Quote Boat: Black Lives Matter And All, But Sheesh, Do We Hafta Read About 'Em? Come On Now, Teachers, Admit It, That's Just Not Right, Says 21-Year-Old James O'Keefe, Knowing Better Like Always (Gonna Be A Pattern Here)

James O'Keefe Inspires Activists at Providence College

Timothy Dionisopoulos 

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@TimPDion on Mar 25, 2011 at 8:41 PM EDT

This past Wednesday members of the Providence College Chapter of Youth for Western Civilization attended a presentation by the Providence College Republicans with none other than the famous activist journalist James O'Keefe.  As President of the College Republicans in addition to my role as the head of YWC, this was one of the most exciting events I have ever had a hand in organizing on campus.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be hosting one of the most sought after interviews in America when I first invited James O'Keefe to Providence College.  Although I was well aware of his famous livewire brand of muckracking journalism, I did not expect ot have the good fortune of bringing in  Mr. O'Keefe right after his recent NPR expose.

Given this timing, I did not even need to utilize the press release skills I learned in the Leadership Institute's Youth Leadership School , as the press started contacting me as soon as I made the Facebook event.  Despite bravado and posturing from local antifa who made overtures to shut down the event, their threats turned out to be as empty as their beliefs, as none were brave enough to make an appearance on the Providence Campus.

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NJO: Whole article at CampusReform.org.

The Robert E. Taft Club Debates: Race and Conservatism

to do

http://web.archive.org/web/20061005083604/http://www.roberttaft.org/

http://web.archive.org/web/20061023055956/http://www.amren.com/media/Race-Cons/Race-Cons.htm

Print the Cartoons

An email sent to the staff of the Centurion:

The Rutgers Centurion is the paper that put a picture of a black Rutgers icon on its cover with a phrase "GLORY TO STALIN." at the university with the highest african american concentration and ratios in the country. Not only did all of you applaud this decision and others like it, many people outside Rutgers did - Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard did, so did G. Gordon Liddy and Ronald Reagan's son when I personally handed him a copy at Radio America last summer. So did hundreds of marginalized conservatives at Rutgers. We did not only because nobody would or could do it. the weekly standard couldn't get away with it. The real reason we did or at least I did print that was because IT WAS TRUE.

BY doing so, (hopefully) we created debate, we intiated the gears of thought in rusty, indoctrinated minds, got them thinking a bit about the Soviet Union, about the cold war, about racial injustice; and no, we walk no fine line in danger of becoming the medium, our journalistic integrity is canyons away from that of the medium - They are a piece of shit; a rag and don't put yourselves down by making a comparison. But Kian and I did The Robeson spot spontaneously, I believe, because we knew that we were balancing, not dominating, in the same way a prosocuter would allow the defense team to pursue justice. Liberals professors and deans were furious by our progress. In the same way Islam has rules against drawing Mohammed, the pulpits in the Rutgers ivory tower prohibit speaking out against their beloved Robeson. This was far more polemic than any cartoons.

In that same issue, Kian authored an excellent article entitled "Condi Rice: the Black women liberals love to hate;" it was so good, it caught the eye of a young journalist Justine and I met in DC and he wrote about The Centurion at Salon.com. That Salon.com article brought us national publicity. At an ISI conference in Princeton last summer, whordes of brilliant intellectuals, including Princeton professors, were huddled together laughing at the stunts we pulled. Some had even heard of us, through the grapevine, some had even read that Salon.com article.
Again, stunts far more polemic than cartoons.

In another one of our proud, super-polemic moments, Jeff's awesome idea, we printed a picture of the towers under attack; a very taboo image. All of us supported that decsion, because deep down in parts of our conservative hearts we can't expain, we can't stand the thought of letting those people dictate our architecture, brand taboos on our buildings, our city, our culture, our media. Moreover, nothing discusts us more than cencoring their destruction, not rebuilding taller and higher, maybe even building the same. When the letter attacked us for sensationalism; we responded with a sarcastic "I'm sorry." This was great, but far more polemic than printing cartoons.

