… AT THE CITADEL
The Tea Party movement is being examined through the lens of “Southern radicalism” in a new class being taught at The Citadel – South Carolina’s government-subsidized military college.
“The Insurgent South” is a new course being offered this semester at the school. It is being taught by Lombard, Illinois native Dr. Kerry Taylor, whose website goes out of its way to stress his “family ties to the Low Country.”
Hmmmm …
“Race is a central course theme,” Taylor writes in the syllabus for his offering. “Racism has served as the point of unity for the Ku Klux Klan and the Redeemers, for instance, but we will also look at the ways in which subordinated southerners – African Americans, women, and white textile workers – have struggled to make real the promise of democracy through their struggles for political equality and economic justice.”
Uhhhhh … okay.
Taylor’s syllabus makes no mention of the Tea Party, but a poster advertising the course does … noting that it will examine “Southern radicalism and grassroots protest from the Populist revolt through the Tea Party rebellion.”
Take a look …
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Hmmmm … (again).
We won’t dispute Taylor’s basic premise (to the extent we understand it), but the last time we checked the Tea Party wasn’t radical. Seriously … it’s a bunch of retirees (a.k.a. the only people who have time to attend political rallies these days).
So is Taylor’s course more politically correct revisionist history? Or is it propaganda from the Southern vantage point? Or is it neither?
Whatever the answer to that question is, there is but one conclusion to be drawn about this course: Taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing it, or any other form of “higher” education.
The entire rotten system should be privatized … yesterday.
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Sic Willie, still tilting at windmills. BTW, is “government-subsidized” a new or replacement term for “government-run”?
The Tea Party movement in itself is a radical organization, which attracts the extreme right wing dissidents. There is nothing wrong with the course offering above. Schools should not be privatized. That was tried before and a total failure unless you were rich, white Americans.
Yea! “F” those old extreme white people that care enough to make shitty signs and waddle around in colonial outfits.
Extremists! Neo-confederates! Haters!
“F” those grey hairs collecting SS checks and trying to something to patch the gaping hole in the USS Titanic!
They are so extreme they should all be rounded up and made into Soylent Green! (HT to ‘Corruption in Columbia’)
You need to get with Sarah Palin – she needs a good campaign manager.
I’d bone her, that’s it. I’m just tired of all the demonization that goes on all around all the political spectrums.
Whenever any “side” of any spectrum dehumanizes the other, abuse is right around the corner. Americans en masse came to believe Germans weren’t human before/during WW2, same with the Japs, etc…..the Germans dehumanized the Jews, etc. etc.
It’s all a bullshit pattern of propaganda to force one group of people to the will of others.
I’d bone her
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I would too, if she was human, better looking, and I had a mild stroke. I suspect she’s a combination born-again sasquatch, alien and poltergeist.
Whenever any “side” of any spectrum dehumanizes the other
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oops. and look what I said about boning Palin. My bad.
Propaganda
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If only the Tea Party was human enough to recognize it.
“I suspect she’s a combination born-again sasquatch, alien and poltergeist.”
Hmmm, never had one of those…
Yeah, she doesn’t look like she has working female parts.
Let’s look at other organizations or movements listed in the course syllabus:
* Civil Rights Movement
* Women’s Liberation
* Counterculture
* The CIO (which later merged with the AFL)
* Operation Dixie (attempt to unionize in the South)
If, as you say, the Tea Party “attracts the extreme right wing dissidents”, then do you favor the above movements that attract the extreme left wing dissidents?
The above isn’t attracting extreme left wingers, it is attracting those with a social conscience.
Social conscience as it is currently defined by the mainstream media, and a large number of others is the extreme left wing. Unions aren’t social conscience of any shape form or fashion.
Unions, IMO are social conscience for the working man. Period.
At a point in the past they were, Now they are corrupt political propaganda machines, who extort money from their members and use that money to enrich the union bosses and support causes and candidates that many of their members don’t support. We needed unions in 1914 we don’t need them in 2014.
Pardon me, but you will have to explain how asking for minorities and women to have equal rights with white men is extreme left wing.
Those rights have been obtained and the fight is over. Wealth redistribution and special rights for protected classes is not equal rights, it’s reverse discrimination and reverse classism.
All are today’s face of HATE….
Spoken like a true modern day Nazi. If they disagree w you…you hate them….and use the Gestapo government to help. Thank God most of the cadets are smart a d would fight for freedom… instead of your false god.
As much as I’d like to hate on it, I can’t find anything wrong with the course. Sounds legit to me. Also privatize college? Are you kidding me? Have you seen how much Furman’s tuition is?
Like most Republicans,Fits embraces a weird form of anti intellectualism (I mean what about this damn college course merits a mention much less an article).However, as usual, he uses this to pivot to his favorite topic ,destroying public education so only the wealthy can attend school.
Privatization is double speak for only the wealthy will be educated.
Illinois native…
All you need to know right there.
