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Pollak: Students Want College to Be ‘Political Utopia that Doesn’t Allow for Dissent
brietbart ^ | 03/04/2019 | Pam Key

Posted on 03/05/2019 6:14:40 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Monday on MSNBC’s “Live,” Breitbart News’ senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak discussed President Donald Trump’s plan for an executive order “requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars.”

When asked if government intervention can change cultural problems on campuses, Pollack said, “I think the real answers are yes and no. So yes insofar as universities that have these speech codes, especially public universities, really shouldn’t have them—they’re arguably anti-constitutional. And as federal taxpayers, we should not want our money going to universities that do this kind of thing, especially if they are public universities. So you could increase tolerance, you could decrease the use of these speech codes by using federal grant money as leverage.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: dissent; pollak; students; utopia

1 posted on 03/05/2019 6:14:40 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In other words, they want an extended daycare center and a womb for which to hide...


2 posted on 03/05/2019 6:18:46 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Colleges and universities used to teach you HOW TO THINK.

Now, all they do is teach you WHAT TO THINK................


3 posted on 03/05/2019 6:18:50 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let’s see. PBS, Planned Parenthood and Sanctuary cities that flaunt Federal law all remain funded. So you really think that Universities that suppress Conservative speech and speakers, hire only the politically correct and have sham “academic” Departments such as women’s studies, ethnic studies and LBGT departments fully funded and staffed are actually worried that their funding will be cut? Methinks they are amused at Trump’s sound and fury.


4 posted on 03/05/2019 6:24:28 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Liberals aren't interested in learning to justify their positions through logic and debate.

They're interested in letting late night comedians teach them how to be appropriately smug and dismissive about opposing opinions.

"Opposing opinions are so stupid, why should I even learn what the cro magnon crypto-fascists think, because they can't think and they are stupid and should be killed. Did you hear that? I called them 'cro magnon crypt-fascists" because that's what they are!"

5 posted on 03/05/2019 6:25:57 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fifty years ago perhaps 30% of male students at major American universities took ROTC training to serve their country. Today roughly the same percentage take Antifa training to destroy their country. Something has gone very wrong.


6 posted on 03/05/2019 6:30:59 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Red Badger

More like what to regurgitate on command. The Left is Pavlovian.


7 posted on 03/05/2019 6:51:09 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is now common written both on the Left and the Right that there will be a second American Civil War. The last one started with the firing of cannon at Charleston, South Carolina. Methinks this one will start with the firing of scoped sniper rifles in various locations. There no longer exists a common consensus of values and goals in the country. There is no unity. Antifa violence is just the beginning. Somewhat reminiscent of the violence in Kansas in1860-1861 before the war started.


8 posted on 03/05/2019 6:55:01 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A$$holes willingly choosing to be controlled and subjected to fascism.


9 posted on 03/05/2019 7:18:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because they’re teh tolerant, open ones and you’re not.


10 posted on 03/05/2019 7:31:14 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One day they will leave college. So when you extrapolate that out a bit what they’re saying is they want an entire society to run that way.


11 posted on 03/05/2019 7:38:03 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just look at who colleges let in. Nothing but liberal idiots capable of being brainwashed and manipulated.


12 posted on 03/05/2019 7:44:19 AM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!.)
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To: allendale
President Trump should cut funding to Universities suppressing conservative speech.

You're right there's lots of problems - we agree - but the solution isn't to throw up our hands in defeat - it's to take one step forward...then another, then another...

13 posted on 03/05/2019 7:53:07 AM PST by GOPJ ("Newspeak": Republicans lie, Democrats misspeak. Democrats plan, Republicans scheme. Howie Carr)
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To: allendale

What happens when the big war comes? What happens when the young are asked (or drafted) into the military? Will they serve or resist—or worse yet—join the other side? How many would fight a communist nation. Next big war—I don’t think we will win. Imagine if Trump was FDR on December 8th—Congress wouldn’t vote for “Trump’s War” They would blame him for Attack on Pearl Harbor and send a peace Team to Japan to “grant a ceast fire”.


14 posted on 03/05/2019 9:56:59 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: allendale

Nope won’t happen because our side has all the guns and the marksmanship

And they know it


15 posted on 03/05/2019 10:18:22 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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