Jots and Tittles

All right, folks, it's time - time for my review of Indoctrinate-U!  I know you've all been looking forward to this, and I'm going to  try to strike a balance between giving you an idea of the things that are discussed and not spoiling the whole film for you.

The basic premise of the film is the suppression of intellectual diversity on college campuses.  But the stories that come out of it are incredible.  A boy who spends 18 months and is threatened with expulsion for hanging fliers advertising a conservative black speaker.  A conservative professor who lost her position as head of the department for being a Republican.  A group of five white boys from Jackson, TN who dressed up as the Jackson 5 - complete with blackface - for a Halloween party which resulted in their fraternity being suspended (yet, a student who said of a conservative on that same campus, who wears a turban, "shoot that f****ing raghead in the face" received a token "talking-to").  A Kuwaiti student who wrote a pro-American essay being compared to suicide bombers and Hitler, as well as being threatened with being deported from the country.

The number of times that Evan Maloney gets shut down for trying to find out the truth of what happened on campus.  Not only are people not allowed to think for themselves, they're not allowed to figure out why.  He has more people call the cops on him for simply wanting to talk to various people than I would ever have imagined.

There's a clip that especially disturbed me: mobs of angry students shouting at military recruiters, vandalizing military institutions on campus and driving military recruiters off campus.  Yet the official spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan was invited to come study at Yale.  Never mind that the military are the ones who fight for your right to come and shout them off your campus, or invite terrorists to come teach students or to learn with them.  Or ban the display of the American flag after 9-11.

None of this should come as a surprise.  But I want to encourage every single one of you to watch it.  It's good to know just to what extent the persecution is being taken.

Make no mistake.  Persecution is rampant on the school campuses - not of races (except those damn whites), genders (except those damn men, of course), or religions (except those damn Christians) - but of people who think for themselves.  People who disagree with the dominant viewpoint.  In fact, so often do we learn about various groups who have not been allowed to speak out against the dominant ideology (read: conservative views) and how wrong that is, I find it incredibly ironic that students who don't agree with the dominant (liberal) ideology are being expelled and harassed.  Anyone who reads this blog can see that - just take a look at my most recent post about Goddess Religions.  This is sick.  And it needs to be stopped.  The first step to doing that is to spread the word -and this film is a great way to do that.

If you can afford it, consider purchasing a copy and supporting Evan Maloney's effort.  Sign up for a screening to come to Fort Collins and hold up a mirror to the university campus.  Spread the word.  I have a copy of the movie - if you want to see it before you buy it (I'll do everything I can to convince you to buy it... but you know) let me know, and we can see my copy.  The most important thing is to get the word out.

And, on that note, I'll leave you with the lyrics to the song that plays during the end credits.  It's called Shut Up and Teach, and it's by the Right Brothers.

Shut Up and Teach
Nowhere in this textbook does it say Bush equals Hitler
Nowhere in this chapter does it claim we had it coming
No way in this room can you blame Capitalism
No way on this earth will I be swayed

Chorus
Shut up and teach
Don’t give a speech
Keep your political beliefs
All to yourself until the bell
Your job as far as I can tell
Doesn’t include indoctrination so could you please
Shut up and teach

I will not be force-fed any more of your liberal garbage
And I will not write down what’s on the board cause it’s so stupid
I can’t just sit back and ignore your biased grading
This is not what we all came here for

Repeat Chorus

It’s called a textbook, why don’t you read it
You’d be amazed at what you’d find inside
It’s nothing like what you’ve been feeding
I guess you must’ve thought we were blind

Just keep ranting while I sit in here with my recorder
I’ll see you at McDonald’s next school year and you can take my order
Cause you might lose your job if you can’t learn to stick to the curriculum
You had your say now I think it’s our turn

Repeat Chorus
Just show up, do your job, I know it sounds extreme


Spread the word, and stop indoctrination!

-Jaya-