Professor Exposes Federally Funded ‘Revisionist’ History Conference
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Pearl Harbor, 1941
In July, the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored a workshop on “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII” for college professors in Hawaii. Professor Penelope Blake, a veteran professor of Humanities at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill., was one of 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, but was reportedly disheartened to find the conference “driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda.”
Professor Blake is now reportedly calling on Congress to implement better oversight over the NEH. In a letter addressed directly to her Illinois congressman, Rep. Don Manzullo, Blake documents conference details and asks him to vote against NEH funding for future events. According to PowerLine, copies of the letter have also been delivered to members of the NEH council and NEH chair Jim Leach.
Full letter follows (emphases hers):
Dear Congressman Manzullo:
As one of twenty-five American scholars chosen to participate in the recent National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Workshop, “History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII,” at the University of Hawaii, East-West Center, I am writing to ask you to vote against approval of 2011 funding for future workshops until the NEH can account for the violation of its stated objective to foster “a mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all persons and groups” (NEH Budget Request, 2011).
In my thirty years as a professor in upper education, I have never witnessed nor participated in a more extremist, agenda-driven, revisionist conference, nearly devoid of rhetorical balance and historical context for the arguments presented.
In both the required preparatory readings for the conference, as well as the scholarly presentations, I found the overriding messages to include the following:
1. The U.S. military and its veterans constitute an imperialistic, oppressive force which has created and perpetuated its own mythology of liberation and heroism, insisting on a “pristine collective memory” of the war. The authors/presenters equate this to Japan’s almost total amnesia and denial about its own war atrocities (Fujitani, White, Yoneyama, 9, 23). One presenter specifically wrote about turning down a job offer when he realized that his office would overlook a fleet of U.S. Naval warships, “the symbol of American power and the symbol of our [Hawaiians'] dispossession…I decided they could not pay me enough” (Osorio 5). Later he claimed that electric and oil companies were at the root of WWII, and that the U.S. developed a naval base at Pearl Harbor to ensure that its own coasts would not be attacked (9, 13).
2. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor should be seen from the perspective of Japan being a victim of western oppression (one speaker likened the attack to 9-11, saying that the U.S. could be seen as “both victim and aggressor” in both attacks); that American “imperial expansion” forced Japan’s hand: “For the Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western Imperialism” (Yoneyama 335-336); and the Pearl Harbor attack could be seen as a “pre-emptive strike.” (No mention of the main reason for the Pearl Harbor attack: the U.S. had cut off Japan’s oil supply in order to stop the wholesale slaughter of Chinese civilians at the hands of the Japanese military.) Another author argued that the Japanese attack was no more “infamous” or “sneaky” than American actions in Korea or Vietnam (Rosenberg 31-32).
3. War memorials, such as the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery (where many WWII dead are buried, including those executed by the Japanese on Wake Island and the beloved American journalist Ernie Pyle), are symbols of military aggression and brutality “that pacify death, sanitize war and enable future wars to be fought” (Ferguson and Turnbull, 1). One author stated that the memorials represent American propaganda, “the right to alter a story” (Camacho 201).
4. The U.S. military has repeatedly committed rapes and other violent crimes throughout its past through the present day. Cited here was the handful of cases of attacks by Marines in Okinawa (Fujitani, et al, 13ff). (What was not cited were the mass-murders, rapes, mutilations of hundreds of thousands of Chinese at the hands of the Japanese throughout the 1930s and 40s. This issue is a perfect example of the numerous instances of assertions made without balance or historical context.) Another author stated that the segregation in place within our military and our “occupation” of Germany after the war was comparable to Nazism (’we were as capable of as much evil as the Germans”) even though the author admits, with some incredulity, that he “saw no genuine torture, despite all the [American] arrogance, xenophobia and insensitivity.“ He attributes American kindness towards conquered Germans to our ”wealth and power“ which allowed us to ”forego the extreme kinds of barbarism” (Davis 586). Another author/presenter compared the temporary relocation camps erected by Americans during the war to Nazi extermination camps (Camacho 206). (This is perhaps the most outrageous, offensive and blatantly false statement I have ever read in a supposedly scholarly work).
