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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
Conservatives Need Their Campus Rebels
by Doug Giles
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Guess what, freshman conservative college student? In a couple of weeks you’re going to have your liberal campus and its professors shove more crap down your throat than Rosie does her gullet during Chili’s Monday Night Nacho Monster Blowout Special, that’s what.

Are you ready?

Now, I’m not trying to make you fearful, sweetie. I just want you to brace for the liberal Kool-Aid crunch that is coming soon to a classroom near you. The stuff mommy warned you about is true. The reality is you are entering the Liberal’s madrasah. Your values, for the next four years, will be violated much like Linsday Lohan’s nose, liver, Mercedes and panties have been for the last five years.

Given this milieu, you’ve got essentially three options to choose from when you’re confronted with the liberal hooey.

The options are:

1. You can drink the campus Kool Aid and do the Dhimmocratic do-si-do.

2. You can run from the conflict to a likeminded conservative ghetto group and hide on the curb with your little cowering crowd.

3. You and your concurring buddies can get prepped and be a conservative crew that enters campus life and joyfully, earnestly and courageously challenges the purveyors of the anti-American propaganda.

Door number three, as far as I’m concerned, is the only righteous choice. As I was entering my university years, I was (and still am) a kick butt and take names type of guy. Absorption and separation were not options for me (still aren’t). I wanted to change things when I was at school, and I had a blast mixing it up on my campus back in the day which, by the way, has paved the way for a pretty cool life. Excuse me while I relish in the fruits of my labor. . . . Okay, I’m back.

Look, given the slop the US is currently saddled with, if you, the young person, have an inkling of concern for our country, then an informed, entertaining and incendiary infiltration of your institute is the only answer. (How’s that for alliteration?) Isn’t that what college and youth are all about, namely, rebellion? Isn’t teenage angst all about hell raising—or in your case, hell razing? C’mon, Nancy . . . don’t you want to get rowdy?

Young squab, if you are a Conservative/traditionalist then you are the rebel of our day. Yes, the times they are a changin’? (Have changed). “The Man” and “The Machine” on campus to rage against is not stodgy traditionalism, but rank secularism and its moral and political vacuity. Meet the new boss, James Dean.

For those new students who wish to make a dent on their campus, not only for their sake but for the following generations, I have 10 things you must get if you want to absolutely screw with the asinine screwballs at your University. To be an effective agent of change you’ve got to do the following:

1. Get a sense of humor. Continued...
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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Aug 7, 2007 - 10:22 PM EST
Liberals don't know Jack
Jack writes: "A physics geek...would find little to recommend YEC."

While most, if not all, YECers are conservative, not all conservatives are YECers - especially conservatives who dedicate their careers to science.

"What you apparently do not recognize in the discussion is that I was presentating an alternative to your claim..."

Your alternative is just the opposite of what actually exists. That is to be expected, given the parochial, close-minded and often dogmatic mindset of the present-day liberal.

"Being on a college faculty holds little allure to conservatives."

No small wonder, given the poisonous liberal atmosphere that exists there.

"Conservatives...are committed to the idea of absolute, objective values...Such a commitment is the antithesis of the academic process."

It is the antithesis of the LIBERAL academic process, in which there is no truth or objective standard for anything. Hence Ward Churchill and the academic lynching of Lawrence Summers - to name but two of myriad instances of liberal lunacy.

"Your claim that "majority of the professoriate is liberal pretty much tells us there is a problem" is absurd in an academic sense. If conservatives think like you do, no wonder they don't thrive in academia."

It is no surprise you come to this conclusion. You are liberal and in your mind liberalism = reality. Unfortunately it is not reality; you labor under a delusionally hostile perception of conservatives as ignorant knuck-draggers. By your own admission the majority of the college professoriate is liberal. If the liberals on campuses are anything like you, then I rest my case. Now you can stop blathering.
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Date: Aug 7, 2007 - 10:14 AM EST
Then Build the Wall
A physics geek, who by definition is more than passing familiar with the vast distances in the observable universe and the speed of light, would find little to recommend YEC. Likewise, a biology major would be unlikely to affiliate with a group which actively denies one of the fundamental realities of the field.

Conversely, an evolution denier will be hard pressed to make any progress on a college biology faculty. Ditto physics and a YEC guy.

What you apparently do not recognize in the discussion is that I was presentating an alternative to your claim, one that is that is as likely, more likely actually, to produce the outcome you see.

I would further suggest there is a mechanism at work which explains the decrease in the number of conservatives. Being on a college faculty holds little allure to conservatives. A constant re-evaluation of evidence and information is a critical part of the academic process. It involves taking a detailed look at the gray areas of social, artistic and scientific fields.

Conservatives, over the last 30 years or so have become more and more invested in the idea that things are either black or white. They are committed to the idea of absolute, objective values. You can read this on any blog or discussion forum in America. Such a commitment is the antithesis of the academic process.

Your own argument is further proof of this. Your claim that "majority of the professoriate is liberal pretty much tells us there is a problem" is absurd in an academic sense. If conservatives think like you do, no wonder they don't thrive in academia.

And finally, Maybe you are staring at a brick that is the beginning of a wall. Or maybe you are just a guy sitting in the dirt, staring at a brick,and hoping someone else will build a wall around it.

So I repeat, unless you have something besides an anecdote that shows there isa problem in the American University classroom, you are just blathering.
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