Alan Joseph Bauer, according to his abbreviated biography, “was born and raised in Chicago. After receiving a Bachelors in Biochemistry from Harvard and a Ph.D. in the same from University of Wisconsin-Madison, he took a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel. Bauer lives with his family in Jerusalem and is the Chief Scientist of a local technology company.”
Until reading his article, published at townhall.com, which I will excerpt below, I had never heard of Mr. Bauer.
But, it turns out – and as regular readers of this blog know – we have a lot of the same thoughts about what passes for academia in the United States today.
Here are the article’s first three paragraphs:
Harvard is an entirely antisemitic university. The president says soothing words to her Jewish audiences and does not have the internal fortitude to punish the little monsters that the American educational system has created, and her university nurtures.
If there were any positive outcomes of the Covid disaster—disease and response—it might be that parents became aware of what their children were being taught. Parents casually walking behind their kids while the latter were “learning” via Zoom heard discussions of sexual orientation, the US as a terrible country, and the demented concepts of intersectionality that made those parents and their kids the bad guys. The revolution against school boards started after the Covid lockdowns as parents realized that the educational system was bending their children’s minds and filling them with gross lies and distortions.
The pinnacle of American education is the university. The US has no shortage of colleges and universities. Still, with few exceptions, all of them are left-wing bastions of American hatred, white person hatred, and a distorted understanding of history and America’s role in it. Universities consistently poll at over 90% donations to Democrats, and self-identification is overwhelmingly as liberal or progressive. In my very first Harvard lecture, a professor lamented the lack of age diversity at the university—all of the students were in their early twenties, as opposed to during the time of the GI Bill when there was an extensive range of ages and experiences associated with returning soldiers who went to college at Uncle Sam’s expense. Today’s colleges can boast students from all fifty states and dozens of foreign countries, but there is virtually no intellectual diversity based on polling. What does it help if people from Nebraska and Alaska, as well as Italy and Australia, all support a completely open border and reparations for blacks, which ostensibly would include billionaires Tiger Woods and Oprah Winfrey? The left is obsessed with color, and maybe last name and their concepts of diversity are literally skin-deep. Joe Biden made that clear when he said that his choice for Supreme Court would be a black woman. What happened to the best candidate? What happened to meritocracy? The left does not believe in it, only in victimhood and reverse bigotry, which is bigotry.
Other than the generalization about Harvard (“entirely” is far too exaggerated to me), I cannot find much to dispute here. Can you?
This is the deplorable state of one side fits all/no other side allowed “thinking” at so many of our colleges and universities, including a great many of the most vaunted ones.
Just a month ago, I wrote this:
One thin silver lining in the cloud of hamas attacks on Israel and the reactions of “woke” drones in colleges/universities around the United States is that a some of us – maybe a great many of us – may finally realize just how extensively indoctrination-over-education has permeated our institutions of higher learning.
You can’t address a problem unless you recognize the problem’s existence. Let’s hope that is what has happened over the past week and a half….and that some of our colleges/universities – their to-date spineless administrations kicking and screaming, no doubt – will finally be forced to think about and deal with it.
Mr. Bauer puts the start of this great unwoke awakening at the pandemic. I put it, more recently, at the attacks on Israel for reacting to the war waged against it by hamas. Regardless of when it started, it is now out in the open.
We either do something about it or we don’t.
