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SUNY Oswego’s open mic night was anything but ‘open’
New York Post ^ | May 10, 2018 | 9:03pm | By Post Editorial Board

Posted on 05/11/2018 2:28:58 PM PDT by TBP

“Open Mic” night May 2 at the SUNY Oswego Lifestyles Center turned out to not be so open after all.

Taking the title at face value, conservative student Nicole Miller gave a speech about liberal intolerance on campus and — wait for it — got put on warning for making other students “uncomfortable.”

The school’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Program coordinator, Trisha DeWolf, emailed Miller to say that if she did it again, she’d be banned from future open-mic events. (Kudos to the website Campus Reform for publicizing the remarkable missive.)

While insisting she was “in support of [Miller’s] freedom of speech,” DeWolf said she’d been “implored” to reach out by students who felt “deeply hurt” by the speech.

DeWolf added, “any complaint after [the warning] may result in being asked to not perform at open mic.” Oh, she’ll issue written guidelines for what performers can say.

Ironically, Miller had complained that lefties on campus are intolerant, citing “horror stories . . . about the brutal mental and emotional attacks on” conservatives. “It sickens me to death that the people that preach tolerance and acceptance of all people are so openly against us and our beliefs,” she said.

Bad enough that other students proceeded to prove her point; far worse that an administrator would back them up.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: academicbias; censorship; education; intolerance; newyork; progressives; progressivism; suny
Universities that do this sort of thing should have their funding stopped.
1 posted on 05/11/2018 2:28:58 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Freedom for me, not for thee.


2 posted on 05/11/2018 2:38:08 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: TBP

They should have their accreditation yanked, Obama-style.


3 posted on 05/11/2018 2:39:18 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: TBP

SUNY?

I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.


4 posted on 05/11/2018 2:39:52 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: TBP

So SUNY is populated and administrated by a bunch of leftist bullies who get offended when they get called out on their leftist bullying???

Typical behavior from the immoral, hypocritical degenerates of the left.


5 posted on 05/11/2018 2:42:02 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Petrosius

Reminds me of an incident that happened in the 1980s.

You remember the lefties who used to camp out in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, with their little sign-houses?

Once, some conservatives showed up in the park to wish President Reagan a happy birthday. They got violently attacked by the sign people. One of them threw a lot of dirt on the late S. J. Masty (whom I knew) and announced, “Freedom is for all! Not for you!”


6 posted on 05/11/2018 2:42:48 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Yes, AND defunded.


7 posted on 05/11/2018 2:43:33 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

If these universities get their way and this Republic goes down the tubes, they will be truly shocked to find out their professors will be among the first loaded onto the one way boxcar trip.


8 posted on 05/11/2018 2:44:56 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: TBP

President Trump can actually pull their accreditation. This is a tool that needs to be used.


9 posted on 05/11/2018 3:15:39 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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