The coming campus revolution

[Geee]

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We may be seeing the beginnings of a full-blown campus revolution. Not a revolution based on actual oppression, but a revolution stemming from perceived oppression and a desire to attain victimhood status.

 

The seeds of the revolution sprouted in full force this week, with protests at Yale and the University of Missouri. At Mizzou, students began protesting alleged incidents of racism. In addition to whatever true allegations there might be, false ones have contributed to the mass hysteria, as when Mizzou's student president was forced to retract a Facebook post informing students that the Ku Klux Klan was on campus.

 

The questionable accusations led to the university's president and chancellor resigning. Their crimes? Not showing sufficient faith in allegations that might or might not be true. Also for not making a bigger deal out of the shooting death of Michael Brown, which occurred last August and two hours away in Fergus

[Geee]

Political correctness controversies show that college is overrated

 

Why is it that incidents of bias, racial hatred and sexism always seem to cluster around the very institutions where racism and sexism are most vigorously and loudly condemned?

At the University of Missouri, four reported racial incidents — one of which can be confirmed — prompted a hunger strike, a threatened football strike and ultimately the resignation of an already-embattled university president.

At Yale, a lecturer dared question the wisdom of university officials issuing guidelines to adult students regarding potentially offensive Halloween costumes. As a result, some student activists are pushing to remove her.

 

One possible explanation for perpetual campus outrage is that college campuses really are the most dangerous places in America, filled with the worst kind of people imaginable. As tempting as this sounds, there is a better explanation.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/political-correctness-fights-prove-college-is-overrated/article/2576158

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FERGUSON EFFECT: UC TO JOIN ‘MILLION STUDENT MARCH’

 

The student demonstrations that have thrown the University of Missouri and other campuses around the nation into chaos will sweep across California on Thursday as part of a national effort called the “Million Student March.”

 

Although preparations for the “march” have been under way for weeks already, the demonstrations are capitalizing on the sensational news from “Mizzou,” where both the president and chancellor of the University of Missouri system resigned earlier this week in the face of student complaints that they had not been responsive enough to the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO last year, or to recent racial incidents on campus.

 

The Million Student March is backed by unions, left-wing groups and the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16%

presidential campaign. It has three basic demands, according to its website: free tuition at public universities; forgiveness of all student loans; and a $15 minimum wage. However, many participants have already added expressions of solidarity to the protest, including support for the “#ConcernStudent1950″ organization at Missouri, and support for the Palestinian cause.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/12/ferguson-effect-uc-to-join-million-student-march/

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HOW A COLLEGE PRESIDENT SHOULD RESPOND

 

 

The Wall Street Journal yesterday noted this passage from a 2005 interview with the late John Silber, who served as president and later chancellor of Boston University, about how he responded to student protests on campus in the 1970s and 1980s:

Then they put up the shacks. I told the police, “Go ask them three questions: Do you have a title to the property? (They built them on our property, not theirs.) Do you have a building permit? We have to have building permits. Have you got a clearance with the historical commission, because this is a historical district? If the answer is no to those three questions, then you tell them, ‘We’ll give you about 15 minutes to remove your shanty. And if you don’t, you’ll be arrested.’ ” I said, “Now, none of them are going to remove their shanty, so you’re going to have to arrest them. But I want you to be very gentle, and I want you to take them to the paddy wagon singing, ‘It’s just a shanty in old shanty town.’ ” Because one point I want to get across to these students is, I do not take them seriously. This is not some very deeply felt, high moral cause on their part; this is showboating of a very insincere kind by most of these students, and I want them to understand that I see through their pretensions.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/11/how-a-college-president-should-respond.php

[righteousmomma]

The whole scenario is so outrageously ridiculous. As Rush has said for years colleges fill these young heads with mush (left ideology) and these are the results. Unfortunately many come out of homes just as convinced in liberal mush ideology where every cause is just and right as long as it is agenda driven by certain special interest groups etc. As so many have said political correctness is killing us as well as the total lack of morally responsible leadership and accountability that steps up to this absolute mess. Calling for free tuition, cancel of all student debts, redistributing wealth from the 1%,and buzz words like "corporate" are coming from the socialist playbook. This mess will probably succumb but unfortunately these concepts of entitlement have long and deep roots that are being watered by the left today.

 

Its everywhere too. One example:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/23/south-african-police-turn-stun-grenades-at-students-amid-chaotic-protest/

[clearvision]

Someone was saying if athletes go on "strike", they should just shut down their paid by the school cafeteria and turn off the wifi and cable in their dorms. I guess kicking them out of the dorms is too much.

