ALAN DERSHOWITZ: These are the same people who claim they are seeking diversity. The last thing these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas. They may want superficial diversity, diversity of gender, diversit of color, but they do not want diversity of ideas.
We are seeing a curtain of McCarthyism descend over many college campuses I don't want to make analogies to the 1930s, but it was the college students who first started burning books during the Nazi regime. These students are book burners...
By expressing my opinion, I am "harassing students." This is becoming a very serious problem not only in American universities, but around the world. It is having a terrible impact on the education of students...
It is the worst kind of hypocrisy. They want complete control over their personal lives, over their sex lives, over the use of drugs, but they want mommy and daddy dean to please give them a safe place, to protect them from ideas that maybe are insensitive, maybe will make them think...
When I spoke at Johns Hopkins University, the same students who were talking about a 'safe space,' painted a Hitler mustache on my posters, it is an absolute double standard."
We are seeing a curtain of McCarthyism descend over many college campuses I don't want to make analogies to the 1930s, but it was the college students who first started burning books during the Nazi regime. These students are book burners...
By expressing my opinion, I am "harassing students." This is becoming a very serious problem not only in American universities, but around the world. It is having a terrible impact on the education of students...
It is the worst kind of hypocrisy. They want complete control over their personal lives, over their sex lives, over the use of drugs, but they want mommy and daddy dean to please give them a safe place, to protect them from ideas that maybe are insensitive, maybe will make them think...
When I spoke at Johns Hopkins University, the same students who were talking about a 'safe space,' painted a Hitler mustache on my posters, it is an absolute double standard."
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I blame the professors. The only contact I have with college professors is through reading their blogs and they are uniformly morons. The poster child is that sweetheart who wanted more muscle to get rid of reporters. Her area of expertise? Studying "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Start cancelling your kids' credit cards. The problem with these kids is that they are spoiled, leaving them stupid, lazy, and greedy. If you support that with money, the monster created is your doing, and the damage they do is your fault. Take responsibility.
Also, helicopter parenting (micromangaging and overscheduling children's lives) and too much television leading to a consumer mindset.
"...a curtain of McCarthyism..."
Channeling Churchill -- From Harvard Square in Massachusetts to Stanford's Hoover Tower in California an iron curtain of Shut up! has descended across America.
This whole movement is the result of our growing obsession with safety. I see it everywhere, including here. People are always fretting about this danger or that risk being stupid. Our culture is paralyzed with risk avoidance. Consequently, the next generation, living with few risks or even challenges, has to make them up. They have to be protected now even from ideas. It makes sense. If safety is paramount, you need to eliminate every risk, real or perceived.
In addition, these kids are just dumb. A life of coddling and helicopter parenting has left them with no wisdom about real adversity, but still with a need for purpose, so they make up a fantasy story where they can be heroic. Social Justice Warriors in a land with an abundance of social justice. Batman in Mayberry R.F.D.
The parents need some shaming. They hold the purse strings, and the power. This is their mess to fix.
Entitled snowflakes. The tyranny of the offended. Agree Bagoh and Deborah - the parents share the blame. Though certainly Troop is correct. Way too many college professors are encouraging total crap.
Victim mining is so much easier that teaching personal responsibility.
that = than
All the purple shirts need to be separated from the pink shirts. That's how I feel about skin color. It's that stupid. Manufactured grievance based on what color shirt you're wearing.
Although in this case - replace pink and purple shirts with brown shirts.
Trooper, it turns out she resigned. From her faculty page:
"Dr. Melissa A. Click earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy. Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans’ relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children’s television programs. Melissa is Vice-Chair of ICA’s Popular Communication Division and is Chair of the committee hosting the Console-ing Passions conference at the University of Missouri in April 2014."
If a immature snowflake leftist doesn't like your speech - you get a Hitler mustache. That's as much critical thinking as they can muster.
Who pays the professors? The parents. No way I would send my kid to a school full of SJW. That would be my first eliminating criteria.
No matter what they may say, the most important thing to these students, and their professors is money they get from parents and the security and material goods it buys them. The only time they claim it's not important is when they feel safe about it's continued flow. Start putting that on the table and you will see a change.
Speaking of money -- I get a ton of clothing catalogs that I don't want delivered to me by the postman and suddenly all the men's shirts are over $100! Okay, I know there are richies like Troop and bagoh out there for whom a hundred bucks is a bag a' shells but considering the economy's a disaster how much of a customer base is there for a hundred dollar shirt?! I don't get it.
It seems Dershowitz took a right turn politically after he started flying on the Teenage Pussy Airline.
Dershowitz isn't turning conservative. He's a Trotskyite who sees the Stalinists are starting the purges.
I do almost all my cloths shopping at Kohl's. The most expensive thing I ever buy is Levis jeans. I wouldn't spend $100 on a shirt unless it came on a hooker, and even then, I need some promises up front and an equipment check. I'm practically Amish when it comes to spending money.
This moron professor ( sorry if that is redundant) bases her scholarship on the Twilight Movies, Lady Gaga, 50 Shades of Grey and Thomas the Tank. She is the epitome of the level of scholarship of the university system. We are pouring millions down a rathole. These politically correct money pits are obsolete. Everything should be done online.
