Ladies Logic

Monday, March 19, 2007

Indoctrination

Via AAA at Residual Forces.

"Inside Indoctrinate USpeech codes. Censorship. Enforced political conformity. Hostility to diversity of opinion. Sensitivity training. We usually associate such things with the worst excesses of fascism and communism, not with the American universities that nurtured the free speech movement. But American higher education bears a disturbing resemblance to the totalitarian societies that are anathema to our nation’s ideal of liberty. Evan Coyne Maloney’s documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the breathtaking institutional intolerance you won’t read about in the glossy marketing brochures of Harvard, Berkeley, Michigan, Yale, and hundreds of other American colleges and universities.
“When we think of going to college, we think of intellectual freedom. We imagine four years of exploring ideas through energetic, ongoing, critical thinking and debate,” Maloney said. “But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don’t know is that American college students check their First Amendment rights and individual freedom at the door.”

The people who made this documentary have a site where you can sign up to get a screening in your area because they are having a surprisingly difficult time getting screenings in the "normal" manner (I wonder why). As soon as they get 500 in an area, they will set up a screening. For your childrens sake, sign the petition and get a screening in your area.

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