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I love how here any such claims, no matter how wild, get modded up high. Now I expect to be modded down for pointing this out, despite it being true. If there's one thing the "anti SJW" can't stand it's dissent.

Do you work for a company with more then 300 people, a Fortune company, or company listed on a major stock exchange that has annual profits greater than $15m/year? How about been to a university in Canada, US, or Europe in the last 15 years? Can you name the last time you had mandatory workshops on any of the following: Sexual harassment/workplace etiquette/triggers/trigger-words/micro-aggressions/politically (in)correct language/politically correct speech/politically correct terminology.

Has your HR dept or student life/student union/professor published memo's outlining speech guidelines, improper speech, improper word usage in essays/papers, warnings against particular types of speech in the university and/or aggressively made restricted speech in a public university which is backed by the university president and/or dean of students. Thinking on the university, can you or can you or not remember at any point in the last 4 years where a TA, professor or tenured professor has been unofficially or officially sanctioned by either other professors, or adjoining body, or open protests by students for wanting to show full arguments/open discussion/defense of speech/views protected by charter/constitutional law/students rights charter/employment act/student union protections on an issue.

If the answer is no. Then you haven't interacted with mainstream education, or corporate culture in the last decade in any western country. In turn, you're ignorant of what's going on around you. If yes, then you're either accepting of these views or you're either not paying attention or are simply lowering your head so much to not make any waves, you've accepted the abnormal as normal.

Feel free to read campusreform, Fire, or anything similar for universities. Go on and read up about the Title IX abuses and abuse of students with no due process for indictable offences/felonies. Feel free to read the employment manual and/or the up to 20 supplemental documents at a major company. Read The Guardian, Vox, Vice, The Root, Huffpo, and read the articles that led to those same policies you're now skimming over. Look at the universities that are primary hires at these major companies, then go take a look at the googlers and their statements. Notice anything yet?

Have you taken a liberal arts/humanities class in the last 10-20 years, do you know someone who teaches one, or are you just parroting the anti-intellectual bullshit of the alt-Right?

Oh look, the bogyman of 'alt-right' again. Instead of actually thinking that there's a problem it's the repeat of "OMG LOOK ANTI-INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE" that leftists pushed 20 years ago. Seriously, stop with the bullshit, and realize that there's a serious problem with these areas. You need examples? Go hit campus reform. Need more examples? Go hit FIRE Japan didn't gut the piss out of humanities and liberal arts for no reason. Evergreen college didn't have a massive drop in student enrollment for no reason. University of Missouri didn't have a massive drop in enrollment for no reason either. Wilfred-Laurier didn't have a drop for no reason. Along with a bunch of other universities, and in each case that drop, the fact that students transferred out in droves, should tell you something. And in each case, it was very specific.

But hey, whatever. The problem is obviously everyone else, not the batshit crazies that are driving people out. It's really the alt-right, conservatives, christians, republicans, or whatever bogyman you need this week. It's always someone else, it's always that next mythical enemy over the hill that's out to ruin the reputation of xyz thing.

You've left out some of the real charms of the current era.

Profs claim scientific objectivity reinforces 'whiteness'
Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
The Appalling Protests at Evergreen State College
All-women's college asks profs not to call students 'women'
Professor notes men are taller than women on average, SJWs storm out angrily
Americans who practice yoga 'contribute to white supremacy', claims Michigan State University professor
Conservatives, Libertarians Are ‘on the Autistic Spectrum,’ Says Duke Professor
Victimhood Culture Only Getting Worse, Professor Warns
Professor: Small Chairs in Preschools Are Sexist, ‘Problematic,’ and ‘Disempowering’
Prof creates checklist for detecting white supremacy

Believing in meritocracy, promoting a "collegial" environment, and even deciding “to stay out of all of this ‘identity politics’” are all forms of tacit white supremacy, she claims.

She Carried A Garrotte!

I blogged yesterday about a mob trying to shut down Jordan B. Peterson and others at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and wondered aloud, “Where are there police?!” Well, turns out one of the SJWs was arrested after breaking the glass . .

Officials say officers searched her backpack and found a weapon — a metal wire with handles commonly known as a garrotte.”