If these little snowflakes want a "safe space" there is nothing as safe as Mommies basement.
I've read a few Dershowitz books. He's one of the few liberals I respect. He gets some conclusions wrong in my opinion, but he acknowledges the facts for the most part. On occasion, he's downright wingnut.
Read this if you want a warm feeling about your kid's safe space at school.
Life in a safe space.
I only wear Hawaiian shirts these days and they cost about $30 to $50 bucks. From the Hawiian Shirt Company out of Honolulu.
Rubio brought up trade schools. Of course the hack media jumped all over him. Yes yes - corrupt Hillary hack press-- Philosophy is so much more important and valuable than plumbing or welding. We won't need electricians or carpenters either. The future belong to those who whine.
I hate our media.
Kohl's is owned by Herb Kohl. Herb is the closeted gay, former US Senator from Wisconsin. His Senate seat is now inhabited by a vapid lesbian, Tammy Baldwin. Both she and Kohl are dumber than a box of rocks. Kohl also used to own the Bucks. The GM told Kohl he had to stay out of the locker room, he kept gawking.
@April Apple/
Remember that episode on NPRs Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy when all the relatively useless "middle men" i.e., people of no specific talent or skills, were put on rocket ships to "populate" new worlds under the guise that the Earth was dying and that the rest would follow? "Funny" the new explorers said as they trained their telescopes rear-word, "nobody seems to be following us." The rest of the series was a hilarious send-up of the travails of the "middle-men" with no discernable skills, upon reaching the designated planet, trying to re-establish civilization while fighting off the local natives.
A lot of people are saying that these kids are in for a rude awakening when they get out in the real world. I'm not so sure about that. Even the private company workplace is inundated with PC via regulations, labor law, and the abundance of attorneys out there chasing down readily offended clients. The people who need a safe space are the regular people who live their lives through reason and tolerance. You take the craziness you are seeing on campuses right now, throw in a huge profit margin for clients and their lawyers, toss in a dose of vengeance against your boss, landlord or a fellow employee or neighbor, give it a couple years to ferment, and we won't be able to trust anyone enough to say "good morning". Political Correctness may now be this nation's biggest threat.
The comparison to Occupy is what strikes me. Occupy took off in October one year prior to a presidendial election. Occupy had these weird and vague complaints about income inequality and economic justice, but nothing concrete or actionable. Occupy was youth staffed and youth oriented, but had established liberals calling themselves the grandmother’s of the movement. Occupy was pushed by the media as SO important, and SO game changing, and politics will never be the same, but seems in hindsight to have only served as a enthusiasm generator to get young people to vote.
More comparisons to today’s campus racial unrest:
Occupy also had sane people scratching their heads in wonder and disbelief and frustration that the tent people could actually be that dumb.
Occupy did claim a few scalps here and there, but oddly it was mostly what might be called their own natural allies, but not their true enemies. Occupy residents certainly did have passion, and sincerity- but short on real world experience.
Also shit was involved. Shit on a cop car. Shit in the form of a swastika. It's really just a lot of shit.
Ha! I forgot the feces tie-in.
Actually I think we can term this Endanged Feces.
Raise the voting age to 25.
Unless you're actively serving in the military.
H/t Insty w/ embellishment by me.
Dershowitz is wrong. It's not McCarthyism,it's straight up Maoism with blessings from the establishment (Media,Academia,Political). The baby boomers should be relieved, there is now a generation worse on every level than they were.
Raise the voting age to 25.
Make it 27, that's the age when Pelosi decreed childhood ends.
Guess who's going to be taking care of the babyboomers in their nursing homes. Millenials with insufficient skills to get better paying jobs. They can lecture the oldsters about their inherent sexism and racism and homophobia. Make 'em all use the same toity and shower together. Or burn the place to the ground "by mistake" to make the point that only black lives matter. Enjoy the decline, proggies.
Right, they can be on mommy and daddy's insurance up to 26 years of age.
Someone said a long time ago: "Don't trust anyone over 30." One of the milestone in the decline. Now the people who said it are double that or more. Guess who's not listening to who now.
We should raise the voting age.
Pelosi and the corruporcats want infants to vote. gee - I wonder why?
Virgil - I've never read hitchhikers. Spoz I should.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I am not an expert in the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. But I have read enough to know that the movement was not led by cry babies that could not handle someone shouting nigger at them. If I could offer any advice to the campus leaders is that they should go seek out the remaining civil rights fighters from that era. (NOT the teachers and the theorists, but go to the churches) and talk with their grandparents. I’d love for today’s BLM to have a list and say: ’Elders, these are the problems that we face, How would you deal with them?’
I wonder what the response would be.
They wouldn't do that. They would just be waiting to mug them in the vestibule.
Wow. If everyone agreed with what Bag said @11:59 the world would be a better place.
Progress where it can be made and PC is the mother of all dead-ends.
It's for people who have nothing left to think of except their fucking feelings.
This shit needs to end.
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