How Bad Is Liberal Indoctrination In American Colleges and Universities?

AN ARTICLE WELL WORTH READING from reformed radical lefty turned conservative commentator and critical thinker---David Horowitz. Thanks Rob DeWitt for the tip.

The linked piece above by Horowitz shows yet another example of uber-political correctness gone awry on college campuses as he highlights his recent visit to the the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Sheldon Goldman's political science class:

...while I was there I audited an hour-and-a-half lecture about the Warren Court’s landmark decisions on civil liberties by a well-known and highly respected political scientist named Sheldon Goldman, a nationally recognized expert in the field......

OK, so we want to know what happened. But first Horowitz sets the stage by defining what he means by indoctrination:

"Let me begin by stating what I believe indoctrination to be and what it is not. Indoctrination is presenting opinion to students as though it were scientific fact or as though no rational, decent, and moral person could have any other view. It is the equivalent of presenting students with ready-made conclusions which they cannot realistically feel free to challenge. There are entire fields of study that are in fact programs of indoctrination. For example, all Women’s Studies programs with which I am familiar are programs to train students to be radical feminists and specifically to instill in them the doctrine that gender differences are “socially constructed” – that they are artificially created by male elites to subordinate and oppress women.

"The social construction of gender is not a theory that students in Women’s Studies courses are free to adopt or reject. It is taught in the same way university courses in physics teach Newton’s laws of motion."

Kind of sounds like what's taken over global warming science, doesn't it? Opinions masking as absolute facts that no sane human being could or should ever refute. And if we do, well, we're to be shamed and harassed.

Anyway, reading Horowitz's piece makes me remember why I stopped tithing to several high schools and universities a long time ago. It's scandalous what's being taught as fact, often underwritten by taxpayers. Horowitz gives another example of the dreadful left-leaning industrial-educational complex all around us. Well-worth reading.