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PREVENTION
10 WAYS
COLLEGE PROFESSORS INDOCTRINATE
AMERICAS YOUTH AND HOW TO PREVENT IT.
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INDOCTRINATION
PREVENTION
10 WAYS COLLEGE PROFESSORS INDOCTRINATE
AMERICAS YOUTH AND HOW TO PREVENT IT.
A TURNING POINT USA PUBLICATION
Acknowledgments
Thank you to everyone who helped make this publication
possible especially Dan Lipka, Brent Hamachek, Ellie Wessel,
Austin Paul, Marko Sukovic, Crystal Clanton, Charlie Kirk,
Bill Montgomery, Edie Walker, Paul Romanowski,
Brett Hill, Stephanie Conway, Lauren Cooley,
Faith Braverman, and Mike Miller.
COPYRIGHT 2015
This book was written by college students and recent college graduates, all of
whom endured liberal bias in the classroom.
We understand that students enter college with the intention of becoming well-
educated and obtaining a degree. Students are not actively seeking to become a
blind follower of the left. We know from experience that because professors are
skilled orators with years of experience, few students are able to identify when
indoctrination is taking place. Weve watched our classmates accept the lies of the
left as fact, just because its coming from their intellectual superiors. Even the few
that can identify indoctrination have a hard time debating and debunking it in the
classroom; weve been there.
This book was written so that college students can take charge of their education
and remain steadfast in their beliefs of free markets, capitalism, and the American
dream.
Your professor will attack your upbringing. He will insinuate that your parents are
not educated enough to know what they are talking about or that they are not
modern enough to understand the complex issues of todays times. This is false,
and is the first step to undermining your belief system. The lens in which you view
the world is not unenlightened or outdated. It is, however, a barrier to what your
progressive professor wants to teach you next.
The same may be said about your religion. Here are just a few examples: It is
outdated, it is anti-intellectual, it isnt based on fact, its an old book, its a fairytale.
If your professor can make you question the God of the universe, he can certainly
make you question everything else.
Of course, your college experience is meant to be a time for learning, growth, and
maturing. Challenging your beliefs is a good way to strengthen them. However,
you should know, there are ways to refute the lefts attacks on your values and
upbringing. This book is here to help.
Even todays America is not a perfect nation. The United States has incurred great
debts, lags in the education of youth, and has the highest incarceration rate in the
world. Poverty still runs rampant in inner cities, environmental concerns mount, and
social and economic pressures still leave too many people divided. These problems
are very real, have yet to be overcome, and desperately need to be addressed.
So with all thats wrong with the United States, how can America still be
exceptional?
Exceptionalism does not come from being perfect, it comes from being unique -
and America is very unique. Through the lens of basic metrics used to measure
quality of life, one can see that America uniquely produces high life quality.
Ultimately, these metrics show that America has the strength to rights its own
wrongs.
The United States, unlike any other country, takes on tasks that are like shooting for
the stars: confronting and combating global threats and connecting people around
the world in ways never thought possible. Today, a devastated village in Sierra
Leon can receive millions of dollars in aid and support within 24 hours, saving
thousands of lives. This is real progress from the brutal and disconnected world
pre-America. There is no question that the United States of America, through its
example and leadership, has been the engine of such progress.
Indeed in our diversity and wealth of cultures we find our greatest strengths. This
reality is a major contributor to the reason why the United States is home to the
most industrious, hardworking and innovative people in the world - people that
believe in empowerment, improvement and building a better future.
When your liberal professor says that you should be ashamed to be an American,
or that people across the globe hate America, do not believe him. Do not feel
ashamed or in denial about your status as an American and dont buy into this the
line of perpetual self-hatred thats the norm on college campuses today. America is
much more than the politics-as-usual we find in Washington D.C. It is a beacon of
hope and freedom to many across the world.
Whether your class is talking about economics or social sciences, your professor
will be sure to slip in how government is there to help.
Ronald Reagan once said, The nine most terrifying words in the English language
are: Im from the government and Im here to help.
Similarly, your professor may advocate for the government to step in and help those
in need. While we all should be in favor of helping those in need, we should be in
favor of helping those in need as quickly and as best as possible.
The glorification of government will even creep into your history lessons. Expect
your professor to be touting The New Deal as the savior that turned Americas
economy around, despite its leftover programs that are still bankrupting us today!
And dont expect to learn about the Depression of 1920. This was a year with an
extremely sharp deflation that was worse than the depression we know as the
Great Depression. You wont hear about this depression in 1920 though, because
it was fixed by keeping government out of the market! Anyone who glorifies
government knows that this quick fix by limited government involvement debunks
the narrative of the need for government.
Your liberal professor will teach you that government guidance and regulation is
always for your benefit. However, the government cannot create; it can only restrict.
If you love freedom, you should not love government. Government is a necessary
evil; not a glorified hero.
One such example is the BP oil spill. Yes, the oil spill was a terrible thing that
happened to the entire gulf coast, and BP should have to pay for it. However,
there are millions of barrels of oil that are transported daily, safely, and securely,
without ever being spilled. You will never hear a liberal professor explain the rarity
of oil spills or the rarity of company-caused environmental disasters. Instead your
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liberal professor will highlight specific fringe stories and examples as a way to
misrepresent capitalism and portray it as something it is not.
