americans can agree on, but N-o-o-o, not at UC. No indeedy, these are examples of speech banned as examples of "white oppression" or who knows what other delusional bilge. But wait, there's more!

That's right. Students at the University of Missouri, having fired the president, now want to erase Thomas Jefferson. Princeton students want to delete Woodrow Wilson, the one-time president of Princeton before he became President of the United States. Sure. No problem. History can be written and re-written according to the whims of the day. History is what we say it is. 

The problem is obvious - think George Orwell and 1984. "There is no truth. We will tell you the truth du jour, so just shut up and do what we tell you!" That is the goal of every totalitarian state, whether left or right. We will think for you - you are a tool, nothing more, to be used by the State for the "greater good" however we may define it at the moment. This is what these repositories of the West's precious history of individual worth and all the ancillary grand ideas have become - vats of intellectual poison that have dissolved away the spines and souls of all who enter. I hope that we have our own St. Patrick and his remote island to preserve the precious heritage of the West as the Dark Ages sweep across the land.  

townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/11/24/american-universities-begin-to-implode-n2084706