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ORIGINAL: bounty44

a recent opportunity in the news to bring something somewhat nearer to my heart back into conversation:


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/this_is_what_happened_at_rutgers_u_after_a_conservative_spoke_on_campus.html

(oh no comrade vile critter parts, a blog!)

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/18/rutgers-students-hold-group-therapy-session-after-milo-yiannopoulos-visit/

(oh no, breitbart too!)

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Yesterday, Adam Falk, the president of Williams College, disgraced himself, the college that he leads, and the institution of free speech that he has claimed to support. He did this by disinviting John Derbyshire, the mathematician and commentator, from speaking at Williams for a student-run program called “Uncomfortable Learning,” a series specifically designed to bring serious but alternative points of view to the expensive (this year’s tab: $63,290) and coddled purlieus of Williamstown, Massachusetts, where nearly all the faculty are left-leaning and the students, with rare exceptions, are timid if irritable politically correct babies…

I won’t keep you suspense any longer: John Derbyshire’s unpardonable offense is to have opinions about race that differ from those certified by the examining board of politically correct attitudes.

John Derbyshire inadvertently burned his bridges with the politically correct establishment back in 2012 when he published an article expressing some of his thoughts on the realities of race in contemporary America. You can read his offending column here and learn a bit more about his views from an interview he conducted with Gawker here.

I am proud to have published many articles by John Derbyshire at The New Criterion, and will continue to do so. By his disreputable actions yesterday, Adam Falk has indisputably joined the ranks of the neo-McCarthyites who, basking in the conviction of their own virtue, present themselves as staunch defenders of free speech just so long as there is no cost to do so. As soon as anyone with a challenging opinion shows himself, their native intolerance rises up and they start babbling like a character out of Ring Lardner: “Shut up, he explained.”

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As FIRE co-founder Alan Charles Kors has said, “You cannot say to people, you’re too weak to live with freedom..”…

Yesterday, Falk unilaterally canceled a speech by John Derbyshire, who was invited as part of the student-run “Uncomfortable Learning” speaker series. While Falk claims to “respect” students’ desire to explore ideas, he believes that sometimes “administrators” (i.e., him) must “step in and make decisions that are in the best interest of students and our community,” saying, “The college didn’t invite Derbyshire, but I have made it clear to the students who did that the college will not provide a platform for him.” …

If Falk’s patronizing of Williams students was not already clear enough from his nauseatingly condescending letter announcing the cancellation, consider this: Zachary Wood, the president of the student group who invited Derbyshire—[said]:

he is strongly opposed to the positions expressed by Derbyshire, but those views are held by millions of Americans and need to be debated and disproved.
“I disagree with John Derbyshire on just about everything, but I think he should be allowed to speak at Williams College,” he said. “We should hear what he has to say, and take him to task for it. I wanted to understand his positions and refute them.”…

This is not how Williams College sees it. Rather, the Williams administration believes that students must be shielded from hurtful speech—even if they explicitly seek to engage with that speech for the purpose of challenging it and possibly opening the speaker’s mind.

John Derbyshire and the students might actually have learned something from their encounter with one another. That is, one would think, nearly always the point of inviting a speaker to a college campus, and was in fact the explicit purpose of this invitation. But Adam Falk thinks he knows better. If you find it jarring that in 2016, a white college president would unabashedly take it upon himself to determine what ideas about race are too dangerous for the college’s black students to hear—even when the person expressing the “dangerous” ideas was invited by one of those black students for that very purpose—you’re not the only one.

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Ben Shapiro had been slated to speak Thursday at the behest of a Young America's Foundation student club on campus, but the event - titled "When Diversity Becomes a Problem" - had enraged students who said it would promote "racist, classist, misogynist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, ageist, sizeist, neocolonial, neoliberal and oppressive ideologies". [if you want more evidence of why I think liberals should all move to cuba, there it is]

Shapiro's arrival was reported by Breitbart to have been greeted by #BlackLivesMatter and student protests, and during his speech, people started to leave when the lights flashed and the alarm bell went off. The alarm was soon confirmed false, and as viewers came back in, Shapiro blasted the school administration for allowing this to happen to his event...

The Young Americans for Freedom's speaker Ben Shapiro event was met with angry students, faculty and staff at the University-Student Union on Thursday, Feb. 25th. Shapiro took to Twitter to express his anger, and tweeted Wednesday afternoon that he meant to still show up to the campus to give his lecture.

