Having been a university economics professor for forty-one years, I am sometimes asked how college students – and the university world in general – has changed over the years. One response that I give is that when I started out I noticed that the campus Marxists – who had become “academics” not because they wanted lives as an intellectuals but as political activists in tenured jobs – would capture or corral about say, five or ten percent of the incoming students and convince them to become left-wing campus rabble rousers instead of spending their time educating themselves. Uneducated, sanctimonious, loud-mouthed spouters of leftist platitudes, in other words, just like their Marxist professors. Today, I would say that a strong majority of college students would fit into that category, not just five or ten percent.
The reason for this is that cultural Marxism has infested the lower levels of education, beginning with elementary school. Today, most college freshman have already been relentlessly subjected to the constant repetition of Marxist platitudes for twelve years. I have had students who just could not comprehend the simplest, most basic concepts in economics, but could give a two-hour oration about global warming, how “diversity is our strength,” or virtually any other left-wing fad. They have been taught that to reject the platitudes of the Left makes one an enemy of society and, of course, a racist. If you’re wondering why so many college students claim that they prefer socialism to economic freedom, this is it. This, and the fact that they were never taught a single thing about socialist reality in particular and economics in general.
One positive thing I noticed over the years was that by the 1990s the interaction of black and white students had become, for the most part, perfectly normal with hardly any of them paying any attention at all to skin color. There are exceptions of course, but the societal change was very noticeable.
Once again the Democrat party has made the case for segregation
Excellent article. I am in my 60’s and was a young child during the civil rights movement. I can tell you in my lifetime (school, work, church, etc.) we ALL got along. And in a discussion recently with a liberal I noted that there are even more bi-racial couples than ever before. Why? Because we judge people by their character and accept them for who they are.
So we started naming those we knew and for the next few days we kept adding to that list as we thought of them. It was significant.
So yeah, we all have learned to get along and the Democrats in their historical racism are now trying to undo that.
So corrupt. And how sad.