People don't seem to understand in europe right now it is war betweeen hemispheres. The populations of Italy, Spain, Britain, France, to a certain degree Switzerland, are all declining as a result of feminist single parenting, islamic immigrants are quickly taking their place. The peaceful Danish consolates and being burned down, their products boycotted. Liberals/Europeans are in a panty twist becaues in general, they hate organized relgion, but they're all worried about hurting minorities' feelings; and in Denmark although the prime minister hasn't apologized, Chiriac has apologized and criticized the danes, who were meanwhile holding candlelight vigils, a candlelight vigil, why their consulate was being burned to the ground... in Europe everyone's afraid of the reprisal.

If you lived in Europe, you should be afraid.

But we (you), don't live in Europe; we live in the United States of America. We are adults living in civilized societies; we do not murder and pillage whenever our sensibilities are offended. We don't negioate with terrorists, we don't tolerate violence and arson in response to speech. We're a funny people that way. Our founding, our consitution, our currency is based on christian principlies, not islamic principles. We have earned our right to go to colleges like Rutgers, and publish papers like The Centurion. In God we Trust. Hyperbole aside, If you don't like that get the fuck out of our free and historically prosperous land.

Go back to where you came from.

Where they burn and stone women alive, go to Europe where the economies are planned, go to European union where the beurocracy is so bad the permits are obtained with bribes; where citizens won't stand up for themselves or their rights to go as they please, purchase as they please, innovate as they please; stand up for their culture and peaceful way of life against an islamofascist bayonette; a pervasive fear that I can sense in the air even in Lugano. The same people that whine about our imperialism are now hiding under their beds afraid to build tall buildings, afraid to speak out against murder, afraid to defend their borders and way of life.

To those of you who are afraid of the New Jersey Solidarity Groups, you will be yielding to the authors of this post, WHO ARE ALL TALK.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17526/index.php

in the words of W. Bush, "Bring 'em on." Fuck 'em. Print the cartoons.

NJO: Originally posted on the blog Feathers of Steel at liberabit.blogspot.com.

The New Core Curriculum

JAMES O'KEEFE

ISI books, a division of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, recently sent us a copy of their 2006 masterpiece “Choosing the Right College,” which rates the best 134 colleges from a classically conservative perspective, emphasizing the core curriculum and the college experience.

Wouldn’t you know it, Rutgers University made the list (after all, our philosophy department alone was ranked number one by the Philosophical Gourmet Report). Despite a less-than stellar review of residence life, (frankly, we deserve it), our academics received great praise. ISI also published a list of classics that could compose a core curriculum (which the administrators have been removing from the list of requirements since the 1960s).

Contemporary “postmodern” (and often Marxist) dogma attacks the achievements of those who authored the classics because they were privileged and powerful white males. However, such ad hominem attacks against the character and socialization of such individuals ignores the superiority of their objective insights and their achievements.

Another of the points contributing author Mark Henrie emphasizes in his introduction is that students are losing the opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the laws that govern human nature and human understanding. The decline of classical education is a modern tragedy.

Bill J. Bennett of the Heritage Foundation pointed out that, upon graduating, only 14 percent of students know that James Madison wrote the United States Constitution, one of many statistics indicating a pathetic lack of civic knowledge and responsibility perpetuated by strange agendas of “multiculturalism” and “diversity.” Most electives do not focus on anything of substantive historical value,

Timely axioms like “god and man,” “virtue and vice,” “heroism and cowardice,” “tyranny and freedom,” and “truth and untruth” are replaced with electives concerning racial, ethnic, sexual and non-literary themes. The focus of the humanities is now underdog appeasement, e.g. encouraging the use of Ebonics.

Though the classics are no longer required of students, we encourages students to register for classes in western civilization and philosophy - you may just learn something.

NJO: Originally printed in the November 2005 issue of The Centurion at Rutgers.

Letters to the Centurion: men galore

In your October 2005 issue you listed three all-male colleges which you claimed to be the only ones in the US, but there’s at least one more: Deep Springs College in California.
    According to their site, “In accordance with the Deed of Trust, Deep Springs is an all-male college.”
Best,
Alex Kasavin

Alex is right. There are a whopping four all-men’s colleges in the country. Plus, Deep Springs school admits 10 - 15 students, hardly comparable to the tens of thousands of women enrolled in all women’s colleges.

