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Perhaps no Marxist has had more influence on the Western world than the Brazilian crackpot educator Paulo Freire, who is most famous for his book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which is the third most-cited work in the social sciences and humanities in the history of the world and a mainstay in all education programs today. Understanding Freire and his influence is therefore paramount to understanding how our education system has been poisoned by Marxist Theory over the last forty years.

Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment lawyer and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), explains how American higher eduction is broken and why hoping for self-correction is unrealistic. The culture on most college and university campuses pushes out anyone capable of observing and criticizing the rampant problems of ideological conformity and censorship.

“Creating a circular mode of discourse that is seemingly impervious to self-questioning,” is the antithesis of academic freedom.

Harvard law professor Randall L. Kennedy, who describes himself as “a scholar on the left committed to struggles for social justice,” penned an op-ed as part of a Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard “calling out DEI ideology and the practice of forcing prospective professors to submit a statement describing their “orientation toward diversity, equity, and inclusion practices,” reports the Washington Examiner.

“By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom,” Kennedy wrote Tuesday.

“By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by imposing ideological litmus tests, by incentivizing insincerity, and by creating a circular mode of discourse that is seemingly impervious to self-questioning, the current DEI regime is discrediting itself,” he continued.

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