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August 25, 2005

Aussie Treasurer Warns of Left's Frankenstein Monsters

Connoisseurs of moonbattery will be aware of various Frankenstein monsters created by the Left, often as byproducts of ill-advised social engineering experiments, but sometimes merely as unavoidable results of their constant barrage of pernicious rhetoric. How long can members of the education establishment spew corrosive propaganda intended to denigrate the USA, Western Civilization, and even the human race in general without at least a few kids being heavily influenced by these depraved views, with inevitably disastrous consequences?

Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello has noticed the problem of politically correct fools sowing seeds of trendy anti-Americanism that might sprout into terrorist attacks that won't necessarily be limited to America. But when he tried to raise a flag, teachers were predictably unreceptive (thank you Bergbikr for the link).

"Anti-Americanism can easily morph into anti-Westernism," Costello observed. "Particularly you've seen that with terrorists. They don't really draw distinctions between Americans or Britons or Australians; they just like to hit anybody who they consider to be part of the West."

Costello made other observations unlikely to sit well with educrats, for example:

If the world is to have a hegemon, the modern United States is the kind of hegemon we would like to have: democratic, respectful of human rights, with strong and genuine belief in individual liberty.

None of this sat well with the NSW Teachers Federation, which denounced Costello's insights as "absolute nonsense." Showing the same distaste for constructive criticism that is a hallmark of teachers unions here in the USA, its Senior Vice-President Angelo Gavrielatos defensively whined, "The constant denigration of teachers isn't good for the country."

But hopefully Costello's remarks will cause a few left-leaning teachers to take off their dunce caps and scratch their heads, wondering, what if the kids take this PC bilge we teach them seriously? What if they grow up hating their own country, their own culture, their own history, their own ethnicity? What's going to hold civilization together if no one believes in it?

And of course, there's Costello's immediate concern — if students from other cultures are fed a steady diet of revisionist grievances, how can we be surprised if a few years down the road they are setting off nail bombs on school buses to avenge some sick dictator like Arafat or Saddam?

Posted by Van Helsing at August 25, 2005 5:19 PM