    There is a serious advantage to a single sex education for men, especially since much "classical" literature has been de-emphasized by feminist influence due to the postmodern notion that a narrative
sexual identity is relevant and/or necessary in answering life's great questions. Sure, social injustice was committed against women in the time of Socrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, and Hamilton, but the principles which brought women's suffrage came about because of a better understanding of these great Western philosophers, not in spite of them.

    To this day, there is value and understanding in these works that is lacking in contemporary authors. The links between the United States Constitution and Plato's De Enima as just as significant as the links between John Locke and the Declaration of Independence. Intelligent interpretation of classical thinkers has established the freest, most prosperous modern society in the world.

    The abandonment of the core curriculum in higher education has been a surreptitious, radical demand stemming from the 1960s to censor superior insight because the authors of such wisdom weren't underdogs. Such ignorance will only lead to tyranny by denying how we attained our freedoms; no matter what the feminist majority says.

As Pope Benedict XVI said, "Truth cannot be decided by a majority vote."

NJO: Originally printed in the November 2005 issue of The Centurion at Rutgers. The editor's reply is unsigned but I would infer that it is probably by James O'Keefe through the details and the writing style.

Inside the Mind of the Rutgers Professor, Part VI: Equality

Equality

The decline of the Rutgers man (“man” being used to denote male or female human). There is no such thing as a “Rutgers Man” anymore. There is no such thing as a renaissance man. Rutgers does not produce gentlemen as well as scholars, does not shape students anymore, at least not in the way it should. While professors play the role of brainwashers, the administration promotes a form of sensitive homogeneity, using academic methods like “creative ambiguity,” where both sides strongly disagree but come to mutual agreement. The administration’s focus is primarily on skin color, ethnicity and non-western religions. The colorblind demands of the civil rights movement have mutated into the color consciousness of today. Since professors believe that all civilization and culture come directly from race and we are all created equal, the Rutgers anthropologist believes all civilizations and cultures are created equal. The Professor has become so obsessed with race, he will often ignore an argument, instead making ad hominem attacks on the basis of the arguer’s race or social status only. Professor James Livingston of the Rutgers History Department, a self-described “Marxist, Socialist, Feminist and Pragmatic Postmodernist,” made such attacks against the editors of The Centurion last fall, accusing the paper of “White Hysteria.” (Professor James Livingston is a white man who makes around 100,000 dollars a year).

Statewide Affirmative Action mandates demanding quotas on race have produced a segregated campus. Livingston College for blacks and Hispanics. Rutgers College for whites. White students are contemptuous of black students and athletes with lower admissions standards and doubt their merits, even though they deny doing so. Attempts to level the playing field bring standards down. English Professor William Dowling has spoken of the decline of academic standards and demanded the university return to its traditional, historical roots. Dr. Dowling has also published a list of works that are considered the great English Classics. In an August 25, 2003 article in Sports Illustrated, he pointed to a football player named Nate Robinson who was accepted into Rutgers with a combined SAT score of 800.

The University wanted none of it.

The “Academic Oversight Committee” demonized Dowling in a Targum column later in September, where they accused Dowling of calling football players “morons.” One student, then Rutgers College sophomore John Little, resorted to an ad hominem attack and accused Dowling of being a “racist.” His April 24th, 2001 quote (for Dowling’s 2003 article was not the first in which he questioned the University’s acquisition of sports players) about Dowling embodies much of the Marxist philosophy: “Professor Dowling only recognizes one style of learning. One leftover from the days when only the wealthy could attend college. Not all students can achieve academically in a typical classroom setting, thus making athletics, drama or art a valuable tool in the teaching process. The lessons that these activities teach students are numerous and every bit as valuable as anything is that can by learned in the classroom.”

The white Rutgers students, faculty and Administration feel uncomfortable talking about campus segregation between the colleges. They do not like it because it does not fit in their prevailing view that all the races get along and their university has become fully integrated, when in fact is has not.

