Posted on 09/08/2019 2:23:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A University of California-Los Angeles professor is calling not only for gun control but also “qualifications” to freedom of speech in order to combat mass shootings fueled by racism, a phenomenon he says has only come to light since President Donald Trump’s election.
UCLA professor Douglas Kellner states that until just two years ago, “all of the previous shootings were rather divorced from sociopolitical factors,” claiming that while mass shootings occurred in the past, they were the results of “individual crises of young men,” having to do with things such as family life or school trouble, in an interview published by the university.
Kellner asserts that the phenomenon of mass shootings motivated by racist ideas is largely isolated to instances occurring since Trump's election.
“The toxicity of gun culture has created a new factor that we have never seen before, that was a major factor in the last few shootings, and that was the election of Donald Trump, and in particular, Trump’s rhetoric [on immigrants],” Kellner said, adding “there haven’t been particular racist school shootings before, or acts of domestic terrorism.”
The professor goes on to state matter-of-factly that the El Paso shooting “was completely different from any of the other acts of domestic terrorism [or] school shootings, because it was targeting Latinos and immigrants.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
1st amendment applies specifically to Congress. In an ideal world, the states (rather than the courts) would get to list the exceptions (for years it was this very way).
2nd amendment is “right of the people” so that looks absolute.
“... Shall not be infringed”
He is right, they are not absolute. They are granted and subject to God.
He things they are granted by and subject to man.
There’s that dang word “PROFESSOR” again. Another word and position totally destroyed by communism (liberalism)
What a bunch of useless communist turds they’ve all turned out to be.
And to think parents shell out good money for their little snowflakes to sit and learn under these insane communist POSs is amazing.
How does he feel about the 8th Amendment, since they are all “flexible”? I’d wager I could make sure he doesn’t die, screaming, for DAYS!!
That’s because he is a communist.
Constitution is constantly being attacked. These rights are fragile and patriots must be diligent.
Douglas Kellner,
Or would you prefer A-Hole? The second amendment is there to protect all the other amendments from idiots like you. Idiots who want to take firearms away from those who chose to fight tyranny.
This guy should be focusing his intellectual and brilliance where there is the biggest “bang for the buck” (pun intended). That is gun violence in the urban hood. It has been going on a lot longer than the new supposed phenomena of recent mass shooting. He should be working there to cure the disease rather than observing some symptom and doing nothing.
Regarding racism caused violence. He seems to think that this is new. Anyone recall the knock-out game? Not gun violence but racist nonetheless. Did he right a similar article during Obama administration regarding this racist induced phenomena? Nope.
Nice. I like it. I'm keepin' it.
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From the (powder)Blue and fool’s Gold campus?
Donate the place to USC!
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write=right
Sorry, don’t ya’ just hate it when that happens.
I wonder if it thinks it’s tenure or federal funding for its department is absolute?
Because I sure know what I would be doing were I in charge.
It is absolute Celine and there are many of us who would have no problem with wiping you and your ilk out with extreme prejudice.
What a bunch of bull S!
from the article: “Kellner, who teaches education, Germanic languages, and gender studies at UCLA”
why should anyone listen to this goofball?
https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/douglas-kellner/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Kellner
Recent controversies
In January 2006, Kellner was caught up in the Bruin Alumni Association’s controversial “Dirty Thirty”[4] project which listed UCLA’s most politically extreme professors. The list was compiled by a former UCLA graduate student, Andrew Jones, who had previously been fired by his mentor David Horowitz for pressuring “students to file false reports about leftists” and for stealing Horowitz’s mailing list of potential contributors to fund research for attacks on leftwing professors.[5]
The Association offered students up to $100 for tapes of lectures that show how “radicals” on the faculty are “actively proselytizing their extreme views in the classroom”.[6] Kellner, named number three; Peter McLaren, also in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, topped the list at number one.
Kellner responded in print with the view that the “attack exemplified rightwing interventions within the cultural wars that have raged on campuses since the 1960s”.[7]
Political writing
Kellner’s writing style has been the subject of criticism in the scholarly field, as many of his books are fiercely political. A Publishers Weekly review of Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election was positive, though it concluded that the book’s end result is “somewhat formless and unfocused.” Although the review praised some aspects, notably Kellner’s highlighting of some conservative ideological inconsistencies, it lamented that Kellner’s “sporadic, underdeveloped discussion of Republicans projecting their own sins onto Democrats is particularly frustrating.”[8]
Kellner received the 2008 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics’ Choice Award for his book Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre. The book argues that school shootings and other acts of mass violence embody a crisis of out-of-control gun culture and male rage, heightened by a glorification of hypermasculinity and violence in the media.
rated # 3 of the ucla “dirty thirty”
The STATE COURTS of the early 1800s felt it was absolute. Here are some long forgotten state court cases.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html
“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”
19th century cases
16. * Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878).
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the (p.17)penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”
17. * Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).
“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”
18. * Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am. Rep. 8, at 17 (1871).
“The passage from Story (Joseph Story: Comments on the Constitution) shows clearly that this right was intended, as we have maintained in this opinion, and was guaranteed to and to be exercised and enjoyed by the citizen as such, and not by him as a soldier, or in defense solely of his political rights.”
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
And the SCOTUS case that led to the Civil War..
Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
I’ll bet the son of a bitch sees professorial tenure as absolute .
The wall should have been started on the eastern border of Kalifornika.
Which one would he want to get rid of first? HIS 1st, or the other guy's 2nd?
Duh.
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