[ April 17, 2024 ]
Washington and Lee University is offering a course on “How to Overthrow the State” where students write revolutionary manifestos.
Newt Gringrich, whom I admire and who is generally more analytical, slammed the program and said that it is “another sign of the madness that is taking over higher education”.
With such blindness coming from one of the most brilliant conservative minds, this is unlikely to change anytime soon. For the real madness is that of the Republicans, who have allowed the left to infiltrate and take total control of America’s educational system, manufacturing for 30 years the elites who today run the most powerful corporations in the country, finance the left, and, above all, owns all the major media, which have become Democratic propaganda machines.
And the real question M. Gingrich should ask is: what are we going to do about it? What is our strategy to regain a balanced control? Is there even a strategy? Can you say it louder, M. Gingrich, I cannot hear you.
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Washington and Lee University has defended its course titled “How to Overthrow the Government” which requires students to write a revolutionary manifesto, after coming under fire from critics led by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The president of the private liberal-arts university in Virginia on Monday issued a statement defending the course, which is one of 15 introductory writing seminars that first-year students are required to take.
The controversy exploded after the course description gained notice, stating in part:
’This course places each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society.’
“How will you attain power? How will you communicate with the masses? How do you plan on improving the lives of the people? How will you deal with the past? From Frantz Fanon to Che Guevara to Mohandas Gandhi and others, we explore examples of revolutionary thought and action from across the Global South,” the course description continues.
Are revolutionaries (aka murderers) like Che Guevara the best choices for learning how to write? Frantz Fanon was a Marxist humanist. Is writing a “manifesto” a good way to teach? Why not studying Pol Pot while he’s at it? Or Arafat? We need criminals to learn how to write? Is “rewriting history” a good place to start? It sounds more like a Marxist “how to” class rather than an actual writing class.
The course tasks students with “producing a Manifesto, drafting a white paper that critically analyzes a particular issue, and writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”
Gingrich, who was a professor of history before being elected to Congress, slammed the course offering in a tweet.
Washington and Lee University’s course on “how to overthrow the state” is one further sign of the insanity taking over higher education. The alumni should rise up and show how to overthrow a crazy college administration.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) September 4, 2020
In a statement, Washington and Lee President Will Dudley lamented that the course had been “distorted, sensationalized, and turned into political fodder on blogs, television, and social media.”
He said that the goal of the sensational course description was “getting students’ attention and capturing their imagination.”
’What better way to teach the power of writing — the idea that the pen is mightier than the sword — than to ask students to read and evaluate historical texts that aspired to move their original audiences to revolution?’ wrote Dudley.
He noted that both the Declaration of Independence and South Carolina’s 1860 Articles of Secession were required reading in the course.
’The course does not advocate revolution or train students for it. It studies how revolutionaries have written in order to help students become more powerful and persuasive writers,’ wrote Dudley.
He continued that the “overreaction” to the course “calls for reflection on civility,” noting that within the campus, people “disagree about many things, ranging from course titles to the name of the university.”
That is very hypocritical. Dudley claims that the objective of the course was “to attract the students’ attention and capture their imagination” when it actually is meant to train their minds in hatred of America and methods to destabilize a future Republican government, even a democratically elected one.
Dudley does not lack historical sources to train students to think from the best, through the nobility of the ideas that advanced the world: capitalism, for example, which made America great.
His case is more like a Marxist “how-to” course than a writing course, and Dudley knows this perfectly well (unless he too has been brainwashed, which is not to be excluded).
Why not have the students focus on how to improve society by examining the ideas and methods that have actually improved people’s lives, and those that have plunged them into distress, dictatorship, death, famine and misfortune such as communism in Russia, Cuba, and today in North Korea and Venezuela?
Ah yes, because the students would open their eyes and be convinced of the nobility of the country where they live.
I know, we are not all equal under the law. Democrats and minorities enjoy privileges that are not offered to the rest of, and I suppose that the following law applies only to Republicans:
According to Title 18 U.S. Code § 2385, whoever knowingly teaches the overthrow of the US shall be fined and/or imprisoned not more than 20 years & shall be ineligible for employment in the US for 5 years following his conviction.
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60 Comments
3 years ago
What the hell is the ‘global south’, Cuba is in the northern hemisphere, so is France where Fanon hung-out and never ran a revolution.
3 years ago
Reply to
fred m
By the way, Lenin was hiding in a tent outside of St. Petersburg, when Winter palace was attacked by Bolsheviks. He showed up only when everything got quite and made a speech. Typical coward.
3 years ago
I remember a time when these bastards would be hung.
3 years ago
Reply to
BanLiberals
When blacks step up to help the cop … Well maybe we are in America after all ..3.9 million views so far.
Click the link to play: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1303476624193716226/pu/vid/640×1136/YAZwIC4xzgOEx6Vi.mp4?tag=10
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
AND Notice how hard it is to control the bad guy just by hitting him. It can take a lot of blows that can cause serious chronic injuries. Really, closing the airway is MUCH more humane and efficient..
