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Colleges: A Force for Evil
How higher education is threatening the future of the country.
August 7, 2018
Walter Williams
Many of the nation's colleges have become a force for evil and a focal point for the destruction of traditional American values. The threat to our future lies in the fact that today's college students are tomorrow's teachers, professors, judges, attorneys, legislators and policymakers. A recent Brookings Institution poll suggests that nearly half of college students believe that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Of course, it is. Fifty-one percent of students think that it's acceptable to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree. About 20 percent of students hold that it's acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking. Over 50 percent say colleges should prohibit speech and viewpoints that might offend certain people (http://tinyurl.com/yayxt45u (http://tinyurl.com/yayxt45u)). Contempt for the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees is probably shared by the students' high school teachers, as well as many college professors.
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Colleges: A Force for Evil
How higher education is threatening the future of the country.
August 7, 2018
Walter Williams
Many of the nation's colleges have become a force for evil and a focal point for the destruction of traditional American values. The threat to our future lies in the fact that today's college students are tomorrow's teachers, professors, judges, attorneys, legislators and policymakers. A recent Brookings Institution poll suggests that nearly half of college students believe that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Of course, it is. Fifty-one percent of students think that it's acceptable to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree. About 20 percent of students hold that it's acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking. Over 50 percent say colleges should prohibit speech and viewpoints that might offend certain people (http://tinyurl.com/yayxt45u (http://tinyurl.com/yayxt45u)). Contempt for the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees is probably shared by the students' high school teachers, as well as many college professors.
more
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270962/colleges-force-evil-walter-williams (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270962/colleges-force-evil-walter-williams)
And an equally disturbing fact about most college grads these days is....
they know so much that just isn't so. And what they do know about the nation, government, how it works, how it was founded, etc., could fit in a thimble. Case in point.... Fox interviews of college students saying they're ok with repeal of the Bill of Rights. Ten to one, none of them even know what the BOR is and what it guarantees. The dumbing down of America is finally taking its toll....
as intended by the radical left, America's enemy within.
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I have reluctantly and slowly come to the same conclusion.