Posted on 04/18/2017 6:02:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Good question. Amazingly, it was a line in a new network television program, Chicago Justice, another in the long list of Dick Wolf-produced crime-legal shows. Carl Weathers of Rocky fame speaks the line; he plays the district attorney of Chicago. It was shocking to hear the question uttered in a prime-time drama. Of course there was a murder in this television episode, and the murderer turned out to be a young girl besotted with her radical leftist, anti-gun professor. Her victim? A pro-gun conservative on their campus.
Real life these days is stranger than fiction. Even Orwell could not have imagined how far we have surpassed all he imagined in 1984 – especially on college campuses. Higher education in America has been utterly destroyed by the left since the tenured radicals of the 1960s took control of it. Now our campuses are virtually totalitarian in nature. Stanford just admitted an applicant who is not black but who wrote "Black Lives Matter" a hundred times on his application. Forget all the serious students who took the application question – "What matters to you and why?" – seriously. They are toast, cast upon the funeral pyre of diversity and freedom of thought in favor of the anti-merit (racist), pro-ethnic diversity but anti-diversity of thought mindset of college admissions officials.
Wellesley has demeaned itself by printing a fascist screed by a student who writes poorly and has not a clue about what our Constitution says or means. She is opposed to freedom of speech.
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In other words - the fittest is not the softest.
Liberal “social justice” is the reincarnation of Soviet Union political correctness and indoctrination.
Your ability to get jobs in academia, government and many socially appreciated nonprofit positions requires earning the certificate that says you are politically indoctrinated.
This isn’t stupid. This is a deliberate path to what has been a route to the elite, though many end up permanently underemployed and angry activists, which also supports the liberal elites who want to have an army to direct against targets.
And in their spare time, they form liberal digital hate mobs online to shame and ruin the lives of perceived dissidents and those who violate various liberal dogmas. It is the real world equivalent of the 2 minute hate in 1984 but with varying targets.
Jon Ronson is one of the few people I’ve seen who has discussed this phenomena and the only major one addressing the aftermath.
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, a Book Review
https://letterpile.com/books/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed-a-Book-Review
A Short History of Events That Occurred After Jon Ronsons So Youve Been Publicly Shamed
https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/A-Short-History-of-Events-after-Jon-Ronsons-So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed
However, still some hope for the marketable skills like engineering/sciences and business. The rest is extremely expensive fluff IMO.
And the campus life stuff is secondary, too.
Goes without saying but the purpose of any form of training is to learn skills that will be a stepping stone towards a job and the means to earn a living. It is secondary and icing on the cake if the job turns out to be “fun” and enjoyable.
You are correct. In an uncivilized world such as ours, savages feed off the meek, so remember that the next time you're tempted to turn the other cheek to a Muslim.
All three of our sons had very little college and all earn a very handsome living through hard work and a healthy work ethic. We are so very proud of them. (Sales, Real Estate, and Restaurant business in that order)
Good for your sons——I have 3 also.one without a degree, and he is doing VERY well.
I have grandchildren in college now———and I’m stunned at the cost.
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PLUS, no student loan debts. The peers of our youngest are no where as successful as him, and are digging their way out of college debts. They envy his freedom from that burden.
“so remember that the next time you’re tempted to turn the other cheek to a Muslim.”
I keep asking Christians when will they run out of cheeks to turn? Apparently they have an unending supply of cheeks.
Funny you should ask because Mark Levin says it started over 100 years ago that the communists infiltrated our education system...
Exactly. Hard work makes the difference.
Greek....
Yes, Greek.
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