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Cynthia Ozick, a US writer once said: “It is the function of a liberal university not to give the right answers, but to ask the right questions.” In my humble opinion questioning one’s beliefs and challenging one’s ideals is core to a successful academic career. After all sacred cows make the best hamburgers!

DCU is my third liberal institution. I have studied in IT Sligo, and UCD, so, yes, I would consider myself exceedingly stupid.

The liberal pedagogical water boarding inflicted upon me by these establishments over the course of those five years (just about the same detention-span as a Guantanamo detainee I may add) has yet to make me conform to the left agenda. Score one for the academic terrorist!

Our progressive intelligentsia continue to apply the very techniques they abhor to manipulate their pupils perspective on the political classes and world events. They supply their students with reading lists that are skewed towards authors who are adored by the bolshie brigade, whilst avoid a balance with more conservative thinkers.

Syllabi are sanitised to ensure that no matter what young minds are exposed too, the wrongs perpetrated by the United States are to the fore, and the evils of more liberal and socialist administrations are presented as mere misdemeanours.

They manufacture consent for what they see as the moral high ground. Dissenting voices are all too often silent in these lecture halls of oppression. Opinions that differ are met with a dumbfounded silence, or an umbrageous counterstrike.
Students may well engage in doublethink just to avoid a lecturer’s unjust critique of an essay where anonymous marking is absent.

The columnist Walter Williams highlighted the culture of liberal indoctrination and academic dishonesty endemic in US universities; lecturers forcing their students to write to government departments condemning cutbacks, cell biology and math students being exposed to rants on globalism, US exploitation of the Middle East and former president Bush. How many of you have experienced this?

There are lecturers who would dismiss me as a privileged, silver-spooned student who has never suffered a day’s discrimination.

As a heathenistic, disabled, working class sodomite who was dragged up in a council estate in Sligo my life has been, let’s say, colourful.

These disabilities, as some would see, have not in anyway stifled my personal progress in life.

If a liberal was to have his way, I would become the poster boy for the socialist policies implemented by successive governments just because I made it to university.

Next time a lecturer goes off tangent in maths class or somehow manages to fuse cell biology with the imperialist foreign policy of the United States, rise up and protest.

Next time your reading list is populated by Mao Tse-Tung’s book club, protest.

Ask that your lectures are fair and balanced. Seek to have opened the Pandora’s box of independent thought. There is an alternative, and the alternative is conservative.

Universities have always been the crucible of revolution and we must fight the tyrannical oppression of the liberal lecturer.

Question your lecturer’s propaganda and their rhetorical sermons. You have nothing to lose but the chains of conformity!

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