In Today’s College Faculties, Conservatives are Virtually Non-Existent, and the “Conservatives” Bear Much of the Blame!

By Nicholas Stix

Based on my experience writing and presenting major papers for the NAS on corruption in higher ed (grade inflation, remedial education, progressive pedagogy and so-called Ebonics) during the 1990s, I have long been ambivalent about this organization. Too many of its members’ combination of moral cowardice and preening snobbery (including treachery towards whistleblowers like yours truly) have made the group impotent on the very campuses they hoped to reform, and made it resemble variously a National Association of Snobs or a National Association of Muggers. However, over the years the organization has published some solid research.

Now, consider the video below, an interview with Richard Redding, one of the contributors to the American Enterprise Institute book, The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms. The book was published by big bucks neocons, and written by well-connected academic and think tank “conservatives,” as well as token black Obama supporter John McWhorter. (The neocons spent years shoveling money and plaudits McWhorter’s way, in hopes of “turning” him, only to see him stab them in the back, by supporting a genocidal black supremacist in 2008.) All those connections, and a mere two years after publication, and yet, the book ranks all of #479,494 at Amazon. Look at the title: It’s so 1989.

During the late 1980s, I pitched a book on higher ed whose manuscript I was half-finished with. My agent pitched it a few places, all of which summarily rejected it, and then retired. I then pitched it to some new agents and a few publishing houses, all of whom summarily rejected it.

The only real conservative literary agent I know of in America wrote back that I should call him, enclosing his telephone number. I opened my proposal with the story of a planned gang assassination in 1993 that was to be carried out in a college classroom, but went awry.

The agent told me that my proposal contained “a little too much reality.” Too much reality?! Isn’t6 this the sort of thing that newspapermen and social scientists alike (think Chicago) used to be willing to trade their eye-teeth for?

Nowadays, white students are getting raped and murdered, and blacks are producing race hoaxes with assembly line methods, yet we hear of The Politically Correct University. And listen to the interview—if you can take it. This man Redding is a cure for insomnia. If that’s how he sounds in an interview, just imagine how he reads!

In over 20 years, these folks have made no contribution towards reforming academia, and they never will. Now, you might ask me what material change I’ve brought about. The answer is also none, but I’ve been fighting all alone, with no political or economic backing, while these people have had millions behind them, thousands of members, and started with many tenured professors, though most have since retired, and due to the conservatives’ cowardice, they have been replaced with racial socialists. Thus, the “conservative” reformers are now much worse off than when they began. Heck, if I’d had the sort of wherewithal they had, I’d have slain the higher ed dragon by now.

But these reformers do not only lack grit, but their idea of “reforming” higher ed is simply the fantasy that Republican politicians would put them in control, so that they could feed at the trough, and replace their enemies’ people and dogmas with their own.

These people pose no threat to anyone, and that’s how they like things. They’re just like… today’s GOP leadership. What a coincidence.

The only solution is to starve the dragon to death.

 
“The PC University” (National Association of Scholars Video)


 

(NAS Talking Point Guidelines) Key Take-Aways
0:40 Ideological imbalance – a lack of voice right of center. (1 min, 20 sec)

2:00 Empirical, not just anecdotal evidence – Liberals to Conservatives: 40 to 1. (2 min)

4:30 Discrimination in faculty hiring? Bias in scholarship in social sciences. (4 min, 10 sec)

8:45 Mere bias of ideas or outright social activism? (2 min, 45 sec)

11:30 Agreement on the problem, disagreement on origins and solutions. (2 min)

13:35 What does the book offer to affect change? (2 min, 20 sec)

16:00 Is the Imbalance worse? Are there reforms in place? (1 min)

A raised brass knuckles to Education News; a raised white flag to the National Association of Scholars.