5. Those misguided members of the WWII generation on islands like Guam and Saipan who feel gratitude to the Americans for saving them from the Japanese are blinded by propaganda supporting “the image of a compassionate America” or by their own advanced age. One author/presenter questioned whether the Americans had saved anyone from anything (Camacho 177, 209), arguing that the Americans could be seen as easily and justifiably as “conquerors and invaders” (199).
6. It was “the practice” of the U.S. military in WWII to desecrate and disrespect the bodies of dead Japanese (Camacho 186). (Knowing this to be absolutely false, I challenged the speaker/author, who then admitted that this was not the “practice” of our military. Still, the word remains in his publication. As he obviously knew this to be false, I can only assume that his objective was not scholarship but anti-military propaganda.)
7. Conservatives and veterans in the U.S. have had an undue and corrupt influence on how WWII is remembered, for example, successfully lobbying to remove from the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit images of the destruction caused by the atom bomb and the revisionist portrayal of the Japanese as victims in the war (Yoneyama). (What the presenter and author, Ms. Yoneyama, failed to explain was why all representations of Japan’s murderous rampages throughout China and the Philippines were removed from the exhibit as well…surely not at the request of American veterans or conservatives. When I challenged Ms. Yoneyama to explain this issue, a tense exchange ensued, but I finally established that Japanese influences had also played a role in “shaping” the exhibit. This never would have been mentioned had I not demanded the speaker address this distortion in her presentation. Ms. Yoneyama clearly intended to present a one-sided attack on those who wanted the exhibit to emphasize the many reasons why the atom bombs were necessary.) Ms. Yoneyama concluded her essay with a parting shot at the veterans, whom she mockingly labels “martyrs of their sacred war,“ and ”conservative elites” who objected to the Smithsonian’s revisionist history: “the Smithsonian debate ended in the defeat of those who sought critical rethinking, as well as the defeat of those who questioned the self-evident…, and the victory of those who felt threatened by obfuscation of the contours of conventional knowledge” (emphasis mine, 329,339). The author’s elitist dismissal of those who questioned the Enola Gay exhibit is representative of the perspectives and tone of much of the conference, as illustrated by the following point.
8. Conservatives are reactionary nationalists (no distinction was made between nationalism and patriotism), pro-military “tea baggers” who are incapable of “critical thinking.” Comments were made about “people who watch Fox News” not caring if the news “is accurate or not” (Yoneyama, Lecture). The end result of this deprecation within the conference room was to discourage debate and create an atmosphere of intolerance to opposing views, in direct violation of the stated objectives of the NEH. Several participants told me privately that they considered me “brave” for speaking up, thus begging the question: At a conference supposedly committed to openness and tolerance of all views, why should it take bravery to speak one’s mind?
9. Relating to the above, even members of the NEH review board are not immune to “reactionary” pro-military views. One essay recounts how an earlier attempt to receive funding for a similar conference was denied because some NEH reviewers thought the “program lacked diversity and balance among points of view”….and that the organizers possessed “a very specific, ‘politically correct’ agenda,“ noting that ”bias is dangerously threatening throughout.“ The authors of the essay dismissed and denigrated these NEH reviewers with the same elitist attitude they exhibited towards the ”Fox News” viewers: “Clearly this reviewer was unable to comprehend our understanding” of the conference objectives (in other words, he/she is stupid), and “what he or she really desired was the inclusion of defenders of American nationalism and militarism” (Fujitani, et al, 24).
10. Veterans’ memories of their own experiences in the war are suspect and influenced by media and their own self-delusion (Rosenberg, 18, 24). Therefore, it is the role of academics to “correct” their history. As one organizer commented, this will be more easily accomplished once the WWII generation has passed away. Another wrote, “America’s nostalgic war memories are beginning to fray around the edges” (White, 267).
