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“Their Campus Careers Are Over”: Cornell Student Representatives Targeted For Opposing Efforts To Defund and Disarm Campus Police
Jonathan Yurley Org ^ | 12-27-2020 | JONATHAN TURLEY

Posted on 12/27/2020 7:53:24 PM PST by blam

We have been discussing student editors and student government leaders using their positions to retaliate against the exercise of free speech by other students with the support of faculty. This trend is hardly surprising as journalism deans call for censorship and journalism professors call for the rejection of neutrality in the media. Universities have generally remained passive as students and faculty harass and punish those with opposing views. The latest such example was detailed in a column on the site College Fix on how students at Cornell University moved to oust student representatives who voted against disarming and defunding campus police. What concerns me most is the silence of the university on the controversy.

According to the report, students failed to pass a resolution calling for the defunding and disarming of the Cornell Police Department. After the measure failed, student leaders called for the removal of opposing leaders from committees or the student government as a whole. Uchenna Chukwukere, the Student Assembly vice president of finance declared

“These 15 student assembly members watched us pour out our traumas and fears on the floor practically begging them to vote no, and finally send a message to the university that we can no longer allow these oppressive institutions to keep us down. Many of these assembly members are white-cis-het men and women who quite literally laughed and danced in our faces when the resolution failed…Their faces are all over social media…We will never forget… their campus careers are over. … We must disarm, defund, and disband the Cornell University Police Department.”

Eventually, after a series of failed votes, the student organizers were able to pass Resolution 30, calling to disarm campus police by two votes.

Student Dakota Johnson, a Marine veteran, recounted a confrontation with a government leader where he was allegedly told that “As a white man, you cannot be the arbiter of what is and isn’t racist and who is a good or bad person. … You will never be the arbiter because you are a white man.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; blacklivesmatter; blackracist; blm; college; cornell; hate; homofascism; newyork; police; race; uchennachukwukere
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To: EinNYC

It will be the gun’s fault, of course.


21 posted on 12/27/2020 9:00:43 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: blam

Uchenna Chukwukere, sounds like a bad Scrabble hand


22 posted on 12/27/2020 9:06:55 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: blam

#7. First question is “What is it”? Then I remembered it could be an early childhood picture of “SpearChucker Jones” from the movie “MASH”.

I could be wrong, but the name spelling is close.

Or he/she/it could be a member of the rock group The Detroit Emeralds whose top song was like this thing’s name, “UwantIt IGotIt”! OK, maybe a cousin!!


23 posted on 12/27/2020 9:12:26 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: blam

Read later.


24 posted on 12/27/2020 9:23:47 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: blam
As stupid and dangerous as Uchenna Chukwukere's actions were, they did meet with approval in some off-campus quarters.


25 posted on 12/27/2020 9:32:30 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken )
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To: blam

“As a white man, you cannot be the arbiter of what is and isn’t racist and who is a good or bad person. … You will never be the arbiter because you are a white man.”


The actual racists need to be booted.


26 posted on 12/27/2020 10:07:49 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Vermont Lt
“They will have a degree from Cornell’’.

Yup. A Masters in Interpretive Afro-Haitian Dance is the fast track to the corner office and $400k a year.

27 posted on 12/27/2020 11:09:34 PM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: blam

Once they sue Cornell, they won’t need a career.


28 posted on 12/27/2020 11:23:39 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: blam

The Cancel Culture is our virus to freedom. Eliminate the virus.


29 posted on 12/27/2020 11:36:59 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: blam
Future Khmer Rouge in the making.

And I'm not kidding.

30 posted on 12/28/2020 12:02:38 AM PST by Jeepers43
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To: Vermont Lt

>>I am sure they will recover. They will have a degree from Cornell.<<

Useful for now. Soon, useless.


31 posted on 12/28/2020 12:20:40 AM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of biteme and the whore)
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To: tinyowl

I know of one very conservative pro trump guy at Cornell...an engineer...must be hard on him to work among such creeps....


32 posted on 12/28/2020 12:30:13 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: blam

Is it any wonder black run nations are such total s holes?


33 posted on 12/28/2020 12:36:58 AM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Quit hiring indoctrinated people years ago. We educate and train our own. Turnover rate: 00.08%


34 posted on 12/28/2020 12:51:55 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: blam

REMOVE THE FUNDING TO THESE INSTITUTIONS, I AS A TAX PAYER WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS CRAP!


35 posted on 12/28/2020 3:26:48 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: allendale

Not to mention the Women’s Studies ‘career path’........


36 posted on 12/28/2020 3:49:59 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: blam
students at Cornell University moved to oust student representatives who voted against disarming and defunding campus police

Did they ever try locating some of those who "moved to oust" others, dragging them out back, beating the crap out of them, and leaving them in a bad part of Ithaca to walk back to campus?

I think the whole momentum to "oust" others would fade away pretty quickly. It's always a couple of instigators who are behind the whole thing.

37 posted on 12/28/2020 5:24:23 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Organic Panic; blam
Bahamas -

Governor-general (it's a figurehead title but is the head of state) - Cornelius Smith

PM - Hubert Minnis

GDP per capita = $33,000 - that's ahead of Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Greece, Russia etc. etc.

It has a stable two-party system


38 posted on 12/28/2020 6:12:25 AM PST by Cronos ( )
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To: Organic Panic; blam
oh and demographics

90.6% of the population identified themselves as being Black, 4.7% White and 2.1% of a mixed race (African and European) in the 2010 census

39 posted on 12/28/2020 6:13:31 AM PST by Cronos ( )
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To: blam

If they do this, there will be a tragedy on campus. I have been through several and they were done by irrational people with nothing to lose.


40 posted on 12/28/2020 6:16:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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