What results is a barrage of aesthetic “diversity” reassurance and sensitivity training. There are dozens of caucuses, programs and councils to beat the importance of skin color and multicultural sensitivity into the segregated students minds. Diversityweb.rutgers.edu says all Rutgers students needs to be welcomed, valued and respected,” but the administration’s plans to emphasize distinct “cultures” (races) only promotes hostility between them. Heck, there is even an Institute for Executive Leadership and Diversity (http://diversity.rutgers.edu) at Rutgers University. At an “Algeria” award conference for Rutgers College student organizations on May 3rd, 2005, more than half of the awards were for cultural organizations, lauding skin color and little else. The Centurion was peculiarly absent from the “Excellence in Student Media” award ceremony.

NJO: Originally printed in the September 2005 issue of The Centurion.

Inside the Mind of the Rutgers Professor, Part III: Literature

Literature

Since the 1960’s, professors have been abandoning the great books curriculum. The classics, by authors such as Aristotle, Plato, Euclid, Cyrus, Theseus, Moses, Romulus, Rousseau have been replaced with third-rate Marxist hogwash, justified by the assertion that the societies that produced the great texts were racist and sexist. What the professors fail to mention is no great literary work was produced during the 1960’s, one of the saddest times for the American Academy.

In high school, students are flooded with transcendentalism, self-reliance, Thoreau, Whitman, Angelou, Kwanza, Japanese internment camp memoirs, etc. Absent, with the exception of the Odyssey and perhaps selections from the Theban trilogy, are the great texts of western civilization. Many students realize that if Maya Angelou is great literature, there is nothing to be learned from literature. Unimpressed by what they are told are the “best of books,” they shy away from reading at a very early age. The Bible, being the foundation for many cultures, and containing numerous literary forms, is all that’s left, and the conservative culture is trying very hard not to let go. (This could be a partial motivation for the Bible thumpers in the South and parts of the Midwest).

NJO: Originally printed in the September 2005 issue of The Centurion.

Inside the Mind of the Rutgers Professor, Part I: Multiculturalism

Indoctrination has Led to the Decline of Our College Experience

BY JAMES O'KEEFE

Multiculturalism

Every student at Rutgers is required to take a “non-western” course in the humanities or social sciences, though there is no required course in “western” humanities or social sciences. The multiculturalist administration wants to incorporate “excluded” works of literature, art, and philosophy into our curriculum that have been unaccounted for due to prejudices of our culture. To the multiculturalist, appreciation for American Culture is completely baseless, founded only in prejudices and propaganda perpetuated by ignorant, racist dead white men. Furthermore, the multiculturalist says principles like natural rights, which unite us, are not grounded in any sort of truth, but are arbitrary and hostile to “diversity” and our differences. Although the word “multiculturalist” sounds like an appeal to a sense of community, to them, an isolated non-Westerner is more “cultured” than a Southern American Christian, even though the Southern American Christian is far more exposed to people with different beliefs and lifestyles. Thus, eventually culture turns into a sort of non-conformist individualism – exactly the type that is celebrated by Davey Thoreau. This explains the contempt American liberals have for rural folk in the heartland with common virtues and a strong sense of community and tradition. It also explains the contempt for patriotism and civic virtue. One often sees Rutgers students in class or on a bus, walking or sitting with their heads down, drowning out their environment with music playing on their Ipods. These students have evolved in educational institutions that have enforced so much independent thought, they find solace in isolation, in virtues they can find only in themselves (thanks to Instant Messenger, students rarely need to leave their dorm rooms). The emphasis on the self is further promoted by the influence of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud and his perverted philosophies. Students sometimes congregate (due at times to things like mandatory meal plans), but state universities like Rutgers, despite their numbers, are remarkably lonely places. This is because the virtues that bring us together, like respect for the (or any) concept of God, allegiance to the ideals of Country, and reliance upon ethics to govern our actions toward one other, are despised.

The multiculturalist connoisseur desires a “transcendent” view, a “cultured” view, a “different” view, other than that native to his homeland. Multiculturalist Rutgers professors have become eccentric elites, sadly out of touch with American culture, family and purpose.

NJO: Originally printed in the September 2005 issue of The Centurion.