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Colleges grappling with balancing free speech, campus safety [deceptive title]
Associated Press ^ | Aug 19, 2017 8:27 PM EDT | Maria Danilova and Jocelyn Gecker

Posted on 08/21/2017 12:38:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai

When Carl Valentine dropped off his daughter at the University of Virginia, he had some important advice for the college freshman: Don’t forget that you are a minority. […]

As classes begin at colleges and universities across the country, some parents are questioning if their children will be safe on campus in the wake of last weekend’s violent white nationalist protest here. School administrators, meanwhile, are grappling with how to balance students’ physical safety with free speech. […]

In an address to students and families on Friday, UVA President Teresa Sullivan welcomed “every person of every race, every gender, every national origin, every religious belief, every orientation and every other human variation.” Afterward, parents asked university administrators tough questions about the gun policy on campus, white supremacists and the likelihood of similar violence in the future.

For Valentine, of Yorktown, Virginia, the unrest brought back painful memories of when, as a young boy, he couldn’t enter government buildings or movie theaters through the front door because of racial discrimination. “We’ve come a long way, but still a long way to go for equality,” he said. …

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; college; liberalagenda; propaganda
The rest of the article is like that—pushing the narrative and nothing about free speech. Of course, it is congratulated when parents along with professors teach the kids to be afraid and even to hate.
1 posted on 08/21/2017 12:38:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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Only thing colleges are trying to balance- is keeping whitey’s dollars coming in to finance whitey’s demise


2 posted on 08/21/2017 12:56:55 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Olog-hai

It is Lefturds who make campus life unsafe for everyone but themselves.


3 posted on 08/21/2017 12:57:58 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: Olog-hai

“When Carl Valentine dropped off his daughter at the University of Virginia, he had some important advice for the college freshman: Don’t forget that you are a minority.

“She has to be vigilant of that and be concerned about that, always know her surroundings, just be cautious, just be extremely cautious,” said Valentine, 57, who is African-American. A retired military officer, he now works at the Defense Department.”

Wow what the h#ll kind of nonsense is this???

If our country was so racist against minorities, then Obama would not have been elected twice.

We would not have an immigration problem too.

It’s astounding this guy was a military officer and thinks like he is lived in the ghetto all his life. Good grief!


4 posted on 08/21/2017 2:33:47 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Olog-hai

University of Virginia should be torn down... it was built with slave labor...

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Slavery_at_the_University_of_Virginia


5 posted on 08/21/2017 3:02:33 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: Geronimo

Give’em time.


6 posted on 08/21/2017 4:18:04 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Olog-hai

Inanimate status on heavy plinths are a safety hazard?


7 posted on 08/21/2017 4:20:16 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Olog-hai

Free speech my ass. The only speech is allowed is bashing the moral society


8 posted on 08/21/2017 4:44:08 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: ealgeone

The crazies should burn down William & Mary, Brown University and Emory...all built with slave labor...let the professors lead the charge...


9 posted on 08/21/2017 4:47:15 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: Olog-hai
School administrators, meanwhile, are grappling with how to balance students’ physical safety with free speech. […]

Supposedly educated people are "grappling" with balancing this? The answer is too easy: more security!

More than likely, they are "grappling" with how to keep pushing the antiFA (anti-First Amendment) indoctrination without losing the federal cash cow (Hillsdale College anyone?)

10 posted on 08/21/2017 5:15:13 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Olog-hai

Liberals are claiming the ultimate heckler’s veto - do what we demand or we riot. And police are caving to them in the name of “public safety”.
This is authority forcing the public to obey the commands of the terrorist, because they are afraid of the terrorists’ actions.


11 posted on 08/21/2017 5:16:14 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Olog-hai
Mission Accomplished!


12 posted on 08/21/2017 5:22:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Olog-hai
“We’ve come a long way, but still a long way to go for equality,” he said. …

Any remaining inequality has been brought upon them by the BEHAVIOR and ATTITUDE of themselves and others who LOOK LIKE THEM.

13 posted on 08/21/2017 11:03:03 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed
“Equality” is just an old communist buzzword anyhow. It can be found all over the constitutions of communist states. The 1936 USSR constitution has these articles:
Article 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.

Article 123. Equality of rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R., irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law. Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of, or, conversely, any establishment of direct or indirect privileges for, citizens on account of their race or nationality, as well as any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness or hatred and contempt, is punishable by law. […]

Article 136. Elections of deputies are equal: each citizen has one vote; all citizens participate in elections on an equal footing.

Article 137. Women have the right to elect and be elected on equal terms with men.

Article 138. Citizens serving in the Red Army have the right to elect and be elected on equal terms with all other citizens. …
As Churchill said, it is the “equal sharing of misery” that will be the endgame.
14 posted on 08/21/2017 11:44:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Enchante

Colleges and Universities raised the turds that are now teaching the current batch of little turds and now they have backed up the crapper into the indoctrination camps and they are the targets of all the turds. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch!

My son works as armed security/police department for a university and the police force was informed that ANY signs stating this area was a safe space were to be torn down immediately by officers. Will see how that plays out with the indoctrinating turds.


15 posted on 08/21/2017 12:06:17 PM PDT by sarge83
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