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Behind the anti-American hate seen in the current rioting, arson, and looting is the long term undermining of America carried out systematically in our universities. Various social movements—the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, the feminist movement from the 1960s, the revival of Marxism in the 1970s, the race activists from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter, the gay liberation movement, the Palestinian anti-Israel movement—have been adopted and absorbed in universities in their most extreme and maximalist forms. Professors have ceased to see themselves as scholars striving for impartial and objective knowledge, choosing instead to be advocates of preferred groups and movements, and activists advancing “progressive” and far-left causes. Teaching has become largely political indoctrination, and administration includes ideological control and suppression of unwelcome opinions.

In the mid-20th century, most American colleges and universities had Western Civilization courses or programs. By the end of the century, most of these had been jettisoned. Western Civilization was no longer viewed as the font of great scientific and technological discoveries and achievements, of brilliant literary and artistic works, of advanced development of democratic institutions, of recognition of civil and human rights. Instead, Western Civilization was characterized as imperialistic, colonialistic, capitalist, sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and Islamophobic, the work of evil white men who should be expunged from memory.

The work of evil white men was banned in favor of works by lesbians of color, indigenous natives, gays and transsexuals, Africans, Arabs, Indians, and East Asians. No more would students be sullied by the disgraceful works of the Jewish Bible, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere, and, skipping over many, Yeats, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, and Camus.

The only Western author honored in contemporary American universities is Karl Marx. In fact, Marx’s class-conflict model of society has been adopted throughout the social sciences, humanities, education, social work, and law, ranging females against males, people of color against people of white, LGBT++ against heterosexuals, indigenous natives against “colonialists,” Muslims against Christians and Jews (as always throughout history), disabled against abled, poor against well off, and unsuccessful minorities against Asians. The goal is the socialist utopia run by females, people of color, and transsexuals.

Universities celebrate non-Western authors who attack Western Civilization. Throughout the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the toast of universities, the recognized king of the new anti-American truth, was Edward Said, an immigrant from Egypt who claimed Palestinian ethnicity. Raised to a professorship at one of America’s elite universities, he used his platform to vilify Western Civilization. In his book Orientalism, assigned to millions of university students in social science and humanities courses as the latest version of God’s Truth, he became the most influential intellectual in American universities.

Said’s central argument was that Western understanding of the Middle East—the region’s tribalism, religious fanaticism, imperialism, slavery, and oppression of women—did not really have anything to do with the nature of the Middle East, but was a projection of Western sins on the Middle East, in order to justify Western imperialism and colonialism in the Middle East. This theory came to be known as “post-colonial theory.” It was widely adopted in American academia and believed to be a definitive debunking of Western approaches to non-Western lands and cultures.

Said never offered any alternative picture of the Middle East, of its tribalism, religious fanaticismimperialismslavery, and oppression of women; he offered no more than a debunking of the Western view. But he was ill-prepared to do what he claimed. Said was a professor of English and a specialist in the writings of Jane Austen. He had no background in the history or anthropology of the Middle East. About the Middle East he had nothing to offer beyond a crass pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel partisanship and activism. For serious students of the Middle East, his writings are useless.

Nor did Said have a historical background in Western Civilization beyond English literature. So, it is not surprising that he was incorrect about the Western view of foreign cultures; more than any other civilization, Western Civilization was more curious about, more systematic in investigating, and more careful in its portrayal of foreign cultures. Nonetheless, his superficial and biased work was and is welcomed and celebrated in American colleges and universities as a serious debunking of Western Civilization. . .

(Excerpt from PJ Media. Article by Philip Carl Salzman.)

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janet C Macarthur
June 9, 2020

IN ONE OF THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS i SAW A POSTER. IT HAD TWO COLORS OF SKIN AND TWO CLASPING EACH OTHERS ARM WITH THE SAYING, “COMMUNISM IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD” iT WAS POSTED OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM WHERE ALL STUDENTS COULD SEE IT.

Richard Lemon
June 9, 2020

Around 1980 , In the midst of the cold war .The Communists changed their strategy on how to defeat America. They said they would do it from within . Marxist philosophy thaugt in our schools. We opened the door by taking prayer out of school and taking God out of the public square .

Penny
June 9, 2020

Almost every single Christian that I know, all evangelical christians, are not teaching their children the truths written in this article. Is it because they feel inadequate or because they do not understand it themselves? Or worse, are they just apathetic? I tell you a truth, these teachings are also in the high schools and middle schools, even down into elementary. They are not reading these authors books but their teachers have already been indocrinated and they have their ways, through attitudes and teachings, to convey the same message as those taught when they go off to college. The well has already been primed.
Raise up a child in the way that he/she should go so when he/she is old he will not depart from it.

Ronald Bangert
June 8, 2020

Correction: “The goal is the socialist utopia run by the anti-christ spirit and the man of lawlessness”.

….but God!

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Caroline Eagan
June 8, 2020

Lord Jesus, be our Comfort, and help us to only rely on You and Your word, for all of our responses to others.

Prayalways
June 8, 2020

Great article of truth about our universities. Most parents want their young adult children to get higher education, but never consider the indoctrination of the anti American agenda. We have allowed our educational system to become a moral vacuum beginning in grade school. WE have allowed it. We’ve succumbed to conventional wisdom.
takingthemountainofeducation.com is a great site to read more on this subject and offers books on how to pray specifically for this serious matter

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