[clearvision]

Pretty clear she is not getting her money's worth out of college...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o

[Valin]

Pretty clear she is not getting her money's worth out of college...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o

 

 

My head hurts...real bad.

 

 

The good news is if she gets her way I could be a 1%er! COOL!!!

 

 

 

[Geee]

Freedom Can’t Coexist With Campus Political Correctness

 

When Chinese President Xi Jinping talked about strengthening “democracy” in a speech to Australian parliament in 2014, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was so floored he praised Xi extensively.

Of course, when 2015 came along China kept shutting down protests and arresting activists, including five feminists in one high-profile case who were imprisoned for a month for trying to pass out information about sexual harassment. This is the language in an authoritarian regime that continues to insist it is advancing down the path of communism by implementing market reforms.

Thus it was at a “safe place” on the University of Missouri campus that a journalist was assaulted while trying to photograph a public protest. Universities are becoming more threatening for students, professors, public intellectuals, and free thinkers, but it is the politically correct social-justice fascists who are the most to blame.

 

That ‘Dimwit White Person’

At universities from coast to coast, speakers have been silenced, films have been banned, and student journalists have been cowed or fired. Just Google “Bill Maher” or “Ayaan Hirsi Ali.” One liberal professor even wrote at Vox (under a pseudonym) that he was “scared of his liberal students.” And he has good reason to be. After the administrators at Mizzou were forced out, professor Dale Brigham resigned for planning to hold exams as usual despite a racist shooting threat posted to a social network. The poster has since been arrested.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/13/freedom-cant-coexist-with-campus-political-correctness/

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THE SPREADING VIRUS, PART 4

 

A recent Dartmouth alum provides this summary of events on campus yesterday based on reports from one of her closest friends still on campus:

 

My friend is texting me about a Black Lives Matter protest that happened at Dartmouth last night. Apparently it started as a standard march and chant across campus and devolved into black students screaming at individuals in the library and calling them out by name for not protesting. It’s finals period so the library is packed with people trying to study, and some of the protesters screamed at people they knew who were doing work and demanded to know why they weren’t protesting. One kid sang a song in the library (when the protest was still “peaceful”) and people clapped when he was done. Then a girl in the protest said “F*** you, white people. You can clap for us but you aren’t f***ing standing up here with us. F*** you.”

 

Other protesters said that anyone not protesting is a racist and called one girl “rich white human filth.” Some people who were trying to study ran out of the library crying after protesters swarmed their tables and screamed in their faces. One kid joined the protest just because he was scared. They screamed at two girls on [one of the college teams] (both of whom I know and love) for being in the library–meanwhile BOTH girls had participated in the protest earlier and left to study. Another protester said “you are all murdering us in the streets f*** all of you f*** your white privilege and comfort.”

 

Can you even believe this?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/11/the-spreading-virus-part-4.php

[SrWoodchuck]

Pretty clear she is not getting her money's worth out of college...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o

 

 

Via BNI

[Valin]

What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen!

[Valin]

What If the Left’s Campus Meltdown Reflects Their Sense of Doom?
Jim Geraghty
November 13, 2015

Over at Contentions, Noah Rothman writes:

 

 

At the heart of the collective liberal angst over the pesky burden of free speech is the nagging perception that they have lost the argument. There is no great progressive era about to dawn; we may never see a more liberal presidential administration than this in our lifetimes. While the dangerous impulse to silence their critics is merely sad in fully-formed adults, it is terrifying to witness in the generation just coming of age. When asked if he had built for ensuing generations of Americans a republic or a monarchy, Dr. Benjamin Franklin was said to quip “A Republic, if you can keep it.” That is a proposition set to be tested like never before.

 

 

There’s good reason to look at what’s going on in America’s college campuses with incredulity, befuddlement, anger, disdain and repulsion. But what if the Leftist temper-tantrum that we’re witnessing is in fact something of a last gasp, a sudden recognition that their long-awaited nirvana is never going to come?

 

Deep down, they must realize that the only real career paths for the campus radical are to join some leftist organization in a professional capacity or to stay on campus and attempt to become a professor. Corporate America may pay off an agitator, but they aren’t terribly eager to hire them or give them any real responsibility. The audience for Leftist agitprop is pretty limited, while works they see as trigger-inducing right-wing propaganda, like American Sniper, finds large audiences.

 

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What we are seeing is a bunch of spoiled children (of all ages) who are crying Look At Me...Pay Attention To Me...I'm Really Important! When the sad fact is they are not all that important. And like a 3 year old throwing a temper tantrum in public, they need to be taken aside and disciplined.

 

These people Come To Mind