Liberal professors will religiously use stories and examples that are outliers,
because the everyday operation of capitalism functions for good!
3) Say that capitalism has not worked. Your liberal professor will argue that
poor people, minorities, and women are worse off thanks to capitalism. He
will use skewed statistics, misleading data, and unfair analysis to portray
capitalism as the enemy of the poor and unfortunate.
One of the most widely held ideas on college campuses is the notion that capitalism
has not helped poor people, when in fact, the truth is the complete opposite.
Everyone benefits when innovation and technological advances are made. Free
market capitalism is the only system that has consistently raised people from
poverty into higher levels of living.
40 years ago only select members of the military had cell phones. Now over 70%
of the adult population in America have cell phones. How is this possible? Thanks
to competition and innovation, fostered by capitalism, cell phones are now made
at incredibly low costs. These low costs are passed on to the consumer, therefore
increasing the accessibility to a cell phone. Now almost anyone in America can
purchase a cell phone.
Here lies the difference between an American capitalist and your leftist professor.
An American capitalist wants to see everyone have the freedom to make their own
choices. Some will succeed and some will fail. Those who succeed will raise the
quality of life for everyone (see chapter on Capitalism) and have the opportunity to
help others, out of the goodness of their heart, through private charity (see chapter
on Glorification of Government.)
Your leftist professor, on the other hand, wants everything to be fair. In fact, in the
eyes of your leftist professor, fairness and equality is more important than quality
of life. Because of this, government must control as much as possible, so that
everyone will end up equal. If there is a case in which someone is more successful
than everyone else, your leftist professor believes government should step in and
redistribute the money. While this enforces an equal outcome, it also lowers the
standard of living.
If you disagree with your leftist professor, you must be greedy. This, of course,
is an emotional attack on those who have had the good fortune of success and
understand that capitalism is the best system for helping those in need. But, again,
if someone disagrees with the government redistributing a successful persons
money, it is much easier to say they are greedy, than to combat the entire notion of
capitalism and its successes.
Your liberal professor may employ the straw man argument that those who are
successful or want successful people to keep their profit are greedy and do not
donate to charity. In most cases, this is also far from true.
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In one study conducted by ABCs 20/20, a predominately liberal town in California
was compared to a predominately conservative town in Utah. A Salvation Army
donation bucket was set at the main entrance of each store with the most traffic
in town. It was reported that the town in Utah made half the income of the town in
California, and the town in California had three times the traffic as the town in Utah.
Yet results found that the town in Utah collected two times more money than the
town in California. Even though the town in Utah had less people with less money,
they still gave more generously. This is just one example, but when your liberal
professor tries to tell you that conservatives are greedy and do not donate as much
money as liberals, you can tell him this study has proved otherwise.
The next time your liberal professor tries to tell you that being successful is a bad
thing, do not believe what you are being told. You are not greedy. You are a caring
and charitable free-market capitalist!
Take note: tolerance is dealing with things you dont like or accept. Tolerance is not
acceptance.
If your viewpoint does not align with that of your liberal professor, you may be called
intolerant! This is ironic, at best, considering that the exclusion of your viewpoint is
not tolerant! Your liberal professor will demand that you be tolerant of his view (or
more specifically that you accept his view) all the while refusing to be tolerant of
your view (or even allow you to mention your differing opinion in the classroom.)
You will experience this type of attack in the classroom, often in regards to social
issues, but occasionally leaking into foreign policy or economics. Do not allow bias
professors to force thought into an ideological corner. They will use tools like white
privilege, also discussed in this book, to tell students that if they do not think a
certain way they are intolerant or racist. In reality, anyone who possesses the skill
of critical thinking knows that respectful disagreement and conversation produces
far superior academic discussion than any single view your supposedly-tolerant,
liberal professor can teach.
The most important thing to remember through your years in college is that a
professor is not the great proprietor of knowledge they may claim to be. Real value
in education is derived through disagreement, not compliance. Be confident in your
position and values, engage respectfully, and never allow yourself to be shamed
away from your convictions.
Social justice sounds like a good cause - after all, who wouldnt want justice applied
in realms of social society? However, social justice is defined as the distribution of
wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. It is strictly anti-capitalism and
anti-American.
People who spearhead the social justice initiative have dubbed themselves as
social justice warriors. They claim to find discrimination against women and
minorities within every facet of society. Social justice warriors often blow minor
incidents in America out of proportion, while completely ignoring dire oppression
occurring in other countries. They lack the wisdom to discriminate between a
legitimate societal problem and something that is a quirky freedom of expression.
Take shirtgate for example. Dr. Matt Taylor helped to land a robot onto a comet -
one of the greatest achievements in science. Yet instead of focusing on his teams
great achievement, many onlookers focused on his bowling shirt, because it had
provocative images of women sown on it. Many accused him of misogyny, even
though a female friend had made him the shirt. Social justice warriors took to
social media to reprimand Dr. Taylor for his shirt. Shortly after, Dr. Taylor tearfully
apologized to anyone he may have offended, making it clear there was no malice in
his outfit choice.
