Posted on 04/10/2017 4:56:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Where are the faculty? American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force, and sometimes criminal violence, to shut down ideas they don’t like. Yet when such travesties occur, the faculty are, with few exceptions, missing in action, though they have themselves been given the extraordinary privilege of tenure to protect their own liberty of thought and speech. It is time for them to take their heads out of the sand.
I was the target of such silencing tactics two days in a row last week, the more serious incident at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and a less virulent one at UCLA.
The Rose Institute for State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna had invited me to meet with students to talk about my book, The War on Cops, on April 6. Several calls went out on Facebook to “shut down” this “notorious white supremacist fascist Heather Mac Donald.” A Facebook post from “we, students of color at the Claremont Colleges” announced grandiosely that “as a community, we CANNOT and WILL NOT allow fascism to have a platform. We stand against all forms of oppression and we refuse to have Mac Donald speak.” A Facebook event titled “Shut Down Anti-Black Fascist Heather Mac Donald” and hosted by “Shut Down Anti-Black Fascists” encouraged students to protest the event because Mac Donald “condemns [the] Black Lives Matter movement,” “supports racist police officers,” and “supports increasing fascist ‘law and order.’” (My supposed fascism consists in trying to give voice to the thousands of law-abiding minority residents of high-crime areas who support the police and are desperate for more law-enforcement protection.)
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Heather MacDonald ping.
Most the faculty condone and even encourage the ruthless suppression of speech which the left doesn’t approve.
Now I have that reggae song stuck in my head.
‘Cause they’re LEFTISTS, silly.
They go along with this form of radicalism because They agree that their cause PERMITS.................
................EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING!!!
They see themselves as God. They can do NO WRONG!
“...... when such travesties occur, the faculty are, with few exceptions, missing in action.........”
Stop, think and ask, are these the same people that have brainwashed the students in the first place. The fruit of their “labor” has returned.
Oh, please!
They are rubbing their hands behind the scenes, delighted to have crops of naive 18-year old cannon fodder show up every Fall for the Revolution.
Call it like it is ... they are communists
Me, too.
Bkmk
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Close your eyes and think of ABBA. I find it neutralizes everything. Don’t listen to it first. That’s dimensional suicide.
Great idea...it would make for a good laugh on a slow day.
A Soros tactic.
Heather MacDonald is one of the most calm factual voices in the Culture wars.
Am finishing her book The War on Cops.
She is the new generation’s Thomas Sowell.
The left will never stop until they win or are vanquished.
Protesters should be arrested for disturbing the peace. Any who are students should be expelled. Until universities start a ‘no tolerance’ policy for those who shut down these events, this kind of BS is going to continue. I suppose they could opt for a mandatory remedial course on the meaning of Free Speech, instead of expulsion. But expulsion should always be a threat.
Universities are largely responsible for the refusal to listen (politely) to alternative views. They will have to be the ones to fix the problem.
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