Bias in American Schools? Surely You Jest?

No, I do not Jest and don't call me Shirley!

Published on October 17, 2004 By greywar In Politics

Just got done watching the preview for Evan Coyne Maloney’s first feature length film : Brainwashing 101

Just got done watching the preview for Evan Coyne Maloney’s first feature length film : Brainwashing 101. This is how a documentary should be done folks. I can think a few prominent filmmakers who could take some lessons.

The films basic thesis is that in some (or many) universities across the nation people’s 1^st Amendment rights are being denied. This is of course news to no one but what may shock you are which folks are being denied their free speech rights and which other folks are not.

I am not going to post anything beyond that regarding the content of the film so that those few of you with the time, wherewithal, and moral courage to have a viewpoint challenged can actually make up your own mind. Sometime next week I will post my thoughts on the subject matter after you have had your chance to watch it yourself.

You can view the movie for free right here. (note I like the simple web page layout here too, 3 formats, simple links, no bull)

Feel free to post your feeling about the film in the comments section or to write your own blog about it and post a link to that in my comments area. No two page long screeds in my comments thank you very much.

Credit : Brain Terminal

Comments (Page 1)

pseudosoldier

on Oct 17, 2004

I enjoyed it, and look forward to you purchasing the extended remix sometime in 2005 for not-so-public, not-so-private, possibly-mildly-intoxicated viewing. Hey, we could make it some sort of drinking game!

Grim Xiozan

on Oct 17, 2004

Good documentary, glad you found it!

- Grim X

greywar

on Oct 17, 2004

Glad you folks liked it, I am currently pimping it out to all of the other blogs I frequent outside of JU.

historyishere

on Oct 17, 2004

Pimp away... I think that this is something everyone should see.... because that isn't right....

evilPidge

on Oct 18, 2004

I'm 4 minutes into it, and I must ask, where the hell did this guy get the open music from? It must have been a 70's blacksplotation and/or 70's porn video.

RATM4EVA

on Oct 18, 2004

I watched the video since it got me curious. I am a part of the leftest crowd at my campus in California. The documentary makes it seem that the left controls every campus, and it's not true. At my campus, my organization has been targeted by the school paper and administration. In 2000, there was a lot of heat put on us for bringing Ralph Nader to speak. Every time we rally on campus the cops are called in, but when frats threaten us, we get no help from the school. Many of the young Republican clubs in the state operate with no problems. They even hold conferences and workshops with generally little drama. The worst thing I heard happen to them was having their newspapers stolen in Cal some 3 years ago. I was hoping the film would go deeper into how they think students are getting brain washed, but it was only about 3-4 cases of conservative students getting censored.

I think part of the problem is that people don't understand why we think the way we do. I am an Ethnic Studies major. To be honest, I think people don't realize that the history of the USA has left many problems. For example, I have taken many Indian Studies classes and the damage of reservations and the killing of Indians has many effects today. People don't realize that it is offensive for people to say Colombus discovered America when there were people here already or that he was a pioneer in enslaving Indians and yet we celebrate him.

Thanks for the post

greywar

on Oct 18, 2004

People don't realize that it is offensive for people to say Colombus discovered America when there were people here already or that he was a pioneer in enslaving Indians and yet we celebrate him.

It is not that people don't realize it, it is that there is no right for you not to be offended. They call it free speech. I didn't do a damn thing to the Indians or any other minority here! I am Irish for christ sake! Where the hell is my reparation money for the railroad system and all of the country's police depts? Ancient history man.

The documentary makes it seem that the left controls every campus, and it's not true.

Actually the film says this about 3 schools as I recall.

If you have been targetted by your administration as these kids were then cantact FIRE like they did. Hell contact Maloney himself! I am sure he would love to add in some segments of how the left are being punished for speaking their minds too!

greywar

on Oct 18, 2004

where the hell did this guy get the open music from?

The credits say they composed it.

lifehappens

on Oct 18, 2004

Fatastic link. I look forward to your future comments on this.....and here I was thinking that my experiences were isolated and unique. I knew that the free speech/equal rights were biased, but I didn't realize how bad that it has become in the schools....

Grim Xiozan

on Oct 18, 2004

where the hell did this guy get the open music from?

Nope the opening music is the Notre Dame Fight Song and it says so in the credit, trust me I would know since I live about an hour away from South Bend, Indiana home of Notre Dame University.

People don't realize that it is offensive for people to say Colombus discovered America when there were people here already or that he was a pioneer in enslaving Indians and yet we celebrate him.

Yes I realize my ancestor came to America but if it were not for him coming over you and I would not be having this conversation. Plus it was not Columbus who enslaved them it was the other Spaniards, Columbus wanted to convert them to Catholicism (which is evident in all the letters he wrote) by the way did you know Columbus is NOT Italian at all, but a Catalonian from Barcelona, a member of the Colon Banking Family, which is why his name in Spanish is Cristobal Colon. There is even a reason he did not tell the king and queen where he was from. Though you can argue that I should be ashamed, but I say BAH, if he had not came over and screwed an Arrowak (sp?) woman or his son screwed an Arrowak woman I would not be here today.

- Grimtobal Xolon

greywar

on Oct 18, 2004

Nope the opening music is the Notre Dame Fight Song

Ah I had no chance of catching that:) Thanks...

evilPidge

on Oct 18, 2004

no, i wasnt talking about the fight song, i was talking about the porn-i-fied song. I was so waiting for the SWAT theme to come on...

historyishere

on Oct 18, 2004

It reminded me of the theme for 3-2-1 Contact....

pseudosoldier

on Oct 18, 2004

Pretty sure that one they composed, Pidge, and that they intended it to be... nostalgic. To try and evoke images of going back in time, to when the documentarian would've attended school. Well, kindergarten, maybe. The guy doesn't look that old. (Or maybe it was just one of *those* schools...)

wINtro

on Oct 18, 2004

ah well i thought it was a great "enlightening" documentry now i have something to say when people go around spamming "see 9/11"

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