In a stealth campaign to circumvent campus censors and reach students directly, the David Horowitz Freedom Center distributed 2,500 mock newspapers on the campuses of Georgetown University and Duke University. The papers contained the Freedom Center’s new report exposing both campuses as belonging to the “Top Ten Fascist Universities in America.” Georgetown was named #1 on the list and Duke was named #9.
Titled “Ivy-Covered Fascism,” the report documents the increasingly totalitarian environment on America’s college campuses where academic freedom is in peril and free speech is critically endangered.
The newspapers were distributed across the universities’ Washington, D.C. and Durham campuses, with copies made available in classroom buildings, dining facilities, student centers, and in distribution boxes for The Hoya and The Chronicle, the respective student newspapers for Georgetown and Duke.
“Our nation’s colleges and universities were constructed to be bastions of free and open debate by scholars engaged in the search for truth,” states the report. “Instead, they have become ideological prisons where the merest stray remark can be cause for expulsion and colleagues and classmates function as Stasi informers to hold the party line.”
The Duke Chronicle reported on the sudden appearance of the newspapers on campus. “The leaflets, which were found inside and outside of dorms and classroom buildings, accused Duke of ‘[persecuting] faculty and students who refuse to submit to the administration’s radical outlook,'” described the Chronicle. “It also called on Duke to rewrite campus policies that ‘obstruct constitutional speech’ and ‘provide redress for all students and faculty who have been illegally silenced or disciplined for their expression.'”
The coverage by The Chronicle also delved into the reasons why Duke was named to the “most fascist” list. The article recounted the case of former Duke professor Evan Charney–highlighted in the Freedom Center’s report–who was summarily fired after a two-decade teaching career because some students had complained about his “teaching style.” It also described the Duke Student Government President’s rare and controversial veto of a motion to grant official recognition to Students Supporting Israel, a pro-Israel student organization.
For its part, the Duke administration refused to comment on the newspapers. “We will not dignify the contents of the leaflets with a response or comment,” Chris Simmons, interim vice president for public affairs and government relations, responded to The Chronicle‘s request for comment.
Despite the administration’s initial refusal to address the Freedom Center’s concerns, the newspaper campaign achieved its desired effect of highlighting the increasing ideological censorship and repression of speech at Duke.
“We call on the universities catalogued in this report to immediately rewrite all campus policies and procedures that obstruct constitutional speech and provide redress for all students and faculty who have been illegally silenced or disciplined for their expression,” said Freedom Center founder David Horowitz. “If they should fail to do so, we urge Congress to withhold all federal funding until they are willing to bring their policies and actions in line with the Constitution.”
Read the full report on the Top Ten Fascist Universities in America at AmericaHatingUniversities.org and view additional images from our newspaper campaign below.
You won’t read this in the NYT or see it on CNN/NBC
Sure you could, but it’d read along the lines of . . .
“Students traumatized by far right-wing hate speech stealthily placed by white supremacists.
Incident resulted in school faculty sweeping school area for any nooses, swastikas, or other MAGA symbols of hate that may have also placed during the night.”
Who is it who correctly defined our universities as islands of intolerance in a sea of freedom, or something like that?
The 18-30 group is mostly,70%,Leftist,today,and will never change. They are zombies,so no amount of reasoning about freedom of speech and censorship will convince them. It is a sign of the Collapse of Western Civilization when the
NEXT generation is hopelessly BRAINWASHED. Whatever their leaders tell them to think they do it,if the NEXT day the leaders tell them to think the OPPOSITE, they do it at the flick of a switch.
FOR EXAMPLE
1. For 8 YEARS the Ukrainian government has committed a WAR CRIME against the inhabitants of DONETSK CITY ( 1 million), every day bombing a city where there are
NO soldiers, no artillery,etc. It is pure SADISM. The Russian army in the region is OUTSIDE Donetsk City,capital of the Donbass.. 6,000 unarmed civilians have been killed, and if not killed, then PERMANENTLY handicapped, or
their HOUSE or APARTMENT or restaurant, store,etc (owned by somebody) destroyed.
2. The new generation is so brainwashed that you can tell them all that,and because their leaders tell them to IGNORE it and continue to say “Putin is a sadist,he began the war for NO reason”, they will do it.
Here is another example:
ELON MUSK ( another brainwashed type) is the new owner of TWITTER and people who are guilty of anti-Jewish remarks will continue to be banned.
