Posted on 10/02/2016 8:36:35 AM PDT by detective
A dark age descends on America’s campuses, fostered and welcomed by the disciples of Gramsci that have seized control of the commanding heights of education and culture. In place of the sacred academic tradition of open inquiry, they have substituted a reign of virtue, at least as they define it, so that dissenting ideas not only need not be heard, they must be actively suppressed.
The so-called Social Justice Warriors, intoxicated with their own sense of absolute righteousness, are enforcing the dogmas of revolutionary purity. Emily Zanotti of Heat Street descries what happened when the University of Kansas chapter of Young America’s Foundation tried to hold a discussion with the SJWs
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By foreclosing all of the avenues of civilized debate and discussion, the Left has only one thing coming to them.
The lefties accuse righties of not thinking, and then the lefties engage in every maneuver to shut down thought that they can.
This isn’t about any kind of reasoned critique of the rightie narrative as it exists (and nothing is perfect, so certainly such a thing can be possible). This is about “how DARE you even go down that road — no, no, we’re not even going to let you answer that question, we are just going to DAMN you for it.”
And they’ve earned it. Oh boy, have they earned it.
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You can not reason a person out of a position they were not reasoned into.
Well, they have several things.
One of them is that they have closed their own minds. I saw an example of this just last night when some greenie organization was protesting a natural, nontoxic cleaner containing substances that are poisonous in doses far more than likely to be encountered in the usage of the cleaner. How can I get this off the shelves, this hellion screeched. Well it turns out that the formula had been changed so the philippic about it, which screeched about “do you even need to hear more?!” was even out of date.
Making themselves blind, they stumble and fall into every kind of folly and have made such enemies of wisdom that they can’t even find their way out. And they certainly can’t pull specks out of any eyes due to the logs in their own.
There is a God, and vice punishes itself.
Now if you mean to suggest this will force righties into brute force... I must challenge the righties as to whether they are believing in God. I mean REALLY believing, not just using the concept of God as some excuse to play God and cherish a brutal conflict (which even God does not).
Yes you can, if the person wakes up to the value of reason.
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Could this be a First Amendment ping? They never discuss issues. From liblogic 101, they’re right, you’re wrong so shut up. Dontcha love the tolerance line they use constantly.
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Justice is mafia protection. You get your feelings protected in exchange of forfeiting rights and property.
it is the ideal brownshirt Marxism on the march
OK, parents and tax payers of Kansas. How long are you going to keep underwriting this?
Don’cha know, everyone is unfair except them.
A Hellary supporter is on tv right now interrupting a Trump supporter. True to form.
Yes, and we have to live with them.
Or we don’t.
I would dearly love to see those idiots having to live under the regime they want.
That usually requires a ‘significant emotional event’ in ones life.
Passivity in the the face of evil is no virtue.
I hope I live long enough to see it.
The government school did not protect the free speech rights of the students. It not only their violated civil rights...but also their Constitutional Right of free speech.
Let the litigation begin.
Nothing new here. Back in 1957 I was a freshman at Columbia and was asked by the student government committee to ‘chair’ a program where the school brought in a famous anit-communist undercover agent for the FBI who was on a speaking tour.
I had no idea why I was chosen over some upperclassmen to run the meeting and took it as a great compliment. :-) I was naive. They probably anticipated the reception in the hall from the liberal/left crowd. The meeting devolved into a fiasco with the speaker being shouted down and eventually attacked on stage to the point where police intervened.
The Left has never been willing to hear opposing views and are willing to resort to violence or shouting down opposing views. You can call it tactics of Saul Alinski that Hillary admired or whatever, but that’s what they do to prevent free speech they don’t like. And have done for decades.
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