It’s Now 1984 at the University of Michigan

PJ Media ^ | May 14, 2018 | Hans A. von Spakovsky

[Fightin Whitey]

They have always been like a Berkley East

Their hockey team sucks too.

[seowulf]

O brave new world, That has such people in ‘t!

[dsc]

Heh.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Complaining about Leftists will be treated as bullying, and will subject the complainer to disciplinary action."

Actually, there was a story about that very thing happening within the last week. A female student spoke at a campus forum and complained that - as a conservative - expressing her views had resulted in several instances of harassment and intimidation. Leftist students felt threatened and offended by this, reported her to administrators, and she was warned about expressing such views in the future.

[Fitzy_888]

The short term solution is chaff. (Modern armed forces use chaff to distract radar-guided missiles from their targets.)

If anonymous reporting is allowed then report everyone, anyone, people at the bus stop, a car bumper stickers simply passing the school campus and that guy at the food court at the nearest mall. Hundreds, thousands of reports.

[TBP]

And they call us fascists.

I know a nice, tolerant, quality educational establishment less than 90 miles to the west — and you can get back to A-Squared fairly easily.

[Elsie]

More...

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

[Elsie]

"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it;

moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.

 

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.

It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever the wanted to.

 

You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

-1984, Book 1, Chapter One, George Orwell

 

 

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[Red Badger]

The Thought Police of 1984 got nuthin' on our NSA.......................

[spacewarp]

Almost makes me want to apply there.

I’m an old fart who doesn’t worry about the crap, but I could use the free money from the federal lawsuit I’d win demolishing them in court.

What they’re doing is counting on the youth being so cowed and afraid to stand up and fight back, and us old coots don’t care enough about their stupid degree to actually worry if they took away our opportunity.