11. War memorials like the Arizona Memorial should be recast as “peace memorials,” sensitive to all viewers from all countries, especially the many visitors from Japan. The conference dedicated significant time to the discussion of whether or not a Japanese memorial in honor of victims of the atom bombs should be erected at the Arizona Memorial site, in order to pacify Japanese visitors who may be offended by the “racism” [anti-Japanese] of the Arizona Memorial. To this end, the conference organizers discussed a revised film (1992) shown to visitors to the Arizona Memorial which removed some of the earlier (1980) film’s “Japan-bashing” and warnings about the need for the American military to remain prepared in the future. The new film, which emphasizes the reasons (justifications?) for the Japanese bombings of Pearl Harbor, includes fewer battle scenes and “transforms the triumphant feelings of victory with a more mournful reflection of losses inflicted by war” (White 285), thus sending a more pacifist, anti-war message and offering a perspective which makes people “less angry” after viewing the film (the author acknowledges that this has worked well, except for “older citizens” who are outraged by the “revisionist” sympathy towards the Japanese) (287). The new, more “inclusive” film features visual images of both American and Japanese dead, Japanese Buddhist monks visiting the memorial, and a culminating text which reads “Mourn the dead” as opposed to “Mourn American dead” or “Mourn our dead” so that “it represented the U.S. and Japanese” (emphasis mine, 288). The memorial’s superintendent, Donald Magee, summed up the tone of the new film: “We don’t take sides….here at Pearl Harbor we don’t condemn the Japanese” (292). Based on the author’s description, I refused to attend a viewing of the film, in protest of its appeasement of treachery and attempts to revise historical fact.
As overwhelming and pervasive as these politically-correct and revisionist messages were, the conference did feature a few presentations and articles which represented truly excellent examples of balanced, well-researched scholarship. One highpoint of the conference was a panel of WWII veterans who shared with us their personal experiences of the war. But, given the overall anti-military bias present at this conference, I could not help but shudder to think how these amazing men would feel if they knew the true focus of the conference. I honestly felt ashamed of my profession and my government for sponsoring this travesty.I am aware that my comments may well have been dismissed by the conference organizers in the same manner they dismissed other opposing voices as “nationalistic” or simplistic. So be it. But I am no blind patriot, Congressman Manzullo, nor am I ignorant of the complexities inherent in the telling and re-telling of history. I also acknowledge, research and teach the many mistakes this country has made, and I am as suspect of the extreme right as I am of the extreme left. But I am also a historian who knows that despite all of their mistakes, this nation and its military have defended, protected and freed more people in their comparatively brief existence than all of the nations in Europe and Asia combined. Allied efforts, however imperfect, defended the world against two of the greatest forms of evil the world has ever known, European Fascism and Japanese Imperialism. This perspective was never, not once, offered at this conference except as a concept that will be well-buried with the WWII generation. If nothing else, I have shown that any imminent celebration of the demise of these concepts may be premature.
As a daughter of two WWII veterans and the niece of a man who gave his life to help defend his country in WWII, I simply will not stand by and allow their history to be usurped and corrupted by a revisionist and iconoclastic political agenda within academe.
The NEH is requesting an operating budget of 161 million dollars for 2011, including over 71 million to support conferences like the one I have described. I ask that you do everything in your power to delay approval of this request until the NEH does the following:
1. Reviews all NEH conference and workshop proposals and supporting materials to eliminate any overt political agenda;
2. Illustrates to Congress and the American people an ability to create programs which support sound and objective scholarship and provide forums for debate in which all sides are recognized and encouraged;
3. Eliminates all intolerance and pejorative language towards any group or viewpoint;
4. Commits itself to a fair and balanced view of our nation’s history and humanities, acknowledging its mistakes but also honoring its achievements.
To demonstrate the above, any group or institution requesting a grant from the NEH should be required to submit its entire schedule of presenters and a complete list of the literature which will be discussed at the conference to ensure that varied sides of any issue will be represented and respected.
Until these actions are taken, I sincerely doubt that the majority of Americans would approve of their tax dollars supporting this academic attack on American history and culture. I plan to do everything in my power to inform American voters of this issue, and I trust our elected officials will take heed of their constituents’ reactions.
Citations for the sources I have used are attached to this letter. Should you wish any further documentation on the issues I have raised or have any questions, feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Penelope A. Blake, Ph.D.