"Given threats and expressions of fear, President William A. Covino proposed a rescheduled event that would be civil and inclusive, and in which Mr. Shapiro and speakers with other viewpoints could offer their perspectives in an organized forum"...

Contrary to Covino's newfound love for the "free exchange of ideas" and the consideration of "multiple viewpoints", his university has hosted a wide variety of radical liberal speakers without ever bothering to ensure the conservative worldview was represented. And while that was apparently put on by the school itself, I can't imagine that the school requires ideological balance from presentations by student groups, when it's willing to present ideologically homogeneous presentations by its own invited speakers. "No need or legitimate basis exists for canceling YAF's event".

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Shapiro's arrival was reported by Breitbart

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Last Thursday, all hell broke loose at California State University Los Angeles. Hundreds of students gathered to chant slogans, block entrances and exits to the student union auditorium, rough up those who wished to enter, pull the fire alarm, and trap other students inside that auditorium under threat of violence. Police officers stood aside and allowed that mob to violate basic safety protocols, reportedly at the behest of the school administration.

Why?

Because I was coming to speak.

…the Monday before the big conflagration, the president of the university, William Covino, summarily canceled my speech. "After careful consideration, I have decided that it will be best for our campus community if we reschedule Ben Shapiro's appearance for a later date, so that we can arrange for him to appear as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity. Such an event will better represent our university's dedication to the free exchange of ideas and the value of considering multiple viewpoints," Covino stated in Orwellian fashion.

I told Covino to stick it -- this was viewpoint discrimination, and I would show up anyway.

After days of silence, Covino must have determined that he didn't want to risk the legal consequences of barring me, so just two hours before the event, he backed down, adding, "I strongly disagree with Mr. Shapiro's views."

By the time we reached campus, the near-riot had begun. I had to be ushered through a back door by armed security as well as uniformed police. Helicopters circled the area; news trucks parked along the street. The room in which I was slated to speak was nearly empty, because the student protesters had blocked all the doors and were pushing around anyone who wanted to enter. One reporter was assaulted three times; one of the people who wanted to attend my speech was pushed to the ground and kicked. Police smuggled the students in four at a time through the back door until students blocked that door, too. Halfway through my speech, the fire alarm went off. I spoke through it.

When the speech ended, I asked security if I, along with the other students, could go out to confront the protesters. The campus police told me they couldn't guarantee my safety or that of any of those listening to me if we chose to walk outside. Instead, they'd have to spirit me away through a separate building with a large coterie of armed and uniformed police, stuff me into the back of a van, and then escort me from campus with motorcycles flashing their lights.

This is America in 2016, on a state-funded university campus.

And it shouldn't be surprising.

We have spent two generations turning college campuses from places to learn job skills to places to indoctrinate leftism and inculcate an intolerant view of the world that insists on silencing opposition. We have made campuses a fascist "safe space" on behalf of the left. Anyone who disagrees must be shut down, or threatened or hurt.

It's not just college campuses, either. We've entered an era of politics in which baseless feelings count more than facts, in which political correctness means firing those with different viewpoints, in which government actors insist that they can police negative thoughts. We're on the edge of freedom's end, and many Americans don't even see it.

They would have had they been at CSULA that day. And they will soon enough if they don't stand up for their rights today.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I see that Carson is out. the nutsuckers are imploding. Its full on balls in the mouth pants shitting time.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I see that Carson is out. the nutsuckers are imploding. Its full on balls in the mouth pants shitting time.

just read that in the NY Times.
they did it to themselves, the schadenfreude is so tempting, but meh....too easy

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Academics, on average, lean to the left. A survey being released today suggests that they are moving even more in that direction.

Among full-time faculty members at four-year colleges and universities, the percentage identifying as "far left" or liberal has increased notably in the last three years, while the percentage identifying in three other political categories has declined. The data come from the University of California at Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute, which surveys faculty members nationwide every three years on a range of attitudes.

Here are the data for the new survey and the prior survey:

2010-11 2007-8
Far left 12.4% 8.8%
Liberal 50.3% 47.0%
Middle of the road 25.4% 28.4%
Conservative 11.5% 15.2%
Far right 0.4% 0.7%

...Gross said that the "optics" of the data could lead to criticism of higher education. "From the vantage point of some folks, that will make academe look bad. For others, it will make academe look like a place concerned with the country."

