By Allan Erickson / 6 April 2013 / 4 Comments
Surfing the web recently it was not surprising, however demoralizing, reading about “Diversity Days” at Butte College, the alma mater of Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The eleven-day event running through April 11 features interesting and compelling academic presentations, but diversity is not really reflected in the agenda. Perhaps it would be better to bill this festival the “Political Correctness Parade.”
Poetry is big. Yoga is featured. Students will enjoy a reggae band. Thai classical dance, and African culture, dress, dance and drumming are highlighted. There’s even a nod to Europe with a half hour of Celtic music in the cafeteria. All fine of course in the pursuit of international understanding, personal well-being and literary understanding. However, other aspects are a bit dispiriting.
The keynoter, an intriguing young novelist named Matt de la Peña, writes a lot about race, like Obama. One of his books was banned from schools by the state of Arizona. It was said the book promoted racial resentment by articulating critical race theory, an anti-white orientation: racism by another definition. Who knows if Matt actually promotes this kind of thing. However, it is a safe bet no one on the roster spoke against critical race theory, better known as “the white man’s a devil, play the race card again”.
... To Read More....Editor's Note: I would like to draw attention to David Kupelian’s book, “The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom”. The book description states: Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation-from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.
The Marketing of Evil reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America's founding regarded as grossly self-destructive-in a word, evil.
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