I could go on, there are so many stones unturned.

You've left out some of the real charms of the current era.

Profs claim scientific objectivity reinforces 'whiteness'
Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
The Appalling Protests at Evergreen State College
All-women's college asks profs not to call students 'women'
Professor notes men are taller than women on average, SJWs storm out angrily
Americans who practice yoga 'contribute to white supremacy', claims Michigan State University professor
Conservatives, Libertarians Are ‘on the Autistic Spectrum,’ Says Duke Professor
Victimhood Culture Only Getting Worse, Professor Warns
Professor: Small Chairs in Preschools Are Sexist, ‘Problematic,’ and ‘Disempowering’
Prof creates checklist for detecting white supremacy

Believing in meritocracy, promoting a "collegial" environment, and even deciding “to stay out of all of this ‘identity politics’” are all forms of tacit white supremacy, she claims.

She Carried A Garrotte!

I blogged yesterday about a mob trying to shut down Jordan B. Peterson and others at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and wondered aloud, “Where are there police?!” Well, turns out one of the SJWs was arrested after breaking the glass . .

Officials say officers searched her backpack and found a weapon — a metal wire with handles commonly known as a garrotte.”

I could go on, there are so many stones unturned.

You've left out some of the real charms of the current era.

Profs claim scientific objectivity reinforces 'whiteness'
Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
The Appalling Protests at Evergreen State College
All-women's college asks profs not to call students 'women'
Professor notes men are taller than women on average, SJWs storm out angrily
Americans who practice yoga 'contribute to white supremacy', claims Michigan State University professor
Conservatives, Libertarians Are ‘on the Autistic Spectrum,’ Says Duke Professor
Victimhood Culture Only Getting Worse, Professor Warns
Professor: Small Chairs in Preschools Are Sexist, ‘Problematic,’ and ‘Disempowering’
Prof creates checklist for detecting white supremacy

Believing in meritocracy, promoting a "collegial" environment, and even deciding “to stay out of all of this ‘identity politics’” are all forms of tacit white supremacy, she claims.

She Carried A Garrotte!

I blogged yesterday about a mob trying to shut down Jordan B. Peterson and others at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and wondered aloud, “Where are there police?!” Well, turns out one of the SJWs was arrested after breaking the glass . .

Officials say officers searched her backpack and found a weapon — a metal wire with handles commonly known as a garrotte.”

I could go on, there are so many stones unturned.

[citation needed]. Problem is, Trump says lots of things he doesn't really mean, like "middle class tax cut"

You mean kinda like this? It's not exactly an isolated indecent. Then again, considering the leadership of the DNC thinks that $1k-3k tax cuts for middle-class are crumbs, it's pretty easy to see what's going on. Why don't you explain how having a reduction in tax rates, really doesn't mean the middle class has more money.

It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.

Is it?

Both of your links (breitbart.com - campusreform.org) are in the "list of the all junk news sources used for this analysis" (source: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2018/02/Polarization-Partisanship-JunkNews-OnlineSupplement.pdf)

In my country (Greece) we have the saying "the smart bird is caught by its nose"...

In this "Oxford study", some "Oxford researchers" decided that some news sources are junk... and the rest is history (now it is "scientifically proven" that Clinton voters are good/smart and Trump voters are bad/dumb)...

I highly doubt that the person you replied to, and most left-wing persons that will use this "study", will ever read it - it is just good for them that they can remain in their darkness satisfied with their-selves...

It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.

Is it?

It's not just the statistics which are bigoted. It turns out that all math and science are White Supremacist, so pretty much everything just needs to be destroyed so we can have our perfectly Diverse Utopia.

Haven't you heard? Meritocracy is a white male privilege!

Which ones? Or is this a Trumpian "a lot of people are saying"?

Why don't you check out http://thefire.org/ and http://campusreform.org/ both who've been recording this type of garbage pouring out of academia for the last decade.

action and google's and godaddy's, etc. just remember your position on this when GoHillary.com or BlackLivesMatter.org is taken down because the sites allow "hate speech" to be posted.

