Anthony Hennen: Activist Academics Threaten The Integrity Of Higher Ed

Truer words were never written...but it's a tough problem because the left exploits academia's liberal (intellectually liberal) principles against it. Academia says: let a hundred flowers bloom. Leftists come in and say: great! Let's use it as a platform for indoctrination and activism! Academia can say: Well, look, we didn't mean that...we mean that everyone should be free to explore scholarly positions... The left says: Well, our scholarly position is that activism and indoctrination are legitimate scholarly activities...and also that you are wrong about what kinds of things should happen in academia and also Racism! And you know what you are if you don't uncritically accept the Racism! argument whenever it is deployed... Liberals, being liberals (even intellectual ones), are powerless in the face of such arguments. 

   This is, IMO, no better than a religion coming along and saying: It's our scholarly position that Religious indoctrination and proselytizing are legitimate scholarly activities. Nor some dude in the B school arguing: It's my scholarly view that promoting my private business is a legitimate scholarly activity...

   The left aims, in effect, to destroy the institution of the university and replace it with an institution that subordinates the search for truth to the demands of so-called "social justice."