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Youtube is such an awesome resource for knowledge, it\u2019s a shame they\u2019re\u00a0consigning videos with \u201calternative\u201d points of view to concentration camps<\/a>, no longer easily accessible to the public. It really is amazing what those alternative videos have accomplished, literally dissecting false media narratives in real time, completely shutting down the worst of the lies our political class and mainstream media try to foist upon us.<\/p>\n If Youtube had been as operational before the first Iraq war as it is today, the American public would have had reams of information regarding the ridiculous \u201cbabies ripped from incubators by Iraqi soldiers\u201d hoax, would have been told repeatedly how Saddam Hussein was a CIA asset for decades and asked permission from the US (cluelessly granted) before invading Kuwait, would have been told the truth of any number of lies that were drumming up war fever before we attacked Iraq the first time around (\u201cin retaliation for 9-11\u201d being perhaps the most ridiculous lie that could have been easily dispelled). But I digress. Youtubes\u2019 days as a source of \u201calternative\u201d information are drawing to a close\u2026though you can still find the information if you know where to look.<\/p>\n I saw a short video with a title I liked, so I had to click on it:<\/p>\n Roger Scruton: How Fake Subjects like Women Studies Invaded Academia<\/a><\/p>\n Regular readers of my blog know my take on how this happened (the quick summary: unscrupulous administrators, eager for every student loan dollar and not caring a bit about students, allowed bogus courses to fill the catalog, racking up sales but exploiting kids as they come out of high school). I am, of course, open to alternative opinions, so let\u2019s address some of the things he had to say in this 5 minute video:<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the things that happens when a totalitarian government takes over is the universities are cleaned up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n –I don\u2019t have a transcript, so I may be off a word or two.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s no secret that on many campuses, a \u201ccleanup\u201d has occurred. What happened to the kid who wrote the Google memo happened to conservative faculty en masse, years earlier. Oh, we saw the bulldozers and tanks coming, and I assure you some faculty, at least, tried to stand up and stop it\u2026it accomplished nothing. If you dared to question the madness, you were removed. Even if you had tenure, life was made so miserable that you\u2019d leave on your own. I saw it enough with my own eyes. Even if you wanted to stay, you still had to attend \u201cre-education camps,\u201d interminable multiculturalism seminars that, I promise the gentle reader, are extremely painful and insulting. There are still flare-ups by remaining faculty who\u2019ve tolerated all they can, and\u00a0how these events are treated today serves as examples for what happened a few decades ago<\/a>, before information could be so quickly disseminated.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026new subjects in the university, in which the pursuit of truth seems to be secondary to something else\u2026political conformity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I certainly agree about these weird new subjects which are clearly more about ideology than academics, but I feel the professor neglects the college coursework on Game of Thrones, Gilligan\u2019s Island, Sex, Sexuality, Sexualism, Sexual Activity, Deviant Sex, and other courses whose titles suggest more about appealing to student interest than pursuit of knowledge.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026perhaps it can be talked about freely in this room, but you can\u2019t talk about it freely in America\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He\u2019s obviously knowledgeable, but I do wish he\u2019d addressed how what he just said explains the growth of these courses. Actual professors, actual academics, have been silenced on campus, and this silence is itself a factor in how all fake courses made it onto the curriculum. We had no way to stop it.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026conformity to an orthodoxy takes precedence over an intellectual method\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He\u2019s referencing Women\u2019s Studies, and other ideological courses in the above, and while I again concede there\u2019s truth in it\u2026it\u2019s only a sliver of reality. Open up the blinders a bit and you\u2019ll see our campuses have wide swaths of coursework little different than\u00a0what students already \u201clearned\u201d in the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0grade<\/a>. It\u2019s not about ideology nearly as much as it is about sales and growth. Gotta pay for those administrative raises somehow, after all, and there\u2019s always another Vice President of Diversity position opening up for a friend of the Governor, at $225,000 a year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going through a time when truth itself is being marginalized from academic scholarship\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Again, this is true. The recent big\u00a0gender studies hoax<\/a>, along with strong evidence that huge amounts of published research is completely bogus, certainly reinforce his point but\u2026how did it happen? What changed?<\/p>\n It used to be that research was judged by faculty in the same department, and departments were their own little communities. The only way a fraud could operate in a department was if the whole department was fraudulent, and that\u2019s tough to pull off. Departments aren\u2019t communities anymore, and many campuses don\u2019t have departments at all. Instead, you have a Dean wh controls the hiring of dozens of adjuncts who rarely even talk to each other.<\/p>\n When it comes time to look at the research, the Dean has no interest or understanding of that research. She simply counts the number of published papers, and if it\u2019s high enough, you get kudos. What\u2019s actually in those papers is irrelevant\u2014half of published papers are never read by anyone, 90% are never cited<\/a>.\u00a0 Just get published, past that it\u2019s irrelevant, and that\u2019s what Admin makes the job requirement. If you don\u2019t get published, you\u2019re fired. We have published papers with 1,000 authors now,\u00a0with the record being over 5,000 authors<\/a>\u00a0for a 33 page paper\u2026admin just can\u2019t discern how this stuff works. Back when admin and faculty were the same people, it was possible, but those days are long over.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s supposed to be a puzzle why the pursuit of truth disappeared from campus?<\/p>\n \u201cYou can turn all the subjects of the university upside down, and rearrange them as part of the agenda of liberation\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Again, he\u2019s correct here, as old academic courses like \u201cEnglish literature\u201d are tossed, and replaced with \u201cWomen\u2019s English literature,\u201d with a clear ideological bent superseding academics. Absolutely, I\u2019ve seen many courses like that (mercifully, there hasn\u2019t been a \u201cWomen\u2019s calculus\u201d course yet\u2026), and once you\u2019ve added a few dozen such courses to the catalogue, you may as well just form an Institute of Women\u2019s Studies on campus, to fill with highly paid vice-presidents.<\/p>\n These courses do have a veneer of academics to them, but are mostly about ideological nonsense. Once you have enough of them, then you start to get those \u201cexperts in nonsense\u201d to preside over the fake coursework.<\/p>\n I totally concede there is some truth to what he\u2019s saying, but I still think I provide a broader view of the reality of many universities today. Having acknowledged that our campuses are filled with fake coursework, even if he and I disagree on how it happened, I\u2019m certain we agree it needs to stop.<\/p>\n But what\u2019s sustaining all the fake classes? Once again, the student loan scam is a big factor. We just wouldn\u2019t have the money for campus palaces filled with Vice Presidents of Women and Diversity without the student loans.<\/p>\n And so here I am, once again, doing what I can to educate the public, because it\u2019s their money paying for all this fraud, and hopefully once enough people learn about the reality we can do what must be done:<\/p>\n End the student loan scam.<\/p>\n www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"