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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (22414)	12/9/2004 10:06:32 AM
From: mph	Respond to of 90947

He was one of the leftist thought control policemen: Perhaps the major source of cognitive dissonance is not liberal ideas versus conservative ones but complex ideas versus simplistic ones." For most students, "their conservatism is in direct proportion to their self-admitted, near-total ignorance of politics, history, geography, economics, and academic modes of reasoning." Once they have been "educated," no doubt, they will abandon their conservative beliefs and embrace the need for revolution. So says Donald Lazere, retired professor, author of a book called American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives, and member of the organization Teachers for a Democratic Culture -- committed, according to its website, to "preserving education as a force for social change and a site for cultural pluralism So, what's he gonna use, re- education camps? Sounds like he would favor taking a leaf out of the book of the North Vietnamese. With proper education, everyone can be a good little Marxist and believe the correct dogma. The arrogance is astounding.