Posted on 11/17/2015 2:49:28 AM PST by markomalley
The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty.
The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — call law enforcement if someone disparages them with hurtful names.
On the same campus, a media professor shouts for students in the vicinity to strong-arm a student photographer to stop him from taking pictures in a way that she does not approve. Other staff members try to block and push away a journalist they find bothersome. Since when do thuggish faculty, in Michael Corleone fashion, call in muscle to intimidate students who are exercising their First Amendment rights?
Since when do quite privileged Yale students — in mini–Cultural Revolution style — surround and, teary-eyed, shout obscenities at their professor? Their target was declared to be guilty of some infraction against the people by an ad hoc court of whiny elites, poorly acting the role of the Committee of Public Safety. Apparently his offense was to suggest that students should not become hysterical when they see Halloween costumes they don’t like. Shouting down guest speakers, disrupting events, and mobbing individuals would not be tolerated at Disney World, so why on campus?
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That's easy. People take Disney World more seriously than Yale University.
“The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — 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”).
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.
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.
Oh. You must be teaching in NYC public schools. Those who teach honestly are harassed out of the system.
No. I am at a major private Catholic Midwestern university.
They need jobs.
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
Universities are filled with the insane teaching the gullible
When they have ignorant little kids singing stupid songs about Zero, nothing surprises me.
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.
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.
Here’s 2 more....
http://www.obamagreencharter.org/
I wonder what they think when they see him doing more for terrorists - oh excuse me, “refugees” and illegals than blacks.
VDH ping ...
“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.
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