Posted on 11/11/2015 11:34:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa
To Create "Hostile" Atmosphere
Brenda Smith-Lezama, vice president of the Missouri Students Association, appeared on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon to express her disdain at people using their First Amendment rights to create a "hostile" and "unsafe" learning environment. Smith-Lezama advocated for a safe space for "healing" rather than "experiencing a lot of hate."
MSNBC host Thomas Roberts asked Smith-Lezama to respond to a professor who "complained" universities are becoming intolerant of opposing views.
"One professor complained universities are becoming places of prohibition," Roberts said. "What's your feeling? Do you believe that's a place we are heading for American campuses now? "
"I personally am tired of hearing that first amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here," Smith-Lezama said on MSNBC. "I think that it's important for us to create that distinction and create a space where we can all learn from one another and start to create a place of healing rather than a place where we are experiencing a lot of hate like we have in the past."
Smith-Lezama said the treatment of a student journalist who was accosted on Monday should be a "teachable moment" for those who approach the protestors with "hostility."
"I think it's a teachable moment for all of us," she said of the incident. "I also think it's important to remember that as student journalists, you cannot approach these type of situations with hostility and with anger because it only escalates the situation." Posted on November 10, 2015
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Frankly, I hope the alumni at Mizzou cut the funding off at this place.
I hope people stop showing up for football games.
I quit the NFL when Rush Limbaugh was discriminated against...walked away from NASCAR when they went lib.
I hope others in Missouri do the same to these fascists.
That one sentence encapsulates the philosophy and overall worldview being practiced by these spoiled miscreants. The everyday challenges of the real world will have them scampering back to the comfortable womb of academia.
This is the most likely scenario, and the one that will send a message to college administrators nationwide that this insanity needs to be nipped in the bud.
As much as they are demonized, it is the "privileged" white men whose contributions keep these places running. Once that spigot is turned off, a new reality will set in for these maladjusted, self-entitled academics (students and faculty).
Not to mention transport phenomena, kinetics, Nuclear Physics 301 and that all week of Hades - Chem-E design (with bad and insufficient data).
“The everyday challenges of the real world will have them scampering back to the comfortable womb of academia.”
You wish. Scampering straight to HR is more like it.
And thus, the 2nd Amendment...
Thanks for that gem of a comment.
“You wish. Scampering straight to HR is more like it.”
Scampering to HR is the first stop on the way to a liberal lawyer who will file a class action lawsuit against the company and manipulate the case to be heard by one of the hundreds of progressive activist judges appointed by the Obama administration over the past 6 years. These judges believe in the “living Constitution”, social justice, and outcome based decision making. Pass a few of these cases up to a Supreme Court where one or two justices (Kennedy and Roberts) make decisions based upon the optics in the national press, or pressure from the White House, and you’ll soon have Supreme Court enshrined protections in the workplace for all kinds of workplace grievances. It will be impossible to manage organizations filled with employees holding a victim mindset and ready to file a lawsuit based on imagined slights. It will become impossible for an employer to give an employee any negative feedback or suggestions for improvement.
The consequences of such legal shenanigans will be the complete offshoring of as many business functions as possible by large US businesses and the total reliance on “independent contractors” by small to medium sized businesses until the leftists rule independent contractors are really employees. Once that happens see the small business startups implode and along with it employment in the private sector since most private sector new jobs are created by small business, not large corporations.
Elections have long term ramifications. Even if Obama is replaced by a conservative Republican, his far left appointees to the federal judiciary and the bureaucracy will continue to legislate from the bench and wield the power of regulations for decades.
What Smith-Lezama said offends me. I’m calling the cops. (It’s what they said to do.)
Well put, but you’re not telling me anything new. The process is under way, and its effects so far can probably never be completely eradicated, even if conservatives were to be elected to every office tomorrow.
Good little fascist!! Good girl! You get a milkbone doggie treat!!
Teach this.
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The entire reason for the first amendment is to allow the masses to make government feel uncomfortable.
On public property the first amendment rules.
These idiots should have gone to private schools, where the administration can quell all of this stuff.
The problem with going to HR is that this is where many ethnic and women’s studies grads go, to make sure resume screening and interviewing isn’t biased, training whites that they are inherently bad versus those with more skin color, sexual minorities as absolutely fine, etc.
I tried to go to HR about sexual harassment by a transgendered man (trying to be female) and they saw it as a disagreement between two women before blaming my lack of acceptance of his demands for wholehearted endorsement.
When a man can block your path out of the bathroom to lecture you for your way of looking at him, criticize your lack of makeup and fancy feminine clothes, lecture on how bleeding from a neovagina is similar to a woman having a period so we’re not that different ... only the latter one did they talk to him about, because I explained I was eating lunch at my desk to be alone when he interrupted my lunch time to gross me out. It was only the grossing out over a meal that they EVER considered wrong, until I had documented proof of work interference extending a system outage.
Spot on ... my first thought as well. I’m getting too old and tired to put up with this crap much longer.
My God ... what a nightmare to endure.
She's right.
Just not in the way she means.
diff-eq === ugh ....
What makes you think these butthurt protesters are studying thermodynamics, or quantum mechanics, or analytical geometry, or any other similar useful topic?
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