Posted on 03/31/2015 10:07:16 AM PDT by jazusamo
Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack on college campuses (of all places!)? But those are now ordinary campus events.
Progressives want to shield college students from what are called "scary ideas." They are not referring to Halloween pranks or costumes, or to historic wartime episodes of bitter fighting; the new buzzwords are "trigger warnings," "outgrowths of fragility" or "sexual paranoia."
Professors talk about the need to overturn the "privilege theory." Anyone who can't claim to belong to an oppressed group must be unfairly advantaged by unearned "privilege."
A whole new vocabulary has come into collegians' lingo. Students claim they suffer from "microaggressions," a word defined as the use of a verbal expression or any customary social norm of behavior to which somebody might take offense or feel threatened.
Everyone is subject to having his ordinary conversation or acts construed as secretly or inadvertently using racism, sexism or heterosexism. Everyday slights or indignities, verbal or behavioral, are assumed to be giving offense.
Some students gripe about hostile classroom environments, which the left usually attributes to "white privilege" and other forms of institutionalized oppression. Students are even offended by professors correcting their papers and exams because corrections allegedly deride their intellectual capacity and harm their psycho-physiological health.
Another trendy phrase among college students is the claim that they need "safe spaces" where their feelings can't be hurt. The safe place at Brown University, for example, was equipped with cookies, coloring books, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, a video of frolicking puppies, plus staff trained to deal with trauma.
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For those in America who have forgotten the 1st amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Any college accepting public money fall under the above.
” The safe place at Brown University, for example, was equipped with cookies, coloring books, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, a video of frolicking puppies, plus staff trained to deal with trauma.”
For $50,000 a year, I can cut a better deal than this ; )
LOL! A preschool playroom to put mommy and daddy’s mind at ease. :)
The stifling madness that she describes; the Bolshevik/Nazi like tactics being reported; have to be confronted & must be dealt with. This is not something to be trifled with. There were only ten thousand Bolshevik revolutionaries in early 1916, only 40,000 when they took over Russia in November, 1917.
I do not know the number of Erst Roehm' Brownshirts, ceracking heads & intimidating normal citizens in German streets in 1931, but they were far less numerous than what took over Germany in 1933.
This is not just about stopping generic bullies. Look more closely! Leftist fanatics suggesting that the multi-generational achievements of the American people are somehow the result of "White Privilege?" This rapidly degenerates into some thing far beyond merely ugly. It didn't go away until it had run its course in France in the 1790s; nor in Germany until 1945; nor in Russia until the 1990s.
I think that a better word would be drama.
The drama department has taken over at colleges these days. It is kabuki theater where the minorities are acting out Uncle Tom’s Cabin in perpetuity for all to see. “Oh, Oh poor pitiful us!”
The melodrama at colleges is hip deep. Every word spoken by a white person offends somebody. Unless you are a member of a protected minority you had better be mute until you have graduated.
BUT I AM Oppressed. My oppressed group isn’t even recognized, I’m so oppressed. (Straight white make taxpayer)
” plus staff trained to deal with trauma.”
SJB at Brown: “ I feel traumatized”
Staff member: “ Aw, what do you think is making you feel this way? “
SJB: “ Well, for one thing, I am surrounded by brain-dead leftists who desire to control my very existence.”
Staff member: “ Are you suicidal? “
SJB: “ No, but homicide is an option”
Staff member: “ Would you like a REAL puppy? “
Well said.
Mrs. Schlafly is 90 now and is sharp as a tack, she’s a patriot and conservative. God bless her.
“Mrs. Schlafly is 90 now and is sharp as a tack, she’s a patriot and conservative. God bless her.”
She rocks!
Symptoms of “micro-aggression.” LOL!
Amen!!
“...plus staff trained to deal with trauma.”
That’s good. I would need their help after being in a room like that!
“LOL! A preschool playroom to put mommy and daddy’s mind at ease. :)”
I was reminded of our pediatrician’s office!
See my Freep Page. She has been one of my heroes for years.
She’s 90, but her “a few short years ago” comment makes me question whether she’s “sharp as a tack”
Free speech was under assault when I was in undergrad over 25 years ago, and I was carrying around a copy of Dinesh D’Sousa’s “Illiberal Education” to annoy fellow students and faculty.
I have an idea.
Male, white students should file millions of dollars in lawsuits against the educational establishment. When you look at the number of womyn, gays and minorities on campuses, white men are the new minority, therefore any activism against white male students is actually bullying and discrimination and those committing it should face the same punishment as white male students faced.
I bet if the YAF and other groups brought in attorneys, they could make this a national event.
As long as students & parents keep buying $$$$ into the college idea NOTHING is going to happen!
As mentioned in related threads, the Founding States had never intended for our constitutional privileges and immunities to be absolute.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson had indicated that the Founders had made the 10th Amendment to clarify in broad language that the states had reserved government power to reasonably regulate our constitutional rights to themselves, regardless that they had made the 1st Amendment to prohibit such power to Congress altogether.
“3. Resolved that it is true as a general principle and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the constitution that ‘the powers not delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people’: and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, & were reserved, to the states or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed [emphasis added]; …” — Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798 .
Note that state power to reasonably regulate our basic constitutional rights is now constitutionally enumerated as evidenced by the honest interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
14th Amendment, Section 1:All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I recently discovered a station that plays her daily radio commentary, and yes, she is sharp as a tack. They plug it into the commercial break of their Old Time Radio Hour. Duffy’s Tavern wrapped around the Phyllis Schlafly Commentary. Cool!
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