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Amherst students demand crackdown against free speech
Campus Reform ^ | Peter Fricke

Posted on 11/13/2015 10:26:44 AM PST by randita

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To: randita
Regarding the school's mascot, the students want Martin to release a statement by Friday at 5:00 p.m. "that condemns the inherently racist nature of the unofficial mascot, the Lord Jeff,"...

What the heck is racist about Lord Jeff?


61 posted on 11/13/2015 11:21:21 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: randita

If the schools had any sense, they would respond by demanding the students sign a pledge committing to respect free speech, or be expelled. Then we’d see how many of these protesters would put their money (or their parent’s money) where their mouth is.


62 posted on 11/13/2015 11:21:22 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: randita

Once upon a time, Amherst was a pretty good little school.

Seems to have fallen in the world, however.


63 posted on 11/13/2015 11:21:56 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: randita; All

Keep in mind that this is taking place in Amherst, MA, where the UN flag flies on the town common (and has for decades). Amherst, and nearby Northampton, make San Fransicko look almost sane. If Socialism in practice really ever takes root in the U.S.A., I’d put real money on it starting in one of these towns. I’m actually surprised that this demonstration and the corresponding one at UMass were so small and restrained.


64 posted on 11/13/2015 11:22:22 AM PST by Little Pig
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To: Mercat

Kent State learned their lesson. They don’t need to be shot twice to get the message.


65 posted on 11/13/2015 11:24:11 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: randita

I have it on good authority from a person who studies such things that UMass Amherst is basically the east coast commie pod people farm, and has been ground zero for many years as a commie hatchery.


66 posted on 11/13/2015 11:25:34 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: randita

As this is a PRIVATE college, I have no problem with this, but they should not receive ANY federal funding whatsoever.

Also any other PRIVATE college should be able to make whatever regulations they want that violate student’s rights under the U. S. Constitution. That means if they want to ban, say a racial minority or a homosexual or whatever they should be allowed to do so because other private school would be allowed to violate civil rights. This should be tested by some PRIVATE college if for no other reason than to make a point.

Precedent is precedent.


67 posted on 11/13/2015 11:26:15 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: randita

This is satire, right?


68 posted on 11/13/2015 11:26:21 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: randita

The left has lost control of its fringe. This happened in the late 60’s and early 70’s. A big backlash ensued. The Republican party doesn’t deserve to be this lucky.

One can only hope that HRC and other Dems jump in and join Black Lives Matter and demand “safe places”, and the like.


69 posted on 11/13/2015 11:26:34 AM PST by theoilpainter
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To: randita

I think that’s when you say stuff like “cripple”, “gimpy” and “midget” :)


70 posted on 11/13/2015 11:28:11 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Protesters want the school president to denounce the actions of students who displayed "All Lives Matter" and "Free Speech" posters.

The proper response by the school president should be:

"Thank you for your attention to this matter. However, I cannot respond directly to your protest except to say this...please go out and get 51% of the community to agree with you. Have them appear here or get their verified signatures and then come back and see me. Until then, yours is a minority position. Feel free to sit down and shut up."

71 posted on 11/13/2015 11:28:23 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: butlerweave
...when free Speech is gone how do they demand other crack downs or firings

It's called Fascism.

72 posted on 11/13/2015 11:31:20 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: randita

A solid reason to approve H1B visas...........


73 posted on 11/13/2015 11:31:43 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: randita

Shooting commies seems like it will be so satisfying.


74 posted on 11/13/2015 11:32:50 AM PST by The Toll
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To: randita

issue statements apologizing to those impacted by “injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx [sic] racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism.”

They only left out cacauophobia, blancophobia, anti-whiteism,
Christophobia, Buddhaphobia, and Rank Hybotery.

Honestly, these goobs have swallowed the party line
and the hook too.

You just have to wonder how many off campus “leaders”
were running the Delphi Technique on these “intellectual”
RUBES.


75 posted on 11/13/2015 11:39:44 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Truth29
This is America's Red Guard spreading its wings. If they keep getting the results that they demand, the madness will spread across the country like the Cultural Revolution in Mao's China.

Yea, verily yea.

76 posted on 11/13/2015 11:42:44 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: randita

bkmk


77 posted on 11/13/2015 11:44:27 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: randita

They’re rioting in Missouri. They’re fasting at Yale.
The hurricanes of Florida will end up in jail.

Academia is festering with unhappy souls.
The TAs hate the undergrads. The frats hate the proles.

LEOs hate Ferguson and Baltimore, too. And I don’t
really give a damn if that triggers you.

But we can be tranquil and thankful assured
that university presidents will fall on their swords.

And we know for certain that some lovely day
someone will set the spark off and we’ll have our say.

They’re rioting in Missouri, soon Vanderbilt, too.
The student debt they’re racking up goes straight down the loo.


78 posted on 11/13/2015 11:51:23 AM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

I’m all for buckshot, and tear gas just like at Berkeley in 69’. And don’t forget the billy clubs.


79 posted on 11/13/2015 11:52:02 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: randita

“BTW - what is “ableism”?”

Ableism is the offense of preferentially hiring a person who is physically able to do the job over someone who can’t.


80 posted on 11/13/2015 12:10:50 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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