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Students are the new masters – and the result is campus tyranny
www.spectator.co.uk ^ | Aug 23, 2017 | Brendan O'neill

Posted on 08/23/2017 9:26:39 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: 11th_VA

Which is pretty much how the Russian revolution got started.


41 posted on 08/24/2017 7:01:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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To: 11th_VA

These are kids whose parents kneeled to their every demand. #Berkleybrats. They accompany their children to job interviews and seriously retard the healthy maturation. That’s what happens when you institutionalie generations of children, erasing their God given uniqueness. /rant.


42 posted on 08/24/2017 7:43:21 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: 11th_VA

We need to start recruiting conservative kids to quietly start taking jobs as teachers and media types in order to try and gain a foothold in these institutions. Otherwise we’re toast.


43 posted on 08/24/2017 7:45:19 AM PDT by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: 11th_VA
Year after graduating year, students who have been trained to see safety as preferable to liberty and difficult questions as wounding to their self-esteem head out into the world, taking their ‘safe space’ mentality with them. Like B-movie blobs, safe spaces are breaking free and now threaten to swallow up public life.

Add "Universal Basic Income" and these students -- freed from the constraints of work -- will continue to protest in the streets into their 30s and 40s, promoting the fake "revolution" of the globalists.

44 posted on 08/24/2017 8:54:35 AM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: 11th_VA

This is a good subject to make a documentary about, I think it would really shock people just how far down the rabbit hole education has gone in this country.


45 posted on 08/24/2017 8:55:26 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: Maine Mariner

What? Why would you put yourself through that? Or are you going there just to confront them? No way could I sit through that before flipping out and calling it utter BS. I saw a video of a teacher going through that crap, white privilege and all that and I just cannot fathom how anyone can take it seriously especially the racist garbage I went through growing up in New York city and trying to get a government job in the 1980s and being passed up because I wasn’t back or told to my face by the 1199 Hospital workers union that I would never get into the union because I was white. White privilege my ASS. I will bet anybody any amount of money if they took two high school students with the same grades, who went to the same high school in the same town and had each of them apply to Ivy league schools like Harvard, Yale, Sanford, the black student would be accepted over the white one every single time, every single time.


46 posted on 08/24/2017 9:02:06 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It is not an option. However, I cannot sit for very long, bad knees, I cannot stand for very long, back back so I will excuse myself through out the 2 hour meeting. I will be standing in the back near the door!


47 posted on 08/24/2017 9:09:15 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: 11th_VA

The good news, is they are rapidly destroying any credibility these so called learning centers might have.

More and more so called advanced education will be via the internet from the homes and/or offices of the students. Like this from Wharton: https://online.wharton.upenn.edu/


48 posted on 08/24/2017 9:13:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump to be our President, make 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Racists? Nah!!)
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To: TigerClaws

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness—all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations)


49 posted on 08/24/2017 9:30:14 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: pepsionice

Out of curiosity, has there been any real backlash against the universities? Meaning parents starting to refuse to send their kids to college. It’s becoming less and less of a good investment these days.

They cant indoctrinate if they cant enroll....

Hint hint on one of the reasons they want free tuitions.....


50 posted on 08/24/2017 9:36:02 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: Vince Ferrer

For a minute I thought this was on a Paul Ryan thread.


51 posted on 08/24/2017 9:51:18 AM PDT by aspasia
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The only noted backlash was seen with Mizzou in the fall semester of last year...where the incoming crowd fell by 35-percent for fall/2015 and fall/2016. Word is that they expect a 14-percent decrease over the normal rate for freshmen for fall/2017.

If you look at what’s said by parents up in the Missouri region...there are 13 public colleges in the state. You have no reason to attend Mizzou. I imagine that a number of parents just weighed the atmosphere and told the kid that they weren’t going to pay $90,000 for some protest-theme university.

I will say this. If Mizzou doesn’t repair its situation, I could see a quarter of the staff gone in four years. Others might want to look at how fast things went and how difficult it is to rebuild your character. What idiot would be paying out huge sums of money for a worthless degree?


52 posted on 08/24/2017 9:59:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 11th_VA

Neverland. We are in Neverland and the Lost Snowflakes think President Trump is Captain Hook.


53 posted on 08/24/2017 10:00:57 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Israel.)
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To: 11th_VA; Maine Mariner; ScottinVA; TigerClaws

My community college is chock full of sensitivity training and indoctrination sessions as well - and it funds a growing number of “special” programs to help black and Hispanic students to succeed in school and close the gap in scores between whites/Asians and other groups.

They never stop to think that perhaps blame here lies with the Welfare State and its destructive break up of the nuclear family as the main cause and source of these academic outcomes....

No, it’s all Whitey’s fault. Just keep telling yourselves that. A bunch of annual shaming and virtue signaling, I grow entirely sick of it —> self-righteous idiots. I sometimes remind my colleagues that I’m Irish - and ask them when my restitution will be placed in the mail from Muslims.

I retired from Economics teaching full time this summer, but will teach 3 classes part time (instead of the usual 6 classes), starting this fall. I have proudly red-pilled many students about the glories and morality of U.S. capitalism and I intend to continue doing so, sans the heavy-handed, opening day “lectures” from morons. I refuse to attend any more of these insulting “workshops.” Good grief.


54 posted on 08/24/2017 11:25:14 AM PDT by 4Liberty ("Russia"? Communists have been infiltrating Hollywood & US academia for decades..........)
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To: 11th_VA

Black students reading books should be harassed for appropriating a White European invention.


55 posted on 08/24/2017 12:33:19 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: Maine Mariner

Does privilege include having the authority to take faculty away from teaching to be indoctrinated in a class on “privilege”?


56 posted on 08/24/2017 1:04:00 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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Berkeley, where the "free speech movement" was born, has become the opposite, thanks to Janet Napolitano, the city government, and BAMN, who are convinced they are "morally superior" and have the right to practice violence if they disagree with you. The Berkeley Unified School District tried to discipline one of their teachers for inciting a riot but

The school district also said that efforts to discipline Felarca were derailed by student protesters who would disrupt disciplinary proceedings in support of Felarca.

57 posted on 08/24/2017 2:59:35 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: oblomov

Well in a technical sense, no but in reality yes.
We have an all day workshop tomorrow. From 0900 to 1400 we will discuss Outcomes Assessments, from 1400 to 1600 Diversity (Privilege). Classes begin on Tuesday so no actual class time has been taken away. However, I could have better used the time to prepare better lectures, quizzes, and so forth.


58 posted on 08/24/2017 3:06:12 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Makes my blood boil...


59 posted on 08/24/2017 3:45:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Daffynition

LOL! What is that??? I get that kids can cry for reasons no one readily understands. But what gives in that clip?


60 posted on 08/24/2017 6:01:03 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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