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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

Colagirl,

I hear you 5X5. I nearly walked away from college before finishing. I was so frustrated by the lock-step political crap, and the intrusiveness of it all into the classroom.

In one history class, there was literally a row of empty chairs down the middle of the class which divided the left from the right. On the left were those who were 22 or so and younger. On the right were those who were late twenties and older. The difference in attitudes was striking based upon those who had been in school all their lives, and those who had been out in the real world.

One of the most telling examples I have witnessed regrading how clueless many students are was when the GBLT cult was going from class to class passing out pink triangles to show support for a “GBLT Studies” program and major they wanted to have started up.

Just to pique my interest, I asked the GBLT crew, and those on the left of the class where the idea for the pink triangles came from. Not a one of them, as God is my witness, could answer the question. I was floored.

To my own mind, the real worth of our college and university degrees is best summed up by two automobiles and their drivers. My doctor, who is an excellent one, drives a Ford Taurus. My Plumber, who is also top notch, drives a new Lexus. I can usually get an appointment with my doctor when I need one. My plumber? Not so much…..

Just sayin’

Elysian Fields is a street in New Orleans, you mean there are other places? (It leads straight from the French Quarter out to the lake-front campus of the Univ. of New Orleans, so I’m guessing academic types like Haidt
would believe that such a street is aptly named as long as it’s terminus is a university campus. Of course, looked at another way the road leads directly to that ultimate loci of sin and perdition nested in the heart of New Orleans, so it might be a bit iffy for academic types from old Virginny.)

I read the Haidt article a few days ago from a link someone provided during a discussion over at Crooked Timber. My only addition to Lex’s thoughts is to suggest Haidt read himself some of the philosopher Eric Voegelin, who, in his study of the Gnostics and Gnosticism and those who believe themselves to be holders of ultimate truth or “the word” (or as Thomas Sowell says, “The Vision of the Anointed”) from the time of the birth of Christ to the present concludes by stating that: “The end result of ‘progressive’ politics and social action is totalitarianism.” One doesn’t have to listen very long to the plans that the left
purpose for us in the name of “the public safety” to find it within one’s self to agree.