Posted on 11/29/2015 6:17:19 PM PST by bryan999
It ought to be a triumphal moment for American liberalism. In the space of a few years gay marriage has been accepted, marijuana has been legalised, America has twice elected its first black president and may well be gearing up to elect its first woman. Yet the revival of political correctness on US campuses — and the increasingly shrill tone of much of the intellectual left — tells another story. Instead of championing free speech, the left is trying to shut it down. In the name of diversity, it demands conformity. At stake is the character of US democracy. If elite Ivy League schools cannot stand the heat, what kind of kitchen will it be?
Far from outgrowing race, the PC movement is entrenching it. Princeton students this month occupied the university president’s office demanding the name Woodrow Wilson — America’s 28th president and former head of Princeton — be scrubbed from campus. That included the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, residential halls and a mural of him in the dining hall. Protesters also demanded “cultural competency training†for faculty members and the introduction of mandatory courses on marginalised peoples.
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That line was in there, yes.
I like the phrase "hoisted by their own petard."
The left has never been about free speech. The left has always been about there speech.
“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.†is this your Quote or is it from some one of note historically.
Liberals have always been intolerant. At least in my lifetime. Gay marriage was forced down out throat by state and later federal courts. We are. It in favor of it. Dome states have voted to legalize dope. For dopes. Hardly asleep for libtards. Really a sweep for tyranny weo the dope.
Its the only reason their enemies have guns to keep them from doing it.
They dont care what written down, first amendment, seocnd amendment, etc. They care the people can oppose them with arms.
Like regular out in the open criminal thugs, they are afraid of getting shot while doing their evil.
We are not in favor of it. Sigh.
I have read that after the Russian Revolution, they were some of the first to be sent to the Gulags.
Of course, they couldn't figure out why.
My take is that the Totalitarians saw that the Useful Idiots were traitors to the previous government and didn't want to risk having them be traitors to the new government, just for the sake of being treasonous trouble-makers.
I believe it is from the science fiction novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert.
The blow-back from the leftists overreach via 0bama is gonna be YUGE! ;)
Meh. It’s always this way. The LibTards over-step the bounds of human decency whenever they gain power - then the RighTards beat them back into submission for an election cycle or two.
While, ‘We The People’ pay the price for it all!
Still, it’s the best game going in the civilized world, considering the alternatives.
*SHRUG*
Sadly, when I read articles like this I am reminded that we have already witnessed the complete collapse of the rule of law in this country because of the monstrous Supreme Court rulings legitimizing Husseincare and rank homosexual perversity, the utter failure to address black riots in major cities, the total unwillingness to deter the illegal alien invasion, and the complicity of the Congressional abdication of responsibility for any sort of oversight of a tyrannical regime that is terrorizing us in every way imaginable. It is time to admit that the Constitutional Republic that was known as the United States of America is already dead and gone, never to return. Notwithstanding a too-late-to-matter “movement” of Trumpers shouting “Make America Great Again”. The skunks, crooks, and degenerates have completely taken over this benighted land.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.â€
Admiral Yamamoto said that.
they get shot and killed by the very government that they believed woud protect them and the goons that confiscated all the guns
Liberals are the fascists they accuse conservatives of being.
Yamamoto also said that it was impossible to conquor the US because “there’d be a rifle behind every blade of grass”
Which was revised and extended during the Cold War by a Soviet (not Molotov, which would be too ironic) that the US had too many Coke bottles and too many gas stations.
>>>Real Americans drink coffee straight and black<<<
I use Dunkin Donuts Extra Extra Creamer (available in your Grocers Dairy Section) in my Coffee, but I make up for it by Posting on FR and owning a whole bunch of Guns.
I wonder if our Younger Generation would have the same resolve that my Father’s Generation did?
After WWII started, my Father and my Uncles went and Volunteered, every darn one of them that were of age.
Only difference now is they have control of the government, White Hut and the media so it just seems like their attitude has changed.
I doubt we could win another World War II. Most of America is like a spoiled, unprincipled, ungrateful child who couldn’t care less about their freedom, etc.
My Dad was in CBI Theater of War and he and all who served and died would be sad and disgusted if they saw America today..
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