From Billmon. Some of you have undoubtedly seen this, but for those that have not, the whole thing is worth a gander.
"The Left has taken over academe. We want it back.
Mike Rosen, Rocky Mountain News columnist
CU is Worth Fighting For
March 4, 2005
In this great Cultural Revolution, the phenomenon of our schools being dominated by bourgeois intellectuals must be completely changed.
Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China
Resolutions of the Eleventh Plenum
August 1966"
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"I have undertaken the task of organizing conservative students myself and urging them to protest a situation that has become intolerable.
David Horowitz
The Campus Blacklist
April 18, 2003
Students on University campuses were organized into groups of “Red Guards” and were given the chance to challenge those in authority. Students quickly turned their attacks on their closest adversaries, their teachers and university administrators.
Therese Hoffman
The Chinese Cultural Revolution:
Autobiographical Accounts of a National Trauma
2001"
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"In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicized student allegations of left-wing bias by professors. Faculty . . . were pictured in mock "wanted" posters; at least one college said a teacher received a death threat.
Associated Press
Conservative Students Target Liberal Profs
December 25, 2004
During the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards turned to a more spontaneous medium to denounce alleged counterrevolutionaries. They wrote "big character posters" and posted them outside people's houses or schools to publicly expose their alleged crimes.
Irene Leung
Writing and Technology in China
Date unknown"
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