White Education Blogger ..... Fired for Calling Black Studies ‘Left-Wing Victimization Claptrap'

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13. Part of the attack on public education:

The first thing I want to suggest is that Naomi Schaefer Riley was never really working for the Chronicle....Riley is more accountable to the Castle Rock Foundation and the Scaife Foundation and the Bradley Foundation than to the Chronicle... She may have been writing for the Chronicle, but she is more or less a paid political operative for Big Conservatism.

And what has Big Conservatism been up to lately? As Sara Robinson notes in this piece, a subset of conservative talking points are starting to cluster around public higher education. Robinson focuses on Rick Santorum’s laughable assertion that the UC system no longer teaches American history–an assertion that, at the time, we all laughed at on Facebook and then gleefully refuted with almost no effort. But Robinson was not amused:

I’m a native-born speaker of right-wing code. And what I heard in Santorum’s ramble was, frankly, hair-raising. To my ears, it was a very loud and clear tip-off that conservatives are gearing up an all-out frontal assault on funding for America’s public universities.

Robinson’s point is that Santorum’s statement wasn’t an isolated gaffe, but rather a sign of the beginning of “the War on Public Universities.” As she makes clear, conservatives are organized. When they start talking about something, it’s not by accident...

http://anfortaswound.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/bad-faith-naomi-schaefer-riley-and-the-war-on-public-education/