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 Administrators at a Catholic university in the San Francisco Bay Area have rescinded an official school policy instructing students to clog up the regional 9-1-1 emergency reporting system to report 'bias incidents.'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.'"
Substitute Citizen’s Militia for ISIS Terrorist and watch the reaction.
Even though both would involve firearms you can bet that there would be no tolerance for a militia on campus.
Georgetown University Professor
Carroll Quigley
Quotes by This Author
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy†(Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966.)
This is conditioning, training for the College Administrations and, hopefully (for the “students”), training for the politicians.
I use “training” as you would for a dog - “Roll over, Spot.” “Sit, Rover.” “Heel, Lassie.”
At Parris Island Boot Camp, our DIs would play a game called “Belly, Back, Feet, Knees”.
“Get on your belly!”
“Get on your back!”
“Get on your feet!”
“Get on your belly!”
“Belly-back-feet-knees!”
A variation was, “When I say ‘JUMP’, you ask, ‘How high?’, on the way up!”
At the time, I hated these ‘silly’ games.
After being shot at for the first time, I realized that the DIs were conditioning our reflexes - my reflexes had put me on the ground before I had consciously interpreted “LOUD noise” as meaning, “Someone is shooting at you, get down NOW!” Then I gladly would have signed my next paycheck over to my DI, because those “silly games” had saved my life.
However, this conditioning can be used for evil, too. These “students” (more likely, Soros or whoever is pulling the strings) are training college administrations to respond to their demands (”JUMP”), no matter how ridiculous, with a bowing of the head, touching the forelock and asking, “Yes, Master, how high?”
College administrations are getting very good at this silly game!
We conservatives (read “Sane adults”) should not simply regard these demands as “proof of the craziness of modern students” but rather as “crazy like a fox” conditioning of all authority to respond instantly and unquestioningly to their demands and accusations of “Racism”, “Bigotry”, “Islamophobia”, etc.
“Mischief, thou art afoot.” Julius Caesar - Act 3, Scene 2 - Shakespeare
And not ALL colleges are like this....there sone in Dahlonega Georgia (UNG...part of the Georgia university system) that is still a place you can safely send your child to be educated rather than indoctrinated
Lack of backbone... I suspect President Trump will assist with helping the GOP boys learn how to stand up to silly liberal PC...
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That almost makes sense, in a strange way. Almost. It definitely proves that the descent into madness is virtually complete.
Political correctness is starting to feed on itself.
It’s unavoidable for that to eventually happen.
being made to "feel bad" is generally the first step to developing a conscience. It means you are giving thought or consideration to either the opinion of another person or the consequence of an action or inaction on your part.
AMEN
A somewhat updated version of a Classic:
10 more rules for dating my daughter
Jeff La Grua, a former U.S. Marine, gathered these rules together from around the Web.
Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them.
Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don’t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots.
Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose his compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants three sizes too small, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your ass.
Rule Four: I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing a “barrier method†of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: When it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.
Rule Five: It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is “early.â€
Rule Six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you bleed.
Rule Seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don’t you do something useful, like change the oil in my car and rotate the tires?
Rule Eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka – zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.
Rule Nine: Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, all-seeing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not %^&^% with me.
Rule Ten: Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a helo coming in over a Wadi near Baghdad. When my Gulf War Syndrome starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car – there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.
That is the funniest thing I've read today.
Mark
If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating.
I think most public universities of any size are "like this" to some extent, even if their crazies haven't made the news lately.
That doesn't mean a student can't get a decent education, if he chooses his course of study wisely. However, the race-nuts and the homosexual-nuts and the Moslem-nuts are there, and they will have most of the faculty's and administration's support if they have a conflict with normal people.
“We had 2 Conservatives run here in MI to get on the Board of U of M, . . “
In many southern states the state University boards are appointed by the governor or the legislature. GOP governors and legislatures in those states should be putting people on the boards who will hold the administrators accountable and fire those who are politicized.
“So you think republicans are the source of this fanaticism by a gaggle of demrat party psychopaths.”
No, I’m suggesting Republican governors and Republican controlled state legislatures should be putting people on the boards of the universities who will remove the leftist fanatics. In my state the head of the University system is appointed by the governor. The state university system is populated and controlled by marxists.
Most states have a board of curators, mostly lawyers and a couple of affirmative action idiots, and they make the selection. Why don’t the demrats do something??
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