The NEH isn’t the first federal agency accused to misusing its funding to pursue a particular agenda. Most recently, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was accused of partisan operations when a recorded conference callrevealed government officials asking artists to design projects in support of the Obama administration’s agenda.
For more info, PowerLine invites readers to contact them to request a copy of the sources Professor Blake uses in her letter.
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Comments (236)
Bunk
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:59pmAbsolutely shameless! I agree, that any federally funded group that behaves in this manner should be de-funded and their past work should be reviewed for accuracy as well.
Enough of these nut jobs. There needs to be a way to fire these so-called professors. Revisionists should be eliminated and they should be held accountable like any other employee in this country.
Report Post »PatriotDave
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:56pmThanks Professor. Hopefully you gave some of the other academics the backbone to speak up and stand by the truth.
Report Post »Trubow
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:56pmThe sad part is there are probably 3 or 4 of those chosen that will somehow find a way to put some of this into thier teachings. It only takes a few to create the spark.
Report Post »v.o.t.e.
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:54pmthis is pari passu to obama’s kenyan imperialistic world view that he and the main street media deny even exist–
Report Post »lizaz
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:54pmI guess the obamas weren’t kidding when they said we need to “change history”!! I really think that’s an oxymoron. History is history; however, the socialists/communists will try to put their own slant on it, leave out details and make up their own take on how and why things happened. Universities have been polluted with these socialists/communists and it’s really a shame out children are being taught this garbage. We need to keep up the good fight, starting tomorrow Nov 2!!! Vote for conservative, citizen legislators who know where we came from!!
Report Post »lbsm
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:53pm…And of course NEH, as well as the MSM, will just deny everything while trying to discredit this Professor that called them out on this. Sadly, I think this will cause this professor a lot of grief
Report Post »v.o.t.e.
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:53pmthe revisionist commies are everywhere– we have a real fight on our hands– for our countries sake
Report Post »lookn4nrml
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:53pm“4. The U.S. military has repeatedly committed rapes and other violent crimes throughout its past through the present day. ”
REALLY?? Is that why people scrambled to get into the Allied sector when WWII ended in Europe? Why they greeted GIs with flowers and food? Whereas the tomb of the unknown Russian soldier in Vienna is also known as ‘the tomb of the unknown rapist”? I guess they can spread these lies as that generation passes but we shouldn’t spend taxes paying them to do it.
Report Post »outwest
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:51pmAnother lame agency/program whatever it is that needs to be defunded.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:51pmwhat can WE do to STOP this??
Report Post »bobmontgomery
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:25pmFirst, go to your local public school and get a curriculum list for all grades, then a list of the texts. Then read them. Then find someone in a nearby community to do the same, and to the east of you and to the west of you and to the south of you and to the north of you. Then have a meeting with these people. You may be a parent, or just a taxpayer – it doesn’t matter. If you find that there are texts or curriculum materials that are objectionable, someone will know what to do next, but make sure to take a copy of Prof. Blake’s letter and hand it out at your first meeting. If you want to support her with a petition, fine. You will be shining a light on your own community’s problems and raising awareness about what happens to your tax dollars when they go to Washington at the same time.
Report Post »bellerd
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:51pmKudos, Prof. Blake!!!
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:51pmWow, a principled academiac. Was under the impression they were all commies.
Report Post »paleoconservatarian
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:11pmReading the article, they may as well be. There WERE people at the conference who agreed with the lone vocal dissenter, but they didn’t stand with her for they knew their own reputations and/or positions are vulnerable to attack. The commissars have successfully implemented The Terror among the academic elite.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:50pmI don‘t know about the rest of you but I’m sending my congressman a link to this story and ask that he get involved and see that NEH either cleans up their act or loses all government funding .
Report Post »( Some of you might need to wait until you get a new congressman or woman in office .)
LadyIzShy
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:50pmI would be very interested in the response this educator recieved on this.. the facts are of no surprise to me or probably 95% of us
Report Post »Gas137
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:49pmIn addition to the true state of affairs, I believe myths develop over time. The power of a well-written story can influence generations of Americans. The strategy of the progressives may be to change the myths not the facts of history. If they can succeed, then future generations will have a very different view of the past as listed in this article. Now is the time to revisit past myths and prevent agenda- driven progressive myths.
