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Williams College Students Can Report Each Other for Social Media Comments About Religion or Politics
Reason ^ | Jan. 16, 2018 | Robby Soave

Posted on 01/16/2018 11:28:19 AM PST by nickcarraway

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To: DoughtyOne
All students have a right to voice their opinions on topics.

But some student's rights to voice their opinions on topics are more equal than others.

21 posted on 01/16/2018 11:42:11 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: nickcarraway

How much are are parents paying for this brainwashing? $70,000 per year?


22 posted on 01/16/2018 11:42:21 AM PST by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: nickcarraway
The cultish, ideological "Progressive Left," as its called, and its irrational and oppressive fear of allowing students the freedom to examine competing ideas has been on exhibit in recent years!

"Progressives" talk a lot about "diversity." By that, Hillary and her crew, as well as the "sheeple" who follow her, mean "diversity" of anything and everything except freedom of conscience, freedom of expression of ideas which differ from the "Progressive" agenda for "changing" America from adherence and devotion to the ideas of liberty outlined in its Declaration of Independence and structured into its Constitution for self-government.

Shame on them and all whom they control through fear!

The things we are witnessing are the consequences of decades of Progressive academic and government "elitists'" indoctrination of America away from its founding principles in the ideas of liberty and toward the cultish and oppressive ideology of Progressivism, an ideology which demands complete submission to "progressive" regressives who believe they are entitled, and were appointed, to rule over everyone else. A society where Progressives rule is a society where the ideas of liberty have been subordinated to the ideas of tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson, only days before his death on July 4, 1826, explaining his inability to attend a gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration, wrote to Roger Weightman:

"I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them." (Jefferson, June 24, 1826, to Roger Weightman, End of Jefferson quotation)

Those who advocate for the policy that some human beings are to decide for other human beings what they will think already have committed themselves to the ideas of tyranny instead of the ideas of liberty announced in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the United States Constitution.

"The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ... Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error." - Thomas Jefferson

23 posted on 01/16/2018 11:43:00 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: henkster

What happened to little Pavlik? To his parents?


24 posted on 01/16/2018 11:44:34 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: usconservative

Yes, I agree.


25 posted on 01/16/2018 11:44:41 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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To: Maine Mariner; ClearCase_guy

Follow the link in comment 5.


26 posted on 01/16/2018 11:47:36 AM PST by henkster
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To: nickcarraway

Stasi Club of the Bruts


27 posted on 01/16/2018 12:01:21 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: nickcarraway

Definitely a policy the KGB would have approved of.


28 posted on 01/16/2018 12:05:09 PM PST by Will88
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To: WayneS
and didgeridoo music

LOL!

Had to look that one up!

Yes! Whitey can't be blowing on no hollowed out tree limb!

29 posted on 01/16/2018 12:13:27 PM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: nickcarraway

Brownshirts?


30 posted on 01/16/2018 12:14:07 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: loveliberty2

The “progressives” favorite magic trick is to change the rules on what is allowed—without warning.

So one day you are an ideal citizen—and the next you are an evil reactionary!

Nasty, nasty stuff.

In such an environment the citizen quickly learns that silence is not the best option, it is the only option.

When forced to speak one pleads ignorance and says “I don’t know what is allowed—please tell me what I am supposed to say!”


31 posted on 01/16/2018 12:22:10 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: nickcarraway

watch for students to make up stories to humiliate someone who may have offended them, or worse.


32 posted on 01/16/2018 12:45:11 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: nickcarraway

To be most compliant with the historical standard, the shirts at the campus store they would buy for their duties should be just plain brown, no college logo.


33 posted on 01/16/2018 1:08:43 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: nickcarraway

Nazi party would have loved living in this time and seeing all these people embrace their agenda...


34 posted on 01/16/2018 1:30:36 PM PST by Hambone 1934
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To: nickcarraway

If you have no biases, it must be because you have no opinions, and if you have no opinions, it must be because you have no discernment, which is one of the things an education should be helping you to acquire, not helping to suppress.


35 posted on 01/16/2018 2:23:22 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: WayneS

You’ll pry me didgeridoo CDs from me cold dead hands!


36 posted on 01/16/2018 2:25:48 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

wow the sheer arrogance of Obama truly comes through. The cluelessness of Kerry.

The Oblivious nature where these leftist think that this is only a blib on their road to totalitarianism. just wow.

This is pure propaganda. Another good reason to ignore hbo.


37 posted on 01/16/2018 3:12:27 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.tand http://www.house.gov)
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To: Boogieman

;-)


38 posted on 01/16/2018 3:38:08 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churc)
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To: nickcarraway
They already have this system set up in DC.

Dickie Durbin has squealed on President Trump about some word or phrasing he didn't like in a private meeting.

39 posted on 01/16/2018 5:06:26 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: nickcarraway
Why would anyone (or anyone's parents) waste good money paying tuition at such a "stupid-hole" school?

It's time to start rating colleges and universities on their "ROI" (Return on Investment) potential!


40 posted on 01/16/2018 10:13:15 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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