Re: Revolt against liberal bias

"Melissa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35852
>
> Students start revolt
> against 'liberal bias'
> Teens battle 'brainwashing' by teachers to push God, guns, country on
> campus
> Posted: November 27, 2003
> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>
> Students at a high school in the heart of California's "liberal country"
> say they've had enough of leftist "brainwashing" by their teachers, so
> they're joining forces to promote their own ideology.
>
> Along with the Environmental Club, Hate Stops Here, and the Gay-Straight
> Alliance, the Conservative Club now has a place at Rancho Cotate High in
> Sonoma County.
>
> "We're being brainwashed by the liberal bias of teachers. It's
> everywhere," freshman Keith Butler told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat.
>
    I'm glad he's got the courage to say that. The same is true in
socialized schools elsewhere. Any teacher refusing to parrot the
government's propaganda loses his government job.
    Teachers and textbooks routinely insist that antitrust laws only squelch
"unfair" practices and "promote competition." Rockefeller is vilified not
because he used bribery and lobbying to purchase corporate welfare, but
because he was supposedly the epitomy of the19th Century laissez-faire
capitalism that never was. (Most aspects of the economy were less heavily
controlled by the government back then, but segregation, interest rate
ceilings, blue laws, and even early special interest legislation were
commonplace at the time and would not exist under a laissez-faire system.)
> The Conservative Club was founded by Tim Bueler, a 16-year-old junior who
> reportedly looks up to talk-show hosts Michael Savage and Bill O'Reilly.
He
> says he's using the First Amendment to promote a Christian viewpoint he
> believes doesn't usually sit well with most teachers and administrators,
> not to mention his fellow students.
>
    By "Christian," he probably means "religious right." I'm glad he's
challenging politically correct dogmas, but advocating persecution of those
who do not subscribe to his favored version of Christianity's not the way to
do it.
> "We obviously believe the liberals are trying to destroy everything in
> America that our forefathers fought and died for," Bueler, whose late
> grandfather survived Pearl Harbor, told the paper.
>
> "I was just tired of the one-sided arguments of liberal teachers who mold
> the curriculum to their point of view. Basically, the Conservative Club
was
> formed to show the other side of the spectrum and another point of view."
>
> As an example, Bueler says one of his professors refers in class to
> President Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as "idiots," while other
> teachers slam Republicans and conservatives as greedy capitalists
    Oh, the big bad capitalists! They want to reduce the rate at which my
taxes are increasing!
    , racists
> and sexists.
>
    Socialists expect us to find the idea of colorblind laws racist. It's
just like 1984. Racism is called "civil rights" and colorblindness is
"racism."

> The motto for the club sounds like it could have come straight out of the
> mouth of Michael Savage: "Protecting our borders, language and culture."
    The conservative idea of protecting our borders is having the
descendants of immigrants abduct at gunpoint those who seek to become
immigrants themselves and lock the tired huddled masses in cages.
> The slogan has prompted some students to call the club racist and sexist.
>
    OK, it's great that they're challenging the dogmas their teachers
parrot, but some club members' views on immigration and racial profiling
probably are racist. What their government paid, government controlled
teachers are saying about Malcom X and the affirmative action issue is
racist too, so liberals and conservatives are about equal on this score.
> Bueler denies the allegations, as both female students and minorities are
> members.
>
> Complaints about liberal voices at school have been more frequently
> associated with college campuses than high school.
>
> As WorldNetDaily reported in September, a report found liberal speakers
> outnumber conservative voices at the nation's top universities' graduation
> ceremonies by a wide margin, confirming to campus critics that students
are
> bombarded with one-sided political stances.
>
> The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, which examined the political
> views of commencement speakers at the nation's elite colleges and
> universities, found those with liberal ideas outnumbered conservative
> speakers 226-15 over a 10-year period.
>
> Meanwhile, back at Rancho Cotate, the Conservative Club has fired up
> controversy by hosting an NRA member who gave a speech titled "We Need
More
> Guns in Schools."
>
    It's very reassuring to see that the speaker and the club are willing to
have a speech with such a controversial title.
    Such a name for a speech is bound to offend somebody, but then again
anything that has the potential to persuade also has the potential to
offend.
> The presentation suggested if more teachers had firearms, there would be
> fewer tragedies like the slaughter at Columbine High in Littleton, Colo.
>
    Of course. The same is true of students. The reason schools have bullies
and fights is because the aggressors know that their victims will be unarmed
and helpless. When a fight breaks out at school, the victim has just as high
a probability as the aggressor of being expelled for the fight. (Because of
political correctness and liability factors, codes of student
responsibilities recognize no right to self defense.)
> Michael Watenpaugh, superintendent of the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified
> School District told the Press-Democrat that until the club was formed,
> there had been no complaints about a liberal bias.
>
> "All of our classroom teachers have a duty and responsibility to present
> both sides of issues," he said.
>
    He's a liar.
> The club's adviser, English teacher Bernadette Tucker, said she decided to
> take part to help the students exercise their First Amendment rights.
>
> "Just because something is not popular it doesn't mean you can't say it,"
> Tucker said, according to the report.
>
> And according to at least one student member, the Conservative Club is
> having an impact by making teachers more cognizant to present a variety of
> viewpoints.
>
> "There's been a change," 16-year-old Ryan Riekena said. "One of my
teachers
> is already saying we have to look at both sides on every issue."
>
    I'm glad to read they're making progress.
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