Chapman student — Feminist profs use classrooms as ‘Recruitment Tool’
Revisionism seems to be the fun new trend for history in college courses.
In The College Fix, Chapman University student Nicole Swinford reports on a women’s history class at her school: It seems any instruction that resembles fact is purely coincidental.
A women’s history class frequently offered at Chapman University glorifies Margaret Sanger while it avoids her racist beliefs, highlights the feminist revolution while sidesteps the suffrage movement’s family values, and heralds Roe v. Wade and the advent of birth control, all while failing to cite the feminist counter-culture movement.
That’s not only not surprising, it’s expected, as classrooms in colleges across America are used to recruit young women into the feminists ranks, says Carrie Lukas, managing director of the conservative Independent Women’s Forum.
“The purpose here is to advance the feminist movement,” Lukas says. “The college classroom is a recruitment tool.”
Lukas, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism,” says the vast majority of women studies classes do not offer fair and balanced approaches to the subject. It’s not unheard of for professors to skip relevant information, slant lesson plans, or skew lectures.
The course at Chapman University, a small liberal arts college in California, is a prime example of that.
When the course was taught in the spring, one student questioned its professor about Margaret Sanger’s widely reported racist beliefs after the professor finished praising the feminist for her work with birth control.
“Yes,” the professor admitted. “But a lot of people were at that time.”
In effect, the professor rendered Sanger’s background as a geneticist who supported the use of birth control and abortion to reduce minority populations moot.
The suffragettes’ pro-family values were also never broached in the class. Meanwhile, a disproportionate amount of of time was spent on the feminist revolution and the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
The fact that Norma McCorvey, the original Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, has since recanted her claim that she was raped and needed an abortion, and is now a spokeswoman for the prolife movement, also was not raised during the class.
The class at Chapman follows a formula feminists use to garner support, Lukas says.
Take, for example, the left-leaning National Women’s Studies Association, which states in the preamble to its Constitution that it is“committed to being a forum conducive to a dialogue and collective action among women dedicated to feminist education and change.”
War on Women: Feminist Professors Use Classrooms As ‘Recruitment Tool’ (The College Fix)