If you are not "getting" postmodernism and its fifth column role with the jihadists, try this:

Jon Saunders, the author of the departure-point article for this blog, entitles it "Queer Orthodoxy at the University of Colorado." It is that, of course, but much more. Another useful title would be "To the taxpayers of Colorado: Your wallets are bleeding dry to pay for your being 'taken.'" Perhaps another title might be "Citizens of Colorado Mug Themselves." Only, what is going on is not confined to Colorado, so we could change this last title suggestion to read "Citizens of _____ (fill in your state) Mug Themselves."

Many Americans, not polluted by "blue state, high urban, super-sophistication," know that our culture is ailing. They may not realize that the source of its illness originates from our colleges and universities, which as funders and alumni of those institutions WE can and must fix. What prevail at the colleges and the universities are dominant contemporary philosophical ideas collectively known as "postmodernism." It is essential that Americans come to understand these ideas, i.e., to "get it," enough to be able to defeat postmodernism and to recognize that postmodernists gleefully join with jihadists in hating and trying to bring down America.

David Horowitz wrote a terrific book, published in 2004, called Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, which we reviewed in depth and highly recommended. We urge the reader to start with our review, and then read Mr. Horowitz's book.

In addition, Dr. Stephen Hicks wrote a crystal clear exposition called Explaining Postmodernism, which we also reviewed in depth, and we also very highly recommended. (In our review, we explain terms such as "postmodernism." We also encourage the reader to start with our review, which gives a quick and lucid precis of postmodernism, then read Dr. Hicks' book.) Both books are MUST READS and provide the essential information platform for understanding what a major dual source of evil goes on in America, and why. Add to that the excellent websites and blogs, particularly Front Page Magazine and Discover the Networks, and you become very expert about these virulent postmodernist, anti-American forces, as well as their sympatico. You must get as expert about postmodernists as about Islam and its lunatics.

Mr. Saunders gives a snapshot of one liberal arts department on one modern campus and shows one set of examples illustrating how the disease of postmodernism runs rife, at epidemic level. However, it is in all fifty states and just about all of our colleges and universities. You, the taxpayer, at state and federal levels, through donations and taxes, share some of the guilt, because your funds are enabling this stuff to go on and on, in the name of "academic freedom." By the way, these university postmodernism-influenced faculties give NO reciprocal "academic freedom" to any dissenting voices, and their administrations back them up, in opposition to and suppression of dissenting voices, even inquiring voices.

Do not expect to win the war against jihad without winning this war at the same time. You must fight this "Unholy Alliance" because it is THE fifth column trying to destroy you, yours, your country, and all of your values. Unholy Alliance = Islam + Postmodernism, and that, of course, includes all the strap-hangers under each umbrella.

Mr. Sanders' article is far too long and much too good to try to do more than sample, just to give readers an idea of some of the worthlessness going on in colleges and universities--stuff, you and I are presently paying for, directly and indirectly. Here is an excerpted introduction to this very fine article, and it illustrates just one of the many varieties of postmodernism, but it is pure postmodernism:

Academic Marxism shows up clothed in the attire of many scholarly courses of study. In its most recent incarnation, academic Marxism makes an entrance as the sexy bedfellow of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

There, in diligent pursuit of scholarly material, co-director of LGBT studies and English professor Mark Winokur explored the Internet...After several paragraphs wrangling with these and other concerns, Winokur finds reason for optimism in a quotation from Walter Benjamin, with which he closes his essay: “Only when in technology body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation, and all the bodily innervations of the collective become revolutionary discharge, has reality transcended itself to the extent demanded by the Communist Manifesto.” Goodness knows how many teenagers are in front of their monitors committing revolutionary acts of tension discharge right now.

Indeed, students signing up for classes in LGBT, which advertises itself as “an interdisciplinary program encompassing more than 20 courses in a dozen departments [and] involv[ing] the academic investigation of sexuality in
established fields such as literature, history, theatre, law, medicine, economics, sociology, anthropology and political science,” will find themselves engaging in a complete indoctrination in Marxism as they prepare themselves for the intellectual challenges of ENGL 4038: Queer Modernism and ETHN 3010: Queer Ethnic Studies.

