Truth or Consequences

Well, it’s time for another rant from an angry conservative. Today’s outrage concerns political correctness winning out over truth in the academic field. Now you may be thinking to yourself that this article will be discussing the fight between Evolution and Creationism within our schools that seems to have come to the forefront lately, but that is not the case. Today I bring to you the story of a Professor of History at Wellesley College specializing in Greek History. Here is a link to the article for your reading displeasure. I’ll wait while you go read it to familiarize yourself with the story.

http://www.popecenter.org/issues/article.html?id=2019

Angry yet? Good. So apparently teachers, people charged with disseminating knowledge and learning to their students to better them and educate them bringing them into the academic circle and elevating them both mentally and sociologically, have decided that truth and fact aren’t as important to their students and instead have decided to throw out any information that doesn’t fit their ideal of appeasing the politically correct minority and making groups who might feel offended by the unaltered light of truth.

What does this mean for the youth of America, well here are some outrageous scenarios that might shed a bit of light on how far this ridiculous practice might take us.

Scene 1. A student who has struggled in Math all his life decides that his feelings get hurt when he gets a Math problem wrong and proceeds to complain, fuss, and generally raise a hissy fit. Well we certainly can’t have that now can we. So the academic community which has embraced this idea that truth is merely a fluid concept that can be molded to suit the professor’s idea of what is morally right will then change the laws of Math to make this boy happy. 2 + 2 no longer equals four but instead equals 5 or 6 or whatever people want it to equal.

This is an extreme case but what is to stop professors from changing the laws of Science and Math to suit their needs when they already feel morally obligated and justified to change history, alter established fact without any imperical evidence, and manipulate established ideas to increase their own personal agendas?

I’ll close with this statement by the world’s first educator Socrates, “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”