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On campuses across the country, the same illiberal attitude toward disagreeable speech is growing, and the broader public must take notice.--Jake Curtis |
On the bright side, an Evergreen student defends the college, writing:
I’m left wondering, where is the racism I keep hearing so much about? This place is so not racist. If it was any less racist, it could be the textbook example for MLK’s dream. It’s so far left its professors and policies often make Bernie Sanders look moderate.
Yet I kept hearing about racist campus police, and racist professors, and racists campus policies, and institutional racism. Then I asked for specifics. Big mistake.
The response I get in person and online can be summarized thusly: “Asking about racism is perpetuating racism.” “Seeking evidence is oppressive.”
Ironic, is it not, that he also says that, "our conduct code prohibits racism and discrimination in all it’s myriad forms..." Right.
Mizzou Madness came with huge pricetag.
Mizzou's got a new trail boss, and he's got a nasty job: Gluing the University back together after "three semesters of suppressing free speech." The public has responded to Mizzou's atmosphere of violent political correctness by voting with their money and sending their offspring elsewhere: Enrollment has "plummeted by 35%" since the snowflake outbreak. The economic cost of Mizzou's fascist mob has been steep, as over 300 jobs have been cut due to reduced revenue caused by the public backlash.
- Barrett, James: This Interview With A Professor Accused Of 'Racism' By His Leftist Colleagues Is Disturbing
- College Fix: Mizzou bloodbath continues: Massive layoffs coming as enrollment craters
- Curtis, Jake: The Campus Speech Police Come to Fresno State
"Nobody, however, has done more to reveal the true nature of modern progressives’ illiberalism than Fresno State professor Gregory Thatcher. Thanks to cell-phone video and a timely complaint filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Thatcher’s utter contempt for contrary political thought was exposed after he directed students to scrub pro-life messages that had been scrawled on campus sidewalks by the Fresno State chapter of Students for Life. This sort of mentality is endemic in American academia — and increasingly in society at large."
Happily (from where I sit), Associate Professor Thatcher is being sued by two Fresno State students. I wish them all the luck in the world.
Feelings trump the First Amendment? - Kabbany, Jennifer: Evergreen official asks student vigilantes to stop patrolling campus armed with bats, batons
- Lemonides, Zachary: College Student: Give Conservatives Freedom and Safety
- Lowe, Tiana: It’s time for legislators to send a message to the illiberal student mob.
- Melchior, Jillian Kay: Mizzou’s New Chancellor Stands up to the Thought Police, Calls for ‘Diversity of Thought’
- Peralta, Claire: Layoffs, program cuts begin at Mizzou following budget address
- Google "Snowflakes are useful idiots"
- The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals (Annoted)
- Protect Yourself From The Evil Patriarchy With The Brand New "Portable Safe Space" Available From Just $79.95
- "If fascism comes to America, it will be through our college and university system."
Weinstein: I’m still on the email distribution lists, so I’m watching the traffic inside of my college and I’m able to compare it to the huge flood of stuff that I’m seeing from the outside world as they get wind of what’s going on at Evergreen. The difference is a million miles. Inside of Evergreen, actually, we are descending further into madness. The faculty are blaming the fact that the campus had to be suddenly closed due to a threat from the outside yesterday on me, for having talked about this in the outside world…The intensity and the out-of-touch nature of the discussion inside the college simply reinforces the impression that something is desperately off, that what we really have is a filter bubble that is so strong that even when the world sends very clear evidence that you’ve missed something somewhere and it’s time to rethink what you’ve been doing, they’re not waking up.
The University of Missouri is closing seven dorms next year because of a massive enrollment plunge, and now the austerity is extending to the campus bureaucracy.
An official at Evergreen State College sent a memo to students Sunday asking an apparent group of campus vigilantes who have taken to patrolling the grounds armed with bats or batons to end the practice, according to an email forwarded to The College Fix.
Gosh, I guess we know why one of the snowflakes' demands was the disarming of campus police...
High profile attempts to shut down conservative speakers such as Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos in Universities across the country are only the tip of the iceberg of a widespread cultural movement with the goal of making even moderately republican views radioactive and untouchable.
