Brainwashed

by Ben Shapiro

  Black student group hypersensitivity stretches to ridiculous lengths. A classic case-in-point: at Cal State Long Beach, the graphic design class posted a flier for their first art show; the flier was entitled “Our first hang.” The flier contained a picture of a noose. The ASU went ballistic, demanding an apology to the entire African-American campus community for the ad, since nooses dredge up bad memories of lynchings. “We don’t see just a noose. It is very offensive,” complained ASU president Leilana Ford. The teacher of the graphics design class and the woman who approved the flier, Tanya Cummings, refused to apologize for the image. “We regret the way the poster was perceived, but I don’t apologize for the image,” Cummings stated. By the way—Tanya Cummings is black.17

  HOMOSEXUAL GROUPS AND TENPERCENT

  The Gay and Lesbian Association is another national organization with local bases across the country. At UCLA, GALA identifies itself as the “Queer Alliance.”18

  The Auburn University Gay and Lesbian Association constitution states that its purpose is “to provide support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people, their friends, and supporters . . . to educate the campus and community about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues . . . to establish a campus and community environment free of prejudice based on sexual orientation.”19

  This sounds harmless enough in theory. In practice, GALA and groups like it are far more dangerous. They seek not just tolerance, but acceptance. If you don’t accept homosexuality, you’re labeled a “homophobe.” One item on the gay group agenda is kicking ROTC off campus because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding homosexuality. Harvard University bans ROTC because of “don’t ask, don’t tell”; Kevin Jennings, a member of Harvard’s Gay and Lesbian Caucus, says allowing ROTC to return to campus would be “a huge mistake.”20 ROTC is banned for similar reasons at Yale, Brown, Stanford, and Columbia.21

  GALA’s most prominent event is “National Coming Out Week,” where they ask students and faculty to show their “gay pride.” They sponsor ads in student newspapers listing gay people on campus. They plaster the campus with homosexual propaganda. At UCLA, they hang a banner over Westwood Boulevard in honor of the occasion.

  And the campus gay clique rhetoric, as expressed by university-approved newsmagazines like TenPercent, is outrageous. It’s insulting to homosexuals who are not promiscuous and do not wish to make their sexuality the focus of their identity. Check out the aggressive brand of homosexuality they promote:

  • From a music review: “Straight, gay, bi—regardless of your orientation, this album will make you want to get it on. And I’m not talking anything clean or missionary; I mean dirty, rough. . . .”22

  • “Every gay guy has a secret fantasy of being Queen Bitch.”23

  • Blasphemously comparing the creation of the world to the creation of homosexuality: “In the beginning, before Charles Gilber Chaddock coined the term ‘homosexuality,’ sexuality was a formless void and a darkness covered the face of gender, while a wind from God swept over the face of desire. Then God said, ‘Let there be lesbians;’ and there were lesbians. . . .”24

  • Recommending anonymous gay sex: “When the room is dark, your boyfriend can be anyone.”25

  • “At TenPercent we are committed to putting the ‘sex’ back into ‘homosexual.’” From there the magazine then went on to recommend various sex toys.26

  • On the growing acceptance of homosexuality: “My heart fills with warmth as I watch two fathers stroll along the sidewalk with their daughter. I smile at an old lesbian couple sitting across from me on the bus. Love conquers all, I reason. It’s just a matter of time before it’ll all be OK. Gay people will have equal rights. . . . We’ll settle for second-class citizenship because, someday, things will get better. Well, I am for once sick of waiting.”27

  At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, one gay student group posted stacks of their magazine, Queer Notes, in the Student Union. The magazine contained a pornographic picture of one naked man standing behind another naked man, fondling his genitals. As Mike Adams, professor at UNCW and columnist, reported, “It appeared from the expression on his face, that he was also sodomizing the man standing in front of him.” Queer Notes, like TenPercent, is sponsored by tuition money and is part of UNCW’s stated “diversity mission.”28 But even if it weren’t, does anyone think students leaving an Evangelical Christian gospel tract in the Student Union wouldn’t face some sort of official sanction?

  At Michigan State University, Q*News is the homosexual student newspaper. Here’s a sample from a column by Jennifer Dunn, entitled “Rethinking Romantic Love”:

  I long for everything I know would destroy me, [sic] it’s this death wish that is the most penetrating weapon of the male-supremacy. I’m dependent on him because a romantic relationship (or interaction) is the closest I can get to feeling as if I never existed. Men create the pain in me with their violence and rape and then I’m driven to them to wash it away.

  Then, summing up the feelings of the student gay community, Dunn writes, “I’m calling on everybody to not copy or give in to heterosexual traditions.”29

  For the militant queer student body, scorning “heterosexual tradition” seems to be the key.

  MECHA AND LA GENTE DE AZTLÁN

  MEChA, the national Chicano campus organization, has a broader goal than merely uniting Chicanos under one banner. They seek to return the states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, which they call Aztlán, to Mexican rule. No, really. I couldn’t make up stuff this ridiculous.