Report Post »youngwitty
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:48pmWow, it hurts that these people can sell my grand father out for a money hungry bigot when he fought for what was right.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:13pmI know what you mean. My grandfather was a machine gunner in WW I and I dare anyone to tell me that he was delusional in his recollections of what he saw and had to do in the war. As a child I would sit and listen to him recount some of the most horrific stuff you could imagine, how he had to mow down men coming over a hill at him…you just can’t make that stuff up. These PC, thin skinned windbags can pack their BS in their wazoos! I don’t need them degrading those who fought and died for this country by preaching their anti-American, socialist crap. They can all kiss my red, white and blue a$$.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:48pmOMG. this all-American family is full of elderly WWII veterans, we know their day-today stories of WWII like second nature to us, and we have never been so horrified as by this revelation of the elitist anti-American revisionism of WWII.. this revisionism is as horrific in its own insidious way as finding the nazi concentration camps actually existed. Americans didn‘t cause WWII and we didn’t cause the Japs to slaughter us at Pearl Harbor and Bataan. but WE sure ENDED the entire GLOBAL War on TWO fronts. Thank GOD for the Aussies, Brits, the Polish Resistance and Pres Harry Truman and our atomic scientists —and pilot Paul Tibbets.
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:56pmburnthills: My husband’s father was one of the chemists that mixed the compounds for the atomic bombs. He would spend the next almost 40 years as a missionary to Pakistan. He just died this past February.
Report Post »Nvrforget
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:00pmDon’t forget the Russians who basically won the war in the European theater by binding 80% of the German forces on the eastern front, suffering horrendous losses. They rarely ever get any credit for that.
Report Post »wonderbug
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:46pmA huge THANK YOU to you, Professor Blake, for standing up and pointing out this craziness. This period of time has been like a bad, bad dream.
Report Post »AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:45pmyou mean these people want to change history! OMG nothing like this has ever happened before,,,except umm the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression)
Report Post »JOEGUNTX
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:10pmYou cant starve us out
You cant make us run
Cuz we’re them ol boys raised on shotguns
We say Grace
We say Ma’am
And If you aint into that we dont give a damn
With a good deer rifle and a 45, us Texas country boys will survive!
Report Post »Beandawg
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:44pmThe only land we requested at the end of WWII was to bury those that sacraficed their lives so that people could live free. Such evil!
Report Post »Whole Nine Yards
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:42pmWhere’s the duct tape? My head is about to explode …
Report Post »When will we cleanse ourselves of this revisionist thinking and let the plain facts speak for themselves?
BurntHills
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:50pmthis has got to come to a stop, even if WE THE PEOPLE must take the books and materials to the streets and burn them ourselves.
we have got to make SURE that our WAR memeorials are not desecrated and RENAMED by these appeasers and psychotic democrats and foreigners.
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:07pmburnthills: We need to take all the revisionist books and rewrite our true history and set the record straight. When my young son went to the university 4 1/2 years ago he brought home his history book and I asked to see it. I was writing my book at the time. I said, Honey, this book is full of lies. Mom, he said, I need to study it and be graded on it. It broke my heart that he was learning the lies of history instead of the truth. When I wrote the story of the ancient Asians, I was very happy to give him his true history as well, because he is my Korean adopted son. He was pleased to know his true ancient history. As we study the ancient Israelite history and the path that they took through the pages of history, the story of all the races of the world unfold. It is an amazing story.
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:27pm@Mary
Report Post »Out of sheer curiosity, I wonder if by chance you could recall some these lies. Also, am I misreading your comment or are you positing that Koreans are descended from ancient iraelites?
JOEGUNTX
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:41pmburnt…..
Report Post »Never! It is time we stood for honor, not Naziism. There will be no burning of books/materials. Instead, a new chapter in the books, so Americans never again forget the atrocities the Progressives have commited. Remember, and let the light of day bleach out the evil. Dont let them fade into the shadow like last time, or they will emerge to swallow whole another political party, just as they are positioning themselves to do (and have already started to do) to the Republicans.
Impeach-BO
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:51pmFacts hurt, don’t they matty?
