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Amherst College students protest free speech fliers, seek punishment for offenders
The Washington Times ^ | November 13, 2015 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 11/13/2015 1:24:14 PM PST by jazusamo

Student protesters at Amherst College issued a list of demands Thursday which include disciplinary action and mandatory "racial and cultural competency" training for students behind a series of signs on campus that lamented the death of free speech.

The group Amherst Uprising is demanding that university President Biddy Martin issue a statement saying the university does "not tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the 'All Lives Matter' posters, and the 'Free Speech' posters," which charged that the First Amendment was the "true victim" of the University of Missouri protests, The Daily Beast reported.

The students demanded that the people behind the free speech fliers be required to undergo "extensive training for racial and cultural competency."

They also asked administrators to excuse them from coursework and classes so they could participate in protests and sit-ins, The Daily Beast reported.

President Martin must also apologize for the college's "institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx [sic] racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism," the group said.

Three students have also started a started a hunger strike, The Daily Beast reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; amherst; diaperbabies; education; entitledbrats; idiots; leftwingnuts; protests; thugculture
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To: Little Pig
I once went to a talk by Robert Moses, a great inner city Math teacher who walked alongside MLK. He devoted his life to teaching math in the inner city, believing that math knowledge is the ticket to the future.

Anyway, it was a mostly suburban white audience and he was describing to us the kind of smarts that inner city youth have for survival that more privileged youth never develop. An example he used is "can you imagine leaving a child from the suburbs off in the inner city and tell them where they had to go to get to a doctor's appointment, give them a bus schedule, and tell them "figure it out". Point taken....base inner city teaching on real life experiences. By the way, this absolute genius of a teacher did not believe "the disadvantaged" should be given special breaks...it keeps them dependent and enslaved.

What's my point? I could find a very special place on the east side of Cleveland to leave them off these spoiled brats and tell them to figure out the bus schedule to get to a room they can stay in, cross town!

21 posted on 11/13/2015 1:38:15 PM PST by grania
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To: jazusamo

And finally, all protestors will be given participation trophies.


22 posted on 11/13/2015 1:39:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: jazusamo

They need to transfer these little trendy idiots to Amherst’s North Korea campus. They’ll get a good education in quashing free speech.


23 posted on 11/13/2015 1:39:23 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: jazusamo

Those pitiful white brats need to apologize for ever being born.


24 posted on 11/13/2015 1:39:58 PM PST by boycott (--)
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To: tumblindice

Um, that is an oxymoron...


25 posted on 11/13/2015 1:40:16 PM PST by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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To: jazusamo
President Martin must also apologize for the college's "institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx [sic] racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism," the group said.

There's a mouthful.

These "students" are not what is pathetic. Embarrassingly pathetic is the administrators that created this and are currently grabbing their ankles to make it easier to get sodomized by these wankers.

26 posted on 11/13/2015 1:40:44 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: jazusamo

I’m Jewish and have never felt the need to ask any U.S. institution to apologize for a ‘legacy of antisemitism’.


27 posted on 11/13/2015 1:41:05 PM PST by Borges
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To: jazusamo

Amherst COLLEGE is an expensive private liberal arts college, not the same as the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

They have hipster capella singing groups that are quite obnoxious.

Kids graduate with double majors in liberal arts and stratospheric student debt.


28 posted on 11/13/2015 1:41:09 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: gogeo

Isn’t that precious. LOL!


29 posted on 11/13/2015 1:41:15 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

These college administrators have sold to the students, that very rope that the students are now using to hang them.

Let these leftard scum squirm for a while. Eventually we ar going to have to have another Kent State moment when this communist nonsense gets put down.

I for one have had more than I can tolerate of them. They are itching to start Civil War 2 which will not end well for them since they are the least prepared.


30 posted on 11/13/2015 1:41:49 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: boycott

What makes you think they’re white?


31 posted on 11/13/2015 1:42:43 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: jazusamo

...as they wear their t-shirts that read: I’m Glad I Are A College Student


32 posted on 11/13/2015 1:43:00 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: jazusamo

They forgot to add the newest isms.
Dumbism, Stupidism, Idiocyism, and the many more isms that describe these nuts.


33 posted on 11/13/2015 1:43:36 PM PST by certrtwngnut (Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Just guessing ..... Amherst .... Mass ....


34 posted on 11/13/2015 1:44:13 PM PST by boycott (--)
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To: boycott

Considering the kind of parents they probably had, it’s a miracle they WERE born.


35 posted on 11/13/2015 1:44:15 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: jazusamo

Hmmmmm....maybe some of us “white-folk” can incorporate a “facility of higher learning”, charge each of these “whiney-babies” $250/head and give them certificates from

University of Renselaer - Antigua

Are these children really THAT stupid?


36 posted on 11/13/2015 1:44:38 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

BLM seems to be involved in most of these events.


37 posted on 11/13/2015 1:45:40 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jazusamo

For a very long time opposing viewpoints have not been welcome on most College and University campuses.

That these infants do not want free speech should not be a surprise to the nitwit professors and administrators who have promoted this idiocy.


38 posted on 11/13/2015 1:45:48 PM PST by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: ChildOfThe60s

They didn’t miss much did they? :)

I agree with you on the administrators and I’ll add the tenured profs.


39 posted on 11/13/2015 1:46:03 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Snickering Hound

The next step is demanding that college education is free.


40 posted on 11/13/2015 1:46:30 PM PST by Borges
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