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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

-Ronald Reagan

There is No Dana, only Fool

The Dana Cloud referenced here is a self-professed communist who refers to herself as an “intellectual”, as hard as that is to imagine.

After a century of communism/collectivism causing unprecedented suffering and death, it's startling to have such unabashed, modern-day, 21st century (albeit cartoonish) communists still advocating its sickness. At a state-funded university, nonetheless. As an American, who ought to know better. And in Texas, the heartbeat of rugged individualism.

I also love the way that—in this blog entry—she places the words [American] democracy and founding fathers in quotes, but fails to put historian in quotes when describing Howard Zinn. Ha!

This is also a great read: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~dcloud/academicfreedom.pdf from someone who's clearly unsure of herself:

Another problematic assumption [made by David Horowitz]: Students can’t think for themselves. Try telling my students here at the University of Texas that! They’ll tell him where to get off.

Biting retort! You really showed him! It's hard to imagine that this is an undergraduate course syllabus.

But, perhaps I'm too harsh on Ms. Cloud. She's proving an excellent argument for homeschooling and private schools.

Posted by Rammage on April 18, 2009 at 08:36 AM

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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

-Ronald Reagan

There is No Dana, only Fool

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