https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY1H1rZL53I
This is why having an open forum is uselss in colleges nowadays. Most of the time it leads to what the video shows because of the SJW’s.
Universities have been at the forefront of social progressivism since Socrates first annoyed the Athenians. If you look at more recent American history, in which college protesters were the leaders of the civil rights and women’s equality movements, as well as the most skeptical of disastrous military campaigns in Vietnam and Iraq…Are you so certain they’re “crazy?”
Regardless of your answer to that question, if you’re afraid your child may be exposed to ideas about social progress, I’m not sure a University is going to be a good fit.
Robespierre had some very strong ideas about social progress, as did Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim, and Giap. If we are lucky, one of our current college students can join that fine list of social progressives.
True, all those historic figures had strong views on social progress. Generally speaking, that it was a very bad thing if it challenged prevailing authorities, and that the best way to curtail it was to control the venues in which it germinated, such as universities.
Thus Robespierre beheaded those who dared to protest the authority of the government.
And Stalin declared that the only good purpose of the University system was to serve the military and industrial interests of the state.
And Hitler simply burned books which promoted “Jewish intellectualism” by undermining German nationalism with all that hippy-dippy egalitarian nonsense.
Pol Pot cut out the middle-man directly, and simply shot western-educated intellectuals, university students and teachers who dared to protest.
Universities have always been the birthplace of new ideas. That’s what makes them dangerous to the mindset which seeks to “conserve,” unchanged, an existing power structure, political, economic or otherwise.
How is it social progress when you’re doing things like censorship, pulling a fire alarm, blocking entrances, screaming and shouting at people you don’t like, etc? Look I’m liberal myself, but these SJW or Regressive Left are really making us look bad.
I love the part when the protester screams, “Stop talking to us like children!”
@GMTplus7 I love the retort “Then stop acting like one.”
It’s unfortunate people are making fun of her because she’s fat, she should be made fun of for acting immature.
Disagreement, even loudly vocal disagreement, is not censorship. Neither is it censorship to declare that you do not wish your tax dollars or tuition fees to go towards providing a platform for views you find odious or insupportable, any more than it would be to, oh, I don’t know, localize a video game or some such similarly innocuous act. Schools are not required to provide equal time for the teaching of ‘intelligent design’ in biology classrooms, for example.
As for blocking entrances, it’s one of many forms of protest, most notably in the civil-rights & anti-war movements in the 60s, common to university campuses, which are where a lot of people discover their political consciousness. Again, it seems a logical byproduct of exposure to new ideas.
There’s a conversation to be had on what people call “political correctness”, but the speakers here deserve backlash if you look into them. For example, here’s an article from a libertarian, fully ready to have a talk on “PC”, discussing one of the panelists there:
Other Pieces on him:
Here’s the most important piece: analysis showing exactly why this thread even exists:
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/04/how-breitbart-is-milking-the-milo-yiannopoulos-campus-outrage-outrage-cycle.html
Long story short - focus on the people on the stage, not the students in this case.
The idea of a “regressive left” is very silly to me as someone who goes to a politically moderate college. I would love to discuss in more detail but I don’t think this needs to get that that political.