I’ve mentioned before how the education system has been overrun by liberal thought and ideology. Consider Condi Rice. On February 4, 2014, Rutgers announced their selection as her for speaker in their commencement ceremony in May. The faculty is protesting and wants her removed from consideration. Why?
I mean, she is a black, female academia member. Should be a shoe-in.
Look at her qualifications:
Author of three books.
Doctorate scholar.
Concert level pianist.
National Security Adviser. (First female ever to hold that position.)
Secretary of State of the United States. (Second female to hold that, second African American).
What could set the faculty of Rutgers against her? Her politics. She’s Republican. She was in the BUSH cabinet. (Grounds for crucifixion, practically a war criminal). She is not pro-choice (pro-death, but that is a different blog), she favored the war in Iraq and even “enhanced interrogation” techniques. This is just another shining example of how the left views EVERYTHING through this lens of politics.
Consider previous speakers. 2013 Virginia Long, 2012 Greg Brown. Nothing too controversial. A female judge and a CEO of Motorola. (Though the evil corporate giant aspect is puzzling in that it was not an area of contention.)
2011 speaker–Toni Morrison: First “paid speaker”. She is also black… also an author. Ah, but she was a liberal. She opined after the Clinton Whitewater investigation that he was being mistreated because of his (Bill Clinton’s) “blackness”.
“Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.”
That same year,, Rutgers paid Snooki $32,000 ($2000 more than Ms. Morrison) to give two speeches. What has Snooki done aside from being a stupid whore on an MTV show?
In 2010, the speaker was Eleanor Smeal. This one is no real surprise, as she was a member of the National Organization for Women (NOW), serving as their president from 1977 to 1982 and again from 1985 to 1987.
The 2008 speaker? Gwen Ifill, probably most famous for her “moderation” of the 2008 Vice Presidential debate between (career politician) “statesman” Joe Biden and that “obvious airhead” Sarah Palin. Her book about life and race in the age of Obama really took off after Obama was elected.
So, liberal women of either race are welcomed. A conservative woman of at least equal qualifications outside of their careers, and incredibly more competent within their chosen career are shunned.
I quit my own PhD program after I was “counseled” on in what philosophy I would approach my topic from. The concept of writing my own thesis and conducting research with an open mind was not allowed. I was told I had to do it “this way” (the way my committee wanted it.)
No, the liberals own academia. Plain and simple. And they use it as early and as often as possible to shape what children learn and how they learn it.