You know how I always say that the Canadian liberal-left media can’t report a story without getting the view of an esteemed (though nobody has ever, ever heard of them) leftist university professor—or better yet, as I always say, a good Marxist university professor? It’s like a rule. They do it because university professors are reliably leftist. And like all liberals, they think and talk as though they know it all. They’re the perfect source for what they call “truth”. And besides—they’re employed by the state. That makes them true Canadians apparently.
The state-run CBC does this especially well.
This morning on the state-run official news and information radio (or at least on one of their 3,844 radio stations), the CBC’s Rafe Mair interviewed conservative David Horowitz about his book (The Professors) and his concerns about the hideously overt, 70 percent predominance of far leftists in professorships at universities both in the U.S. and in Canada, who use their professorships to espouse leftist views on their sponge-like audience of young students.
(It’s just SHOCKING that students are such raving anti-Bush, anti-America, anti-capitalist leftists, isn’t it?)
But that was that. Now: no conservative thought can be left unchecked in Canadian media. It must be countered—preferably mutilated and mocked—by the liberal-left. They must have the last word if possible. It’s in the liberal-left media handbook. Chapter one through eighty.
So they followed that up with, of course, the point of view from… a leftist university professor. It’s like a dance. Swing yer partner.
Here’s how the rebuttal went, in part:
Rafe Mair: Mr. McLaren, the fact remains that you call yourself a “Marxist humanist”… there isn’t a person in the world who isn’t going to take from that that you’re a communist…
University Professor Peter McLaren (—a Canadian who teaches at UCLA): That’s just a kind of crude reductionistic understanding of Marx… if you’re in my class… I talk about being a Marxist, I talk about someone who finds the writings of Karl Marx to be the some of the greatest critiques of neo-liberal capitalism, or, you know, forms of capitalism that has existed, uh, you know, uh, since, uh, the move from feudalism to capitalism… I work with teachers, and we talk about teaching for economic justice, we talk about teaching for social justice, we talk about teaching for human rights…
So you see there’s nothing to worry about!
And then they interviewed Jim Turk, Executive Director of Canadian Association of University Teachers. He said there’s no such thing as an imbalance of leftist university professors. There was no laugh track.
Their web site’s “About Us” page includes these tidbits of liberal-leftism:
· From lobbying governments to providing collective bargaining and legal support, CAUT actively advances the social and economic interests of its members.
· CAUT actively promotes public post-secondary education that meets the needs of students and the public. We press for public funding and policies to ensure our institutions are accessible and to safeguard the freedom of our members to teach and conduct research unrestricted by commercial or other special interests.
· CAUT advances equity and human rights within our profession. We fight for fair working conditions, compensation and benefits that foster quality teaching and innovative research.
And that’s reason 72 why when you listen to the CBC, you actually become dumber by the minute.
(Hat tips to funkmeister and Vicky)
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