Posted on 08/08/2014 10:04:23 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Michael Yaki, a Democrat who has worked for Nancy Pelosi and is now a United States Civil Rights Commissioner, believes that college students are too stupid to be allowed to exercise freedom of speech.
His remarks were made in regard to whether there should be campus speech codes. In fact he thinks these codes should be tightened.
With breathtaking hubris and not even a single ounce of self-consciousness, this classic Democrat saboteur said, “Certain factors in how the juvenile or adolescent or young adult brain processes information is vastly different from the way that we adults do.”
Yaki went on to add, “So when we sit back and talk about what is right or wrong in terms of First Amendment jurisprudence from a reasonable person’s standpoint, we are really not looking into the same referential viewpoint of these people, of an adolescent or young adult, including those in universities.”
“Because of the unique nature of a university campus setting, I think that there are very good and compelling reasons why broader policies and prohibitions on conduct in activities and in some instances speech are acceptable...
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Yaki-ty Yak....Don't talk back.
Crazy aunt in the attic, Ross Perot ping. He should know.
I should add see the old movie The Ruling Class w/ Peter O’Toole.
he became persona non grata
That is indeed THE logical conclusion, but logic is antithetical to leftist sophistry and supremacy. Government education is the primary tool used to intimidate and indoctrinate young people.
The student is suitable in their minds NEVER to think or speak independently, but ONLY to vote as he/she has been schooled to do by the elitists. Academicians therefore do not see this logical absurdity as what it is.
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