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
Pinning someone’s head to the ground doesn’t necessarily close the airway. The big guy bear hugging the guy restrained him though he didn’t stop resisting. The other guys beating him slowed his resistance. But pinning the guy’s head to the ground meant his ability to move was greatly reduced since once the head is pinned down, the upper body can’t move much. Isn’t it funny he pinned the guy’s head to the ground just like the officer who was trained to do so pinned Floyd’s head to the ground?
3 years ago
Reply to
created4el
Yes, in fights, people focus a lot on the head. And of course a struggling bad guy will try to escape head restraint.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Yeah, It’s great isn’t it ! Probably more than 3.9 million views by now.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
That is an awesome video. It shows how much effort it took to get the person restrained and that was by people who weren’t cops and gosh… it looked kind of like when cops need to restrain somebody.
“Oooh! Why were they beating him while he was on the ground? Why did the big guy put his knee on the back of the other guy’s neck? How inhumane! Wasn’t the guy choking and crying out ‘I can’t breathe’?” say all the armchair “cops” who are too idiotic to know what it takes to restrain someone and let the Marxists control their emotions so they can cause disenfranchisement among the masses. If that is what it took, is a social worker really going to do anything in order to restrain somebody? Of course not. How infuriatingly stupid so many people seem to be to allow such idiotic thought to gain so much momentum!
It is great to know that there are blacks out there besides those who hate whites and this country and use any excuse to riot, kill, steal and destroy. I knew they were out there but for once we see some upright citizens instead of a bunch of thugs who aren’t upright. Perhaps this country isn’t as far gone as the news coverage seems to show. Hopefully the election fraud by the Left won’t end up overthrowing this nation.
3 years ago
America’s alleged educational institutions, colleges, universities, even lower-schools are Petri-dishes for Marxist indoctrination. These are the cesspools in which higher-education is no more than a front for radicalization. Within these faux-educational institutions, today’s aspirant Marxists, Bolshevists, and Anarchists’ Sponge Bob minds become retooled, saturated with revolutionary indoctrination; more so, how to ensure the downfall of this Constitutional Republic. The professors, handlers deny the Lab-rat students’ intellectual integrity or refute the political dogmas pumped into pliable brains.
These Marxist minions riot, loot, burn businesses, and total lawlessness while denouncing law enforcement, calling for defunding. Nonetheless, the overlords of this perfidious treachery are not solely the administration or the faculty, educators but the faux-Democratic Party. It is time for not only the President but the parents of these brainwashed Lab-rats, students, if one prefers, to demand defunding of universities and colleges if the latter’s sole intent denies students intellectual freedom or thought. If not, the Republic will plunge into an economic and political abyss from which it may never recover. Washington and Lee Universities are but the tip of this immense conspiracy.
3 years ago
They better not be getting any tax dollars to spew their libturd BS!!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
They get federal money. Even if Trump withdraws the federal money,
this is a CRIME in my opinion….
3 years ago
The last time anyone seriously tried to overthrow the state, those Southern Confederate losers got their asses kicked so hard that they’re still crying about it 155 years later!
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
This article deals with something akin to the Union’s taxpayers funding the Confederate’s war efforts.
Of course, for someone FAR too poorly educated to become a real engineer, that’s to be expected out of a PRETEND engineer.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
PRETEND engineer = a blithering idiot’s blithering idiot, as you like to say….
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
It’s not so much that I “like” to say it. I simply point out that the PRETEND engineer IS a blithering idiot’s blithering idiot.
3 years ago
Reply to
Poptoy1949
The Confederate DemoKKKrat losers cried like little b*tches when we took their black people away.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Hay IDIOT we did not loose the war of Northern Aggression, At first we thought you were after our Women. Everyone knows that a Southern Woman is 1`000 times superior to the northern variety.
Then we saw what you were really after, so we quit fighting. Now every taxpayer is paying for your mistake.
3 years ago
Reply to
7734daniel
You racist Southern DemoKKKrat Confederate losers got your asses kicked, and we’d be glad to do it again.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Ain’t no way you could kick our asses. Like I said first we thought you were after our women, (any one with an ounce of smarts knows Southern Women are superior) After we fund out what you were after we QUIT.
3 years ago
What’s next, a tutorial on building a better bomb?
3 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
The only positive side of it that all those “professors” have never done a damn thing in their lives. So, they teach what they really don’t know. Total bull-hokey.
3 years ago
Easy ……….. Keep electing Anti-American politicians
3 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
The system of our government that allows this type of ILK to get into our government needs to change it is Ludicrous !
3 years ago
Ummmmmm, shouldn’t we be doing something about this?
A.G. Barr? Anyone?