This is the paradox of social justice warriors. They do nothing to combat true social
injustices, and instead use a feel-good term to redistribute wealth, regulate the
economy, and tear down Americas free market system. Dont be fooled by social
justice as there is nothing good about it.
When taken to its furthest end, one can conclude that since skin colored band
aids are closer in color to the skin of a white person than to the skin of a non-white
person, white people have a subtle privilege while non-white people are served an
injustice. You may think that the color of a band aid sounds like a ridiculous thing
to worry about in academia, but your liberal professor will insist that this and many
other obscure examples are life impacting. Your liberal professor will insists that
white privilege is what makes white people successful and is what hinders non-
whites from achieving success.
Despite what your liberal professor may say, being white does not automatically
exempt you from hardship. White privilege has not kept over 38% of the homeless
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population from poverty; (over 38% of the homeless population is white.) Similarly,
white privilege does not stop non-whites from obtaining success. It certainly did not
stop Barack Obama from being elected as the President of the United States, not
once but twice. Even considering how someone became homeless or the president
of the United States based solely on their race should be offensively racist.
Fortgang then asked, would you say that weve been really privileged? That our
success has been gift-wrapped?
The answer is obviously a resounding no. White privilege did not aid in the
Fortgang familys success. It was hard work and endless resolve. It was opportunity
to pursue the American dream.
Nothing can stop anyone of any race from achieving the American dream if their
drive is strong enough. White privilege is simply a way to stir up division and blame
negative circumstances on pigment rather than principles.
If you believe that people are equal, regardless of skin color, that would have
made you a radical sixty years ago, a liberal thirty years ago, and a racist
today. Thomas Sowell
Political campaigners use this information to mobilize voters in droves. We all know
this. It should be of no surprise that the war on women was created as a tool to
mobilize women to vote for certain policies. These certain policies happen to be
leftist policies.
Your liberal professor will try to advance the war on women narrative in order to
squash capitalism which truly looks at each individual as an equal actor in the free
market.
But what exactly makes up the war on women? Your liberal professor will tell you
it is comprised of certain politicians, power structures, and policies that work to
restrict womens rights.
Your liberal professor will promote the war on women with three main lies.
This inequality is created by the different choices that men and women make.
Therefore, the method used to come to this inequality is deceiving.
In regards to career path, men typically choose to go into fields with math,
science and engineering. Women, on the other hand, statistically choose majors
like anthropology or women and genders studies. There shouldnt be much of
a surprise that jobs that involve hard science make higher salaries than those
involving soft or social sciences. Some degrees hold greater value than others, and
men and women are free to choose which degree they pursue. Women statistically
choose less-valued degree programs and careers.
Another reason for this inequality is because many women take time off to have
and raise children. Spending less time in ones field obviously shortens the time-
frame in which one can climb the pay-scale ladder. When women make choices to
raise a family, this contributes to your liberal professors pay inequality statistic.
When you put these facts together, it is pretty clear that choices affect this pay gap
statistic, not discrimination or the war on women.
When your liberal professor tries to teach the war on women as fact, make sure to
speak up and explain how it is nothing more than a messaging campaign free of
facts. It is patronizing to think that women would fall for such a lie anyway!
Follow up by suggesting this concept: Due to human innovation, i.e., capitalism and
big businesses who use fossil fuels, the environment is actually becoming a safer
place to live.
So why lose money and use fossil fuels to be sustainable, you may ask?
And lets not forget the hypocrisy of the left. Remember when Al Gore flew his
private, fossil-fue-run jet all across the country to promote his anti-fossil fuel movie?
Remember all those signs used in the NYC climate march that were made from oil
products?
Thomas Friedman said, In the green revolution were having, everyones a winner,
nobody has to give up anything ... Thats not a revolution. Thats a party.
However, retailers have explained that neither the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations
International umbrella group or Fair Trade USA have sufficient data showing
positive economic impact on growers.
The (3) social pillar is perhaps most influential on college campuses. Beyond
international social justice, sustainability practices have taken up social causes
like gender neutral housing, diversity counsels (which actually further segregate
students,) and paying all employees a living wage.
Two programs that work with colleges and universities on these social issues are
ASHEE: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
and the STARS: Sustainability Tracking and Rating System. These two systems
allow schools to assess if they have sustainability in their curriculum, have their
endowment properly invested, and have childcare for their employees, amongst
many other more liberal ideas. Again, this has nothing having to do with the
environment.
As you can see, sustainability all boils down to money, control, and the changing of
Western Culture.
As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux said, The road to hell is paved with good intentions
and that can be said of many who fall into the liberal trap of sustainability.
10 Ways Big Government Harms You discusses 10 key reasons that big
government is harmful, especially for young people. The reasons include a
lack of privacy, the punishment of success, and the elimination of options
all of which are important issues to young people who seek opportunities to
get ahead and build a successful future.
In November of 2014, a few weeks before the premiere of the new Hunger
Games movie, TPUSA published a one-of-a-kind publication called The
Healthcare Games! This book talks about the dangers of government-run
healthcare from its intrusive nature to its big government approach.
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