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Progressive Faculty and Administrators Deserve All of the Blame for the Recent Unrest on Campus
nationalreview.com ^ | 11/26/2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/27/2015 7:35:25 AM PST by rktman

The recent wave of student protests is aimed at liberal professors and administrators.

Current student anger eerily fits the pattern of most left-wing unrest, from the cycles of the French Revolution to the campus riots of the 1960s.

First, protests gradually grow more extreme. Venom is directed at fellow leftists who are deemed insufficiently radical.

In revolutionary France, wild-eyed Jacobins soon guillotined reformist Girondins, who were considered passé. During the Russian Revolution, extremist Bolsheviks marginalized liberal Mensheviks. In the 1960s, many members of the SDS and Black Panthers hated liberals who disapproved of their violence.

A group called the Black Justice League wants the name of liberal but bigoted President Woodrow Wilson removed from Princeton University. Liberals are aghast that the century-old memory of their progressive hero might vanish from the Princeton campus.

Radical students bully liberal deans, crowd into the offices of college presidents, disrupt students in libraries, and shout down public speakers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: asshats; education; protestors
I'm more inclined to think they are more responsible for the end results of the portests. Certainly they helped the protesters but allowing them to succeed is where the real problem lies. Boot their whiney butts out of school.
1 posted on 11/27/2015 7:35:25 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

The most that one can say is that the BLM group is guiding the university crowd to terminate the insiders and hire only BLM-supported characters.

This would typically mean some type of agenda and handcuffing of the future of these institutions to BLM and some social message theme.

Realistically....why would I give Junior $90,000 for a college that drifts in and out of threats, riots, demonstrations, and a board that might not be concerned with higher learning? I’d start to demand that Junior only attend particular schools and BLM-schools would start to be labeled as ‘problems’. You can guess the scenario that occurs with this type of identification.

How would downsize a university staff then....as bloated as they are?


2 posted on 11/27/2015 7:41:55 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: rktman

They are impaled on the horns of a dilemma. They can’t boot them out or their source of inflated income would dry up...and most would have a hard time earning a living if their value was tied to their productivity on the open market.


3 posted on 11/27/2015 7:42:27 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Sir Napsalot; Kaslin; neverdem; EXCH54FE; 2ndDivisionVet; Rummyfan; smoothsailing; Hojczyk; ...
VDH ping ....

Insane liberal chickens coming home to roost ...


4 posted on 11/27/2015 7:44:26 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

5 posted on 11/27/2015 7:53:41 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: rktman
Kids are entering college no more mature than what you'd expect for a 3rd grader.

Reality doesn't touch their minds.

It's all rainbows and unicorns.

6 posted on 11/27/2015 7:54:43 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: rktman
Progressive Faculty and Administrators Deserve All of the Blame for the Recent Unrest on Campus

In the basement laboratories of the Political Science wings, Progressive Faculty and Administrators Declare in Unison:

IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!

7 posted on 11/27/2015 8:04:09 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

>>Reality doesn’t touch their minds.

>>It’s all rainbows and unicorns.

What do you expect? The kids are told by their parents from age 2 that they will attend college and that if will be paid for by parents, loans, scholarships. For the white kids, that’s limited to parents and loans.

No one ever tells their kid that they’ll have to “work their way through college and we’ll help.” That would be mean. It would be bad parenting. If word got out in the Homeowners Association meeting or at their consumerist church, they’d be pariahs for not loving their child enough.

So, Junior goes off to college with an entitlement attitude and meets up with professors and other entitled kids who build that attitude into what we see today.

Parents made spoiled brats. College perfected it.


8 posted on 11/27/2015 8:08:58 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92

It is pathetic yet entertaining when the asshat/moonbat student losers confront the moonbat/asshat faculty/administration. LIBs are such a laugh riot. Losers all.


9 posted on 11/27/2015 8:40:24 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

>>It is pathetic yet entertaining when the asshat/moonbat student losers confront the moonbat/asshat faculty/administration. LIBs are such a laugh riot. Losers all.

That’s why I cheer for the students. I hope they take it all the way to the point where they claim that white toilet paper is racist and they refuse to wipe as a way of protesting. I love watching liberal agendas collide.


10 posted on 11/27/2015 8:43:41 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: hal ogen

I wonder what percentage of the protesters are engineering and math majors, or even business majors vs psychology, journalism, or race/gender studies majors?


11 posted on 11/27/2015 9:00:53 AM PST by Sam Clements
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Also, college campuses are the last places where unemployed, unemployable people have an audience.


12 posted on 11/27/2015 9:30:16 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Sam Clements

I bet most of the “protesters” are taking non-science (nonsense?) classes. Probably, they are in the process of flunking out...they just don’t know it as yet. What losers in life.


13 posted on 11/27/2015 10:06:48 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Navy Patriot
Princeton. Big whoop. They let Muchelle Obama in.

About a decade or so ago, they had a woman from Canada as their president.

A well-to-do alumni family gave the school $25M to endow a chair of Western Civilization (Studies?).

The chick from the Great White North spent the money on every thing but what the money was designated for.

Princeton may have had to return the $25M.

14 posted on 11/27/2015 10:30:50 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Bryanw92

“No one ever tells their kid that they’ll have to “work their way through college and we’ll help.”

Not true in my family.

I have a granddaughter attending a pricy University,. She found an on campus job in her freshman year and continues to work this year.

The grandchildren who are in high-school all work part time and will continue to do se when they attend college.

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15 posted on 11/27/2015 10:53:18 AM PST by Mears
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>>I have a granddaughter attending a pricy University,. She found an on campus job in her freshman year and continues to work this year.

She earns enough to pay for a “pricy” university?? Does she even earn enough to pay half of the cost?


16 posted on 11/27/2015 10:59:00 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92

“Does she even earn enough to pay half of the cost?”

Beats me. My daughter and son-in-law are the parents and their finances are none of my business.

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17 posted on 11/27/2015 11:03:01 AM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

>>Beats me. My daughter and son-in-law are the parents and their finances are none of my business.

Well, I was talking about kids having some significant skin in the game when paying for their own education. I’ve found that students at community college and inexpensive state schools pay a larger contribution than those at the pricey schools (percentage-wise and in actual dollars).


18 posted on 11/27/2015 11:08:50 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: rktman

I like Victor Davis Hanson’s writing. Thanks for posting.


19 posted on 11/27/2015 2:38:09 PM PST by Daaave ("You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.")
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To: Daaave

Me too. Seems like I see less and less of him lately.


20 posted on 11/27/2015 5:37:01 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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