3 years ago
How about how to build a state rather than how to destroy it. Anybody who has ever built a sand castle knows it can be destroyed in seconds.
3 years ago
Of all Places…….Named after Two Great Americans, President George Washington and General Robert E. Lee, this University has become a Liberal Hotbed run by an Idiot that is a Major Stupid Fool.
3 years ago
Reply to
Poptoy1949
That Dudley-boy says that he teaches persuasive writing, but his explanation is not even persuasive.
What a loser!
3 years ago
Maybe one should have online courses in how to overthrow university administrations and how to burn down or blow up universities
3 years ago
Not to worry. There so many more colleges and universities who offer a law enforcement curriculum and in every state in the Union.
Washington and Lee university is merely one in a row.
3 years ago
Twenty bucks says this course is taught by either:
–an ultra-liberal, very-effeminate, ponytailed and goateed “male” professor, who either recently moved out of or still lives in his mommy’s basement, the kind of which EVERY college and university seems to have dozens of,
OR,
–a middle-aged, overpaid, male-hating-probable-lesbian, school-marm-ish Elizabeth Warren-type “female” professor who hits on her vulnerable female students, the kind of which EVERY college and university seems to have dozens of.
3 years ago
Twenty bucks says this course is taught by either:
–an ultra-liberal, very-effeminate, ponytailed and goateed “male” professor, who either recently moved out of or still lives in his mommy’s basement, the kind of which EVERY college and university seems to have dozens of,
OR,
–a middle-aged, overpaid, male-hating-probable-lesbian, school-marm-ish Elizabeth Warren-type “female” professor who hits on her vulnerable female students, the kind of which EVERY college and university seems to have dozens of.
3 years ago
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3 years ago
At what point does this country start prosecuting treason? How far down this road do we have to travel? We already have lockdowns, riots and violence in the streets, an attempted coup that fortunately failed. It seems to me that the point of no return is rapidly approaching.
3 years ago
There’s a lifetime of study in OUR “Founding peoples history” and “Framers” alone.
Everything relevant in those two areas should be highlighted along with knowing well OUR 3-Founding documents in K – 12 .
Then higher learning should go into deeper areas in understanding of all these unique American foundations of which gives the height from which to view indepth foreign propaganda some being antiAmerican.
A fair comparison and debate first must be fully versed to be prepared to eliminate confusion stemming from a poor foundational understanding.
This well before any outside belief systems are explored indepth by having a thoro knowledge base in which to work from so not to be indoctrinated by unAmerican values and principles first…!
Being this is America = it’s Americanism + Americanism’s that should be the “language” first in political foundations from which to perceive all others thru a full Patriotic perspective…else youth be seduced + hi-jacked before grounded in who WE are.
Not have it eliminated or overlooked with mindsets molested prior to a sound well rounded understanding to operate from…!
3 years ago
Does anyone in government see a contradiction Title 6 grants and teaching students Insurrection strategies against our beloved country? Elimination of their Government funding and student loans may go very far in their curricula decision making! @DOJ @POTUS @VP
3 years ago
Is this not teaching treason ? Or is it treading as very fine line ?
Some schools need to start teaching how to recover our so called education system.
I do think the media would holler like a stuck pig.
Lets get rid of tenure at all institutions of higher learning. I think a lot of the professors will starve then, having to work for a living will be completely foreign to them.
3 years ago
For questions, comments and opinions, contact:
Gildner, Robert M. (Matt)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
History
(540) 458-8772
[email protected]
Newcomb Hall 218
3 years ago
It would be wonderful if Title 18 U.S. Code § 2385 were actually enforced. Most college professors would be in prison and unemployable.
3 years ago
It would be wonderful if Title 18 U.S. Code § 2385 were actually enforced. Most college professors would be in prison and unemployable.
3 years ago
How could it be, in a university with that name???? Ara Americans crazy? Are they ready to give up their country to the anarchist marxists? If so called “learned” people from universities are so ignorant or perhaps hate this country so much, the country that gave them and their children everything… what can we expect of the non academicians? Maybe we can expect MORE from non academicians! I hope so. These “learned” ignorants from this university should try to have it so good in other countries…
3 years ago
Idiot…
3 years ago
Any university program that hails Che Guevara as someone who is a revolutionary hero, should have federal troops close the campus and have all involved charged with treason. There is no other way to effectively deal with this type of cancer.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Now, now santashandler. Ernesto was correct on his assessments of negroes and he put homosexuals in concentration camps.
Wasn’t all bad, was he?
3 years ago
These self righteous spoiled rotten wee soy boys and their fat blue haired tattooed “female” buddies need to be dropped off in the middle of Calcutta or Lagos and then watch them crawl on their hands and knees to the US Embassy and beg to be allowed back in the USA… What a stupid generation we have today that dont even seem to know what Sex they are but want Communism because that has worked so well in various cultures around the World.
What on earth do they teach these days… Its a disgrace..
