“˜Defiant’ liberals actually conformist

  Ben Shapiro Shapiro is a second-year
political science student bringing reason to the masses.

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College students think it’s cool to “buck
convention.” Whether by defiling their bodies with tattoos or
numerous piercings in strange places, or simply railing against big
business or “institutional racism,” students believe in
defying the norm, striking out against conformity.

Strangely enough, those same students fail to realize that they
conform perfectly to both their college peer group and their
professors’ views.

The student body, marching in lockstep to liberal trends, in
dress and in thought, resembles nothing more than a vast colony of
ants, wandering uselessly to and fro.

Take for instance a recent “non-conformist” trend in
dress: the nose ring. Last seen in the days when boars were roasted
on spits and served with apples in their mouths, the nose ring has
made a tremendous comeback.

All of those students who want to prove their
“individuality” or exercise their “freedom of
self-expression” defy the wishes of their old-fashioned
parents and spend money to have some scary looking guy at the mall
stab them in the nose with a metal rod. Then they proclaim their
uniqueness.

What they don’t seem to realize is that a huge number of
UCLA students also have this superfluous third nostril. There comes
a point at which those rebelling against the majority actually
become the majority. Their kooky, anti-establishment habits
actually become the societal norm.

The herd mentality of the student body has greater importance
than masochistically placed body jewelry. Professors realize that
liberal ideals and teen angst are the majority fads among the
student body. And they use this knowledge accordingly, to demonize
the right and to push their own self-interested principles.

Professors constantly urge students to “open your
minds” (to leftist ideals only) or “think outside the
box” (the conservative box, obviously).

They relate the horrors of the American “rich white
patriarchy,” or explain that our Constitution was written by
a bunch of “dead white guys” who were mostly racists.
They cite history and philosophy to back their liberal causes
““ whether it’s affirmative action or slavery
reparations or federally funded AIDS research. Of course, the vast
majority of the student audience is liberal and agrees with the
professor, or is too shy to speak up. And professors know this.

Preaching to a captive and unquestioning audience, the
professors create a stark dichotomy between the liberal students
and the rest of society.

While students and university professors are paragons of saintly
morality, the unseen conservatives on campus and on the outside are
demonized as a bunch of intolerant rednecks who hate the poor, want
the elderly to eat poor food, like to lynch minority citizens, and
grab handfuls of their secretaries.

The professors offer a ready-made solution to this scaaary,
scaaary problem of a right-wing, KKK majority running the country:
“diversity classes.” All those incoming freshmen that
have not yet been indoctrinated by their high schools must be
enlightened to the plight of terribly victimized minorities. The
obsequious student body swallows this solution wholeheartedly.

So what is the end goal of the professoriate? Protecting their
wallets.

Without demand for a certain professor, that professor would see
a pay cut or a job loss. But if diversity requirements were
instituted, classes that no one would attend, such as
“Psychology of Lesbian Experience,” (women’s
studies 147A) would be mandated by the university, keeping useless
professors in business.

All of this is not to say that there is some strange, leftist
conspiracy of university professors. They do not gather each night
in a dark teachers’ lounge to gleefully decide what kind of
liberal claptrap to feed their unsuspecting victims. But because
the vast majority of professors are extremely liberal, each sees an
opportunity to inculcate liberal values in the student body.

The student body must realize that they are sheep being herded
off a cliff by professors and peers. Students must stop thinking of
themselves as the saviors of some morally corrupt, racist,
disgusting society, and drop their self-centered ideas of
“rebelling against the Man.”

If students truly wish to think for themselves, they should quit
swallowing political professorial garbage, and realize that America
is full of tolerant, open-minded people who may not agree with
their views. They should learn that reasonable people can disagree
without one side being racist. The last thing society needs is to
be “saved” by a mob of self-righteous, nose-pierced
collegians clutching sweat-stained copies of their latest
“diversity” essay.