{"id":18478,"date":"2010-04-08T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:30:31","slug":"think-we-have-it-bad-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18478","title":{"rendered":"Think we have it bad here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you think we have it bad here with anti-war point-headed pseudo-intellectuals? Well, look at Canada. Fifteen professors from the University of Regina have signed a letter which opposes a scholarship program<\/a> for the children of soldiers who died in war. The letter reads, in part;<\/p>\n

This program, which waives tuition and course fees, and provides $1,000 per year to “dependents of Canadian Forces personnel deceased while serving with an active mission”, is a glorification of Canadian imperialism in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We do not want our university associated with the political impulse to unquestioning glorification of military action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In our view, support for “Project Hero” represents a dangerous cultural turn. It associates “heroism” with the act of military intervention. It erases the space for critical discussion of military policy and practices. In signing on to “Project Hero”, the university is implicated in the disturbing construction of the war in Afghanistan by Western military- and state-elites as the “good war” of our epoch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The self-indulgent pricks go on to whine about how ALL college students are having a difficult time paying for college – but I wonder how many of them would take a pay cut in order to help those students out? But, you know, I could see US eggheads taking the same stance if it meant they could get their stupid names on the news. It’s not about service and sacrifice, it’s about writing a stupid and selfish letter that makes your less dedicated students more enamored with you. <\/p>\n

These children made more sacrifices in their short lives than these bespectacled, long hairs will ever make. That’s probably why the teachers oppose a leg up for them. <\/p>\n

But take a look at the disciplines in which these blivet heads teach. No surprises and no hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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