University of Chicago Students Call On Anti-Israel Prof Mearsheimer to Retire
Four every handful of level-headed, clear-thinking undergraduates who wrote this editorial, there are millions more with maleable young minds who receive the imprint of the Mearsheimers and his ilk (Juan Cole, Rashid Khalidi, et al.) who accept unquestioningly the virulent, hate-filled views (not facts, but opinions) of their professors. Your position is well and good for the very brightest students who can think for themselves, but it ill-serves the majority who come into the freshman classes with no frame of reference except what the professor tells them. For this their parents pay $45,000 a year (at The University of Chicago; at Harvard it is $52,600). It does not strike me as a fair deal. The students and their parents seek an education and receive, instead, bigoted indoctrination.
The fact that these students made news is proof positive that other students have no idea of the bigotry they’re spoon-fed. Why should we as parents or as citizens applaud this perversion of the First Amendment and academic freedom. Why not have hooded Klansmen teaching at Ivy League schools? Would you favor that?