But before undertaking such heady scholarly study, they will first need to take several required classes. One is “Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies” (LGBT 2000), where students will find themselves “Investigat[ing] the social and historical meanings of racial, gender, and sexual identities and their relationship to contemporary lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities.” That description is boilerplate academic Marxism, useful for all kinds of identity-politics programs (q.v., “Investigates the social and historical meanings of racial, gender, and sexual identities and their relationship to contemporary [insert group identity here] communities”). Students can expect to be introduced to the Marxist assumption of social construction of identity, as evident with the phrase “social and historical meanings of racial, gender, and sexual identities.” This assumption also appears to be active in the description for the program’s other required class, “Introduction to Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Literature” (ENGL 2707), which introduces students “to some of the forms, concerns, and genres of contemporary lesbian, bisexual, and gay writing in English.” This same deterministic notion–which has animated academic Marxists since, well, Marx and Engels–can be found throughout the electives, too.

(Emphases mine)

One of the hallmarks of postmodernism is its violent hatred of capitalism and adoration of all socialisms:

“ENGL 3217-1: Film/Theory/Gender” [is] taught by Prof. Ann M. Kibbey, whose professional interests are “Gender studies; feminist theory; film studies.” Kibbey is the author of Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women, in which she “contends that the image itself is an ideological construct,” “argues that capitalism enforces social identity and fetishism through religious iconoclastic beliefs about the commodity as image,” “creates a new feminist approach to women in film” and “challenges conservative and racist agendas informing the assumption that a photograph records an image.” (Emphases mine)

Just what does this mean: "...capitalism enforces social identity and fetishism through religious iconoclastic beliefs about the commodity as image"? Gobblydegook gets used to create an impression of depth and profundity, I suspect.

To provide some more flavor, here are two more examples from the article (the article is just loaded with all manner of examples):

Prof. Kira Hall, whose interests are language, gender, and sexuality, teaches “LING 2400. Language and Gender.” Hall is co-editor with Mary Bucholtz of Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, which “forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory” and whose essays “Refut[e] apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender” and “explicitly connect feminist theory to language research.” With Anna Livia, Hall co-edited Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, a “compilation of research on the peculiar use of language in gay and lesbian communities [that] breaks new ground,” “documents lexical usage and variation in deaf, Jewish, Japanese, and other communities,” looks at “computer-mediated text (E-mail), homophobic slang, media reports, and literary language to conclude whether characteristics specific to gay and lesbian speech must be found exclusively in speech to label them as ‘gay,’“ and “examines the fluid nature of gender and sexuality and how that may be seen in the conscious use of language as it applies to hermaphrodites, the castrated hijras of India, Nigerian transvestites, Yoruba priests, Parisian gays, and Japanese same-sex couples.” The hijras, “a transgendered group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a ‘third sex,’” is the subject of a forthcoming book.

“Language and Gender” pledges to “examine organizations of language, gender, and sexuality from a crosscultural perspective” involving “the investigation of how cultural paradigms of gender relations are perpetuated through language; the study of innovative uses of language to challenge or subvert these dominant paradigms; and the examination of how women and men use language to construct social identities and communities.” The course addresses the following themes: “differences between ‘men’s talk’ and ‘women’s talk’; linguistic constructions of masculinity and femininity; ritual insult, slang, and gossip; sexism in language; how children learn gender through language; language and sexual harassment; the interaction of gender with race, ethnicity, and class; gender in cyberspace; gay, lesbian, and transgender uses of language; and gender and bilingualism.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is not academic freedom. It is banal crap. At a bare minimum it is a squandering of YOUR college and university funding. Worst yet, it is diseasing your childrens' minds.

Also, do you really wonder why college and university expenses are so high? Worthless courses taught by intellectual equivalents of hamburger flippers are eating out your wallets and bank accounts. Costs can begin to come down substantially when these "courses" and their "professors" hit the road--and take their enabling administrators with them.

What does the student of these courses come away with? If your child takes a degree in this stuff, of what use is it--for anything, except for generating more postmodernism?

What you are seeing in these courses is nihilism--the utter antagonism to and the attempted destruction of values and valuers. I am not anti-homosexual. Homosexuals may be good Americans in every sense, and they deserve the same rights and their protection granted all Americans. There it stops. Raising homosexuality to this transcendent level is the overt attempt to take down heterosexuality and the social structures and values associated with heterosexuality. Then these postmodernist destroyers look to take down capitalism and its freedoms as well as its free social product, America.

Never forget, please, that one of the cardinal principles of postmodernism is that WORDS ARE WEAPONS. To them, that is the role of language, even using it to destroy itself (more nihilism).
It takes no leap at all to see why these haters aggressively link with America hating Muslims. Their common denominator is hatred for everything American. They hate the good for being good.

Aside from clueless funding sources, including naive alumni and corrupt funding sources such as the government, what keeps these postmodernists in business is TENURE. We will look at that next.