Washington, D.C. – The nation’s colleges and universities market themselves to prospective attendees and their families as places where academics and inquiry combine to produce well-rounded students capable of advanced thinking and prepared for the world of tomorrow. The reality, a recently published database of campus incidents shows, is quite different.
The College Fix, a website sponsored by the Student Free Press Association that provides student journalists with the opportunity to expose the insanities and inanities that occurred regularly in contemporary higher education recently compiled a database of incidents showing the so-called “cancel culture” to be alive, well, and growing throughout American institutions of higher learning.
The organization’s work, it says, is the first real attempt to quantify the problem. According to The Fix, the intolerant, politically correct crowd who are both socially prominent and academic decision-makers on so many campuses can claim, at minimum, to have taken “650 scalps” over the past ten years.
Among the outrages large and small identified in the database are:
–A move by the University of Pennsylvania to rename its Alice Paul Center – named for a suffragette who was instrumental in securing the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote – as the “Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies” to signal a “commitment” to LGBTQ “intellectual and political movements.”
–A public apology delivered in 2021 by the president of Muhlenberg College – a private college well known for its theater arts department – for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” put on in 2010 followed by the deletion of all the photos of the performance from the school’s website.
–The expulsion from the University of Louisville (KY) School of Medicine of fourth-year student Austin Clark, allegedly over his expression of pro-life beliefs school officials labeled unprofessional.
–The dismissal of Hannah Berliner Fischthal, an adjunct instructor at St. John’s University in Queens, NY after she read a passage containing the N-word from Twain’s anti-slavery novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” in her “Literature of Satire” class – but not before first explaining the context of the word and saying she hoped it would not offend anyone.
“What we have witnessed over the last decade is nothing short of a new Red Guard enforcing its cultural revolution on American college campuses,” said Jennifer Kabbany, editor of The College Fix. “This database stands athwart the campaign to condemn, erase and rewrite our shared history.”
The number of incidents cited in the database amount to roughly one per week for every week for ten years. The College Fix said updates would be made regularly as part of an ongoing effort “to document every example of targeting and suppression in an age of censorship, memory-holing, and soft totalitarianism.” What has been uncovered so far, the group said, is likely just the tip of a very large iceberg “but there are likely more examples out there, and much more to come.”
Peter Roff can be reached at RoffColumns AT GMAIL.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
Peter Roff
Peter Roff is affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations and is a former U.S. News and World Report contributing editor who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
We read Pudd’nhead Wilson in 8th grade back in 1966 as an anti-slavery tract. We never interpreted it as anything other than as an anti-slavery satire. It was pure Twain.
Wait, they expelled a pro-life student in KENTUCKY?!?! But..that’s a RED state, that’s known for being religious and conservative!!!
People should permanently cancel the cancelers
cancel these universities of lower intelligence and moron producing snow flakes!
Just dont go to these vile places of brainwashing and indoctrination into anti God, Anti Country, Anti Family and Anti Individual thinking nutcases sponsored no doubt by CCP money. Let yuor children learn a trade or entrepreneurship
Can we Chap 7 some colleges then
Very soon these non-believers, colleges, universities and this government here in the United States, who have reject God’s WORD, they too, will also be canceled and they will know that God Almighty has made foolish the wisdom of the world? For they have believed themselves wiser than they should have, and God is rejecting them and their foolish ways of the world… For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed…
God has been sending His warnings of the destruction of the United States since the mid-1980s, but very few have been listening… There is coming a cleansing of this nation from the shed blood of approx. 70 million of the most innocent of all life in the wombs of their mothers… A cleansing of fire from the East to the West, and you will be no more.
I was led by the Holy Spirit whispering in my left ear three days in a row in Apr. 1994, to the first of three pastors who have seen the visions of the destruction of the United States…
No president nor the United States Armed Forces can save that which has been given over for destruction… Only Christ Jesus will save those that are His…
You need to see a Psychiatrist as soon as humanly possible, and take whatever psych meds are prescribed to you, cuz you’re 100% batshit crazy
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this is not education, it is indoctrination. If different points of view cannot be discussed in university, then our kids are doomed.
like I have been saying this has been going on for years on many fronts… alot longer that 10 years. Any professor, administrator teacher,school board,or donator that donates to accomplish these goals need to found and punished appropriately… may should be hung…just sayin
10 yrs ago we were int the midst of Obamaism and Clintonism, remember they gave us “BENGHAZI” . “Hang on to your hats Boys Its going to be a BUMPY RIDE” God Help us !
I HAVE WRITTEN LETTERS, EMAILED, CALLED SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, GOVERNORS AND PRESIDENTS FOR OVER 45 YEARS ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND NOW THEY SEEM TO REALIZE SOMETHING IS GOING ON ION OUR SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES !! WHAT A BUNCH OF WORTHLESS COWARDS, NOW WHEN ITS TOO LATE TO SAVE THE COUNTRY, UNLESS 100 MILLION AMERICANS PICK OF ARMS AND MARCH ON WASHINGTON THE COUNTRY IS LOST !! THE NEW COMMUNIST/MUSLIM PARTY LED BY PREMIERE BIDEN AND ANTIFA/BLM KAMALA ARE DESTROYING AMERICA AND HAVE SET THE ELECTION PROCESS TO BE RIGGED BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS TWO ELECTIONS, 2020 PRESIDENTIAL AND CALIFORNIA RECALL ELECTION BOTH RIGGED !! WE WILL NEVER HAVE AN HONEST ELECTION AGAIN !! VIETNAM VET 67-68