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***UPDATE!***
Yesterday I posted about the exceptional job the eco-lobby is doing of marketing fear by targeting kids while their minds are still impressionable. Well, I no sooner hit ‘Send’ than I got a notice in my Inbox from JunkScience.com about a new movie that exposes . . . you guessed it, how the educational system is indoctrinating young minds!
I must be psychic . . . or something. So, since many of you are closely following the Global-Warming-Humans-Are-At-Fault debate, I thought you may be interested in this as well.
Wossamotta U?
Documentary filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney (a real, honest-to-God documentarian) is being hailed as “the new Michael Moore . . . only with integrity.” And his documentary Indoctrinate U is kicking over the eco lobby’s rock and sending all the lobbyist vermin scurrying for cover from the spotlight of logical examination.
College Campuses — this is your life! But instead of a “This Is Your Life” riff I think this pithy chorus from Pink Floyd is more fitting, “Teachers! Leave them kids alone!”
But Maloney reveals how the indoctrination doesn’t end at high school graduation, it just shifts gears from the environment to the political arena when your teen enters college. Yep, they get to do the indoctrination and make you pay for it at the same time. How do you feel about that, parents?
Indoctrinate U exposes the same efforts at the college level. Where most Americans don’t know that there resides one of the most intolerant cultures outside of MoveOn.org or the Daily Kos. Sure they champion “free speech” . . . as long as you agree with THEIR speech.
Award-winning filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney’s new documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the ugly truths about academia that you won’t see in glossy admissions brochures. Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Enforced political conformity. Intolerance. Hostility to religion. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. Kangaroo courts. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. But instead, this assault on free thought is taking place all over America–right now–on our nation’s campuses. The film’s trailer and website can be viewed at www.IndoctrinateU.com.
Hard-hitting and humorous, the film tells the story of how, in the name of education, schools from coast to coast ruthlessly compel conformity of thought. Focusing on the experiences of students and faculty who risk harassment, censorship, and even their futures when they dissent, Indoctrinate U makes the campus culture wars–often treated as an abstract battle of ideas–intensely personal and unforgettably human.
By exposing the dirty little secrets of higher education, this film has the potential to force the kind of change academics have long pretended they don’t need to make. You can help to bring about this change by visiting www.IndoctrinateU.com and signing up for a screening.
Gore’s Fractured Fairy Tales
I like that the film focuses on making it’s case by exposing the facts through proof and logic, instead of making emotional arguments with no factual basis. And as I’m writing that last sentence, I’m hearing the inconvenient Carbon Offset Spokesmodel before a Congressional committee talking about how he doesn’t “want to sound shrill . . .” and then proceeds to make another shrill call to alarmism with no facts supporting him . . . again.
Talk about “Fractured Fairy Tales.”
And it makes me smile that the filmmaker is being hailed as “a Michael Moore, only with integrity.” Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t — time will tell (it always does). But like Moore, if Maloney is caught making the news instead of just documenting it (Did you read that, Al?) — he will be exposed just like all dishonest people eventually are.
Heh . . . am I the only one out here being reminded of how colleges are resembling Bullwinkle’s alma mater “Wossamotta U?”
Doesn’t this all sound like a moose and squirrel routine? See if you’ve heard this one before:
Bullwinkle: “Hey Rocky! Watch me pull another fear outta my hat!”
Rocky: “Again? But that trick never works!”
Bullwinkle: “This time, for sure! Presto!”
Lion: ROAR!!!
Bullwinkle: “Oops, wrong hat.”
Only this time, looks like the “moose” pulled out an intended consequence, instead of a lion – critical examination of the fearmongering claims. And not only is that A Good Thing, logical examination is never ridiculous.
Here’s the link to yesterday’s post, in case you missed it (and how in the world did THAT happen?!).
And in closing, it’s only fitting to say, “And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like.”
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By Walter |
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