By: Diane Benjamin
A reader sent me this link to a Daily Wire story: https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-universities-are-teaching-students-to-blow-up-oil-pipelines-records-show
Excerpt:
At Illinois State University, students in an English class are required to read only four books, one of which is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline.” Another is a book on Marxism by Friedrich Engels, whom Vladimir Lenin called “the finest scholar and teacher of the modern proletariat.” Professor Christopher Breu describes capitalism as “cancerous” and “violence.”
Eng 384 is described as Introduction to Cultural Theory https://coursefinder.illinoisstate.edu/eng/384/#22451
These books are required for this class:
Keep in mind this is an English class, not political science.
Start with the first book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2649-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
The book calls for violence because peaceful protests haven’t fixed the Climate Crisis! (It doesn’t exist, but that part isn’t taught)
The second book is fiction about a species of hyperintelligent dangerous octopus that have developed their own language and culture. (Course title: Cultural Theory. A fiction book is culture?)
The third book might actually not be horrible. It discusses how infrastructure building affects the culture. Emphasis on “might” since #1 and #4 are indoctrination.
The fourth book proves indoctrination. Why is an English class reading Marxism? Go back to the quote from The Daily Wire. This professor included this book because he hates capitalism.
ISU will hire a far left president. This professor isn’t the only wing-nut teaching there. They won’t stand for leadership that would require them to teach instead of indoctrinate.
Your tax dollars at work!
Of course it does. Try Chung and Koehler. They won’t care
Lib logic, blow up a pipeline that will fix it….whatever they think they are stopping will be 100x worse…for instance oh bad gas and oil, lets stop it! ok well idiots the pipe will get fixed, equipment and people will fix it, which requires MORE of the same resources you just tried to eradicate…they cant fix things or find solutions and have discussions/debates using brains, just anger and distain drive their ignorant actions.
All I can say is: Joe McCarthy was 100% correct and now 70 years later this is what we get. I doubt America can be saved, but if it is possible the process will be very very ugly. America should have listened to Joe instead of demonizing him.
This is why it’s SO important to reach kids in K-12. If they haven’t been taught critical thinking or the fact that they don’t have to believe in other people’s ideologies or if they haven’t had a Christian upbringing that teaches them who they really are, it will be too late when they reach places like ISU. Their confusion about what is real and what is a lie will lead them to self hate and personal destruction.
On that last note there is this organization – https://childparentrights.org/church-transgender-response-guide/
Back in the late ’90s until 2011, I worked at a downtown Normal textbook bookstore. I used to tell people that they needed to just browse the textbook section to see that this is indoctrination not education that is going on there. One year, the book “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinsky was a required textbook for a number of different classes. It’s a very thin, small book but it has the blueprint for a long, gradual plan to undermine this country. His big point was that one must be patient and do it gradually, through the education system from kindergarten on up, to slowly indoctrinate children in a way that their parents won’t notice and as they enter the workforce they will implement these things gradually. It is chilling to read because it explains what we are seeing now 50+ years later (it was published in 1972). The only good thing was that during textbook buyback most of them came back untouched, covers not creased from being opened, so apparently not many students read it. Or perhaps, a lot of the profs forced to put this on their syllabi never actually taught it. One can hope.
Open borders is the latest attempt to overwhelm the system
@Pat. Saul Alinski wrote the book and it was about gaining political power through subversion and community organizing (Obama). Hillary Clinton was an Alinski acolyte. You can see his influence in her and other democrat’s rise to power. Interestingly you might remember her saying “it takes a village to raise our children“.
She understands the importance of education in overthrowing democracy. History will reveal her to be the communist she is. Willing to do absolutely anything to become rich and powerful. What a bitter woman.
Don’t forget her advocacy for the SDS, and if memory serves, the Black Panthers while she was a law student and fledgling lawyer.
“Bitter women” doesn’t even begin to describe her…..or Michelle Obama!!!!!!
A couple things to keep in mind….
First, this course is not required for any major, it’s an upper-level (junior/senior) elective for English majors and only English majors can take it. Second, only 14 students, out of appx. 22,0000 have enrolled in it.
There’s no indoctrination going on here, students who take it, know what they’re in for and already agree with the professor.
He’s not the only teacher who’s a communist
With test scores at record lows in Illinois I would assume all four of these book are way above students reading comprehension. Maybe isu should be requiring DICK AND JANE books. Then again Dick and Jane may be above ISU students comprehension.