Posted on 12/01/2015 12:03:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
As campuses across the country are roiled in paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, groups of black students, perhaps inspired and emboldened by the anarchistic successes at University of Missouri, have formed coalitions and presented elaborate, and breathtakingly audacious, lists of demands which they have nailed to the doors of their respective university administrations.....
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So while these sanctimonious moral brats may feel aggrieved and in need of campus-wide support systems to provide them "safe" spaces in which they can escape racism and oppression, the idea that universities should be compelled to set up mandatory training and teaching about racism, oppression, cultural diversity, and the myriad of other, related phobias and biases that animate the worldviews of these new victims is as wrong-headed as it is impractical...
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In 1943, the Supreme Court addressed this very issue, in a slightly different context, in the case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. In that case, the Court noted that even when policies are well-intentioned, and are designed to create a common good-such as improved race relations on campus through the creation of mandatory instruction -there is a danger in allowing government or individuals to impose a specific view of the world on others, even with supposed lofty purposes. "Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country," the Court noted, "have been waged by many good, as well as by evil, men." And, more disturbingly, initial efforts to define what is right and good-such as improved race relations-can eventually lead to a required adherence to one set of beliefs and the suppression of other views. "Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent," the Court concluded, "soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
.... Support from Joseph Stalin gave Lysenko even more momentum and popularity. In 1935, Lysenko compared his opponents in biology to the peasants who still resisted the Soviet government's collectivization strategy, saying that by opposing his theories the traditional geneticists were setting themselves against Marxism.
Stalin was in the audience when this speech was made, and he was the first one to stand and applaud, calling out "Bravo, Comrade Lysenko. Bravo." This event emboldened Lysenko and gave him and his ally Prezent free rein to slander the geneticists who still spoke out against him. Many of Lysenkoism's opponents, such as his former mentor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, were imprisoned or even executed because of Lysenko's and Prezent's denunciations...."
New York Attorney General Tries to Criminalize Scientific Dissent on Climate Change
"Everyone reading this should do the attorney general of New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, a big favor: buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution, highlight the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights with a bright yellow or orange Sharpie, and mail him a copy.
Schneiderman obviously needs a remedial lesson in the fact that the government is banned from censoring or restricting speech, and certainly has no business "investigating" Americans, including corporations, for their views on - of all things - a contentious scientific theory.
The New York Times is reporting that Schneiderman has subpoenaed extensive financial records, emails and other documents of Exxon Mobil to investigate whether the company "lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risk might hurt the oil business." In addition to ignoring the First Amendment, Schneiderman is apparently unaware that the claim that the world is endangered by a warming climate is a scientific theory, not a proven fact. There is dissention in the scientific community about this theory, and robust debate about both the temperature evidence and computer models on which the theory is based.....
One wonders whether General Schneiderman realizes that he seems to be following the Soviet technique of having the government interfere in science and prosecute anyone who doesn't agree with the theory most in vogue with politicians and the state. Joseph Stalin was infamous for his direct involvement in academic disputes in areas ranging from linguistics to physics. According to "Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars," a 2006 book published by the Princeton University Press, he only "called off an effort to purge Soviet physics of 'bourgeois' quantum mechanics and relativity" as the Soviets were developing their first atomic bomb. Aleksandr Solzhenistsyn's book, "In the First Circle," was all about the Soviet government's suppression of scientists and engineers with the wrong scientific views.
Besides the dangers of criminal or civil charges being lodged against these companies, the other obvious result of such investigations, which may be their intent, is to chill the speech and advocacy of any "bourgeois" who disagrees with the so-called "consensus" that the climate change theory is real and that it is human activity that is the main cause of the world warming up by a miniscule amount. Exxon Mobile already may have been deterred since its spokesman said that it stopped funding any groups doing research on climate change in the middle of the past decade "who were making the uncertainty of the science their focal point.".....
Ping
the only way out of this is to elect Trump or Cruz.
nothing else will work. Well, one other thing. But that would be horrible.
"White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett is quietly working behind the scenes to build a coalition of major U.S. corporations to back President Barack Obama's goal of hashing out a global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the upcoming United Nations summit in Paris.
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a letter that outlines how, by the end of June, Obama is looking to build a coalition of businesses to show support for UN climate talks. After that, the White House will then try to grow this group of businesses to 250 in the run up to the Paris talks this November.
The way the letter is written, it's likely being circulated by someone or some group on behalf of the White House. The source could not disclose who was circulating the letter on the White House's behalf, but did confirm the business they work for was approached to support the Paris climate talks......."
Nov 30, 2015 - Slate: Bill Gates Is Finally Tackling Climate Change. That's Good News for the Climate
"At the same time, Gates is spearheading something called the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a group of 28 private investors who will commit various amounts of their respective fortunes to clean energy ventures, provided the governments follow through on their promises. Gates is personally pledging to invest $1 billion, while others have not yet announced the size of their contributions. Among the tech magnates participating are Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Virgin's Richard Branson, Alibaba's Jack Ma, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Meg Whitman, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and SalesForce's Marc Benioff. More are expected to sign on in the days to come.
Gates' leadership here is significant. He and his wife, Melinda Gates, have built the world's largest private foundation, and they've dedicated their efforts in developing countries to fighting poverty and disease. Perhaps belatedly, Gates appears to be recognizing that climate change could undo all of that good work....
Gates' charitable efforts in some fields, including U.S. education, have been criticized by some as naive and misguided. (Zuckerberg, too, has misfired on education funding.) But his technocratic approach could be a breath of fresh air in the climate battle, which is too often viewed as a zero-sum conflict: between energy producers and environmentalists, government regulators and private industry, rich countries and poor countries........"
The way out of this is to roll back taxes, have fair and predictable regulations and stop frivolous lawsuits.
Jarrett sickens me to my very core. muslim traitor.
bmfl
Real life will wash away these people.
Bookmark for later read. Looks excellent. I like to think of this whole issue as Victim Deprivation Syndrome. The reality is, there is so little real victimization to go around that todays leftist children feel painfully deprived of their rightful victim status.
Princess and the Pea Derangement Syndrome. One of my brothers has it.
I hope your brother gets over it, I think the time for that kind of indulgence is rapidly running out.
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