Your teacher told you what?

Your teacher told you what?

Sept. 28, 2000

STRAIGHT TALK
By Muriel Sluyter

Greetings, gentle reader,

Many of our own citizens see no virtue in liberty. This nation, described by Lincoln as "conceived in liberty, and dedicated in the proposition that all men are created equal," has been targeted for decades by those to whom both liberty and the notion of a Creator are repugnant.

Liberty implies that all men are created equal, and that is offensive to those who consider themselves superior to their fellow citizens. Remember George Orwell’s Animal Farm? The pigs were in power, and though they all agreed all animals were equal, they insisted some were more "equal" than others.

David Horowitz and Harry Stein, brilliant writers and thinkers, were originally wild-eyed radicals, and their parents, in each case, were avowed communists. The class of people from which these men sprang consider themselves superior thinkers, which automatically makes those who disagree with them inferior. While this seems weird to most Westerners, it is definitely not weird in their circle.

Though these people are known politically as liberals, they call themselves "progressives." It means the same (though it sounds better); they are of that class who consider themselves more "equal" than others.

Stein’s wife belonged to a group called "Women Against Right-Wing Scum." Does that tell us their opinion of those who disagree with, and struggle against, them?

When these people stepped back and began to see American life as it really is (fortunately for us), rather than in the twisted way their leaders and mentors perceive it, their cohorts cut them off completely, expelling them from their society. Their leaders knew these two ways of thinking couldn’t coexist, and they could never take a chance that renegade thinkers such as these might infect the rest of their brainwashed followers.

We think these kinds of people couldn’t possibly live out here in the West, but many do. When our youngest daughter was in high school she came home and reported that one of her teachers was telling her class that the Russian people were very happy, because their system of government was superior to ours. He said our system was oppressive and abusive. This was before the Soviet Union collapsed, so this man was teaching our children that a communist society is superior to a free society.

A friend had a brother teaching in that department, so I called the brother and asked about this teacher. When I repeated our daughter’s complaint, he assured me no one really believed that kind of thing, which says our daughter’s teacher was not telling his colleagues what he was teaching.

So, I called the principal. He said he had heard nothing of this, but promised to look into it. He was as good as his word. That teacher taught no more propaganda to that class, though I have no way of knowing what he taught his other classes,

This teacher was not the Lone Ranger, as it were; there were then, and still are, other teachers who believe as this teacher does, and they are doing everything they can to train our children to think as they do. Sadly, they are quite successful; after all some teacher had recruited our daughter’s teacher.

Stein’s latest book is How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy. He says he discovered, "(T)his was a world less of yahoos than of humans and principled souls, fighting against (both) the junk values and...the dumbed-down thinking that allows (junk values) to flourish."

He is right; that describes us well, no matter how many nasty names they call us.