Are You Sure You
Want to Play Russian Roulette With Your Child’s Values?
By Dennis Prager
Published on May 21, 2019
Most Americans are not aware how morally and
intellectually destructive American colleges — and, increasingly, high schools
and even elementary schools — have become. So, they spend tens of thousands after-tax
dollars to send their sons and daughters to college.
But today, to send your child to college is to play
Russian roulette with their values. There is a good chance your child will
return from college alienated from you, from America, from Western civilization
and from whatever expression of any Bible-based religion in which you raised
your child.
What’s Happening on College Campuses?
If you think this is in any way an exaggeration, here is
some of what has happened on campuses in recent months:
Harvard University fired law professor Ron Sullivan from
his position as faculty dean of Winthrop House, a student residential hall,
because he was one of Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers. (He has since resigned from
the Weinstein legal team.) Some female Harvard students said they felt “unsafe”
with Sullivan as a faculty dean.
Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law,
said the decision “may be the worst violation of academic freedom during my
55-year association with Harvard.” Laurence Tribe, also a professor at Harvard
Law, said he could not recall a “worse” blunder in his 50 years as a professor
there.
Also at Harvard, all-black graduation exercises were
initiated. And like most other colleges, Harvard has long allowed an all-black
student dorm to exist on campus.
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If nothing else, this provides additional proof of the
vast difference between liberalism and leftism. That is why liberals such as
Dershowitz, Tribe and numerous liberal writers have condemned Harvard’s
cowardly capitulation to a few female students. Unfortunately for America,
however, most liberals will not confront the fact that they have far more to
fear from the left than from the right. Conservatives are not the enemy of
liberalism; the left is.
In Minnesota, some students at South St. Paul Secondary
petitioned the administration to allow students to wear sashes — stoles — with
ethnic and LGBT colors to celebrate their identities. As one student said in
leftist English, “I’m able to repurpose what was once an obstacle into a source
of energy and pride.”
As reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: “If
they’re not allowed to don the sashes, some students have talked about wearing
them anyway, said Naomi Gedey, a Black Pride Organization leader. Gedey added
that many immigrant students also hope to wear flags of their nations of
origin.”
Other Minnesota schools already allow students “to don
so-called ‘identity adornments.'”
American Public School No Longer Americanize Students
Those who still believe that one of the primary purposes
of American public (and most private) schools is to Americanize students should
know this is no longer the case. On the contrary, most American high schools
now celebrate every identity except American identity (which the left
brands a euphemism for white supremacy).
Meanwhile, at its commencement next month, the City
University of New York will award an honorary doctorate of humane letters to Al
Sharpton.
Among the many nonhumane activities Sharpton has been
involved in was the infamous Tawana Brawley hoax, in which he fabricated a
charge that four white men had raped a young black woman named Tawana Brawley.
Sharpton also runs a phony civil rights organization
called the National Action Network, which has collected many millions of
dollars from corporations in what essentially amounts to an extortion racket
that enables those corporations to buy racial peace.
And Sharpton helped stoke the Jew-hatred that sparked
black anti-Jewish riots in 1991. In a book published in 2006, Edward S.
Shapiro, a Brandeis University historian, described the riot as “the most
serious anti-Semitic incident in American history.”
In Pennsylvania, the Sabold Elementary School in
Springfield announced that its principal will no longer say “God bless America”
after the Pledge of Allegiance. The school district released a statement two
weeks ago stating that the principal saying “God bless America” “violated the
law.”
And of course, college students across the country are
increasingly taught, often from their first day at college, that being male and
female is a choice, not a biological fact.
Other than Hillsdale and a handful of other colleges and
religious colleges, the American university has become nothing more than a
left-wing seminary.
Buyer beware.
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