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Hillsdale College offers online course "The American Left, from Liberalism to Despotism".

anna.

anna.

colors your eyes with what's not there
Jayhawker Soule said:
Hillsdale College
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Hillsdale's alumni are not unanimously happy with the direction Arnn has taken the school. Julie Vassilatos, who attended Hillsdale in the '80s, said that in those heady Reagan days, the school was certainly a world unto itself, "but not like Republican bubbles are now. I don't know if I can get this across — it wasn't insane."

The first signs of a shift were visible, says one Hillsdale alum, when students began trickling in from homeschooling "survivalist" families.
By the time Vassilatos neared graduation, she said, the first signs of a shift were visible, as students began trickling in from homeschooling "survivalist" families. Nevertheless, Arnn's endorsement of Trump left her speechless. "When I was there, it was very ideologically oriented in a Great Books kind of way, towards 'the higher things,' 'the permanent things,' 'the good, the true and the beautiful.' So I have never been more shocked in my life than that they went for Trump, because he's the absolute opposite of everything I thought I was taught in college."

Another alumnus, Tennessee writer and podcaster Sam Torode, who graduated in the late-'90s, likewise saw Arnn's support for Trump — particularly his 2020 re-endorsement, after the first impeachment, the family separation crisis and Charlottesville — as "a betrayal of everything I learned at Hillsdale." When Arnn's 1776 Commission released its report less than two weeks after the Jan. 6 attack, Torode drafted an open letter, signed by a few dozen former students, chastising Arnn for promoting the project in the immediate aftermath of "the greatest threat to the Constitution and America's representative democracy in our lifetimes."
 
Debater Slayer

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
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Twilight Hue said:
online.hillsdale.edu

The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism | Hillsdale College Online Courses

Learn how the American Left has radicalized over the past century and why it threatens our rights today.
online.hillsdale.edu online.hillsdale.edu

Anyone can apply for this online course free of charge. Registration in the article.
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Aren't some segments of the American right railing against perceived "indoctrination" and "politicization" in college courses? By the same token, does the above not fit into both categories? Is it going to get criticism from the same people who have criticized colleges over such perceptions?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
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Debater Slayer said:
Aren't some segments of the American right railing against perceived "indoctrination" and "politicization" in college courses? By the same token, does the above not fit into both categories? Is it going to get criticism from the same people who have criticized colleges over such perceptions?
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When one has The Truth,
it's not indoctrination.
 
Secret Chief

Secret Chief

Very strong language
Jayhawker Soule said:
Hillsdale College
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"Pursuing Truth ... since 1844."

"In 2013, Arnn was criticized for remarks about ethnic minorities he made while testifying before the Michigan legislature against the Common Core curriculum standards. Expressing concern about government interference with educational institutions, he noted having received a letter from the state Department of Education early in his presidency that said his college "violated the standards for diversity." He added, "because we didn't have enough dark ones, I guess, is what they meant." "


I'm amazed. OK I admit it, I'm not.
 
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Debater Slayer said:
Aren't some segments of the American right railing against perceived "indoctrination" and "politicization" in college courses? By the same token, does the above not fit into both categories? Is it going to get criticism from the same people who have criticized colleges over such perceptions?
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The course is free, therefore, you are not going into debt to learn propaganda, like happened in the Modern Liberal ripoff mills we still call Liberal controlled colleges and universities. You can stop anytime and not be ripped off like you would with the Liberal run colleges. Liberalism caused more student debt than the rest of history combined, by keeping the students drunk on misinformation fear and hate, that feels right. How many Liberal college graduates thought Russian Collusion was real and not a con job? The Liberals of old were much wiser to such scams by the corruption we saw in Big Government culture.

A change has occurred within Liberalism, compared to the 1960's and 1970's. I was a young Liberal back then. We were about an end to racism and a scale back on big brother and the Military Industrial Complex; "the man". Righteous war like WWII was OK if needed but police actions to buy and sell bullets was a waste of life. John F Kennedy, would now be considered a Republican by modern standards.

The early Liberals were race blind; we are all humans. We had the generation gap as the divide; don't trust anyone over 30. Modern liberals tried to institute a new version of reverse racism and sexism; judge by skin color and by sex. Nixon was considered the poster child for corruption, spying on his political opponents; Liberals, at Watergate. Obama and Biden took this corruption, one step further than even Nixon, using the FBI and CIA to spy on Trump. They far exceeded Nixon, but they still fail to give themselves full credit and replace the picture of Nixon, with Obama and Biden. They would have been "the man" back then; march peacefully on Washington to shame them.

This Hillsdale course may be a good learning experience for the modern Liberal Youth, so they can compare the early Liberals of the love generation of the 1960's and 1970's with the hate generation of today. Liberals of the old days would be detained and harasses for just having long hair, now Liberal leaders will target political opponents and harass even ex-presidents, less he win a fair election. If you were a Liberal back then, the enemy would be called today's Liberals.

The love generation and Liberalism back then was made passible, because religion was strong in the 1950's and 1960's after WWII. The Love was connected Jesus and Ghandi, who were both about love and passive resistance and not hate and violence. The long hair, beard and peasant clothes of the 60's was about humility, and even looking like Jesus. The modern liberals are taught to hates and even attack religion, since it may create a conscience, that will interfere with the propaganda and scams of their corrupt leadership. But back then since our parents were connected to religion and we were applying what we learned from Jesus, too modern problems, we won them over.

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Another aspect was to make culture more available for people with handicaps; handicap parking and rest rooms. Back then, the handicap people wanted to work and participate in a normal and productive life. They did bot want to just stay home and collect disability. If you fast forward, now Liberalism is about making excuses for not working and making a free ride a badge of honor It is a leadership tactic to grow government and dependent voters, while never solving problems. Instead they add new perception of problems to keep it growing; drugs and alcohol are now on the dole. The war on poverty is still active after 50 years. It is not about solutions but growing and milking the system, for liberal middleman ripoff scams. Liberalism are run by criminals not volunteers like the days of old; mafia model; Antifa, instead of the church volunteer model; peace corp.

I did not read the course, but I did live from then to now. Then was a better time to be called a Liberal.

When the moon is in the Seventh House And Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace will guide the planets. And love will steer the stars
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Liberal also about mystercism and had openness to the religions of the east and the indigenous peoples.
 
Eddi

Eddi

Christianity, Taoism, and Humanism
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Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yerda said:
I don't think I have time but maybe if you are taking the course you could summarise the materials?
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You would have to look at their website. I only linked the resource information on the college course.

I personally didn't register or am taking it myself.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
fantome profane

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
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Twilight Hue said:
You would have to look at their website. I only linked the resource information on the college course.

I personally didn't register or am taking it myself.
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I dare you to take the course. I triple dawg dare you.

If you actually take the course I will too, and we can compare notes, and share our thoughts right here.

Whadoyasay?
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
fantome profane said:
I dare you to take the course. I triple dog dare you.

If you actually take the course I will too, and we can compare notes, and share our thoughts right here.

Whadoyasay?
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Triple dog dare?


I don't have to put my tongue on a pole or anything?
 
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