New website offers college students a chance to win $100 for reporting instances of "leftist abuse"

[sabra]

http://www.campusprogress.org/fieldreport/4696/smashing-left-wing-scum-on-campus

Smashing 'Left-Wing Scum' on Campus
A new conservative campus watchdog group aims to fight ‘bias’ on campus through online organizing.




Banking on claims of “leftist abuse” in university classrooms, a conservative organization is launching a social networking site called CampusReform.org where students can report and organize against professors that they view as politically biased.

CampusReform was launched on Sept. 15, and according to its founder, Morton Blackwell, the website was created to expose “bias” in universities “completely dominated by the left.”

Just last year Blackwell’s nonprofit organization, the conservative Leadership Institute, spent $4.6 million to conduct training seminars for college students and to assist with launching right-leaning newspapers on campus, Internal Revenue Service records show. But according to a public video shown to Institute supporters in September, CampusReform is the “largest program ever created” in the organization’s history. CampusReform’s staff also consists of 11 regional organizers, all providing services and resources to campuses across the country.

Blackwell is no stranger to conservative politics. He ran the national youth effort for Ronald Reagan’s first successful presidential campaign in 1980, and as the president Institute he has worked for nearly 30 years to train America’s future conservative leaders. Graduates of Blackwell’s curriculum have included Karl Rove, a chief GOP strategist who worked in the George W. Bush administration and Grover Norquist, head of American’s For Tax Reform, a powerful lobbying group that’s currently fighting against health care reform.

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One of CampusReform’s regional organizers, Tony Listi, a graduate of Texas A&M, took an edgier approach. He wrote on the site that he’s active on CampusReform to “smash left-wing scum.”

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Currently, the Institute is offering students a chance to win $100 each day in October when they report instances of “leftist abuse.” Bernys cites one recent entry winner at Austin Community College in Texas. “They give preferred parking on campus to students with green cars,” Bernys says. “Obviously that’s for the college to advance their agenda on environmental issues, but a number of students see that as abuse because many college students can’t afford a new car, much less a green car.”

The site also allows users to rate professors anonymously, using a scale ranging from liberal to conservative.

[and-justice-for-all]

1. FAIL...

The will be doing a majority of their reporting on themselves and if they are so unhappy with the school they are at, perhaps they would be happier at a Oral Roberts University.

[YOY]

4. Bob Jones or Regent or the one by me that looks like a jail.

Really, this fucking place looks like a jail and churns out fat faced Baptist Boy/Evangelical types they get great positions in the Federal goverment in Republican regimes and know dick.

Forget it's name. A buddy of mine in USAID showed me the site. The place is less than 10 years old and he has to work with one of them that seems to be biding his time until the morons are back in charge. THe guy knows absolutely fucking nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing about anything.

Anyone who uses the word "Leftist" needs to have the holy fuck beaten out of them.

[JackintheGreen]

2. I would like to report myself

I am TAing at the local ivy and teaching that civilization predates the 6000 year age of the earth. Shame on me!

Now give me $100!

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I wonder how many times you can do that? Nice way to supplement your income, if you can

really string them along. LOL

[SallyMander]

20. Hahahhaha, i was just thinking the same thing!

I am an evil-utionary biologist! :yoiks:

[YOY]

3. “leftist abuse”?

I know it's really politically incorrect and I am not being a hater but dammit that is really &#$$* @$$ed bull$#*!.

[Democrats_win]

5. Mystery solved: fake outrage over colleges is where RW ideologues go to die.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. So a professor who is teaching The Enlightenment of Europe and John Hobbes and the like

and Rousseau and Voltaire can get "turned in" for doing his/her job.

[hobbit709]

7. More RW whining about how they're being picked on.

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Ezlivin]

8. Examples of leftist abuse:

• Requiring students to read an entire book;


• Any "compare/contrast" statements on exams;


• Multiple choice questions with more than two choices;


• All essay questions;


• Suggestions that religious choice stem from upbringing and the surrounding culture.

[JackintheGreen]

10. I would like to take issue with statement two

"Contrast the righteousness and unfailing truthitude of the bible with the heathen teachings of the devil-books assigned by your other professors" is a perfectly appropriate question.

[Ezlivin]

12. +1 for coining a new word - 'truthitude'

And that sort of creativity instantly marks you as a socialist communist leftist homosexual.

:)

[fascisthunter]

26. lol....

:thumbsup:

[leftstreet]

9. Are you now, or have you ever been, a 'leftist'

Good God

[Journeyman]

11. Time for all "creative writing" majors to ply their trade for a chance to win $100. . .

flood their server with the most outrageous examples of "leftist abuse," force them to consider outlandish tales, titillating scenarios of completely bogus complaints. Preferred parking for green cars? C'mon -- the bar's set unbelievably low. Once they sink their fangs into tales of leftist debauchery and blatant Obama worship (with maybe a sing-along tune or two to truly stir their juices), they'll be quick to award their C-note prize to what can then be shown to be pure balderdash, unadulterated satire. Are they truly going to check up on every Community College tale they receive?

I say give 'em what they want -- they won't be satisfied with any less and we shouldn't let them have anything but the best (be it ever so bogus as they).

[guitar man]

13. They sure do enjoy their persecution complex

It's a parade of poutrage and false victimhood from those who have bemoaned the grievances of legitimate victims in this country for decades.

They can all go suck on it as far as I'm concerned :grr:

[KansDem]

14. It's about time!!!

Abusing leftists should be halted...NOW!!!

[gateley]

15. Do the runners-up receive free brown shirts? nt

[clear eye]

21. Thank you. What I was thinking.

Friggin' fascists.

[ck4829]

16. They're now resorting to pay people? LOL!

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Well, let's just consider _why_ colleges and universities seem to be packed with

"leftists." Could it be because "rightists" aren't big on critical thinking skills or creativity? :eyes: The schools generally hire the people they think can do the job. (And yeah, that sometimes means hiring "rightists." There were some at my school back in the 90s.)

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. Fascism has always opposed education

And they convince their sheep that "liberals" and "intellectuals" (i.e. people who can actually use their brains) are the "enemy".

[HughBeaumont]

22. Witness another great piece of Morton Hackwell's work:

Our corpulent model proudly displays the "Swift Boat Combat De-emphasizer" Purple Heart Band-Aid on one of her chins, mocking the presidential candidate's VOLUNTEERING to be a human target and getting hit with shrapnel while "Champagne Squadron" boy became a coke drunkard before going AWOL.

[deutsey]

24. There are very few people (especially women) I feel prompted to punch in the face

But she's one of them.

[deutsey]

23. If there had been such a group offering $100 for reports of rightist abuse when I was in college

I probably could have paid in full what my student aid didn't cover each semester.

[KamaAina]

25. Universities "completely dominated by the left"?

Like where? Berkeley?

The Berkeley where John Yoo teaches?

edit: spacing

[fascisthunter]

27. the Irony is they are pissed that people don't conform totheir point of view

which is shit... look at the issues these morons claim to champion. When you break it down, they sound like nutcases who claim to be victims in a world they help destroy and expect us all to jump on board.

[librechik]

28. not to be confused with East Germany's Staasi

although I don't know why not.