The extremities of far-left liberalism during the past 3-plus decades have netted us a college and university system that is based on everything BUT merit, free thought and expression. Today’s system is a mire of exaggerated identity politics, racist affirmative action policies and a group-think mentality which prevents most real intellectual debate.
Campus Reform, a project of the Leadership Institute, a non-partisan educational organization is dedicated to documenting examples of this lack of free thought and expression on campuses all over the country. These occurrences include students being verbally attacked and abused for expressing conservative or opposing viewpoints. There have been many cases of downright serious discrimination. Even the rare conservative or populist leaning professor has been met with rancorous opposition when refusing to march lock-step with extreme political correct directives from the faculty and administration. Political correctness has clearly gone stark raving mad. Most campuses in the country today simply operate as satellites of left-wing political organizations.
All of these problems lead me to propose the creation of a new university or college: one with a non-elitist, populist slant to it. One that returns back to healthy debate and exchange of ideas like universities once were– one that bases the employment of its personnel, faculty and staff on a meritocracy and not on some twisted quota system of reverse discrimination because of a deep dark obsession with multiculturalism and affirmative action identity politics. Multiculturalism, in its present form, has taken over common sense liberalism, and now holds it hostage to the politics of division and “groupism”. It is the bane of our existence and should be snubbed out as quickly as possible.
Please drop me a line if you are interested in talking more about this idea and helping to make it a reality. Of course, this name is a pseudonym, because sadly in the 21st century, as a conservative populist, I could never be open about my political views in my academic world. My job and career would be in danger because of the smug group-think behavior of the leftism that has totally hijacked most of the colleges and universities in this country.
–Dr. CP Danish
Thoughts from an academic populist 