Posted on 04/11/2017 5:32:22 AM PDT by SJackson
Whether it is female Republican students at places like St. Olaf College and Cornell University being accosted, cursed at, threatened with physical violence and, in the latter case, actually assaulted; Cal State Fullerton Trump supporting students being assaulted by an instructor; a riot at Berkeley; or College Republicans being targeted by name as “fascists” and encouragements made to make their personal information public so that decent folks can “punch fascists”—bullying, intimidation, and threats of violence against conservative students have become staples of campus life.
While this phenomenon is an outrage in itself, equally outrageous is the fact that it has been permitted to occur and recur.
It’s inconceivable that college administrators and faculty would permit these outrages if white Republican conservative students were the perpetrators and their victims were, say, black, gay, or transgendered.
But because it is only conservative and moderate students who are being victimized by leftists, not only has no real action been initiated to stop these attacks. In some instances, faculty and administrators have even encouraged them.
In October of last year, the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) held a bake sale at the University of Texas that was designed to expose the moral dubiousness of “affirmative action.” Goods were sold to blacks and Hispanics for prices that were lower than those that whites and Asians were expected to pay.
Consequently, leftist students surrounded their display and shouted at them to remove it. One such student livestreamed the event on Facebook in a post titled, “Racists are live at UT.” It received nearly 230,000 views.
Eventually, students sporting black masks stole the bake sale menu and raided the inventory.
The Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement, Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, was the only administrator from UT to issue a formal response to the incident.
Vincent blamed the conservative students.
Their bake sale, he claimed, “create[d] an environment of exclusion and disrespect among our students, faculty, and staff,” and their methods are “counterproductive to true dialogue on our campus” and “unrepresentative of the ideals toward which our [UT] community strives.”
Vincent didn’t deny that the Young Conservatives of Texas were exercising their right to express themselves. However, he declared that in doing so, they “resorted to exercising one of the university’s core values to the detriment of others.”
At College of Charleston campus, in South Carolina, not only does faculty provide no support to conservative students who, at least since the election, have felt increasingly uneasy on campus and in their classes. Faculty is largely responsible for the apprehensiveness.
Rachel McKinnon is an instructor of philosophy and a self-identified “queer woman.” Immediately after the election, she used her class time to hold a “cry in” of sorts where she offered her grieving students comfort candy. McKinnon too was “shaken” by Trump’s victory. At one point she pounded her lectern and, in response to a student who tried assuring her that the South Carolina legislature would not permit the new administration to strip gays and the transgendered of their rights, condescendingly “snapped”: “Where do you think we are?”
Students and, in some cases, their parents, have been leveling complaints. One mother called the President’s office and suggested that McKinnon had a “mental breakdown” and was “silencing conservative students in class.”
McKinnon’s colleague Jon Hale, a history professor, organized a faculty meeting with the school’s provost, Brian McGee, to discuss the oppressive environment that was developing for…faculty.
According to a South Carolina newspaper, the Post and Courier, those present at the meeting sought to “challenge” McGee on his administration’s position on “academic freedom.” The Provost had sent an email to the deans and chairs of the school’s departments about complaints that his office had been receiving regarding the “inappropriately one-sided” and “crudely partisan” nature of class discussions. Another email sent to the whole college community insisted that “no matter the political divide, we must always be tolerant of each other’s views.”
A few weeks later, McGee announced the creation of a new on-line complaint system for students.
From the perspective of those who want for conservative students to be treated fairly, all of this sounds encouraging, and Provost McGee sounds like he deserves a tip of the hat. However, McGee assured concerned faculty that the complaint system was being implemented only because it was required by the school’s regional accrediting agency. It was “spectacularly bad timing” on his part, McGee confessed, to have announced the creation of this system when he did, for the timing of the announcement wrongly led faculty to think that the system was a response to complaints about their politicization of their class discussions.
Moreover, McGee assured faculty that his administration would protect them from any efforts on the part of the state Legislature to interfere with the manner in which they ran their classes.
The bullying, intimidation, and threats with which conservative students are confronted at present largely go unmet by administrators. It’s true that the latter not infrequently act like they plan on meeting future acts of aggression against heterodox students with strictness. They’ll pay the standard lip service to their schools’ “values” of tolerance, freedom of speech, and the like. Yet it is difficult to find many instances in which disciplinary action is meted out to offending parties, much less action that involves anything like expulsion or arrests.
