One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Educayshun edition

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Power Line:

Scott Johnson

November 10, 2015

 

The precocious Australian comedian Neel Kolhatkar wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the updated edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that arrives just in time to explain the doings at Yale, Missouri, at other institutions of higher learning where liberal educators hold sway (video below). Or should that be educaytors? Kolhatkar calls this Modern Educayshun.

 

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Liberals v. Maoists
The turmoil on campus is the Left’s problem to solve.

Matthew Hennessey
November 10, 2015

 

It might be hard to discern amid all the shouting, but the political and racial hysteria engulfing our college campuses is a least in part an outgrowth of the financial crisis of 2007-08 and the Great Recession that followed. Observing the near collapse of the financial system was an experience that seared itself in the young minds of Millennials. The bailouts of financial firms struck them as an outrage. Immaculately attuned—as youth often is—to unfairness and injustice, they headed for the barricades. In Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and other impromptu encampments, they compiled an ever-expanding catalog of complaints against the irredeemably racist, classist, and undemocratic American society.

 

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A series of high-profile police killings in 2014 spurred the Black Lives Matter movement. Where Occupy was largely peaceful and lilywhite, BLM was militant and proudly black. In an all-too-predictable rerun of 1960s radical history, white lefties became infatuated with their black counterparts. Here were protesters willing to do more than just shout and chant—they were ready to throw stones and fight the police, in Baltimore and in Ferguson, Missouri. And unlike Occupy, BLM had several identifiable leaders, a somewhat clear policy agenda, and a driving purpose: to put white America on the back foot.

 

Now, the two strains of protest have mated. The Maoist Millennials threatening reporters in Missouri and shouting down adult voices outside a Yale residential college are the perfect marriage of inchoate anti-capitalism and racial rage. They represent a generation weaned on cynicism about the prospects for justice in twenty-first-century America. They don’t know who the 1 percent are, or how they got that way—apart from the nefarious, rapacious Koch brothers, of course—but they know that these modern Robber Barons call the shots and always have. They don’t know much about Thomas Jefferson, except that he owned slaves, and thus the mere mention of his name invalidates their identities. They know only outrage. They feel only pain.

 

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How to placate this angry and organized element that threatens to hold hostage the Democratic Party and its electoral prospects? Does the party establishment stand for free speech and civil discourse, or does it support burning it all down? We hear a lot about the Republicans’ Tea Party problem but almost nothing about the Democrats’ Maoist problem. What’s Bernie Sanders’s take on the goings-on at Missouri? What’s Hillary Clinton’s?

 

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Campus Commotions Show We’re Raising Fragile Kids
Jonah Goldberg
November 11, 2015

It seems like every week there’s a new horror story of political correctness run amok at some college campus.

A warning not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes sparked an imbroglio at Yale, which went viral over the weekend. A lecturer asked in an e-mail, “Is there no room anymore for a child to be a little bit obnoxious . . . a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Students went ballistic. When an administrator (who is the lecturer’s spouse) defended free speech, some students wanted his head. One student wrote in a Yale Herald op-ed (now taken down): “He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain.”

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Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, and Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, recently wrote a sweeping survey titled “The Coddling of the American Mind” for The Atlantic, in which they cataloged how students are being swaddled in an emotional cocoon.

 

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Consider play. Children are hardwired to play. That’s how we learn. But what happens when play is micro-managed? St. Lawrence University professor Steven Horwitz argues that it undermines democracy.

 

Free play — tag in the schoolyard, pickup basketball at the park, etc. — is a very complicated thing. It requires young people to negotiate rules among themselves, without the benefit of some third-party authority figure. These skills are hugely important in life. When parents or teachers short-circuit that process by constantly intervening to stop bullying or just to make sure that everyone plays nice, Horwitz argues, “we are taking away a key piece of what makes it possible for free people to be peaceful, cooperative people by devising bottom-up solutions to a variety of conflicts.”

 

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Or Bill Whittle from a couple of years ago

 

 

 

 

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Campus Commotions Show We’re Raising Fragile Kids

Jonah Goldberg

November 11, 2015

 

It seems like every week there’s a new horror story of political correctness run amok at some college campus.

 

A warning not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes sparked an imbroglio at Yale, which went viral over the weekend. A lecturer asked in an e-mail, “Is there no room anymore for a child to be a little bit obnoxious . . . a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Students went ballistic. When an administrator (who is the lecturer’s spouse) defended free speech, some students wanted his head. One student wrote in a Yale Herald op-ed (now taken down): “He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain.”

