Posted on 03/25/2016 10:05:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The billionaire candidate couldn't have created more perfect foils for a candidacy built on resentment.
Had Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for the White House somehow infiltrated the ranks of Emory's student activists and blackmailed the university's President James W. Wagner, it could scarcely have orchestrated a spectacle more helpful to Trump's prospects, or damaging to the values that protect vulnerable groups, than what they accomplished on their own this week. After someone wrote "Trump 2016" in colored chalk around campus, several dozen student demonstrators objected that the banal campaign message scared, upset, or offended them, and administrators responded by going Orwellian.
The Emory Wheel reports that Wagner will review footage from campus security cameras to uncover who made the chalkings. "He added that if they're students, they will go through the conduct violation process," the newspaper stated, "while if they are from outside of the University, trespassing charges will be pressed." Ponder the precedent. An academic authority figure will use surveillance to track down and punish someone for urging support for a political candidate. If possible, he will marshal criminal law to do so. As Jesse Singal wrote at New York, that is "extremely creepy, and a sign that something has gone seriously wrong."(continued)
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Either the nation and its institutions of higher learning support free speech or they don’t. It would not be the first time in history that human rights such as free speech were curtailed for political purposes.
The author seems to be a liberal with a couple of brain cells. Rare find!
Actually future leftist won’t rue this behavior because Leftist will criminalize right wingers chalkers, but let leftist chalkers go free
An infestation of cockroach larvae infests the brains on college campuses. They will soon be taken over completely.
Thinks went wrong during the Bush41 term, when schools started implementing speech codes on campus.
Clinton hired speech code pioneer U-Wisc president Donna Shalala to be Sec HHS, iirc, as a reward.
Criminalization of what has been protected political speech, not to mention easily washed away by theh next rain, is just the next step in "progressive" tyranny.
Personally, Emory hosting the anti-American, anti-Semite, anti-civilization Jimmy Carter's "Carter Center" is a better indication of what Emory is about.
Feign victimhood
Control speech
Conor Friedersdorf's reflexive leftism and lack of self-awareness run rampant through that article.
Far from abandoning 'liberal values', those foolish crybullies and their idiotic demands represent the epitome of 'liberal values'.
Since when have leftists not been insincere whenever they mouthed their belief in 'free speech', 'tolerance', 'human rights', and whatever other enlightenment values you can think of?
The recent spate of liberals being outraged and offend that other people have different political views was best stated by William F. Buckley when he said liberals profess to believe in other points of view but are then shocked and offended to find out there ARE!!! other points of view.
“Either the nation and its institutions of higher learning support free speech or they don’t.”
They don’t.
Isn’t that obvious by now?
L
Something has been “seriously wrong” at colleges and universities for decades. It’s these institutions where Political Correctness, free speech zones, speech codes, have all originated, and spread outward into the population as a whole.
Our colleges and universities have gone from training tomorrow’s American leaders to teaching PC crap to now encouraging mental illness. Instead of holding their hands this jerk Wagner should have had them in for a psychiatric evaluation. I’m not being sarcastic. If unreasonable fear is what colleges are teaching these days it’s time to close them.
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