Moral Abdication at Virginia Tech

VPI &SU (Virginia Polytechnic and State University for the uninitiated) is a STATE school with STATE funding. Ignoring for the moment the immorality of a state taxing each of its citizens to provide education to a few, let’s examine the ethics of a state institution harboring, accepting, embracing and advancing the concepts of a cultural equivalent of state-sponsored bigotry. By its actions complicit with a Dark Ages culture, the powers that be at VPI &SU are complicit with the fundamental ideals of arguably one of the most sinister and threatening movements of our day; militant Islam.

Now hold on, you may be saying to yourself. ‘It’s only separation of a classroom. How bad is that?’ Well, I ask in return, what if two decades earlier the government of South Africa demanding a similar course be taught at VPI &SU but this time that its Caucasian educators be separated from their black counterparts? What if several decades earlier the request was a separation of Jews and Gentiles by Nazi Germany?

Make no mistake about it, soft agreement with such a request allies Virginia Tech, and its sponsors, The Commonwealth of Virginia, and the United States Federal Government with the same people who brought you public stoning, ‘honor’ gang rapes, beheadings, and Osama Bin Laden. The thought that my alma mater is advancing the aims of this repugnant theocratic regime makes me wish I was a Cavalier.

So why did VPI accept and comply with this insanity? Perhaps they thought they were just doing what institutes of higher learning do – teach. Well, I would be careful of what we are teaching. If it turns out that the accommodations were eased along by a fat donation as I suspect, it would truly be a dark tiding for our school. Perhaps some school official rationalized this obscenity with the notion that education, in any form, ultimately leads to a sociological benefit.

Unfortunately, this utilitarian calculus doesn’t stand up. Like Marlon Brando’s character said on The Waterfront ‘I coulda been a contender. I coulda had class.’ if only he hadn’t taken that dive, Virginia Tech could have stood up for Western values and against the creeping tide of religious fundamentalism. Their actions are a sin against the world, against our citizens, and against our soldiers paying for the current and previous United States Presidential administration’s appeasement of ‘evil doers.’ I am certain the names on the Pylons at the drill field would agree.