The Ivory Tower Explained
So why do many college profs (ie Ward Churchill) are mega-left idiots.This letter to the Star Bulletin explains it
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/23/editorial/indexletters.html
Academia seems to spawn odd viewpoints
The problem which is most unnerving about University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and his invitation to speak at the University of Hawaii last night is his position as a tenured professor ("Lawmaker wants speaker blocked," Feb. 19). The concept of awarding a job for life at a public university is not a blank check for reckless behavior. A tenured educator, like an unelected judge, is expected to represent reasonable ethical standards. Like a drunken judge careening down a the highway, Churchill's views are not only odious, they bring disrepute to the university he works for.
The isolation bubble atmosphere of university life seems to breed and encourage views that come across as cockeyed to normal-thinking people.
Paul Mossman
Kailua
That isolation bubble Paul Mossman mentioned is very real. Most profs spend a large portion of their life at the university. All the other people they meet are part of the university community. They even marry people within the university. In many ways, they are cut off the rest of the (non-university) world. While that is not bad in itself, that can lead to not relating to people outside the universities.
And in many universities, left-wing conspiracy theories are the in-thing. The more wackier the theories, the more intellectual you sound. You sound like a smart guy who figured it all out! That's how Churchill got his idiotic theories
Churchill, with his warped mind, takes a few facts about our foreign policy and then exxagarates, as if all America ever does is negative. Nevermind that the US has liberated Germany and Japan fromtheir fascist rulers. Nevermind that the US kept South Korea free of communist rule, allowing it to prosper. Nevermind that if the US didn't take Hawaii, Japan would. And that would've been massive rapes and genocide of Native Hawaiians. If Trask and Churchill think the US was bad to Hawaiians, they should investigate how barbaric the Japanese were to the natives of Korea and the Phillipines. IT WAS WORSE! That doesn't excuse any negative actions of the US, but Churchill needs to keep things in perspective!
The 9/11 terrorists weren't about liberating the Third World. These were Islamic Fascists whose allies continue to terrorize Third World people in places like Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and throughout the Middle East.
Ward Churchill DOESN'T CARE about the victims of genocide in Sudan. Why? Because the terrorists involved are Muslims! I wish I could've asked him about that
!The ivory tower also leads to kooks like Dr William Foltz. Foltz spent the last few decades in the ivory tower. He is also an inconsiderate fool. Add that up, then you'll figure out why he is clueless in how to relate to modern-day college students.
