This should surprise absolutely no one. Colleges are the vanguard of totalitarianism in America, and that’s not hyperbole.
It is a bit of reach. Kind of like an undercover police officer putting a wallet with a couple of hundred dollar bills on the street, pointing it out to an unemployed man, and arresting him when he picks it up and puts the bills in his pocket.
It shows basic intent, but he likely would not have done it without the prompting.
<<< This should surprise absolutely no one. Colleges are the vanguard of totalitarianism in America, and that’s not hyperbole.>>>>
The surprise is the fact that Republicans don’t care. They have shown no cognitive connection to Education for 50 years. Republican candidates never mention it and Republican voters never demand it.
What other possible outcome should we expect? Conservatives don’t care either, but for using it as an issue, for a pee post, against Democrats who DO care.
It’s rather amazing isn’t it? (My tagline probably works here.)
I think people are enotionally overreacting to it being the Constitution that was shredded, and missing the bigger issue.
Which is that universities are molly-coddling students with safe-spaces and trigger warnings and the like instead of giving students the kinds of life experiences that will allow them to cope and function in the real world.
I don’t see that this Administrator had a problem with the Constitution per se. One way or another, there’s no evidence that the Administrator shredded the copy out of personal spite for it.
The evidence does show that the Administrator was counsing (ie enabling) the “student’s” own childish behavior. What the Administrator should have done is tell the “student”, bluntly, that being exposed to things one finds uncomforable and disturbing is part of life and college is supposed to be in part a life experience where one learns to deal with it.