January 8, 2007

The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has unveiled its annual "Dirty Dozen," a listing of America’s top 12 most politically correct college courses. Among the bizarre and disturbingly leftist offerings YAF is highlighting this year are courses such as "Mail-Order Brides," "Adultery," "Cyberfeminism," "Homosexual Literature," and "Lesbian Pulp Fiction."

Topping this year’s Dirty Dozen list is Occidental College in California with a course named after the male genital organ. Rounding out the top three is a University of California-Los Angeles course called "Queer Musicology" and an Amherst College class called "Taking Marx Seriously." And making YAF’s dishonorable mention list is a course at UC-Berkeley called "Sex Change City : Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco."

YAF spokesman Jason Mattera says what these schools view as avant-garde, breakthrough classes are supplanting traditional scholarship on Western civilization. "We have a soaring tuition problem in this country," he points out. "Tuition rates are soaring past inflation, and these classes gobble up time, money, and energy — resources that could be used to offset the cost of tuition and teach students about American values, American civics, American history."

One particular school has been a perennial among the Dirty Dozen, Mattera points out. "Occidental College seems to make the list twice almost every year," he says. "They have a class called ’The Phallus,’ and they offer another class called ’Blackness.’"

The latter course "elaborates on a ’new blackness,’ ’critical blackness,’ ’post-blackness,’ and an ’unforgivable blackness,’ which all combine to create a feminist ’new black man,’" the young conservatism advocate explains. "Now, I don’t know what a feminist ’new black man’ is," Mattera says, "but it doesn’t sound like something that I’d ever want to be."

Other college classes making YAF’s 2006-2007 Dirty Dozen list include Mount Holyoke College’s "Whiteness : the Other Side of Racism" ; the University of Washington’s "Border Crossings, Borderlands : Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration" ; Swarthmore’s "Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism" ; and the University of Michigan’s "Native American Feminisms." Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.