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Wellesley profs want control over speaker invitations
Campus Reform ^ | March 22, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 03/22/2017 9:19:10 AM PDT by C19fan

A group of Wellesley College professors recently sent a campus-wide email arguing that bringing controversial speakers to campus can cause grave harm to students.

The full letter, which was obtained and published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), was written by six professors who stand on the Wellesley Commission for Race, Ethnicity, and Equity.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: academia; college; fire; highereducation; leftismoncampus; speechcodes; wellesley
Post-modernist version of a convent.
1 posted on 03/22/2017 9:19:10 AM PDT by C19fan
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Wellesly is one of those milquetoast, expensive, liberal puppy-mills that deserves to disappear when the education-industrial complex debt bubble bursts.


2 posted on 03/22/2017 9:21:33 AM PDT by PGR88 (The)
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Leftists lose when debating ideas.

They have to shut down free speech as they have the losing side of any reasoned debate or discussion.

They resort to name calling, speech codes, and rioting to prevent being exposed for their weak positions.


3 posted on 03/22/2017 9:24:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Wouldn’t want the young minds exposed to unauthorized ideas. That would be double plus ungood.


4 posted on 03/22/2017 9:24:39 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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Grave harm = Anybody conservative, christian or patriotic.


5 posted on 03/22/2017 9:24:50 AM PDT by lee martell
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6 posted on 03/22/2017 9:25:30 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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If they don’t get that control, will they promise to leave?


7 posted on 03/22/2017 9:28:29 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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Originally Hillary wasn’t going to be permitted to make a speech upon her graduation.

but Hillarys roommate was from a very influential family.

she and Hillary threatened a general student strike unless Hillary was permitted to speak.

they prevailed and Hillary used her speech to berate badly the moderate Senator in attendance, the first black senator in US history.


8 posted on 03/22/2017 9:35:30 AM PDT by gaijin
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bringing controversial speakers to campus can cause grave harm to students.

Grave harm?

Grave harm?!

Grave. Harm. Seriously?

Perhaps they would like to have a limb hacked off? Which is worse to these idiots? Yeah, thought so.

9 posted on 03/22/2017 9:36:25 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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Here’s an idea...scrap up the money and start your own college. Then you can have what you want. (Probably bankruptcy)


10 posted on 03/22/2017 9:42:32 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: C19fan

Leftists lose when debating ideas.

They have to shut down free speech as they have the losing side of any reasoned debate or discussion.

They resort to name calling, speech codes, and rioting to prevent being exposed for their weak positions.


11 posted on 03/22/2017 9:51:37 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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I like this idea and think all elite schools should adopt it.

Then when the snowflakes graduate and find out they have no idea what goes on in the real world they will be forced to recoil, run for safe spaces and leave the rest of society alone. They will all end up working as house servants for wealthy Muslims.

12 posted on 03/22/2017 10:02:58 AM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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ie

virtue signaling


13 posted on 03/22/2017 10:13:00 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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>Perhaps they would like to have a limb hacked off? Which is worse to these idiots?

Propose the one above the neck, they don’t use it no how


14 posted on 03/22/2017 11:02:46 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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Senator Brooke was not the first black senator, but he was the first black senator elected by a vote of the people. There were two black senators during Reconstruction, when senators were still selected by the state legislature.


15 posted on 03/22/2017 11:43:19 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Wellesley profs want control over speaker invitations

And the public would like CONTROL over who a university hires to teach and tenure.

Screw these idiot profs.

16 posted on 03/22/2017 11:51:20 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Baynative
I like this idea and think all elite schools should adopt it. Then when the snowflakes graduate and find out they have no idea what goes on in the real world they will be forced to recoil, run for safe spaces and leave the rest of society alone. They will all end up working as house servants for wealthy Muslims.

Either that, or they will become suicide bombers, striking back at the infidels who are corrupting the world as they know it.

It sounds like our colleges are becoming madrasas, isolating the students to hear only one radical point of view, and then sending them out in the world to rail against it.

-PJ

17 posted on 03/22/2017 11:57:59 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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