Being in Charleston, TBG is surprised the Citadel didn’t go full Ohio.
PRO TIP:
NEVER go full Ohio.
Kirk Lazarus speaks!
You will have to try harder to convince me that the Tea Party is not radical. Their last big “scene” was about defaulting on US Treasury securities. Default sounds very radical to me.
The last I looked, neither Tea Party candidate Mace or Bright appear to be a “bunch of retirees”, nor does Senator Scott. I think the Tea Party is a bunch of uninformed Republicans, but they are not limited to retirees.
“Default sounds very radical to me.”
As opposed to…printing up increasing amounts of money to service a debt that can’t be paid off? Defaulting sounds more radical than that?
The Tea Party screams for government cuts, that is unless it cuts their benefits or services. In reality it should be called the Me Party.
I have no idea what bearing that has on my question, but ok.
The South has risen again you f*#”!* idiot. Look where most recent presidents are from. Especially the last successful one, Bush…..and after the total EFF up job by Obama…. it’ll be a while before we elect another dumb@$$ Yankee.
If Bush was a success, god knows this country never need fear failure. Because his Presidency was nothing more than a string of disasters. Starting with the largest terrorist attack in US History, followed by entry into a unnecessary three trillion dollar war based on lies, and ending with the largest recession since the great depression.
I guess I should have said the largest terrorist attack on US soil, in history. The attack in Lebanon that killed 200 Marines was bigger in scope. So I guess Reagan gets top prize most American killed in a terrorist attacks.
You mean the attack where the Marines were killed in their sleep?
Oh, THAT one.
The one where the guards were not allowed to have ammunition for their rifles, because the administration was afraid they might shoot an innocent reporter by mistake.
So , they were not able to stop the tanker loaded with explosives
Revisionist much?……I bet your stupid @$$ beleives Obama has done something other than f#*+ up.
privatization = crony capitalism…the essence of crony capitalism.
Taxpayer money funneled to the people who can turn around and make campaign contributions from those taxpayer supplied profits…that’s why you people are so opposed to campaign finance reform and love dark money and hidden contributors….while screaming about “transparency” from people you don’t like. Excreble hypocrites, every one of you.
Isn’t it nice your base is too stupid to realize what you rant and rave against is what you practice with such passion?
“privatization = crony capitalism”
The caveat here is that you specify “privatization(or privately owned) but receiving taxpayer dollars”…which is then debatable on the basis of what privatization is…but that’s a whole separate discussion.
I’m in this class. It has focused on everything from populists, the ku klux klan, and currently mill unions. Great class and very informative.
I am at the citadel right now and I am currently taking a domestic terroridm clas s. The class is entirely biased, the entire course is on right wing extremism. Its liberal professors who want to mold youthvin their viewsWe
Yeh The Citadel is well known for its liberal professoriate.
You Right Wing nutjobs are such pathetic liars.
And how would you know? Are you also a student at the Citadel or just a Democrat troll?
Aw, they thought their Tea Party’s were secret. Just a few of the boys with china cups and lower underman serving them. Now they have to hide behind styrofoam cups and yell YYEEEEHHAAAA.
Once again we have someone who thinks this country was founded as a democracy. Hey, Mr. Taylor we live in a Republic dude. Man I am getting tired of telling people that.
Hey dude go back to school. The two are not mutually exclusive. We are both a republic and a democracy.
Democracy is ruled by the majority. A Republic is ruled by law. Big difference Bill. By the way, I do not pledge allegiance to the democracy, do you?
You don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
Don’t take my word for it. Look it up. I did a long long time ago. That is why I know the difference.
As TBG’s granpappy used to say:
Democracy = Two timberwolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Exactly
The Citadel receives 6-8% in federal funding depending on the year… FAR less than most state run colleges or universities. None of which even makes a dent in my $43,000 a year tuition.
Likewise, if you expect to look at the course list offered by a southern military institution with significant ties to the later side of the Civil War, don’t expect too many liberal artsy fartsy classes. This class is also an elective and not a single student is FORCED to take it. Just like they wouldn’t be forced to take art appreciation or intro to martial arts.. That’s the beauty of college, LOTS of classes to choose from. Why don’t you go take a look at some of CofC’s courses..
The south, will in fact, not rise again. I think we’re safe.
Sincerely,
Florida Democrat-Anti-Tea Party-The south will not rise again-out of state Citadel student
Glad to see there are still some Citadel Cadets that are free thinking and not drinking the right wing Kool Aid.
A much larger concern to the public should be the new right wing clubs and organizations that are being allowed on The Citadel Campus. These political action groups would never have been allowed on campus in the past. Their outrageous practices should be of great concern to everyone. The Citadel was once a place of somewhat balanced ideology: not any more. It has become a home for radical thinking on both sides. There is no place on a Military Campus for organizations that support the over throw of the US Government. Especially at The Citadel: where they have a history of actually trying to do just that!
“Go Dogs:” just not too far right or left!