"These academics are pumping poison into the brains of our future leaders, or at least our future voters, and no one cares. "Their opinions are as valid as any others, aren't they?" Bullshit. This is reality, folks, and in reality it is possible for someone to be dead wrong. If a medical school started teaching that diseases were the result of demonic possession, it would be derided and shut down. Why is political trash any different? Should rabid communists be censored by the government? Of course not. But it should be a cold day in hell before a college hires them to teach kids. Let them hold court down at the coffeehouses."

You say that such thoughts shouldn't be "censored" by the government. But I feel that they should be censored by society, and in a democracy the society is the government. Such ideals are dangerous and diametrically opposed to our system of society. We are a forward thinking, capitalistic, "patriarchal" society, and any views that wish to destroy our society should be labeled as such and subdued. The body politic does have the right to defend itself and to protect its turf from opposing ideologies.

What "bell hooks" and others of her ilk preach is heresy, and like heretics, they should be expelled and banished from our midst. Let them talk their trash somewhere else. If they aren't, then it's only a matter of time before their ideology begins to work it's way into our system. From looking around, I can see that's already happening.

Lee, (I bet I could make her call me daddy)