Posted on 02/03/2017 4:39:31 AM PST by Kaslin
It is difficult not to cackle with irony at the possibility of President Trump -- he of the monosyllabic vocabulary, odd sentence structures, and Joe Six-pack mentality -- forcing Ivory Tower elitists to raise their sights above their current postmodern descent.
Instead of fiddling while Berkeley burned, Trump quickly responded to the anarchy that prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking after an invitation by the campus Republican Club. Upon witnessing scenes from the spectacle, which included thousands of protestors, numerous fires, smashed windows, and at least one vicious beating, the President tweeted:
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view -- NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
Milo, for those still unaware of his emergence as a public figure, is an outrageously flamboyant gay Breitbart editor who is the most popular speaker on college campuses nationwide. He, along with Trump, is a leading figure in the fight to end the overbearing political correctness in speech that stifles the national dialogue.
Milo adoringly refers to Trump as “Daddy,” which may be a truly appropriate moniker. Intellectuals and pundits (including myself) can discuss the free speech issue ad nauseum, citing the most learned philosophers, jurists, and Founding Fathers. But Trump’s reaction was instinctive, from the gut and to the point: when Junior drives the car into a ditch, he loses the car keys. When he buys thousands of dollars worth of pornography on the Internet, he gets his credit card taken away. And when he shouts over everybody else at the dinner table, he gets a sharp rap on the knuckles with a butter knife.
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and the SUPOSED SCIENTIC SWAMP.
Good analogy.
Power of the purse is the only thing that will work...see sanctuary cities for how that will play out
Remove tenure from professors at public universities.
How about: Remove federal funding for all universities that have unlimited, no strings attached tenure. Establish tenure guidelines to receive federal funding.
I agreed with Trump’s tweet, but I want to see it actually HAPPEN. Now. Today. Before the weekend. (I know that’s a bit much to ask, but I’d dance in the streets if he did it.)
Draining the academic swamp will take generations. The biggest concern is WHO is going to replace all the anti-American educators who have done such a great job of brainwashing the youth who are supposed to replace them. A major undertaking indeed. Granted there ARE young people who may have avoided the liberal way of thinking but they are few in number. (My grandson is one of those). Trump needs to start IMMEDIATELY to drain the swamp of the “nutty professors” if he thinks he can make America great again..
“Remove federal funding for all universities....”
A first priority.
Make universities Co-sign student loans. If the student can’t find a job after graduation, take it out of the faculty pension fund.
Compile statistics of student earnings 5 years after graduation, broken down by major, and publish them.
Simple solution: No freedom of speech, no federal funding or any other kind of support. A language anyone understands.
Simple solution: No freedom of speech, no federal funding or any other kind of support. A language anyone understands.
“Daddy would have gotten us Uzis!”
#9 I think there are plenty of STEM qualified highly educated people that would love to teach at a College level.
Most avoid it because of the Nastiness of the Liberal/Commie Campus Thought Police. Mainly because most of the Administrators are has been Faculty at the same Instututions and run cover for the Commie activities. It just isn’t worth the battle ... which is ever increasing and constantly moving left.
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/
The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/
I was in an argument recently on “We need HB-1 to fill in the STEM skills gap”.
1. A third of STEM grads aren’t working in STEM.
2. If there was such a shortage, they wouldn’t be kicking out mid-career professionals to replace with cheaper new graduates and foreigners.
Absolutely not, what is surprising is that they are admitting it.
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