Posted on 04/24/2023 5:28:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
heir [the pro-life visitors at Yale] smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate [about foetal personhood and abortion ethics”] inflammatory. I could barely seethe out my opinion about the misogyny of holding such a debate at all … The discussion never should have been entertained [at all] because simply opening space for this ‘logical, respectful’ debate itself is a threat to human rights that should never be up for debate … Some arguments aren’t worth engaging with, and quite frankly are dangerous for even existing. -- Hyerim Bianca Nam, Editorial, Yale Daily News
Logical argument, especially “civil respectful debate,” is not, apparently, very welcome at Yale these days, and why should it be when the children who go there, to, so to speak, “study” already know everything? “Seething”, as opposed to thinking, the latter of which requires free and “logical respectful” debate, is, apparently, what “educators” at Yale convey to their pupils nowadays. On the other side of the ledger, however, it was logical and respectful debates that long ago made Yale a place people wanted to go to learn (back in the “old days” when learning, as opposed to indoctrination, was seen as desirable).
If Yale were the only educational institution teaching intolerance and hatred this might not be a major cause for concern. However, GWU Law professor and constitutional scholar, Jonathan Turley points out that:
A Berkeley columnist denounced civility and called for violent resistance. Dartmouth faculty and students demanded that the university shutdown a conservative newspaper. Wellesley editors endorsed shutting down conservative speakers and said that “violence may be warranted.” We have also documented repeated incidents where university newspapers have fired writers and editors for questioning Covid masks, challenging systemic racism claims, or holding other opposing views...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I thought that the radicals were bad when I was in college, but it was nothing like today.
This was happening in 1966 when I was in college.
Now the inmates run the asylum.
Back then they wanted “in” so free speech and debate were important. Now they control the reins of power, and the time for discussion and free speech is over.
The cheapening of life is a worthy debate. It is devastating to a culture and a society when it cannot discuss the killing of babies.
I wonder how people would react to aborting puppies?
Silly me. I went to college to learn marketable skills the private sector wanted and wound up paying me for.
exactly
The left loves violence. Then they denounce January 6. They’ve taken sides, and it’s not the side of truth.
Demands for civility by leftists in power are always self-serving and disingenuous.
Their true colors are every shade of flame.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Very well put. Also, the "science is settled."
I’m 65. In my college days at UT Austin, the radicals were in the minority. Now they’re the vast majority. Which, I guess, means I’m now the radical…
any younger person who doubts what I am saying can literally pull up ANY news coverage from the 1980’s discussing flag burning.
What is it about going to college that makes those kids think they suddenly know everything. At what point during the orientation are they given the blue pill?
These stories show there is a clear spiritual element to what’s going on.
The hate and rage at having a discussion if unborn babies are worthy of living.
Wow.
Me too, but the protests were antiwar. The radicals today are pulling down everything decent, proper and civilized along with western history.
They are doing everything to keep people from coalescing around a single idea to save this country from destruction.
Now, who would be interested in bringing the US down by divide and conquer tactics?
“Which, I guess, means I’m now the radical…”
Yup. Fight the Power!
I wasn’t alive in 1966, but no, the 60s campus protests were not simply anti-war. They went much further than that. Read, for example, Allan Bloom’s account of holing himself up in his graduate student office during protests, or Horowitz & Collier’s Destructive Generation.
Gen-Z is just carrying on the work of its radical Boomer progenitors.
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