Defund these lying SOBs.
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:11pmgnomechomsky: In my sons college history book I was reading about the Germanic/Teutonic races which I have written extensively about. They are an Israelite people. In his history book they are written about in a disparaging way and are portrayed as a barbaric race. Our enemy slandered the Israelite’s history by turning the tables on them and blaming the ancient Israelites for the barbaric ways of their enemies. It’s a long story.
Report Post »Yes, you are misreading me…Koreans are not Israelites. They belong to a totally different branch of races. I was just saying that my young son is my adopted Korean son, born in Korea. We adopted him when he was an infant. I wrote about the Asian race as well in my book. I tell my son that I have given him his ancient history.
The Israelites are a Shemitic/Semitic race of people. It is from this race that I descend. It is this race of people that I have been writing to all of you about. Sorry if I was not clear here about that.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:42pmIf these nut-headed history correctors want to talk to someone who has seen and told me in very graphic detail of WWII atrocities within China (mainland) they would still not get it. She detailed in each step what she seen as a child in the rape of Nanking, the death of her family and many of her relatives and the raping of many women and child-girls then being put to death in the most violent of ways as well.
Also, these people need to examine the books written by Japanese authors who lived in the times of the war, and during the war. If I remember one correctly is called “Empire of the Rising Sun” (that is the title I believe it to be.)
They attacked US!!!
Get these people out of our universities, and send the apologists historians with Mr Obama on a long term overseas trip and leave them there.
Enough is enough already.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:41pmProfessor Blake just became my new favorite person !
Report Post »Crowley
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:48pmShe is a real hero.
8-28 made me decide to switch my major to education, and this woman is an inspiration. I hope I am as strong as her when the time comes to stand up in a room full of revisionists. I’m terrified.
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:25pmBeautiful, well thought out, letter.
Report Post »Her story has disgusted and shocked me.
Timmtamm
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:31pmBravo for people like her! Keep it up, PLEASE. America desperately needs people in positions like hers to stand up for what is right, true, and/or correct.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:45pmShe is officially an American hero! Please, professors, if you are out there, take a stand. We may not have graduated from an Ivy League School but we are smart and behind you all the way. God bless you, Penelope, and all the other teachers and professors that have honor and integrity.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:06pm@Crowley – Good a little fear is healthy and will keep yu sharp. I come from a long, long line of teachers and Prof. I suggest you have a dual major. If you speak your mind (a right leaning open mind) you won’t last long in “higher” education. Or you can always wait until you get tenure to really get rolling. It is quite rare to find a university that really values differing opinions or the truth for that matter. The University of Missouri whaere 5 of my family members teach or have taught is a snake pit. I would sooner go back to combat than face those uptight, closed minded, inflexible elitists.
More power to you but be prepared for the fight of your life where the deck is squarely stacked against you!!
Report Post »firstHat
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:05am@Crowley From one who dabbled in that world for 15 years or so, here’s what you do. You enter the conversation where they are and at least pretend to accept their assumptions. What you will find is that they sing their tune in the name of freedom and liberty (though they skew the meaning of these words). The problem is that none of their thinking lead to any real freedom or liberty and most of them aren‘t bright enough to recognize that they’ve warped the meaning of those words.
Then USE THEM! Use their words to turn their arguments against them. Poke, punch, and stand strong against the totalitarian aspects of all they do all while staying within their assumptions. In the end you will write, debate and argue brilliantly and reveal things they’ve never seen. You’ll get terrific grades most of the time (except every now and again when you find one who really thinks and is truly evil rather than just spouting the same old stuff). And at the same time you will be holding out against them so you can sleep at night.
I warn you, it is hard work and a lonely business. I sometimes felt physically battered after writing a paper or sparring in seminars, but in the end you‘ll have some of them eating their words and they won’t even figure out what just happened to them.
And while you are teaching you encourage the same behavior from your students. Give them your tools.
And then once you have tenure, you can become like our new hero, Professor Blake and perhaps make a real difference and you will have left some well equipped students in your wake.
Good Luck!
