CONSERVATIVE YOUTH MAKIN’ SOME NOISE:
Today’s young conservatives are making news…and irking Leftist academics on campuses across the country. While the NY Times article was expectedly biased against the young neocons, the foundation of the story gives hope that today’s college students are seeing through the liberal bias that was hung like a cloud over universities for far too long. This is the wrap-up of the article.
Just how influential is clear when you talk to Bucknell faculty members. Geoff Schneider, an economics professor at Bucknell, says that the conservative group's constant charge in The Counterweight, that the university is infected by political correctness and that professors seek to indoctrinate students with a liberal agenda, has had an effect in the classroom. ''As the conservatives have become more prominent, other students are more prone to believe that they are being indoctrinated,'' Schneider says. ''So the openness of a number of students to new ideas and new ways of looking at things has actually moved in a disturbing direction. Students are much more willing to write off something as 'liberal talk' -- oh, I don't need to think about that, that's just ideology -- as opposed to thinking, in a complex way, about all of the different ideas and evaluating them.'' Kim Daubman, a social psychology professor, concurs. Recently she taught a class in which she talked about the theory that news coverage of warfare in Iraq could lead to a rise in homicides in the United States. ''I could see the students rolling their eyes,'' she says. ''I could just hear them thinking, 'Oh, there she goes again!'''
While professors like Schneider and Daubman worry about the potential for conservative activists to stifle intellectual openness among students, they also grudgingly admit to admiring the right-wingers' passion. ''A lot of faculty members talk about the lack of commitment that most students have to anything,'' Daubman says. ''It seems that they're about getting a credential and being able to get a good job. That's why you hear faculty say about the conservatives club: 'At least they believe in something. At least they've got convictions.''
What a riot: “…the potential for conservative activists to stifle intellectual openness among students…” That’s a crock of horseshit. It is much to the credit of Left-wingers that many young American minds have been closed through their attempts at homogenization that now make a mockery of “diversity” and “multiculturalism” – concepts that were born out of legitimacy and honesty just a couple of decades ago. Those concepts have been bastardized in the academy to the point that they are now little more than code for politically correct attempts to marginalize anyone who dares to stand out…or stand up.
We are here. And, it doesn’t look like we are going anywhere anytime soon. And better, it looks like young neocons are making a lot of noise that sounds pretty damn good.
posted by Joshua @ 10:35 PM
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