<p>The John Zmirak/David Horowitz crap on liberalism is so misconstrued and sensationalist that I can’t help but to laugh when anyone takes it seriously.</p>
<p>Horowitz, in particular, likes to co-op academic language and change the definition of accepted terms on the fly to suit his political agenda, without taking any care to actual practice or history. Many of his attacks can be boiled down to his lack of acceptance of Gender and Sexuality studies as a legitimate discipline, a decision he made on politics and not on the merit, or lack thereof, of the field’s scholarship.</p>
<p>If you want to learn about this stuff you should start with a lesson on the history of higher education in America so you don’t start reading fancy jargon and simply accept it from a few off-kilter political talking heads.</p>
<p>Btw, the left has its fair share of nonsense talkers who think they can change a class on engineering to a course on political activism and subverting authority and various things like that. It’s just that the right has been writing a lot more books about it and has been more effective in communicating a bat**** crazy agenda.</p>