  Don’t believe me? Check out El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, their basic philosophical document: “Aztlán belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent. . . . With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.”30

  But wait, there’s more! They not only want to “liberate” California, they want to do so by violent means. “Lands rightfully ours will be fought for and defended. Land and realty ownership will be acquired by the community for the people’s welfare. Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the Chicano defense units.” They call for the use of children in “resistance”: “Those institutions which are fattened by our brothers to provide employment and political pork barrels for the gringo will do so only as acts of liberation and for La Causa. For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts.”31

  The rhetoric doesn’t stop there. As syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin reported, MEChA members from the UC system editorialized that federal immigration officials are “pigs” who “should be killed, every single one.”32 According to the Media Research Center, a 1998 statewide conference for MEChA at Cal Poly “welcomed more than one thousand students with a program that said ‘Welcome to Cal Poly State Jewniversity” and a reference to ‘Jew York.’”33

  MEChA has plenty of resources to back their rhetoric. Malkin writes, “[MEChA] operates an identity politics indoctrination machine on publicly subsidized college and high school campuses nationwide that would make David Duke and the KKK turn green with envy.”34

  The MEChA militants reiterate their anti-Westernism and anti-Americanism in UCLA’s LA gente de Aztlán:

  • “It is not one, but all Nations under God, and in terms of Civilization, here, on this our homeland as Indigenous Peoples— the West is a Guest.”35

  • “The United States government has made the killing of innocent people standard practice to achieve political and economic goals. We must be able to understand that our blind support for US military actions in other countries is in essence supporting the deaths of countle
ss innocent people around the world. We must understand that the mainstream media is consciously ignoring the deeper reasons for waging this war; money and oil.”36

  • “Our comunidad has always been under attack by the US government, particularly in times of war . . . our brothers and sisters were drafted and placed in the frontlines of battle, only to return to us in body bags.”37

  • “During the Spring of 1993, the University of Chicana/os in Lost Aztlán was reclaimed by the direct descendents of its territory. No, not the squirrels. Once again for a moment in time, the university with a historical array of grassroots political activism by people of color, became the site for Chicana/o Latina/o occupation. . . . Ten thousand people reclaimed their public university; a scene which has not been seen at UCLA since then nor before.”38

  MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION AND AL-TALIB

  Perhaps the most extreme student group is the Muslim Student Association (MSA). They have been funding terrorist groups for years. As the Associated Press reported on December 22, 2001, “Muslim student organizations on college campuses have openly raised money for groups whose assets have been frozen by the US government because of alleged ties to terrorists. . . . Altaf Husain, national president of the MSA, said his organization has no plans to stop raising money for various groups unless federal authorities crack down. He called suspicions about terrorist links post-attack ‘hype,’ and said it is up to the government to trace the money.”39

  Of course, the MSA immediately covered its tracks, condemning the Associated Press for printing the story. Using the age-old statement “you took me out of context,” Husain complained: “This article is another example of irresponsible journalism that contributes to an atmosphere of animosity towards Islam and American Muslims.” Husain then had the unending gall to call the article anti-American: “The US leadership, at its highest levels, called on Americans not to link their American Muslim counterparts with terrorism. Unfortunately, some journalists did not heed the call.”40

  This is a group that also attacks Jews with the old blood-libel lies. In anti-Semitic areas, Jews throughout history have been accused of using blood of Gentile children for Passover matzah or other ritual purposes. Nowadays, the MSA places blood libel posters around the San Francisco State University campus—the posters depict a soup can label with a Palestinian baby on it, and the words “Made in Israel” printed across the top.41

  They publish pamphlets calling terrorist groups charitable organizations. They describe the terrorist group Hizbullah like a Middle Eastern Salvation Army: “Although their primary goal has always been resistance to ‘Israeli’ expansion into southern Lebanon, Hizbullah operates a wide array of social welfare programs. They construct hospitals, institutions for higher learning, research institutes, orphanages and centers for the physically disabled. They give financial assistance to young couples. . . . Their humanitarian assistance is available to the entire local population, regardless of religious denomination, or even religion.”42

  A quick trip to the MSA national Web site reveals just how fanatical the group is. On the one-year anniversary of September 11, the MSA released a statement. Under the guise of sympathy, the MSA took the opportunity to rip American foreign policy in Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq. “Muslim-American students unequivocally condemn the senseless killing of civilians here in America, in Afghanistan, in occupied Palestine, in Indian-occupied Kashmir, in Chechnya, in Iraq, and in other parts of the world,” read the press release.