Shortly after Charles Murray was prevented from speaking at Middlebury College by disruptive students, Jim Trent of National Review Online wrote: “What amazes me about these riots and near riots on college campuses is that no one seems to be doing anything about it.”
Indeed. There were professors present in the auditorium during Murray’s visit who said not a word to the unruly students who refused to allow the invited guest to speak.
At California State University-Los Angeles, a conservative students’ group on campus—Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)—arranged to have Ben Shapiro deliver a speech titled: “When Diversity Becomes a Problem.” The students received threats and insults from other students and faculty alike. In short, they were branded “white supremacists.”
Initially, the college charged them an astronomical fee for security, justifying the expenditure on the grounds that the presentation would be “controversial.” Then, the college cancelled it altogether, suggesting that it be replaced with a “more inclusive event.”
Too many college administrations and their faculty lack either the will or the ability to show equal concern for the safety of all of their students, irrespectively of their political orientations. Perhaps it’s time that they feel some pressure from the public and the government to do what is right.
Ever notice how the anti-bullying policies never apply to Leftist bullies?
Start beating your oppressors to a bloody pulp. Or continue to be bullied.
All that “we’re better than that” stuff is just so much bulls***.
What are faculty and administrators doing about it?
Next question?
Meanwhile, not to worry—the Trump administration is reassuring illegals in college (including those getting free instate tuition!) that they have nothing to worry about:
Something along the lines of Hammurabi would be appropriate.
Liberals believe it is their country and anyone who isn’t in agreement with them doesn’t belong.
They are just like militant muslims in that respect.
Sounds like an opportunity for triple damages, court costs and judicial sanctions for tuition fraud.
Ever notice how the anti-bullying policies never apply to Leftist bullies?
A lot of these universities are in states where Republicans control the legislature or governor’s office. Why aren’t they doing anything about this. Especially the state universities where it happens. The state legislatures should be holding hearings and raking these university presidents over the coals about this abuse.
Liberals are against variable pricing for baked goods. But they are for HOV lanes and congestion pricing to park your car.
It is possible that these institutions may have committed federal offenses including but not limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to funding documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government regarding federal funding),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate conservative students’ 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated
with a federally funded enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
ACTION NOW-—Contact your Representative and Senators
Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
TALKING POINTS: sever all federal funds until these institution cease their discriminatory activity against conservative students
I grew up in the post-1967 environment of urban Detroit. Many of us “whitey’s” utilized a truncated version of Alinsky:
isolate...separate...marginalize...minimize.
That resulted in the following scenario [personal anecdote follows]:
When surrounded by a group of “urban youths” intent on physical abuse, take a handful of the nearest “afro” [isolate], scream out-loud and run/drag to the nearest wall [separate & marginalize]. Bounce the offenders head off that wall [minimize].
It’s all about “respect”.
My daughter gets shouted down all the time for her conservative views. In one of her poli sci classes, a lefty student compared the NFL draft combine to evaluating slaves at a slave auction and said that the NFL overall was akin to slavery. My daughter and another conservative tried to debate her. She screamed at them, “You have to agree with me!!!”
She is graduating soon and keeps telling herself, six more weeks, six more weeks.
I have found that screaming at the top of your lungs, especially if you have been trained by DIs, almost always freaks the other side out.
And then you have a precious few moments to wreak havoc.
A self defense instructor had us practice screaming while doing whatever move we were involved in. Even the instructors holding the practice dummys would react to loud yells.
Growing up in DETROIT ping, see also my #13.
:: screaming at the top of your lungs...almost always freaks the other side out ::
It’s how I survived my freshman year.
Only had to do it once.
You can bet that any self defense by conservatives on campus will result in punishment and expulsion.
Next step, of course, will require a red (for ‘red-states) 5-pointed star sown on on the clothing of conservative students. Gotta keep an eye on those violent conservatives.
Thanks, Liz!
Any parent sending their children to a liberal college or university may be guilty of aiding in child abuse through the indoctrination process . Too many sociology and other foolish degrees with no available jobs . Parents and students are being ripped off by these liberal professors who are primarily in the indoctrination business .
They try their best not to admit hard working conservative students. They try and filter them out via their essays and humanitarian records.
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