Posted on 07/22/2019 4:47:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It became known as “The Bloody Morning Scout.”
In 1755, Ephraim Williams Jr. led colonial forces and some 200 Mohawk allies into battle against French and Indian troops near Lake George, New York. But Williams marched into a deadly ambush.
He was killed in the fight, and his troops were driven back, suffering tremendous losses. But history records that those under his command fought bravely and made “a very handsome retreat.”
Today, the college that bears Williams’ name has been ambushed by its own students, and school officials have beaten a hasty and inglorious retreat.
At Williams College in Massachusetts, biology professor Dr. Luana Maroja wrote online last year that she was concerned about student and administrator attitudes regarding free speech.
She gathered more than 100 faculty signatures on a petition calling for the school to adopt what is known as the “Chicago Principles,” a statement in favor of free expression developed by the University of Chicago.
More than 60 schools have endorsed this statement, a welcome response to the disrupted events and other nonsense that have plagued universities around the country.
Some Williams students will have none of it. Maroja says that more than a dozen of them barged into a faculty meeting last November holding signs such as “free speech harms” and saying faculty were trying to “kill” the students.
After that, tensions escalated. The College Fix reports that a professor subsequently “threatened violence” if Williams adopted the Chicago statement. All this because Maroja dared to promote the idea that Williams should maintain a “climate of mutual respect.”
Williams is a private school, so the First Amendment doesn’t automatically apply to institutional activity there as it does on public college campuses. Still, students should expect that the school would want to promote the civil exchange of ideas.
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Thanks for the clarification. LET’S GET ‘EM!!!
They need to pass the Chicago Principles resolution right away. I don’t know it verbatim but I remember reading it a few years ago. The very idea “free speech harms” is a dangerous notion - the fact that they are free to say it, however, is why the Chicago Principles need to be ratified.
“Free Speech Harms” is nothing but totalitarianism. They want to regulate all kinds of speech and it isn’t going to stop until it is stopped completely. It needs to be trounced for many reasons, including the simple fact that it is impossible to know what may offend any single person.
Most people, most of the time, don’t want to deliberately offend other people - but when they do, you know it. It isn’t hidden in code words and euphemisms. If someone is offended, the best solution is for that person say why they are offended and maybe dialogue will ensue that will bring people closer together instead of dividing them further. After that, move on. Life is too short to carry a grudge over some silly figure of speech.
It surely would if they try to take mine away. Folks, I’m under Oath.
Williams, like most schools, is nominally private but receives government money. If it takes an anti-free speech attitude, it should receive no government money.
Hillsdale is one of the few that refuses government money in any form — even government-backed student loans. Government money brings government control. So Hillsdale can actually do what it wants.
Fire the Students and the Admissions Office who selected them.
It’s the only way.
Time to bash some commie heads and get the professor who advocated violence against those who wanted to protect it.
It couldn't hit Hillsdale, or that would be the end of Hillsdale, which requires every student to take a course in the U.S. Constitution. Clarence Thomas spoke at Hillsdale's 2016 commencement.
When will people start standing up to these disruptors and come right into their faces with beating drums, ringing large bells, electric megaphones or airhorns to protect their own right to hear invited speakers?
No 1A = no federal funding.
I’m pretty sure that the term “kowtow” is racist.
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