From Woodstock’s Richard Rostron, “The Response”:
Diplomas tainted by radical bias in higher education
Across America, now is the time when college and university students, along with their families and loved ones, gather to commemorate the accomplishment of those who have completed their education. \
But the bias in higher education has left a taint on the diplomas graduating students receive.
It may have left a taint on their ability to think for themselves, as well.
Anytime a young person tells me they’re going off to college, I worry if they’ll survive the indoctrination that, most often, accompanies the school’s education.
Will they retain the ability to think for themselves?
I’m not always as worried; it depends on the individual.
Take a young lady I know who is preparing to attend a university in the fall.
I’m somewhat comforted knowing she was homeschooled.
Homeschooling seems to provide a degree of immunity from the Leftist ideology college and university students incessantly face.
Return students also have some resistance to the bias.
I was a return student, and I can see that my time working in what I call ‘The Real World’ helped me to graduate with my ability to challenge ideas intact.
And I graduated in 1998.
But it’s clear that the Leftist bias I experienced in the ‘90s has only gotten worse – much worse.
You think I’m overstating my concerns?
Consider a touch or two of evidence (there is much more).
These last couple years, we’ve watched top Ivy League schools allow antisemitic and pro-terrorist protests that frequently denied Jewish and other students the ability to attend classes.
Often, college professors were among the protesters.
And these activities are not isolated to Ivy League schools.
These protests often evolve into violence.
Buildings are damaged and taken over.
In at least one case, custodians were held captive for a short time.
In another, a top female athlete and opponent of men in women’s sports, Riley Gaines, asserts that she was assaulted and held for ransom in San Francisco State University.
If I did that, they would call it kidnapping.
But the universities accommodated the protesters, and SFSU dropped the investigation into the alleged criminal acts against Gaines.
Am I overstating the universities’ involvement?
Consider a recent podcast where the president of Harvard said conservatives are “too few on campus and they are not welcome.”
It’s nice he acknowledged the problem, but he’s made no effort to correct it.
On his blog, Johnathan Turley, a legal scholar and George Washington University professor wrote,
“In a country with a majority of conservative and libertarian voters, fewer than 9 percent of the Harvard student body and less than 3 percent of the faculty identify as conservative.”
He goes on to refer to Harvard as “not just an academic echo chamber. It is a virtual academic sensory deprivation tank.”
But the evidence goes beyond what the president of Harvard and Turley think.
Universities and colleges across the country have barred and stood by for harassment of conservative speakers on their campuses.
Jennifer Kabbany, editor of The College Fix, provided a list of speakers who were cancelled for failing to meet the Leftist standards (a portion of that list is found below).
Cancelling speakers attests to the problem in our institutes of higher education.
If someone is confident in their positions, and willing to accept truth, they welcome challenges to their ideas.
But does someone have confidence in their positions if they’re afraid and unwilling to accept those challenges?
My writer’s group friend, Steve Belonger, and I discuss, among other things, Steve’s previous book “THE GOLIATH AGENDA: The Attack on Individual Effort” and his current untitled book in the works about helping students survive the Leftist indoctrination in colleges and universities.
Personally, I wrote a book titled, “A Deplorable Neanderthal Contemplates White Guilt.”
Both of us are willing to accept challenges to our ideas.
Both of us have faith in our ideas because we’ve challenged them ourselves and we’re more interested in the truth than being right.
What is the value of a degree from a university that doesn’t embrace the fearless pursuit of the truth?
How can we say that the education they provide isn’t tainted when their unwillingness to accept challenges to their theories leave graduates with the equivalent of a car designers never test drove before the student drove it off the lot (campus)?
Cancelled Conservative Speakers List
- Salmon Rushide was cancelled from speaking at Claremont McKenna College May 21, 2025
- Protesters threw feces during a Riley Gaines event at the University of Washington May 7, 2025
- An Israeli speaker was cancelled at Cornell University April 23, 2025
- NYU cancelled a talk about cuts to USAID March 19, 2025
- A blind doctor with conservative views is cancelled from talking at UW-Madison Feb. 25, 2025
- Conservative speaker and California Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Summers event at Stanford is disrupted by activists, also, Feb. 25, 2025
- Students at the University of Michigan tried to have an Israeli doctor cancelled Feb. 6, 2025
- Arizona State University professors failed to cancel a Christian speaker after claiming his talk about “Family Under Attack” was dangerous, Feb. 5, 2025
- Trans activists broke windows and shutdown a pro-woman Turning Point USA event at University of Washington Jan. 21, 2025
- At Duke University, a former Israel attorney general was interrupted while speaking Nov. 19, 2024
- Fetal models were stolen from a pro-life display at Virginia Commonwealth University Nov. 7, 2024
- Citing safety concerns, National Review editor Rich Lowry’s speech is cancelled at Indiana State University Sept. 19, 2024
- A petition is distributed to have Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker fired after he gave a pro-family commencement speech May 15, 2024
- A conservative journalist is jumped at a University of Washington event held by Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk May 7, 2024
- Bloody baby dolls and arson threats meet a pro-life speaker at the University of North Carolina Greensboro April 26, 2024
- Students at Adrian College demand Riley Gaines be cancelled as the commencement speaker April 18, 2024
- A Dennis Ross talk is cancelled at MIT and he is replaced with a Hamas apologist March 15, 2024
- A guest lecture by a feminist artist is cancelled at Northeastern University Oakland because of the speaker’s positions against transgender ideology Nov. 15, 2023
- An oncologist who holds “contrarian COVID views” was cancelled from speaking at University of California San Francisco Oct. 17, 2023
- A local socialist demands that an event with Supreme Court Justice Amy Barrett at University of Minnesota be cancelled Oct. 10, 2023
- A talk on Christianity’s influence on civilization is cancelled at the University of New Brunswick Oct. 3, 2023
- An event with black conservatives is interrupted by a masturbating protester at the University of Wisconsin Madison Oct. 3, 2023
- A ‘truth-seeking’ speech by a conservative Princeton professor is shutdown by rowdy protesters at Washington College Sept. 12, 2023
- “Legislators petition to prevent Matt Walsh (and) other conservatives from speaking” at New Mexico State University Sept. 7, 2023
- A Matt Walsh talk titled “It’s your fault you’re offended” at University of San Diego is rejected Aug. 25, 2023