This movement targets not only well known speakers, but anyone and everyone who do not fit the narrative of the left-wing orthodoxy. Professors have been harassed for expressing support for Trump. After the election, conservative students on several campuses across the country were verbally harassed and sometimes physically attacked by other students.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Weinstein is wrong that Evergreen State is worth saving. Public funding constitutes 46 percent of Evergreen’s annual revenue — $55.2 million from state appropriations and $32.3 million in state and federal grants. A public college that cannot defend the First Amendment or even the basic safety of its professors doesn’t deserve a cent of the taxpayers’ money.
Mizzou’s newly appointed chancellor, Alexander Cartwright, has said that the university’s definition of diversity must include “diversity of thought.”
Speaking at his introduction at the university, Cartwright applauded Mizzou’s commitment to “inclusion, diversity and equity.”
That’s an important specification for a university that’s spent the past three semesters under fire for suppressing free speech.
“Those who are being separated from MU are not at fault in any way,” Interim Chancellor Stokes said in an email to colleagues. “Indeed, we are losing talented and dedicated administrators, faculty and staff, some who have served the university faithfully for many years. This is a painful step that circumstances have required us to take.”
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Schools on every level have become indoctrination facilities. Our young people are not taught to think but to react, like Pavlov's dogs.
I am SO glad I'm not the only one who understands this! Thanks!
I believe there are a lot of Americans who are waking up to this fact, hence the election of a non-politician to the highest office in the land. If you listen to the MSM you will be told you are the only one out there who thinks that way but there are a LOT of us. We are just quiet, peace loving people who hate to even speak up for fear of being accused of all kinds of atrocious thoughts and actions. Our collective voice was heard at the ballot last November!
While I tend to agree, the unhappy reality is that places like Evergreen College still live on taxpayer handouts, and nothing will be done to cut off the trough.
Politicians are more interested in their power than in what is good for the country. The swamp need draining but all we have to do it are the creatures who swim in it. Sadly, you are probably right but we can't give up. We need to discuss ideas with people and get them to think. It is becoming a lost art!
Hey, wouldn't you say... I'm snowflake 44. Wouldn't you know it? So what do you say snowflake. I guess we're everywhere now. Snowflakes for all and to all other snowflakes, goodnight.
And they consider themselves to be freethinkers, imagine THAT.
You need to add one: Dr. Jordan Peterson, invited to speak at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Simply amazing to watch the protestors.... Air horns inside a lecture hall. Communist banner.... cowbells and lame slogans.
https://steemit.com/snowflakes/@thomasaquinasftw/jordan-peterson-mcmaster-university-chaos-and-order
Thanks - I've spoken at McMaster several times - peacefully, thank God, but it was back in the 90s, when students were sane.
It it's not STEM
it's a hobby
pay for your
OWN
dam hobby.
Good morning, Everitt! How's life in the fast lane?
no clue.
I drive in the right hand lane..
ten under the speed limit.
WHICH...brings to mind...a story.
many moons ago..
I was driving toward Sandy Eggo.
I drove slow...ten miles under the speed limit.
I got passed by some trucks...
then they passed me again..
and again.
and again..
"Damit" I heard on the CB radio" That old fart goes slow...how comes he's always ahead of us?"
I grinnned...
it's not how FAST you go.
it's how long you keep going..
Turtle..
Hare..
I gave my wheels to a needy grandson last Fall, so I've gotcha beat :-)
My bonus son is letting me have his old wheels.
The "Z"
the little pickup next to that white big truck (I hated that thang...not the pickup , the white semi)
I paid for a new motor, transmission, lift kit..and stuff..when he was in high school...
now's he's a 'suite' working for a fancy company...has a SUV..NOT ONE..but TWO...
so he's let me have the "Z".
I drive it about once a month..maybe..
So you got the old beater... nice kid :-) You're a trucker in Lalaland?
not any more..
I'm retired..
This campus illiberal madness has metastasized over the last few years and few of the faculty, mainstream media and culture-at-large are aware of just how dangerous this SJW thing has become. While there are people on the internet speaking out, it's still not widely understood. Just like the witch-burners of the past and Maoist Red Guard, the SJWs believe with a religious fervor what they're doing is "good." People like Sara Silverman ask "What could possibly be bad about 'social justice?'
Ayup...two of my daughters strongly chastise me for even using the term "snowflakes" and pointing to Marxism as the cause...some folks are willfully blind.