Report Post »american1st
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:40pmif it cant be fixed then DE-FUND the NEH…… maybe Eric Cantor will here about this…
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:02pmThats right, De-fund all of these lame grants!
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:25pmits time to put these teachers on notice and into the unemployment line. THEY ARE MESSING WITH OUR KIDS! NOT UNLIKE A CHILD MOLESTER OR RAPEST. ARE WE GOING TO PUT UP WITH THIS? we must strike back with a blow that puts them out and exposes them for the liars they are.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:17pmI’m going to use the information contained in Dr. Blake’s letter (with due recognition) and write a letter to my own representative and senators. I hope others in here will do the same.
Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:39pmI’m not surprised. That‘s what I’ve been trying to tell you…history has been distorted by our enemies. True history has been erased and destroyed. It is the work of our enemies. That’s why I keep harping on the Assyrian/Goth on this website. These people have followed us through the pages of history, and will do anything and everything to destroy us and what we stand for. I’m glad we are finally sitting up and taking notice.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:00pmThis communistic distortion of American history has been a growing phenomenon for years. I can’t believe that we allow this continued attack on our country. We are truly rotting from the inside out. I have said and continue to say that schools and especially higher education (colleges and Universities) are our biggest threat and enemy. We must tear down the education system and rebuild it from the ground up. From teachers unions to tenure to communist distortion of history if we let it, we will get what we deserve. Get active and take this system down. The radicals have been infiltrating it for years as professional students and we have let it happen. Obama is an example of the education quagmire and how much more evidence do you need. The smartest people we have never attended this cesspool system.
Report Post »RAISINGCONSERVATIVES
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:10pmAll this is doing is echoing our own President’s appologistic attitude. I refuse to appologize for being a strong nation that used to stand on our principles. Our veterans are heros. They are the ones that make it possible for those idiots to be able sit around and bash them and say how horrible they were. Support our Veterans!!! And our Liberty!
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:13pmhks: You are correct. To conquer us they needed to win the hearts and minds of our youth, therefore they taught in our colleges and universities.
Seven
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:25pmWe are rotting from the inside out. We as a nation have stood with murderers of innocent children and have legislated homosexuality into our nation. God judges men after they die he does not resurect nations so he judges them now. We are truely under a curse of God. It would only take one state to stop the murder of children and you would see God join the fight.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:41pmdoes the Gulf of Tonkin ring a bell ????
http://911blogger.com/node/13307
staythecourse
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:56pmWow… what a letter. Thank you Professor Blake for speaking out!
Report Post »JBarr73
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:19pmJust further evidence that the progressives are out to harm this country. This is more evidence to support Beck’s position. Why don’t we hear anything from the left on this one? This story is amazing and insulting to those American heroes who did during WWII. Tax payer money should never go to fund such nonsense. Good for the professor to call these idiots out.
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:21pmthis is why we must get out the truth. for every one lieing ******* we need 20 telling the truth. any one whos caught lieing to crowds spewing their lies needs to be confronted on the spot. call them liar make sure they know we will not let the lies stand. nor will we put up with them spreading the lies. if you catch them lieing call them on it. make sure the truth is known. if the commies are not delt with and delt with sternly this is going to keep getting worse. maybe we need to put truth squads in our schools and anyone caught lieing about our history should go to jail. they get away with this crap because they can. its time to put a stop to all this unamericanism by putting them all out on their ass. i will be speaking to my senators and congressmen about this. its time to put these commie lovers where they belong….. in a leaky boat headed out to sea,.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:30pmMay God bless Ms. Penelope Blake, PHD! And along with the NEH let’s not forget NPR and any other of our organizations that need an enema! Clean ‘em all out! DE-FUND them now!
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BoiseBaked
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:39pmMore destruction from within CRAP! Ok, here the list agencies to defund to help make govenrment smaller: NPR, NEH, NEA, heck, NE*.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:49pmI forgot. Also defunding anything that has to do with labor unions and community organizing! What ever happened to the good ol’ days when unions and the government were at odds with each other. Now they’re in collusion to undermine the Constitution.
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:13pmWait – I thought history was written by the victor? Why are so many Japanese writing our WWII history? I bet they do want their own memorial on Oahu. Well they have it. All they have to do is go snorkeling at Waikiki to see their permanent memorial. A Dead Reef.