 

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Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, and Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, recently wrote a sweeping survey titled “The Coddling of the American Mind” for The Atlantic, in which they cataloged how students are being swaddled in an emotional cocoon.

 

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Consider play. Children are hardwired to play. That’s how we learn. But what happens when play is micro-managed? St. Lawrence University professor Steven Horwitz argues that it undermines democracy.

 

Free play — tag in the schoolyard, pickup basketball at the park, etc. — is a very complicated thing. It requires young people to negotiate rules among themselves, without the benefit of some third-party authority figure. These skills are hugely important in life. When parents or teachers short-circuit that process by constantly intervening to stop bullying or just to make sure that everyone plays nice, Horwitz argues, “we are taking away a key piece of what makes it possible for free people to be peaceful, cooperative people by devising bottom-up solutions to a variety of conflicts.”

 

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Or Bill Whittle from a couple of years ago

 

 

 

 

 

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Campus Kangaroo Court Convicts Conservative Professor
David French
November 11, 2015

Many thanks to Peter Kirsanow for highlighting the plight of my friend and Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain, who’s now facing a petition demanding her suspension for the thoughtcrime of being “hateful” to minorities. This isn’t Dr. Swain’s first campus controversy. She’s faced vandalism, threats, protests, and official condemnation for her previous thoughts on Islam, religious liberty, race, and diversity. But her challenges — as bad as they are — pale in comparison to the ordeal faced by California State University, Northridge, professor Robert Oscar Lopez. The Daily Caller has compiled a comprehensive — and alarming — report.

 

Lopez was accused of a Title IX violation for exposing students to social conservative thought during an optional assignment at an event he hosted at the Ronald Reagan library. The conference, called “Bonds That Matter,” was focused on family relationships and the rights of children. The conference featured speakers from a range of viewpoints, and several of the speakers were traditional conservatives, a fact that infuriated a number of students.

 

Not content with debating the presenters and raising their concerns with Lopez, students waited for months – well after university deadlines — to file a complaint, formally accusing him of discriminatory misconduct and retaliation.

 

According to Lopez, the university not only refused to dismiss the late-filed complaint, it also refused to provide him with written notice of the charges against him, and failed to provide him with an opportunity to confront or question his accusers. The university also ordered Lopez him to keep the charges confidential, preventing him from mobilizing public support during a protracted, 245-day investigation. Lopez also claims that a university official, Susan Hua (I called and emailed Hua for comment, with no reply) repeatedly compared “voluntary attendance at a conference at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to appearing a Ku Klux Klan camp.”

 

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I don't know about others but, I have had just about enough of these spoiled little twerps....and the spinless morons that cave into them. Two Words come to mind.

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November 11, 2015

To the Purdue community,

Events this week at the University of Missouri and Yale University should remind us all of the importance of absolute fidelity to our shared values. First, that we strive constantly to be, without exception, a welcoming, inclusive and discrimination-free community, where each person is respected and treated with dignity. Second, to be steadfast in preserving academic freedom and individual liberty.

Two years ago, a student-led initiative created the “We Are Purdue Statement of Values”, which was subsequently endorsed by the University Senate. Last year, both our undergraduate and graduate student governments led an effort that produced a strengthened statement of policies protecting free speech. What a proud contrast to the environments that appear to prevail at places like Missouri and Yale. Today and every day, we should remember the tenets of those statements and do our best to live up to them fully.

Sincerely,

President Mitch Daniels

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The ancient virus, CUNY edition
Scott Johnson
November 15, 2015

Anti-Semitism has emerged as a potent force on many college campuses. The rule of political correctness have freed it up to stand naked and unashamed. Take a look at the brief video below from a student protest at CUNY Hunter; Ruthie Blum writes about it in the Alegemeiner column posted here.

 

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Warned of the event in advance, the university vice chancellor emailed a statement supporting the speech rights of students. Former CUNY trustee Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, for one, was not amused. He wrote CUNY Executive Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson by email: “I am cautioning you and strongly urging that you have [CUNY Chancellor James B.] Milliken make a statement of condemnation of this virulent anti-Semitism. The blanket, meaningless omnibus statement about ‘free speech’ is itself abhorrent, as we would not tolerate these activities against any other ethnic or minority group.” After the event, the university posted a statement “strongly condemn[ing] anti-Semitic comments made at a rally last night seeking to exclude members of our campus community based solely on their identity.”

 

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