Wednesday, March 02, 2005

 

The Communist Fret

The front page of my local fishwrap this morning features this brave act of derring-do by the numbskull knuckledraggers who make up the Young Republican contingent at the local outpost of so-called "higher education:"

Santa Rosa Junior College's oak-studded campus is aflame with controversy triggered by the anonymous posting of red stars and a reference to communist indoctrination on 10 faculty office doors.

Instructors quickly saw the action as a threat to academic freedom, but the student who claimed credit for the protest said it was about left-leaning bias in the lecture hall.

The stars, which unnerved some instructors, were accompanied by a copy of a state Education Code section prohibiting the teaching of communism with the "intent to indoctrinate" students.

Rest assured, no instructor at the local JC is "indoctrinating" anyone there with "communism" (the dubious constitutionality of that Cold-War-era education code prohibition aside), but the McCarthyite Maoists known as the local College Republicans sure seem to have learned well both the tactics and the targets of China's Cultural Revolution.

"Down With the Chief Backer of the Revisionist Line in Education," 1968

posted by Michael 1:08 PM