Bias in American Schools? Surely You Jest?

No, I do not Jest and don't call me Shirley!

from JoeUser Forums

         Just got done watching the preview for Evan Coyne Maloney’s first feature length film : Brainwashing 101. This is how a documentary should be done folks. I can think a few prominent filmmakers who could take some lessons.

         The films basic thesis is that in some (or many) universities across the nation people’s 1st Amendment rights are being denied. This is of course news to no one but what may shock you are which folks are being denied their free speech rights and which other folks are not.

         I am not going to post anything beyond that regarding the content of the film so that those few of you with the time, wherewithal, and moral courage to have a viewpoint challenged can actually make up your own mind. Sometime next week I will post my thoughts on the subject matter after you have had your chance to watch it yourself.

         You can view the movie for free right here. (note I like the simple web page layout here too, 3 formats, simple links, no bull)

         Feel free to post your feeling about the film in the comments section or to write your own blog about it and post a link to that in my comments area. No two page long screeds in my comments thank you very much.

 

Credit : Brain Terminal

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I enjoyed it, and look forward to you purchasing the extended remix sometime in 2005 for not-so-public, not-so-private, possibly-mildly-intoxicated viewing. Hey, we could make it some sort of drinking game!
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
Good documentary, glad you found it!

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Glad you folks liked it, I am currently pimping it out to all of the other blogs I frequent outside of JU.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Pimp away... I think that this is something everyone should see.... because that isn't right....
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm 4 minutes into it, and I must ask, where the hell did this guy get the open music from? It must have been a 70's blacksplotation and/or 70's porn video.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I watched the video since it got me curious. I am a part of the leftest crowd at my campus in California. The documentary makes it seem that the left controls every campus, and it's not true. At my campus, my organization has been targeted by the school paper and administration. In 2000, there was a lot of heat put on us for bringing Ralph Nader to speak. Every time we rally on campus the cops are called in, but when frats threaten us, we get no help from the school. Many of the young Republican clubs in the state operate with no problems. They even hold conferences and workshops with generally little drama. The worst thing I heard happen to them was having their newspapers stolen in Cal some 3 years ago. I was hoping the film would go deeper into how they think students are getting brain washed, but it was only about 3-4 cases of conservative students getting censored.

I think part of the problem is that people don't understand why we think the way we do. I am an Ethnic Studies major. To be honest, I think people don't realize that the history of the USA has left many problems. For example, I have taken many Indian Studies classes and the damage of reservations and the killing of Indians has many effects today. People don't realize that it is offensive for people to say Colombus discovered America when there were people here already or that he was a pioneer in enslaving Indians and yet we celebrate him.

Thanks for the post
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

People don't realize that it is offensive for people to say Colombus discovered America when there were people here already or that he was a pioneer in enslaving Indians and yet we celebrate him.

It is not that people don't realize it, it is that there is no right for you not to be offended. They call it free speech. I didn't do a damn thing to the Indians or any other minority here! I am Irish for christ sake! Where the hell is my reparation money for the railroad system and all of the country's police depts? Ancient history man.

The documentary makes it seem that the left controls every campus, and it's not true.

Actually the film says this about 3 schools as I recall.

If you have been targetted by your administration as these kids were then cantact FIRE like they did. Hell contact Maloney himself! I am sure he would love to add in some segments of how the left are being punished for speaking their minds too!

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

where the hell did this guy get the open music from?

The credits say they composed it.

 

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Fatastic link. I look forward to your future comments on this.....and here I was thinking that my experiences were isolated and unique. I knew that the free speech/equal rights were biased, but I didn't realize how bad that it has become in the schools....
Reply #10 from PolMach Forums Top
where the hell did this guy get the open music from?


Nope the opening music is the Notre Dame Fight Song and it says so in the credit, trust me I would know since I live about an hour away from South Bend, Indiana home of Notre Dame University.

People don't realize that it is offensive for people to say Colombus discovered America when there were people here already or that he was a pioneer in enslaving Indians and yet we celebrate him.


Yes I realize my ancestor came to America but if it were not for him coming over you and I would not be having this conversation. Plus it was not Columbus who enslaved them it was the other Spaniards, Columbus wanted to convert them to Catholicism (which is evident in all the letters he wrote) by the way did you know Columbus is NOT Italian at all, but a Catalonian from Barcelona, a member of the Colon Banking Family, which is why his name in Spanish is Cristobal Colon. There is even a reason he did not tell the king and queen where he was from. Though you can argue that I should be ashamed, but I say BAH, if he had not came over and screwed an Arrowak (sp?) woman or his son screwed an Arrowak woman I would not be here today.

- Grimtobal Xolon
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

Nope the opening music is the Notre Dame Fight Song

Ah I had no chance of catching that:) Thanks...

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
no, i wasnt talking about the fight song, i was talking about the porn-i-fied song. I was so waiting for the SWAT theme to come on...
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It reminded me of the theme for 3-2-1 Contact....
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Pretty sure that one they composed, Pidge, and that they intended it to be... nostalgic. To try and evoke images of going back in time, to when the documentarian would've attended school. Well, kindergarten, maybe. The guy doesn't look that old. (Or maybe it was just one of *those* schools...)
Reply #15 from PolMach Forums Top
ah well i thought it was a great "enlightening" documentry now i have something to say when people go around spamming "see 9/11"
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

(Or maybe it was just one of *those* schools...)


What, porn school?

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
It is not that people don't realize it, it is that there is no right for you not to be offended.


I don't know what you're getting at, but honor a person that instituted the slavery system of Indians is offensive. It's detailed pretty well in James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me".

Actually the film says this about 3 schools as I recall.


I remember the film saying that most colleges are ran by leftest orgs. From what I've seen in Cali, it's usually Greeks that dominate school politics.
Reply #18 from PolMach Forums Top
Good refering but something needs to take a good look left public k-12 schools are getting. I would say in my education Ive had maybe 2-3 right wing teachers (1 that was too outspoken) and about 8 obvious left wingged teachers (most of which were too outspoken, one of which pretty much picked debates with me at first then later on another right winged kid (because I won a few of them) I hated that teacher.) And the real sad part is that Ive been in public school all my life.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't know what you're getting at, but honor a person that instituted the slavery system of Indians is offensive. It's detailed pretty well in James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me".


The point that is trying to be made here RATM4eva isn't that an idea is potentially offensive to you.... because no matter where you reside on the political spectrum, there are going to be ideas which offend any of us... the point is you are not constitutionally or legally protected from ideas that offend you, and if you were... what dark days those would be. And it scares me to think that colleges, which are supposed to be places of debate and differing opinion, where young minds are exposed to a number of different and often conflicting theories are becoming suppressive in what they will allow to be said because people may get offended. Being offended is part of the process of learning....
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't know what you're getting at, but honor a person that instituted the slavery system of Indians is offensive.

Offensive yes, should be illegal to say? No way. Read the bill of rights, it has nothing in it about protect anyone from being offended.