My husband and I both went to Rock Valley College, but never knew Prof. Blake. I wish we had. I hope her colleagues rally around her as the political storm brews now that she’s in the news!
Report Post »JGP
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:32pmI don‘t believe there’s any constitutional authority/reason the federal goverment should be funding them in the first place. Tax payers are funding our own demise.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:59pmThis is the reason I teach my Grandkids about WWII. I have 5 picture books of the war, both fronts published in 1950 before the revisionist took hold. The thing that infuriates me most is my tax dollars are funding this bull s*#@.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:19pmVery interesting, I got a video posted below that reveals “Tons” of history that has been erased and no longer known amongst the general public. I am actually a little nervous posting it. Watch it for your self, if is quite long, but broken into 22 parts on you tube. No idea why nobody talks of this, aside, from Glenn Beck. I have a feeling he is going to expose more next Tuesday on his show. No joke, these people pulling the strings of our nation are the same one who are for One World Order, One GOvernement and One Currency.. They allready got the bank in place, the IMF.. What Lincoln stood for and why he was assasinated, as well as Garfield, and Jackson was attempted to be assasinated.. I am appauled I have never been taught all this mess, but not suprised. THey have owned the Media and POliticians since WWI… May God be with all of us…
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EA264AD1BF290C3B
Report Post »ozz
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:23pmMy degree is in history and I have seen it first hand. Lefty hate America teachers and distorted text books at all levels of instruction. WE MUST TAKE BACK OUR SCHOOLS. Become a teacher deny some ******* a job.
TNT1
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:50amWatch the other hand
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:52amTell your kids what I tell mine. Study, get good grades and believe nothing your text books or teachers say. Find out for yourself.
Report Post »gobluebuckeye
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:40amThis is what happens when Liberals teach our children.
This is why I don’t trust Liberals
Report Post »rebel
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:48amNow this is not what we should be paying for at all. Spooky dude should’ve shelled out for this. I’m totally behind this being defunded and then reported on MSNBC.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:03amhttp://www.nationalpost.com/news/Alberta+born+whack+reborn+Party+icon/3761043/story.html?plckItemsPerPage=20&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:60da0e08-11be-4cf8-81de-f4d61f65b0bb#pluck_comments_list
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Just thought the Blaze Readers would want to see that the knives are coming out…
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:07amI agree– Both my father, and his father served in the US Navy during WW II AND I suspect from
Report Post »what I heard from them–and form my mother Nearly EVERY WWII Vet ought be offended by this
revision of History. Our local daily Newspaper would do well to read this good Professors letter and to
publish it in the local Paper -but the Professor seems at odds with the expressed views of the local press.They love to honor the veterans while opposing the job they were given to prosecute.
lillymckim
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:12amwhen we have socialists regressives teaching our children on all levels from grade school through college and parents not taking the NEEDED TIME TO LOOK AT WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT TO THEIR OWN CHILDREN AND WHO IS TEACHING YUR CHILDREN … it will continue ..it has to start with each us the TAX PAYING PARENTS because the Unions now OWN the teachers … let it begin with each of us …do not wait for some one to do it for you… it will be too late.
Report Post »Peters
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:27amAnd on these notes, collectively, a preface of sorts has been written here.
Now, we prepare ourselves for the platform of 2012 in the spirit and the understanding of these messages so eloquently posted here as they capture an atmosphere and project a significant feeling.
But the primary question still remains: Is the GOP going to stand with us as part of the collective? Or are they of such passive nature, or of another nature, that they lack the courage to do so?
GOP, you know all of what we stand for. We have made that quite easy for you to see . . . So, as we return from the booth with our ballots cast today, from this moment forward, from now until Election Day 2011, can you please let America know what it is that you stand for?
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:13pmWe need to get these people gone and restore the respectable truth behind most of what America has done in the world.
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:44pmRight Mar…this is a distortion for FUTURE HISTORY BOOKS. Along with that CRACK ABOUT AMERICA BEING ENEMY’S TO HIS opposing view. HE’S MAKING HISTORY.
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