Daniel Klein, a professor of economics at George Mason University who has written extensively about faculty political attitudes, said he was not surprised by the shift to the left. He said that he has seen "tendencies toward uniformity" in disciplines and departments, and that these trends tend to build upon themselves.

Klein said academe should worry about the impact of being further tilted to the left. He said that those in the ideological majority in higher education "shouldn't be so confident in their own outlook" that they don't see the cost of being seen by many as outside the mainstream. "For all the people who are skeptical of the left, and that's a lot of people, they will see academe as this vast apparatus of leftist groupthink."

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A new video produced by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas shows one college administrator shredding a copy of the Constitution at the request of an undercover reporter.

Another administrator promised to destroy a copy of the nation’s founding document, and two other administrators made disparaging comments about the document to a Project Veritas reporter pretending to be offended by it.

In the video, the reporter approached several faculty members at Vassar and Oberlin Colleges and said that “the Constitution is kind of a trigger for me. Overall I see it just as a really oppressive document.”

“I mean, it’s not just me,” the reporter told Kelly Grab, assistant director of equal opportunity at Vassar. “I thought that Vassar wanted to create like a safe place here. You know, a place where students could walk around and not be scared of seeing discriminating things on campus.”

Eventually, the reporter suggested that shredding the Constitution could be “therapeutic,” and suggests that Grab destroy it. Grab then shreds the document.

Additionally, Colleen Cohen, faculty director of affirmative action and professor of anthropology at Vassar, told the reporter that “it’s horrible that this is something that has caused you such pain. … Can I destroy this?”

Wendy Kozol, chair of the comparative American studies program at Oberlin College, suggested that it could be productive to hold “some kind of open discussion about the Constitution, not from the way law and society people teach it, but a real critical look at the way in which the Constitution and everyday life causes people pain.”

Furthermore, Carol Lasser, director of Oberlin College’s gender, sexuality and feminist studies program, called the Constitution “an oppressive document. The Constitution makes change slow. It intends to make change slow.”

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

a particularly good one for the comrades:

"College Administrator Shreds The Constitution On Hidden Camera [VIDEO]"

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A new video produced by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas shows one college administrator shredding a copy of the Constitution at the request of an undercover reporter.

Another administrator promised to destroy a copy of the nation’s founding document, and two other administrators made disparaging comments about the document to a Project Veritas reporter pretending to be offended by it.

In the video, the reporter approached several faculty members at Vassar and Oberlin Colleges and said that “the Constitution is kind of a trigger for me. Overall I see it just as a really oppressive document.”

“I mean, it’s not just me,” the reporter told Kelly Grab, assistant director of equal opportunity at Vassar. “I thought that Vassar wanted to create like a safe place here. You know, a place where students could walk around and not be scared of seeing discriminating things on campus.”

Eventually, the reporter suggested that shredding the Constitution could be “therapeutic,” and suggests that Grab destroy it. Grab then shreds the document.

Additionally, Colleen Cohen, faculty director of affirmative action and professor of anthropology at Vassar, told the reporter that “it’s horrible that this is something that has caused you such pain. … Can I destroy this?”

Wendy Kozol, chair of the comparative American studies program at Oberlin College, suggested that it could be productive to hold “some kind of open discussion about the Constitution, not from the way law and society people teach it, but a real critical look at the way in which the Constitution and everyday life causes people pain.”

Furthermore, Carol Lasser, director of Oberlin College’s gender, sexuality and feminist studies program, called the Constitution “an oppressive document. The Constitution makes change slow. It intends to make change slow.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/03/college-administrator-shreds-the-constitution-on-hidden-camera-video/

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Now what the fuck though? Nutsuckers have assured us time and time again, that the only reason that Obama is president (twice elected) is because he is black.

I hate to call attention to the elephant in the room but,

Herman Cain is black, he ran
Ben Carson is black, he ran

What happened, besides nutsuckers being full of shit and factless as christmas geese?

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It is widely accepted that American public schools are controlled by liberals. It seems like every day, we see new examples of American schoolchildren being indoctrinated with left-wing ideas.

This latest example was brought to our attention by a concerned parent.

Kindergarten students from PS75, a public school in New York City, recently took part in a class project in which the children were made to create an American flag with the flags of other 22 other nations superimposed over the stripes. Below the flag read the words “We pledge allegiance to an International Flag.”