At the same time Musk continues to let the neo-Nazi AZOV group, which has anti-Semitism as part of its ideology,and is guilty of the WAR CRIME of
EVERY day bombing Donetsk City(1 million ) killing innocent men,women and children ( 6,000 so far ),, and where there are NO MILITARY targets ( the Russian army is 100% OUTSIDE the city )
to continue to be in Twitter. And Elon Musk continues to support the Azov Group by letting them use his company STARLINK, and have internet connection and continue to bomb Dontesk City.
Check out this video by iearlgrey in youtube,who WENT to Dontesk City recently and filmed a child MAIMED by a PETAL mine sent by the Azov group. They send a bomb that explodes in the AIR and HUNDREDS of little bombs that look like green petals fall inside the city. They are hard to detect, very small but if you
step on it,it explodes and KILLS or MAIMS you (lose a hand,lose a foot).( video 10 min). By the way,petal mines are ILEGAL and their use is a WAR CRIME also.
“MAIMED In A PLAYGROUND By Ukrainian Petal Mine” by iEarlGrey ( British )
This Frortpagemag article quoted “The Hoya and The Chronicle, the respective student newspapers for Georgetown and Duke.
‘Our nation’s colleges and universities were constructed to be bastions of free and open debate by scholars engaged in the search for truth,” states the report. “Instead, they have become ideological prisons where the merest stray remark can be cause for expulsion and colleagues and classmates function as Stasi informers to hold the party line..’ ‘
Related to this George Washington had ,very wisely, declared “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
PART 1
We have the NEOCONS,who that appeared in the 1980s made up of EX-Leftists. Their descendants are today, 90% or more,
the allies of the GLOBALISTS. They are pro-censorship,pro-Great Reset and New World Order.
I used to think NIALL FERGUSON (neocon historian) and DOUGLAS MURRAY (neocon intellectual) were sincerely ANTI-Imperialism. Globalism is the new imperialism,new colonialism.
1. Murray has written “Neoconservatism: Why We Need It”(2006) and ” The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017), ” The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity” (2019)
and “The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason” (2022). Most I agree with.
2. Fergusson is most famous for ” Civilization: The West and the Rest”(2011). And BOTH have written about the danger of ISLAM as an anti-human rights ideology.
PART 2
3. However both support the Globalist puppet regime of ZELENSKY. They don’t care about the WAR CRIME against the people of Dontesk City since 2014 ( 6,000 civilians killed).
Ferguson wrote for The Spectator ( Sept 24,2022) the article:”Volodymyr Zelensky is a hero of our time”
and Murray went to Kherson after the Russians left and wrote an article praising the Zelensky regime(NOV 21,2022) and another Conservative
GONZALO LIRA (youtube channel “Gonzalo Lira again”) made a video
and read the entire article in the video commenting on why Murray is wrong:
“Why I Despise Douglas Murray and Other Such Propagandist” (57 min) by Gonzalo Lira Again.He lives in KHARKOV,Ukraine.
The case of Douglas Murray and Niall Ferguson,two NEOCONS, is the same as that of the neocon website “American Thinker”. They always,always SHUT UP about the crimes of the Banderista-Zelensky regime.
They are the new examples of what JULIEN BENDA (French intellectual ) described in
“TREASON of the INTELLECTUALS” (1969) .
Classic study of 1920s European intellectuals.
From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a universal humanism and represented a cornerstone of civilized society.
All began to change in the early twentieth century. In Europe in the 1920s, intellectuals began abandoning their attachment to traditional philosophical and scholarly ideals, and instead glorified particularisms and moral relativism.
The “treason” of which Benda writes is the betrayal by the intellectuals of their unique vocation. He criticizes European intellectuals for allowing political commitment to insinuate itself into their understanding of the intellectual vocation, ushering the world into “the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds.”
ANOTHER book that describes this is:
”The OPIUM of the INTELLECTUALS” by RAYMOND ARON (1955)
He shows there was a form of intellectual dishonesty or hypocrisy at work in his time period,
where some people were EXTREMELY CRITICAL of
certain forms of government or society (such as capitalist democracy)
but FORGIVING towards CRIMES committed in societies claiming to manifest the ‘correct’ ideology.
He was deeply critical of a form of intellectual DOGMATISM and FANATICISM that held to a fixed framework of thought
REGARDLESS
of EMPIRICAL evidence in opposition to it.