Oklahoma Public Affairs Council president Jonathan Small He called for closer scrutiny of state spending on universities after learning that an OU course required students to read a book that defended terrorism.
“Universities are supposed to be places of learning that prepare students for the workforce, but time and money are increasingly being wasted in strange ways, if not outright counterproductive.'' ,” Small said.
“But lawmakers are not calling for cuts to state spending on the university system this year, even though it is increasingly clear that much of that money is being wasted.” It’s time to take this seriously and engage in a serious review of university spending.”
Mr. Small aired concerns about the issue in a press release posted on his organization's website last week.
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At the University of Oklahoma, the 2021 book “How to blow up a pipelineThis is a must-read for graduate-level literature seminars on the subject.form of protest”
In the book, the author andreas malm Encouraging environmental activists to engage in acts of violence and vandalism targeting the oil and gas industry. In one interview, he admitted that people could be killed as a result.
ray carter The director of the Center for Independent Journalism provided detailed information about the book in a recent news report.
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“So the first thing this movement of millions should do is announce and enforce a ban,” Malm wrote.
“Damage and destroy new CO2 emitters. Take them out of service, disassemble them, destroy them, burn them, blow them up. Please let me know.”
As an inspiration, Malm says: Women's Social and Political Alliancecarried out 337 attacks in the UK over a year and a half.
Members of the group were responsible for “planting bombs at locations along the route of the royal visit, fighting police officers with canes, charging hostile politicians with dog whips, and breaking cell windows.” Mr. Malm pointed out that the government had been conducting a “coordinated campaign”. “Arson” includes setting fire to or bombing “villas, teahouses, boathouses, hotels, haystacks, churches, post offices, aqueducts, theaters, and other targets across the country over a wide range of areas.”
“A must-read for Osaka University students”How to blow up a pipeline.” “This is the equivalent of demanding that Timothy McVeigh read the material that led him to blow up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City,” Small said.
“Whether people want to read this book themselves is one thing, and whether we require people to pay their taxes to read this book is another thing.”