Academic Libthink: 'Bias isn't bias if it's ours'

Is it any surprise that Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" in academia have no problem rationalizing away promotion oftheir political/social/economic agenda points to their students?

The premise:

"The latest issue of Teacher College Record, 'The Voice of Scholarship in Education,' has an astonishing article, that asks—and answers—the question, 'Is Teaching for Social Justice a ‘Liberal Bias’?'

Barbara Applebaum, the author, says no. She freely admits that teaching 'for' social justice is an exercise in ideology, but…but…but 'under conditions of systemic injustice,' promoting Leftist dogma in the curriculum is only fair. Moreover, Leftist dogma 'promotes rather than arrests criticality.'"


The outrage:

So it would also be wrong to take Applebaum’s bizarre rationalization for brainwashing students in ed schools as a first-time try out for the notion that, given an oppressive society, the ordinary rules of intellectual fairness don’t apply. Her essay is really a special application of an oft-employed Marxist tactic—perhaps more familiar among violent revolutionaries and terrorists than among education professors. Oops. I almost forgot that one of the leading education theorists in the United States is Bill Ayers, who was a violent revolutionary and terrorist.

I should be explicit: Applebaum says nothing in favor of violence. She is simply advocating the appropriation of schools of education to the revolutionary project of force-feeding Leftist propaganda to future teachers. But she has delicate sensibilities about this force-feeding, and wants to assure readers that 'social justice education' is really voluntary. It is 'advocacy without imposition.' It has worthy goals, such as “to help white students understand how racism is systemic” and to show that “white people can be complicit in sustaining the system unintentionally.” What is so voluntary about this effort to make people believe vigorously disputed hypotheses? 'What social justice educators require of all their students is engagement but not necessarily agreement.' "