  The statement went on to condemn “the erosion of civil rights perpetuated by the Bush administration, namely the John Ashcroft-led Department of Justice since the 911 [sic] attacks,” and the upcoming “unilateral and unjustified war on Iraq proposed by the Bush administration.” And to deflect attention from global Muslim terrorism, the MSA also suggested that citizens “stand in support of shifting the Bush administration’s attention to domestic issues such as the eroding surplus, education and welfare reform and the war on poverty and homelessness.”43

  Here’s the scariest part: there are over five hundred Muslim student organizations on campus in the United States and Canada, with a constituency of over one hundred thousand.

  Al-Talib, UCLA’s Muslim newsmagazine, is far less devious than the national MSA. It openly supports terror and hates America. Mostafa Mahboob, the head of the newsmagazine, refused to stop printing ads for terror-funding organizations. “If the listed organizations were still able to advertise, the magazine would consider reprinting the ads as long as the groups were not proven guilty,” he said, a full month after the listed organizations were declared illegal.44 This is clearly in breach of federal anti-terrorism law, punishable by deportation. So far, the US government has not touched the students.

  Lest you think Mahboob is a lone extremist, here are some excerpts from Al-Talib:

  • “We must examine the West’s motives in order to have a clearer understanding as to why it wants to control the underdeveloped world’s population.”45

  • “Race and racism are deeply rooted in the very foundations of American society and the collective American psyche. . . . The current state of unequal distribution of educational resources, jobs and contracts based on race is based on a long history of institutionalized racism in the country. . . . people of color have never received special or privileged treatment in America—as a matter of fact they have received some of the worst treatment in human history at the hands of America.”46

  • In a piece entitled “UCLA Under Occupation”: “How can such injustices go unnoticed? How can 300 UN Resolutions against Israel go unheeded? How can reports of human rights abuses by State Department, Middle East Watch and other agencies be ignored? It’s called the Israel lobby. And its arms have a chokehold on UCLA . . . we too are living in an Israeli occupied territory.”47

  • The magazine shows two pictures and asks: “Which one of these two prominent Muslim activists will be next year’s editor of Al-Talib?” One picture is of Mostafa Mahboob—the other is of Osama bin Laden.48

  • “Get out of this defeatist mode of thinking, because it doesn’t correspond to how things are. Whether we behold the truth of this or not, Allah is King of moments. It doesn’t matter if Israel is well-financed, Serbia militarily superior, or US imperialism too powerful. Allah can change the state of affairs in a moment.”49

  • “I’m assuming that traditional Holocaust history is true, though of course there are libraries of compelling evidence to indicate that the numbers, accounts, and narratives are either exaggerated, or in some cases, wholly imaginary. Suffice it to say that proponents of a less gory account of Holocaust history are no longer fringe racists spouting nonsense, but now include a number of once-prominent historians who have been ostracized from university and intellectual circles that once held them in high esteem.”50

  • “America has rarely experienced death and destruction on its own soil. While the world mourns the daily robbery of its countless innocent lives, whether they are the struggling Palestinians or the starving Iraqis or the exploited Colombians, the United States has built a wall tear-proof and heartache-free, each cold brick symbolizing another foreign policy objective. . . . With the coming of death into this country, the US has entered Afghanistan so as to once again rob the world of its innocent lives.”51

  • “Yet few have asked the question, ‘Why is Islam charged with the crime of Muslims in the first place?’ Did anyone think to prosecute Christianity when a ship called ‘Jesus Christ’ sailed the ocean blue filled with Muslim slaves from West Africa? Why isn’t Judaism called to answer for the state terrorism of ‘Israel?’“52

  • “‘Israel’ and the United States were perceived as ‘partners in crime,’ as millions of indigenous Palestinians were forced to flee under pains of death. And the thousands of those who remained behind were massacred en masse by war criminals the likes of current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who continues to decorate his resume with the bloody ink of Palestinian children. . . . Is i
t any wonder, then, why there would be anti-American sentiment in the [Middle East] region?”53

  • “While the world rushed to judgment blaming everyone from the rejoicing Palestinians to Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden, the Muslims rushed to the prospect that possibly Israel’s Mossad or the CIA or even the state of India were responsible for the attacks that occurred on September 11th against the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. Conspiracy or not, as the situation itself is hazy and unclear . . .”54

  • “With the aftermath of Sept. 11, the spotlight has landed squarely on the Muslim community in America. We have become like the ‘communists’ during the McCarthy era, the clear victims of an unceasing witch-hunt.”55

  • “State sponsored terrorism has been the systematic policy of ‘Israel’ in subjugating millions of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories . . .”56

  • “The truth is, our Western world is not quite the paradigm of freedom and equality of which we’re taught to sing in our national anthem.”57

  SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

  All of these groups rail against “segregation” and “unequal treatment.” Then they go and hold their own graduation ceremonies.

  At San Francisco State University, Chicanos and blacks have been holding separate graduations for years. The Chicano graduation is organized by MEChA.58 The University of Texas holds graduations for American Indians, blacks, and Latino students. UC Santa Cruz has a commencement for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.59