Matéria publicada na Folha de São Paulo, edição de 27 de março de 2006.

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Autora de “Personas Sexuais” diz que banalização do politicamente correto dogmatiza a educação 

Para feminista, esquerdismo acadêmico bloqueia debate

LEILA SUWWAN
DE NOVA YORK

A feminista Camille Paglia, 58, não esconde o rancor quando o assunto é o “politicamente correto” do establishment liberal dos Estados Unidos, grupo cujo pensamento está mais associado à esquerda no país e que se contrapõe aos conservadores. Com língua afiada, queixa-se da uniformização e esterilidade do pensamento acadêmico, da lavagem cerebral feminista, da hipocrisia da esquerda moderna e resume o problema: “O liberalismo está intelectualmente exausto”.

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Pesquisa realizada pelo American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) em 50 instituições de ensino superior revela a politização das salas de aula e a intolerância intelectual dos professores.

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Students: 49% Report Professors Preach Rather Than Teach

Washington, DC (November 30, 2004) — 49% of the students at the top 50 colleges and universities say professors frequently inject political comments into their courses, even if they have nothing to do with the subject. Almost one-third-29%-feel they have to agree with the professor’s political views to get a good grade.

A survey commissioned by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni reveals the politicization of the classroom and the intellectual intolerance of faculty.

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Matéria publicada na revista The Economist, edição de dezembro de 2004.

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TOM WOLFE’S new novel about a young student, “I am Charlotte Simmons”, is a depressing read for any parent. Four years at an Ivy League university costs as much as a house in parts of the heartland—about $120,000 for tuition alone. But what do you get for your money? A ticket to “Animal House”.

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Nesta entrevista, o autor de Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth mostra a realidade do ambiente universitário nos Estados Unidos, desconhecida de grande parte do público brasileiro.

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Frontpage: Mr. Shapiro, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Shapiro:  It’s an honor and a pleasure. 

FP: Tell us about the ingredients of your own life that motivated you to write this book.

Shapiro:  I’ve spent some time in public school, and having seen the liberal propaganda put out by lower public education, I thought I knew what I would get when I set foot on UCLA’s campus.  But I was totally unprepared for the level of radical leftism expressed in the classroom, in the student newspaper, by the student groups.  And all this leftism underwritten by either tax or tuition money.

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Por Alan Charles Kors

At Wake Forest University last fall, one of the few events designated as “mandatory” for freshman orientation was attendance at Blue Eyed, a filmed racism awareness workshop in which whites are abused, ridiculed, made to fail, and taught helpless passivity so that they can identify with “a person of color for a day.” In Swarthmore College’s dormitories, in the fall of 1998, first-year students were asked to line up by skin color, from lightest to darkest, and to step forward and talk about how they felt concerning their place in that line. Indeed, at almost all of our campuses, some form of moral and political re-education has been built into freshman orientation and residential programming. These exercises have become so commonplace that most students do not even think of the issues of privacy, rights, and dignity involved.

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