Posted on 05/23/2018 11:01:56 AM PDT by reaganaut1
After months of clashes with angry students, the university decided that the young professor it hired had to go.
From the day of his first class on campus, protesters had disrupted his lectures. Police had to clear angry students out of the room each day. Officials feared for the professor’s safety and appealed to students to respect his freedom to teach, but the students responded with a manifesto declaring that the offending professor must be dismissed and “a new university of a political nature built up.” They said they were entitled to the teachers they wanted, not someone like him.
Some of the faculty defended the professor and complained about students who cared more about politics than learning. Many others, however, said that life at the university would be much easier if, in the future, the administration would more carefully evaluate the views and identity of prospective faculty members before hiring. Better to screen out anyone who would upset student sensibilities than continue to have turmoil on campus.
The administration finally caved in to the pressure, first suspending the professor’s class and then terminating his employment. The students had won; the university was cleansed and the administration had been taught a lesson.
All of that sounds like a story from some American campus in the 21st century, but in fact, it is a description of the clashes between pro-Nazi students and the University of Breslau in 1933 following the appointment of a Jew, Ernst Cohn, to teach law. It is disquieting that more than 80 years later, we find exactly the same ideas about education and the same eagerness to resort to disruption among some American students as among young enthusiasts for National Socialism back then.
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There is no freedom of speech, and colleges were the ones that destroyed.
Yes, modern day brown shirts.
It is if the progressives have anything to say about it.
Colleges and universities that deny speakers their freedom of speech should have their government funding taken away.
Not according to the NY rat judge’s verdict this afternoon...SO SUE THE EFFING COLLEGES THAT BLOCK FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS!!! WIN WIN!!!
exactly.
It’s hard to see the country moving in any direction but left as the next generation approaches maturity.
Free speech is in trouble, has been for a long time.
Going back to the “filthy speech” movement of the days of the “flower children”, who have since aged out and into positions of governmental power. THEIR “free speech” was OK, but the breath of air they put into the national dis-”coarse” has long since expired, and they now think THEY are the arbiters of the rules of what constitutes “free speech”.
They are fond of “diversity”, but with little understanding.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
"Welcome to Princeton, Gentlemen."
Nothing new here, we all know these Antifa types and their allies are modern Nazis who use EXACTLY the same tactics to get their way.
That should include government subsidized student loans.
If we want to eliminate evil behavior we need to stop subsidizing it.
bkmk
Yes they speak of diversity but never define it.
From what we see, it seems that they like diversity of ethnicities, diversity in “gender identity”, but not diversity of opinions on the issues of the day.
Diversity is what your betters say it is.
Any questions? :-(
>Nothing new here, we all know these Antifa types and their allies are modern Nazis who use EXACTLY the same tactics to get their way.<
Right. The protesters are adjunct students of the Frankfort School, started in Post WWI Germany by communists.
Definitely, and if we cut those off, we’d be left with about six colleges in this country.
(Most notably, I might say, my alma mater.)
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