(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The slate class offerings for the University of Chicago’s winter quarter have raised several eyebrows, including gems such as “Witchcraft and the Cultural Imagination,” “Transnational Queer Politics and Practices,” and “Trans-bodies in Horror Cinema,” The Federalist reported.
Evita Duffy, author of this article and senior at the university, expands on the growing problem of crazed, left-leaning class offerings at colleges these days:
“As a politically conservative student, I am accustomed to being in the classroom minority… All I wanted was to take a class that was not explicitly partisan by its very title or course description,” she wrote.
“I desired to be in a class where I would actually learn with the help of a fair and open-minded professor who is intellectually confident enough to include multiple perspectives in his assigned readings.”
Duffy goes on to say that even that seems to be a tall order.
In a world where “Marxism, Anarchism, and the Black Radical Tradition,” is taught as a viable course, professors who depart from leftist ideology have been largely weeded out through threats and punishments by students and staff.
Indeed, this has been a trend over the past few decades. Many conservative professors seem to be moving to private colleges—even then they aren’t guaranteed safety—and universities, or leaving the field of education altogether.
Duffy continues, explaining that conservative students will at least have the benefit of knowing how to defend their views after constant intellectual challenge.
“Sadly, I cannot say the same for my leftist peers,” she added. “who can fill their entire schedule with classes that reaffirm their preconceived worldviews.”
Not only is this a waste of time and money on part of the students, it is dangerous for our country as a whole. A study done by P.J. Henry and Jaime Napier in 2017 fond that “education is related to greater ideological prejudice.”
“This is the obvious byproduct of leftist thought saturating the academy,” Duffy said. “More time spent there necessarily fosters a one-sided sense of intellectual superiority.”
To conclude, Duffy points out that only the first wave of young leftists have been released from their indoctrination chambers.
“Young leftists have disavowed our founding documents and fathers, and they censor, fire, harass, and publicly slander anyone who dares think different from them,” she added.
“The next generation will undoubtedly cement the downfall of the American mind and limit frighteningly more liberty in their wake.”
