Mere Rhetoric: Hey Gals, Check This Out - Academic Feminism Not Doing Much To Stop Teenage Girls From Being Lost In Pakistani Poker Games

Most of the academic blogs that we follow are really, really pissed about Indoctrination U (ok, all of the academic blogs that we follow...) FrontPage has an extensive transcript of a roundtable that David Horowitz participated in:

Unfortunately, professors of English do rant against the war in Iraq in English classes, inappropriately and unprofessionally. And professors of Women’s Studies do conduct courses on globalization in which the only texts are Marxist tracts on the evils of the free-market, corporate system. “International feminism” is the non-academic, political rubric under which they discuss globalization. These Women’s Studies professors more often than not have PhDs in Comparative Literature or English literature, and have no professional qualifications whatsoever for teaching about the global economy.

He might have added a few lines about the even more pervasive day to day dynamics of liberal academic groupthink - casual one-liners about President Bush's intelligence, knowing smirks about Christians, faux outrage about imagined Israeli atrocities, and a general disregard for any human rights violations not committed by US troops. For instance, we get at least one email a week about some dark Rovian plot to invade Pakistan and enslave its sweet and innocent natives. These sweet and innocent natives:

It’d make a great movie. Except the tribal elders would be changed to American defense contractors and the whole thing would be presented as an allegory on the war on terror... Police are seeking 10 men, including several tribal elders, accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt, officials said Tuesday.

Charming.

References:
* Political Indoctrination and Harassment on Campus: Is there a Problem? [FrontPage]
* Pakistani tribal elders demand girl as payment for poker debt [Hot Air]

Previously:
* Hey Gals, Check It Out - You're Destroying Indonesia With Your Skimpy Clothing and Your Premarital Sex
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Bikini Rally Outside Australian Mosques
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Ahmadinejad Secretly A Pervert?

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