Posted on 11/28/2015 3:47:17 AM PST by Kaslin
How radical, weird and out of touch have liberals on college campuses gotten since Obama came into office? It's worse than you ever thought and although there is an almost unlimited number of problematic incidents to choose from, these 15 are particularly effective at getting across how bad things have become.
1) "College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns insulting, childish concerns that Muslim students would be offended."
2) "Portland State University Offers Course Teaching How to 'Make Whiteness Strange' According to Portland State University Professor Rachel Sanders' 'White Privilege' course, 'whiteness' must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved. The course description states that 'whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States" and claims that 'to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.' Students taking the course will 'endeavor to make whiteness strange.' In order to make whiteness strange, the description says students must 'interrogate whiteness as an unstable legal, political, social, and cultural construction.'"
3) "A University in the San Francisco Area Actually Told Students To Call 911 if They Were Offended. Administrators at a Catholic university in the San Francisco Bay Area have rescinded an official school policy instructing students to clog up the regional 9-1-1 emergency reporting system to report 'bias incidents.'
The school is Santa Clara University, reports Campus Reform Until this month, however, Santa Clara administrators have been instructing students to report 'bias incidents' using the emergency service reserved for dispatching police, firefighters and ambulances.
'If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY,' the Santa Clara website instructed students in fierce, all-capital letters."
4) "Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee Knoxville's Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her here's a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr."
5) "A Professor at Polk State College has allegedly failed a humanities student after she refused to concede that Jesus is a ‘myth' or that Christianity oppresses women during a series of mandatory assignments at the Florida college. According to a press release from the Liberty Counsel, a non-profit public interest law firm, Humanities Professor Lance 'Lj' Russum gave a student a 'zero' on four separate papers because the 16-year-old did not 'conform to his personal worldviews of Marxism, Atheism, Feminism, and homosexuality.' The law firm has called for a full, private investigation of the professor and the course curriculum."
6) "College Codes Make 'Color Blindness' a Microaggression; wait, what? UCLA says "Color Blindness," the idea we shouldn't obsess over people's race, is a microaggression. If you refuse to treat an individual as a 'racial/cultural being,' then you're being aggressive."
7) "The phrase 'politically correct' is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university’s 'Just Words' campaign is the work of UWM’s 'Inclusive Excellence Center' and aims to 'raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact' microaggressions like 'politically correct' or 'PC.'"
8) ) "'American,' 'illegal alien,' 'foreigners,' 'mothering,' and 'fathering' are just a handful of words deemed 'problematic' by the University of New Hampshire's Bias-Free Language Guide.Saying 'American' to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes 'U.S. citizen' or 'Resident of the U.S.' The guide also tries to get students to stop saying 'Caucasian,' 'illegal Immigrant,' 'mother,' 'father' and even the word 'healthy' is said to shame those who aren't healthy."
9) "Late yesterday afternoon, ACLJ filed a lawsuit on behalf of Brandon Jenkins against officials of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Maryland for denying Brandon admission to its Radiation Therapy Program in part due to his expression of religious beliefs. As one faculty member explained to Brandon, on behalf of CCBC, the ‘field [of radiation therapy] is not the place for religion.'"
10) "A California school co-founded by a firebrand who once called for an 'intifada' in the U.S. has become the nation's first accredited Muslim college."
11) "According to Coastal Carolina University, sex is only consensual if both parties are completely sober and if consent is not only present, but also enthusiastic. This is a troubling standard that converts many ordinary, lawful sexual encounters into sexual assault, and it should frighten any student at CCU.â€
12) "Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food. Students took to Twitter to call the event culturally insensitive and to question the school's efforts to promote diversity. Clemson Dining issued an apology to 'offended' students after hosting a 'Maximum Mexican' food day."
13) "All-Women's College Cancels 'Vagina Monologues' Because it Excludes Women Without Vaginas."
14) "The 'Black Lives Matter' leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale University delivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party."
15) "Assistant Dean (at Cornell) Tells a Project Veritas Investigative Journalist that the University Would Allow an ISIS Terrorist to Hold a 'Training Camp' on Campus, Saying: 'It Would be Like Bringing in a Coach to do a Training on a Sports Team.'"
Seriously, where would you send a kid today? Not everyone is eligible for Hillsdale.
Over half of the statehouses are controlled by Republicans. Why aren’t Republican governors and state legislatures demanding accountability from administrators, professors and staff at state funded colleges and universities. They have the ability to fire state employees.
MAybe our GOPe state gubbermins are as phony as the federal one.
It seems liberal academia has turned into the Ouroboros
I have to wonder how this professor would have handled a Muslim student with similar views on Islam.
Would a female Muslim student that advocated wearing a hijab and female genital mutilation have be failed for not viewing those practices as oppressive to women.
We have entered the Golden Age of Idiocy.
Two of my alma maters solicit me regularly for alumni donations. I have not contributed since they both attacked the Boy Scouts of America (both universities kicked out the Boy Scouts from all facilities because they would not allow homosexual scout leaders). When the callers ask me why, and I tell them, they have no response.
BTTT
Once upon a time, a kid went to college to get an education. Now a kid goes to college to become an *sshole.
Times have changed.
IOW, men.
The power might be with the schools Board of Regents. We had 2 Conservatives run here in MI to get on the Board of U of M, I know one got on I am not sure if the other one did. That seems to be the place to begin to bring sanity to these failing ( IMHO ) institutions. Now where is the freakin' RNC on this? Why aren't they looking for candidates to fill these slots? Is that crickets I hear?.....
AKA: 15 reasons why parents should opt to send their kids to trade schools.
Excellent point
“College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims
Well not remembering 9/11 is offensive to Americans and since this is America and not Muslimastan, screw the muslims.......
Fortunately here in Michigan we’re doing away with straight ticket voting and people are going to have to start looking at their ballots again.
Currently if you vote straight ticket, races with more than one republican running are counted as a “no vote”.
The democrats are screaming bloody murder over the loss of straight ticket voting. They know that a sizable number of their voters are too lazy or stupid to vote beyond a couple of the top races.
11) "According to Coastal Carolina University, sex is only consensual if both parties are completely sober and if consent is not only present, but also enthusiastic. This is a troubling standard that converts many ordinary, lawful sexual encounters into sexual assault, and it should frighten any student at CCU."
Mrs, BN has a slightly different list:
"or sharpening her knife."
Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee and Concordia University Chicago are where my children are or have been at and this stuff is not on those campuses. Look small, look faith-based and you can find a good education.
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