Posted on 04/01/2016 5:31:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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In another chapter of the ongoing suppression of free speech and expression across university and college campuses via the expansion of leftism, a student of Harvard University joined Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly to share several revealing anecdotes. With stories highlighting students seemingly incapable of tolerating opposing views on the morality of abortion or the display of the American flag, Rachel Huebner added to the growing index of incidents illustrating the advancement of left-wing political culture on campuses nationwide.
In an incident in which a student was offended by the American flag, Huebner recalled the story of a friend, who was stopped by his roommate from hanging Old Glory on a wall in their residence apartment.
“My friend, who’s a freshman, on the first day of college took out an American flag from his suitcase, and his roommate stopped him, saying that the presence of the flag on the wall was a political statement that he was unwilling to make,” said Huebner.
In another incident, a female student’s request to not be seated across from anyone opposing abortion was seemingly indulged by many classmates and the attending professor.
Huebner composed an op-ed entitled “A Culture of Sensitivity” about this issue about a week ago, describing the expansion of concepts such as “safe spaces,” “cultural appropriation,” “language guides,” and “microaggressions” as stultifying the intellectual development of students. She also argued that the cultivation of overly-sensitive political dispositions is detrimental to the mental health of students, given their constant preoccupation with fears of inadvertently offending others.
“It is time to stop focusing on feelings as the criteria for speech and actions on the college campus,” concluded Huebner in her article.
Why cant we just have our country and they can have theirs, somewhere like North Korea or something?
Emotional reactions are not protected by the Constitution.
But political speech is.
But in my experience, the Ivy Leagues breed fascism, so I don’t expect Harvard to understand this part of the American culture.
Yeah don’t make me sit near any virtuous women, put me with the sluts. That’s the ticket. /s
They take the Northeast and Northwest/Pacific and merge with Canada, we take the rest. Everyone is given one year to move to the country of their choice, then the walls go up. Don’t like either country? Move somewhere else.
Cut them loose and let them support themselves, raise an army to protect themselves and establish a border to separate their territory and require that they get a visa to leave.
Reminds me of the old quip: “Did a horse kick you in the face or do you go to Radcliffe?”
Back in my day all we did was have sit-ins, defecated on the Deans desk and try to levitate the Pentagon. Just say’n
What do you call an attractive girl at Wellesley College? A visitor.
..American Flag Deemed Unacceptable ‘Political Statement’ At Harvard...
They prefer the hammer and sickle of rainbow flag. This is not what Marines on Suribachi on Iwo Jima had in mind. Every other veteran too.
Actually, I knew a very attractive girl who went to Wellesley. But she also was amazingly haughty and snobby, which largely killed off the attraction factor.
First the Confederate flag. Now the U.S. flag.
I never saw this coming.
We need to defund these bastards, I dont want my tax money used against this country
Then yank the American taxpayer’s money that is funding that school and let those traitorous punks subsidize their own education.
“First the Confederate flag. Now the U.S. flag. I never saw this coming.”
The old slippery slope...
harvard...the anti-American school of smarmy losers.
I bet anything an ISIS flag would be welcomed. It will come with its own beheader.
“The old slippery slope...”
More like a zip line.
Harvard is a bad joke. Nobody should consider sending their kid there. Nothing but reds and queers.
What if we had a voluntary pledge to be signed by graduates of any university in the USA that says the following, or something like it: “I support the United States of America, and would welcome a job from them. Check__; or I don’t support the United States of America, and will not seek or accept a job from them. I also won’t accept any financial support from the states or the federal government, because I don’t approve of them. Check__.
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