Totolitarian U



Evan Coyne Maloney has made a film. Here are some out takes. Here is what the makers have to say about about the subject matter.

Speech codes. Censorship. Enforced political conformity. Hostility to diversity of opinion. Sensitivity training. We usually associate such things with the worst excesses of fascism and communism, not with the American universities that nurtured the free speech movement. But American higher education bears a disturbing resemblance to the totalitarian societies that are anathema to our nation's ideal of liberty. Evan Coyne Maloney's documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the breathtaking institutional intolerance you won't read about in the glossy marketing brochures of Harvard, Berkeley, Michigan, Yale, and hundreds of other American colleges and universities.

"When we think of going to college, we think of intellectual freedom. We imagine four years of exploring ideas through energetic, ongoing, critical thinking and debate," Maloney said. "But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don't know is that American college students check their First Amendment rights and individual freedom at the door."

If you would like to have the film screened in your area you can sign up here.

HT Instapundit.

posted by Simon on 10.01.07 at 06:26 PM





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Yeah, I saw that a while back. Speaking as a college-educated man and a political liberal, people like that are an embarassment not only to education but to liberalism itself. Personally, I want people to agree with me because they've seen what I've seen and come to the same conclusions - not because I'm pressuring them.

I think universities like the ones depiced in the film tend to be hot-beds of "left-wing authoritarianism," much like churches tend to be hot-beds of "right-wing authoritarianism" - using those terms in the technical, social psychology sense. Neither one is really preferable to the other, IMO.

yarvin   ·  October 2, 2007 03:45 PM

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