Rightwing Declares War On Everybody

Nothing new about the war, just more examples of it everyday; uglier examples, like this one. 


I mean, can one imagine the chilling effect this will have on college professors. Me thinks that is the reason for this new right-wing tactic. 


It might, however, have another kind of effect. College campuses could explode again, like they did in the '60s, but instead of an anti-authoritarian tilt, it could have the effect of turning campuses into hotbeds of civil war.




RIGHT-WING ACTIVIST LAUNCHES COLLEGE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE TO COUNTER 'LEFTIST ABUSE' AND 'SMASH LEFT-WING SCUM': Campus Progress reports that Morton Blackwell, founder of the right-wing young adult organization the Leadership Institute (LI), has launched a new social-networking site for young conservatives, called CampusReform. The site is dedicated to exposing supposed "bias" in universities that are "completely dominated by the left" and giving students a forum to report and organize against liberal professors. The site allows students struggling to meet the rising cost of tuition during the economic recession the opportunity to make money by reporting examples of "leftist abuse" by professors. Blackwell claims the site was born out of his "long-term awareness of how the campuses have become left-wing indoctrination centers." Even as LI spent $4.6 million last year to "conduct training seminars for college students and to assist with launching right-leaning newspapers on campus," Blackwell claims that CampusReform is "largest program ever created" in his organization's history. CampusReform's staff consists of 11 regional organizers, all providing services and resources to campuses across the country. LI has already bred conservative leaders like GOP strategist Karl Rove, Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson (R-SC), and Grover Norquist, head of Americans For Tax Reform. CampusReform also proudly points out that James O'Keefe, the filmmaker who posed as the pimp that led to the ACORN scandal, attended 10 different LI schools in addition to receiving funding from the Institute.
 


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