GOOD ADVICE FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES

Mike Adams is a Criminology Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmingotn. Dr. Adams is politically conservative and has long been a vocal opponent of Marxist and feminist ideology in higher education. He is a regular contributor to Townhall.com Daily and his column in today's Daily led me to do this blog.

His column consisted of a set of questions and answers, following a speech, with a student reporter from the university's newspaper. I suspect he never actually conducted that interview and that his column was intended to mock the warped beliefs acquired by many of our college students. According to the column, the reporter seemed pissed-off because Dr. Adams had written that he gets erectile dysfunction every time he hears a feminist speak. Anyhow, this is the way part of that Q&A session, real or not, went:

(Reporter) The one part of your speech that I disagreed with was about the communists killing 100 million in 72 years. I mean, capitalists have killed just as many people.

(Adams) No, now stop that, you’ve been taking a sociology class this semester, haven’t you?

(Reporter) Well, what about the Clinton administration and Kosovo and all the collateral damage and the same thing in Iraq?

(Adams) Look there is a huge difference between killing people on accident and killing people on purpose. ........ even small children understand the difference between an accidental harm and an intentional one. If you accuse them of something they say "I didn’t do it." If you say you saw them do it they will say "But I didn’t mean to." If a little child can understand the importance of criminal intent so can you.

That part of the column reminded me of the malarkey students are fed at the school where I taught, the one I derisively refer to as College of the Marxists. Its Marxist facultly members also had their students believing that our imperialistic terrorist state with its evil expansionist capitalism has been responsible for killing millions and millions of innocent people throughout the world.

Mike Adams concluded the interview with this advice to the reporter: After you graduate, please try to forget everything you’ve learned in your social science and humanities classes and read, read, read. You’re a bright kid, I can see that. But you need to educate yourself and try to lose your affinity for identity politics (feminism in her case). Fascism can only survive as long as there are scapegoats. The Nazis had the Jews. The feminists have the rich, white male patriarchy.

Speaking of identity politics, that is what the current Democratic Party presidential nomination campaign is all about. Blacks for Obama. Young educated people for Obama. Middle aged and older white women for Clinton. White blue collar working men against Obama. How many voters in those blocks actually considered supporting the best candidate?

The advice Dr. Adams gave the reporter should be a required part of every commencement address. Instead of the usual bullshit about how the graduates can make this a better world as they go on to face life after college, commencement speakers should be required to tell them they should forget everything they learned in their social science and humanities classes if they expect to make it in the real world.