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Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
spectator.co.uk ^ | 11-22-2014 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 12/02/2014 12:38:24 PM PST by servo1969

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To: servo1969

This crap makes me appreciate the founding fathers even more. They appreciated how the passions of the day could erode our rights and wrote the Constitution accordingly.

FIRE has done a good job of suing public universities for abridging the First Amendment. Now we need the SCOTUS to agree that any institutions taking money from the government are subject to the Constitution as well.


21 posted on 12/02/2014 2:02:40 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: RginTN

ISLAMIC ideology is so weak that MUSLIMS seek to silence those who challenge it.

No wonder muzzies and lefties are such natural soul mates.


22 posted on 12/02/2014 2:46:05 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: servo1969

[[Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’]]

Precisely, and they want the supreme court to declare that our constitution was set up to make sure we are all comfortable (provided you agree with ME and what makes ME comfortable!)

Our constitution was set up to protect our RIGHTS, NOT to protect our delicate overly sensitive sensibilities and feelings- but there has been a trend in recent years for courts to rule in the favor of protecting people’s FEELINGS (translation- protecting minority groups like gay rights, transgender, feminists’ etc) but while doing so they obviously trample on the FEELINGS of those they have passed laws against.

and the left HAS been succeeding at changing our constitution into one that prote4cts FEELINGS (But ONLY the FEELINGS of liberal cause groups- conservative cause groups are labeled as hate groups because they don’t pander to the FEELINGS of the liberal cause groups- but the courts don’t care that they have just trampled the FEELINGS of the conservative groups- apparently they think it’s just fine to deny these conservative groups their right to FEEL how they like. It is now even a crime in states like Massachusetts to ‘interfere with the FEELINGS of confused kids who think they might be gay by bringi9ng those children to groups that are set up to help the kids understand that being gay is a CHOICE, NOT a compulsion that they can’t deny , and NOT a gene, and NOT an irreversible lifestyle- Parents are no longer allowed to bring their kids to counseling because it might ‘hurt the kids’s FEELINGS

The liberals ARE rewriting our constitution bit by bit


23 posted on 12/02/2014 3:17:41 PM PST by Bob434
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To: servo1969

My mind is made up, don’t confuse me with facts.


24 posted on 12/02/2014 4:22:01 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: the scotsman

Sounds about right with CC and Univ..... different names and all.....

My bro’s kid was telling us about the projects at his school. One of which was save the world. I asked him, from what. I got deer in the headlights. I asked, save the world from what?
He said I don’t know, global warming? I said that stopped over 12 yrs ago. He said no it didn’t. I said look at the stats. He started talking to the kids. I went and set my brother straight on his 10th grade son. He should know better. But he’s too busy working to pay for their mcmansion and brand new SUVs.


25 posted on 12/02/2014 4:36:33 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

As Georges Santayana remarked (famously quoted by William F. Buckley, Jr.): the only thing modern liberalism is interested in liberating man from is his marriage bond.


26 posted on 12/02/2014 4:50:30 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: servo1969

The don’t teach argumentation anymore.


27 posted on 12/02/2014 5:11:25 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: servo1969

“Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform.”

Yep, these people are Obuma’s Rambo civilian army. They are just as powerful as the US army and will sweep down, firing 1.2 billion rounds of cop-killer bullets sideways, with an effective range of 50 meters, and go door-to-door, disarming 100 million armed Americans, according to the hand-wringing surrender monkeys here on FR.


28 posted on 12/02/2014 5:52:43 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: gorush

We have a generation of young people who believe that they are, “the most educated generation in history.” They fail to realize that they are actually EINOs, educated in name only. A degree is not an education, it is only a piece of paper. Handing a university degree to someone who cannot pass his grandmother’s eighth grade final does not make that person educated any more than naming someone Goliath makes him a giant. Most of the truly educated people who were educated in this country are either dead or over sixty years old.


29 posted on 12/03/2014 6:30:47 AM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: RipSawyer

“Most of the truly educated people who were educated in this country are either dead or over sixty years old.”

Or they’re taking their education into their own hands and being proactive.


30 posted on 12/05/2014 11:55:27 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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