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Cass Sunstein Warns Against 'New Cadre of Thought Police'
MRC TV ^ | June 29, 2015 11:31am ET | Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Posted on 07/02/2015 10:04:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Cass Sunstein, the former Obama administration “regulatory czar,” has warned the campus crusade against “microaggressions” could potentially be enforced by a “new cadre of thought police.” […]

Sunstein chastises the University of California at Berkeley for its “willingness to consider disciplining people for making one of a large number of statements, many or all of which most Americans would consider harmless or even correct.”

He also mentions another university, the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, has taken a stand against microaggressions by publishing a list of “examples of racial microaggressions.” …

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: casssunstein; education; hypocrite; microaggression; thoughtpolice; ucberkeley; univofwisconsin
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Yes, he is. If this progturd is saying they have gone too far then you know they are starting to realize the damage they have done. Time for reconciliation trials.


21 posted on 07/03/2015 3:04:59 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Olog-hai

Look who’s talking, Thought Mining Czar Extraordinaire.


22 posted on 07/03/2015 3:09:26 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: Olog-hai

Actually, no, it’s not.

Cass and his fellow Marxist travellers are increasingly seeing the intended targets of such tactics (Conservatives) just go silent. But the monster they created stil needs to be fed, and it’s starting to feed on Progressive academics.


23 posted on 07/03/2015 3:10:36 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Olog-hai

In every revolution the useful idiots eventually outlive their usefulness.

24 posted on 07/03/2015 3:28:05 AM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Olog-hai
You folks need to study Marxism and how it works...

Cass Sunstein hasn't changed his spots at all, he understands you use incrementalism to achieve their long term Marxist goals...

Unlike the soviet style Marxism enforced by the muzzle of a gun, he knows he needs to change the culture to achieve their goals step by step

He sees the progressive left has started jumping the shark with all their hyperbole rhetoric about race and all their "causes"

There is a push back coming from Americans and he knows it will be a step back on their march to the glorious socialist utopia they envision...

Always remember: “the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution"

25 posted on 07/03/2015 3:38:23 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Olog-hai
Nutcase warns against.. himself!

Here's how President Obama's [former] head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints." [My emphasis.]

He recently left the Administration to work at Harvard.

26 posted on 07/03/2015 3:53:03 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Olog-hai

We have allowed the dark side into our house


27 posted on 07/03/2015 4:01:04 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Cvengr

Kids who are brought up in today’s world who embrace this crap like “safe spaces” and “microaggressions” are going to find its a cruel world out there. Their”safe spaces” won’t mean squat to Achmed of ISIS when he turns on their “inclusion” and rapes and beheads them..


28 posted on 07/03/2015 4:08:24 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: TangibleDisgust

Thanks for the new tag line..!


29 posted on 07/03/2015 4:19:04 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe and Microagressor..)
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To: Olog-hai
"Cass Sunstein Warns Against 'New Cadre of Thought Police'"

The reason for this is simply because Sunstein is now part of the 'Old Cadre,' of thought police. France, Russia, etc., revolutionaries always eat their own.

30 posted on 07/03/2015 4:22:45 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: cardinal4

Heck, it won’t mean squat when a demanding boss smacks them down for being idiots.


31 posted on 07/03/2015 4:36:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cardinal4; TangibleDisgust

Two “g”s I’m thinking.

But yes, it’s a great neologism.


32 posted on 07/03/2015 4:37:58 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Cvengr

Underlying the whole concept of “microaggression” is the idea that white folk are under an obligation to avoid saying anything that might possibly offend excessively sensitive neurotic minorities.


33 posted on 07/03/2015 4:55:29 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Dear Mr. Sunstein,

This is to inform you that the State Central Committee had determined your political usefulness has ended. Your Personal Carbon Emission Privileges are terminated, effective immediately. These gentlemen will escort you to the nearest Community Recycling Complex so that your biological components may be repurposed for the greater benefit of society and the environment.

Deputy Assistant County Commissar
Taniqua Ramirez-Brown


34 posted on 07/03/2015 5:00:47 AM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Olog-hai

Cas is only upset because he’s not in power. He is all for complete total government control of everything, including thought. He just wanted to be in the club that says what is double plus good and what is thought crime.


35 posted on 07/03/2015 6:53:43 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: FreedomPoster

You’re right..!


36 posted on 07/03/2015 7:31:29 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe and Microaggressor..)
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To: tanknetter

What conservatives are going silent? Only the ones pretending to be conservative, FWICS.


37 posted on 07/03/2015 8:24:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Popman

Anything with the “muzzle of a gun” is Marxism by definition, violent and “revolutionary” in nature. The other type of socialism, using “gradual reforms” after slipping into government, is Fabianism. Both of course have the same goal, and both get rid of those that establish the dictatorship first.


38 posted on 07/03/2015 8:50:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: cardinal4

d’oh! there should be 2 g’s in MicroAggressor. i blame society for my misspelling. ;)


39 posted on 07/03/2015 10:34:02 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust (The Parmesan doesn't go like that.)
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To: TangibleDisgust

Hey, I spelled it wrong, too! Gibs me dat reparations..!


40 posted on 07/03/2015 11:44:15 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe and Microaggressor..)
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