Posted on 04/03/2017 4:24:32 PM PDT by John Semmens
In Florida, a student—Marshall Polston—was suspended for challenging his Muslim professor Areej Zufari's assertion that the claim Jesus was crucified is a hoax. Rollins College officials maintained that "the suspension was necessary because the student disobeyed the instructor's order to stay out of the classroom. We strive to ensure an orderly transmission of knowledge from the professor to the students. Those students who disrupt this process by needlessly disagreeing with the teacher must be removed for the process to work as designed."
However, when evidence, including surveillance camera footage, contradicted Zufari's contention that Polston had been disruptive the suspension was reversed. Nevertheless, Polston was admonished by school authorities to "use this occasion to reflect on how best to express your opinion and treat others in a respectful manner." Despite having her allegations disproved, Zufari received no similar admonishment.
In Pennsylvania, Drexel University Professor George Ciccariello-Maher, a self-described communist, urged students to "do whatever is necessary to prevent Charles Murray from speaking on our campus. We must make it clear that people like him have no right to spew their opinions among us. The university must be safe from the intrusion of anti-progressive thought."
Murray has written dozens of books on social policy from a libertarian perspective—a fact which irks Ciccariello. "Murray's notion that freedom is the preferred state for the human species is naive," Ciccariello contended. "Individuals aren't competent to run their own lives. In the ideal society the intellegentsia act as the community's brain—directing each individual toward his proper role in service of the collective. Nonconforming views like those espoused by Murray have no place in our world."
Ciccariello attained some notoriety last December for his tweet "all I want for Christmas is white genocide." and his further demand that "we really need to abolish the White race. As I advised my son, if we had the courage to selectively poison them or send them to gulag-style death camps the world would be a better place." Though he himself is White, Ciccariello declined to personally implement his own extermination "because I need to stick around to continue my role as spiritual adviser to the colored races."
In California, Pierce College, a branch of the Los Angeles Community College District in Woodland Hills, blocked a student—Kevin Shaw—from passing out copies of the US Constitution on campus. California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley explained that "every campus has a designated free speech area where students can say whatever they want as long as it doesn't offend anyone. Mr. Shaw's complaint that the ten-by twenty foot space set aside for this purpose is inadequate is not borne out by the evidence. I hardly ever see anyone in this space. If anything, I think we might've been overly generous. Unless Shaw can demonstrate to our satisfaction that more space is needed he should keep quiet."
"Freedom of speech is a natural right held by all Americans," Shaw argued. "The College's contention that it is a matter of density of the occupation of a ridiculous artificial 'free speech zone' completely misses the point. Every American has the right to respectfully express his political opinions in any public area, which on this campus would be virtually all outdoor areas between the buildings. Certainly, the distribution of a document informing people of their constitutional rights is protected freedom of speech."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,256464.0.html
“because I need to stick around to continue my role as spiritual adviser to the colored races.”
As Ayn Rand said - when a communist says something, believe what they say, because they DO!
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