College campuses have become hopelessly far-left. But you already know that. So, please read on for the punch line.
This from en-volve.com.
Decades of indoctrination and political correctness have made the environment toxic.
Yes, people have joked about universities being far-left for decades, but now learning, academic achievement, and preparing for one’s livelihood are concepts that may as well exist only on the planet Jupiter.
In the past, the older more mature generation formed two assumptions about the phenomenon of universities being far left:
- (1) the students would grow out of it once they got into the real world, and
- (2) the radicalism would not infect the STEM fields.
A Double Wrong–each of those assumptions have been proven to be dead wrong. We were fooling ourselves as our parents did fool themselves etc., etc.
While we were sitting back fat, dumb, and oblivious the radicals were busy expanding their numbers in “the real world,” and they have nudged the every-day world toward an environment that resembles the worst of the leftist universities out there.
And what was long thought the impossible, “wokeness” has taken root in science, technology, engineering, and math. All that remains to be seen is the collapse of our society—architectural structure by architectural structure, scientific theory by scientific theory.
[M]edical students at the University of Michigan walked out of an event because the keynote speaker was pro-life.
The Daily Mail reported that:
[I]ncoming University of Michigan medical school students staged a walk-out during the pro-life keynote speaker’s speech during their White Coat Ceremony.
Hundreds of students had previously petitioned to get Dr. Kristin Collier, assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, removed from the initiation because of her anti-abortion stance.
But after their first protest failed, dozens of students got up from their seats and left the auditorium as [Dr.] Collier took to the stage to address them.
Footage shows some of those present clapping as Dr. Collier starts her speech, but others stood and filed out as she continued to speak.
Starting her speech, Collier said that she was ‘honored’ to have been chosen as the speaker, ignoring the mass walkout.
Dr. Collier did not even give a pro-life speech; the students simply could not be in the presence of someone who is pro-life.
That’s how parasitic the “woke” virus has become—it has mutated and has overtaken the host.
Leftists—emotionally weak as they are—cannot be around people who disagree with them. What will this mean going forward? Leftist medical practitioners for Leftists only?
The radical students created a petition that read:
While we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan undermines the University’s position on abortion and supports the non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an essential part of medical care.
How blind to the U.S. Constitution and to Hippocrates (medicine being dependent upon detailed observation, reason, and experience to establish diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment) can these medical school students possibly be? Access to abortion is not a woman’s constitutional right; just as access to abortion services for a healthy pregnant woman is not “an essential part of medical care.”
The petition continued:
This is not simply a disagreement on personal opinion; through our demand we are standing up in solidarity against groups who are trying to take away human rights and restrict medical care.
We demand that UM stands in solidarity with us and selects a speaker whose values align with institutional policies, students, and the broader medical community.
This speaker should inspire the next generation of healthcare providers to be courageous advocates for patient autonomy and our communities.
Despite paying lip service to free speech, the authoritarian leftists tried to get the speaker shut down.
Among incoming students, 100 signed the petition, as did 248 current students.
A sobering thought:
These are the cultists who will be the next wave of doctors [released into our midst].
And the problem is just as bad in other disciplines; law schools are substantially worse. One further negative note for American culture: law schools turn out a high percentage of alcoholics. But I digress.
Thankfully, the school’s dean did not bend to the mob, but people in academia willing to stand up to the mob are a dying breed.
These were not classmates of We the People and they are not our colleagues. They are the result of seventy-five years of Marxism in our universities.
Gone are the days when you can talk politics with your family doctor. Stay healthy and stay quiet about politics and social issues when undergoing medical care.
