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The University Gone Feral
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| 11/17/15
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 11/17/2015 2:49:28 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Shouting down guest speakers, disrupting events, and mobbing individuals would not be tolerated at Disney World, so why on campus? That's easy. People take Disney World more seriously than Yale University.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:02:37 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: Alberta's Child
“The University of Missouri campus police now request that students â a group not known for polite vocabulary â call law enforcement if someone disparages them with hurtful names.”
Why not? The lawgivers have to be alerted when the will of Landru is violated (in reference to the Star Trek TOS episode “Return of the Archons”).
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:08:58 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
To: markomalley
Obama and George Soros have flown Hamas and Islamic Jihad affiliated Palistinians experienced in community organizing the Intifada and suicide bombings into the country and paid them to advise and train #BlackLivesMatter in the arts of urban terrorism
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:15:54 AM PST
by
rdcbn
("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
To: markomalley
I repeat what I have said elsewhere here: I am retiring at the end of next semester in part because I think within a VERY short time it will be entirely impossible to teach with any degree of honesty about any subject.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:28:02 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: rdcbn
Iam waiting for when someone who is going to school to actually get an education brings a suit against a school for providing an environment not conducive to learning.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:29:10 AM PST
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: markomalley
The other day I was in the library and I sensed some microaggression from the elderly librarian as she was showing her privilege, so I had to immediately run to my safe zone.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:31:39 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
To: LS
Oh. You must be teaching in NYC public schools. Those who teach honestly are harassed out of the system.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:34:53 AM PST
by
EinNYC
To: markomalley
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:37:16 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
To: EinNYC
No. I am at a major private Catholic Midwestern university.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:39:24 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:41:16 AM PST
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: LS
My Aunt retired a few years ago. She said she was pressured like crazy to promote and vote for Obama which she said was the last straw. That’s in the liberal cesspool of the east coast though, New York, I don’t know what it’s like in other areas. Can you believe they have a school named after him here?
http://www.hempsteadschools.org/Domain/12
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:42:25 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Universities are filled with the insane teaching the gullible
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:46:40 AM PST
by
DaveA37
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
When they have ignorant little kids singing stupid songs about Zero, nothing surprises me.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:48:27 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: LS
With this "Everyone MUST go to college" mentality, which is a bunch of hoo-hah, there is no doubt that your campus is flooded with "students" who first need 1-3 years of remedial classes. In other words, who don't belong there. I just wonder what percentage of these led-around-by-the-professional-Commie-agitators protestors are taking mostly remedial classes.
Last year, only about 28% of NYC high school graduates tested out as college-ready. With politicians tying teachers' hands as to classroom discipline, so that thugs can daily disrupt everyone else's learning, and the foisting of nonsensical curricula such as Commie Core on schools by politicians who don't know anything about education, this is not a surprise. I do not doubt that this is not restricted to NYC high school graduates, and I fear for our country in its future needs for intelligent people to hold jobs.
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:53:26 AM PST
by
EinNYC
To: markomalley
Radicalization is not limited to terrorists.
It is exactly what is happening in colleges and universities across the country. We need to recognize it as such and deal with it on that level.
To: LS
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posted on
11/17/2015 3:54:06 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
To: Sir Napsalot; Kaslin; neverdem; EXCH54FE; 2ndDivisionVet; Rummyfan; smoothsailing; Hojczyk; ...
To: Mouton
“I am waiting for when someone who is going to school to actually get an education brings a suit against a school for providing an environment not conducive to learning.”
More likely, the suit will be generated by someone from Black-Lives, “underprivileged” but somehow able to afford the greedy lawyers willing to exploit this, until the university caves and the higher education mission to search for Truth is thus ended officially in America.
To: markomalley
The assumed impoverished black student at the University of Missouri who went on a hunger strike to protest "white privilege" was raised in plentitude as the son of a multimillionaire corporate executive. The young woman who yelled obscenities at Yale over Halloween costumes is likewise a child of privilege. Campus outbursts reveal more about the anxieties and neuroses of the adolescent and pampered than about existential issues of hunger, violence, or bias.
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