Can they keep a beat?
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My question for these college cupcakes is simply this: “Are you willing to put your life on the line for your beliefs?”. As a vet and an Oathkeeper, I am.
This is what a generation raised on participation awards looks like. It will take another generation to clean this up. But these kids are lost.
Reality is a cruel teacher.
The fruits of the public school system and bubble-wrap parenting.
I would suggest that the real world outside of college would correct this, but that real world has become much to accommodating of safe spaces, “offensive” language, grievance groups and other foul bilge.
Of the 1,500 respondents, 697 identified a Democrats, 261 as Republicans, and 431 as Independents. Another 111 respondents stated “Don’t Know” when asked to state their political affiliation. Of the 1,500 respondents, 1,116 are students at public institutions, and 384 are students at private institutions. This public/private split of 74 percent/36 percent among respondents approximately mirrors the split in the broader undergraduate population.
He doesn't say what schools, nor does he say how the students were contacted. For example, did he distribute the questionnaires through the Black Student Alliance, the Football team, or the Student Government? Clearly there is a very strong leftist skew.
High Rates Of U.S. College Students Support Violence...To Stop Free Speech
That’s a sure way to cut short your budding career...and possibly your life.
This is the kind of thinking that will lead us back to tyranny.
With their admission, turnabout is fair play.
There’s also the issue that respondents could reasonably believe that giving the non-politically-correct answer could result in them being targeted as “racist neo-Nazis”.
Here’s an article in Salon (which I saw on Facebook) arguing that right wing free speech isn’t really free speech but paid propaganda... so it’s ok to suppress it.
http://www.salon.com/2017/09/20/memo-to-berkeley-stop-confusing-free-speech-with-subsidized-speech/
Watch what you wish for, snowflakes. We have voices — and fists — too.
Can they keep a beat?
Shouting is sometimes a legally acceptable response to free speech, but it is at best amoral and completely lacking in dignity. It also eliminates the exchange of ideas and guarantees your side will not convince the other side. Bonus: the shouters may be removed or even arrested for disturbing the peace.
As for those who believe violence is an acceptable response, they should keep in mind that decent people are also capable of applying force, and we are immeasurably better at it. We hold back on violence not because we are afraid of it but because we are circumspect in taking an action that will be permanent for the other side if we cross that line.
No need to worry. Students always make up the majority of the brown shirts- under Hitler, Mao, Castro, Chavez... They are usually harmless except for petty vandalism. If the leftists in this country start forming armed militias, that is when it is time to worry.
Communism is gaining ground in the US.
Has done so since the 60’s
Not surprising. Most of their parents get their money directly or indirectly from government spending. They comprise the political/regulator class.
bump
-PJ