Modern academic feminism sure seems more focused on taking down capitalism than advancing women.
Campus Reform reports:
School offers course on ‘anti-capitalist feminisms’
Middlebury College is offering a course next Spring dedicated to exploring how the tradition...
The academic left is so emboldened that they think nothing of espousing rhetoric like this.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof says individual rights fuel ‘capitalist violence’
A Marquette University professor recently argued that individual liberties, including free speech and property rights, are merely forces “that reproduce capitalist violence.”
Professor Jodi Melamed made the remarks during a...
We covered this story back in January and we’re happy to see free speech defended, thanks to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The FIRE blog reports:
VICTORY: Student detained for passing out political flyers settles lawsuit with Illinois college
Student Ivette Salazar and Joliet Junior College agreed today to settle Salazar’s First...
This is just further proof that feminism is about advancing the left’s agenda, not women.
The Daily Caller reports:
Yale Feminists Protest Capitalism And Frat Culture With Anti-Valentine’s Day Event
A group of Yale University students have come together to host an anti-Valentine’s Day event that takes aim at “a tradition rooted in capitalism...
FIRE got involved here proving again that they are for free speech for everyone, regardless of ideology.
The Daily Caller reports:
Student Sues After Being Detained For ‘Shut Down Capitalism’ Flyers
A free speech nonprofit sued an Illinois college Thursday after being detained for handing out flyers reading “shut down capitalism.”
The Foundation for Individual...
The left sure knows how to create holiday cheer, don’t they?
Check out this story from Campus Reform:
Prof calls for ‘Black Xmas’ to ‘disrupt’ ‘white capitalism’
A California State University-Los Angeles professor is urging Americans to participate in a “Black Xmas” by divesting from “white corporations” and fighting “White Capitalism.”
In her op-ed for...
These young people should try living in Venezuela for a while. That should solve the problem.
Campus Reform reports:
POLL: Millennials would prefer to live in a socialist country
More than four-in-ten U.S. millennials would prefer to live under socialism than capitalism, according to a new survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
When...
Give progressives long enough and they can find fault in anything.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof bemoans ‘toxic masculine capitalism’ in Disney film
A professor at Florida International University recently argued that the Disney film Beauty and the Beast is rife with “toxic masculinity.”
Bryant Sculos, who teaches politics at Florida International University, argues in an...
The abolition of capitalism is one of the core goals of the left. That’s where this comes from.
The College Fix reports:
Daylong conference at UCLA to explore how capitalism is ‘persisting racial inequality’
A workshop taking place today at UCLA will explore topics such as “Diasporas of Racial Capitalism,” imperialism and “settler-colonialism” as...
Will the students who take the course be forced to give up their phones, cars, and modern clothing?
The College Fix reports:
UW-Madison class explores ‘harms and forms of injustice associated with capitalism’
A class at University of Wisconsin-Madison studies how capitalism “generates harms” and “is irrational in ways that hurt nearly everyone,” according...
Do you think a campus group based on the teachings of socialism would face any scrutiny?
The College Fix reports:
Student government rejects pro-capitalism club: It’s ‘against humanity’ to allow it
Santa Clara University’s student government recently voted to deny a pro-capitalism campus club official recognition, citing the possibility that the group may invite...
Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, November 27, 2003, Giving thanks for the ‘invisible hand’:
Isn’t there something wondrous — something almost inexplicable — in the way your Thanksgiving weekend is made possible by...
The newest video from Prager University is hosted by Dennis Prager himself and is as entertaining as it is enlightening.
For the subject, Prager examines the differences between socialism and capitalism with an eye to the stereotype propagated by many on the left that capitalism makes people selfish.
Coca-Cola has become the latest victim of socialism as the company announced it will no longer develop its product in Venezuela.
Without sugar, they can only produce sugar free Coca-Cola. From CBS News:
The Atlanta-based company said in an emailed statement Friday said that its production of sugar-sweetened beverages will be suspended in...
According to a new poll conducted by Harvard, a majority of Millennials reject the idea of capitalism.
It’s no surprise that a generation of people who grew up in the era of “everyone gets a trophy” reject the idea of unequal rewards based on hard work. Millennials were educated largely by public...
President Obama continued his “Spring Break” from America by undermining the foundations of the country’s successful economic system.
After dancing the night away, Obama was addressed the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Town Hall at Usina Del Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina:
I guess to make a broader point, so often in...
Liberal and conservative mean different things in countries outside the U.S. but in Jamaica, the only party that resembles what we would call conservative is the Jamaica Labour Party.
The website Discover Jamaica describes the JLP this way:
The JLP is considered the more conservative and consistent party and has always espoused the...
