Grassroot efforts to promote a documentary

In an effort to get commercial movie distributors interested, the makers of Indoctrinate U - Our Education. Their Politics. are asking people to sign up on their website, saying they'd watch the film if there's a local screening.

Once enough people make this pledge, we will have a mandate that commercial distributors can't ignore. In the meantime, we'll arrange for local screenings every time 500 people sign up in a particular area.

Well, of course, commercial distributors can ignore any film they want to. That's their right as free human beings. And since this documentary takes aim at PC-drenched people on college campuses, I have to think that anybody who is somewhat dependent on coastal elites would likely be afraid to show the film.

But that's part of the point, really. That it has become hazardous to oppose the political/intellectual mindset demanded at many college campuses is what prompted this film in the first place.

I'd like to see local screenings all over the place, if for no other reason than I think ivory towers need to have their intellectual barricades rattled if they get too much like something out of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Thoughtcrime, anyone?

The Indoctrinate-U website has the trailer, if you'd like to see it.

hat tip: Bookworm Room