Goes far beyond this. The "antifascist" parade has wanted to go after Thomas Jefferson for a while now. This is the shit you're supporting when you think that removing those statues is a good idea, when blocking speech because it hurts your feelings. The slippery slope is already in action, and I can't wait to see the people trying to justify this. Yep, we're entering that new shiny era of antifascism already, where antifascists are the actual fascists and it escapes them.

Criticizing Sharia is 'hate speech,' Georgetown students say "My critique of these speakers is not an effort to silence free speech," but only that "these speakers are not exercising free speech, they are exercising hate speech, a speech of the kind that no organization, especially at Georgetown, should endorse or give a platform to."

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8842
http://georgetownvoice.com/2017/02/25/upcoming-campus-speakers-fuel-anti-muslim-rhetoric/
"I for one, reject and condemn any organization that hides behind the righteous principles of free speech,"

Here's a bunch of op eds from students supporting the Berkeley Anti-Free Speech Riot of 2017: http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/07/violence-self-defense/

So he hasn't actually gone so far as college campuses in limiting and punishing speech?*

Well, good then, he is simply exercising his free speech and expressing an opinion about what the law should be. Wake me if he actually tries to impose unconstitutional speech codes like college campuses.

Concerned about repression on college campuses? Consider a gift to: FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

*And whose Secretary of Education may very well review those unconstitutional rules?

Fine, I'll bite here and here. If you need a larger pool of examples you can find them here.

Mars is also losing atmosphere due to solar wind - see article on MAVEN probe results on Ars - they claim a loss rate of 100 grams per second.

Both Venus and Mars lack magnetic fields, and so both lose atmosphere.
But suddenly the politically correct physicists- who just relocated their conference from NC to Florida, because NC would not allow equal access to female toilets - tell us "Venus may represent a near Earth example of what is in store for the future of our world if we don't make it a _number one_ priority to address".

http://mediatrackers.org/wisco...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...
http://www.campusreform.org/?I...
http://www.mediaite.com/online...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax...
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...
http://freebeacon.com/issues/s...
http://overlawyered.com/2015/0...
http://legalinsurrection.com/2...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03...

The topics you see are based on a number of factors including engagement, timeliness, Pages you've liked and your location.

All of these factors can be objectively measured, which implies computer-program objectivity.

Just more whining.

Whining? Wake me up, when those KKKonservatives claim being triggered and demand you leave their "safe space" to stop "hurting" them with your very presence...

It's not as though it's hard to follow the links in the story to their original source now is it. Although thanks for pointing that out as the original source is considerably more damning and I shall save it for future reference. http://www.campusreform.org/?I...

Last fall, 15 colleges and universities offered college credit to students who “write feminist thinking” into Wikipedia articles about technology.

Lovely.

I agree that for the time being, large-scale centralized communism is doomed to failure

Whether it will some day be "successful" or not, I would not accept an idea, that Collective ought to trump the Individual.

Because that's the inevitable endpoint of capitalism, even without regulatory capture: wealth catalyzes the accumulation of wealth.

Gibberish and nonsense. Bill Gates was from a lower end middle-class family. Soros was a poor immigrant. Joe Biden's grandfather was an uber-rich magnate, but Joe owes more than he owns.

institutionalized theft - in the wild you own only what you can keep

Are you saying, that whatever does not occur in the wild is automatically "theft"? I think, we are done here...

wealth redistribution happens as a matter of course as the strong and sneaky reappropriate it from the transiently wealthy.

That the weak can have rights was — for centuries — considered a major advancement of humanity. I guess, your school of thought would — given a chance — do away with such advancements, the way others would — given a chance — abolish flush toilets and air-conditioning. To not give your kind such a chance is worth a lot — including some public hangings.

no, I don't imagine theocrats have the slightest interest in a viable democracy

But Communists do, right? Hillarious...

I actually advocate for women's rights. I advocate for men's rights too. I don't hate women. I don't think equal rights activism needs feminism or any other damn ideology. Anti-Feminism is not Anti-Women. I hate bullshit ideologies not because I'm a sexist, but because because I'm a Scientist: I need peer reviewed evidence, not emotional appeals.

Here's an example of what I was talking about: Storming Wikipedia

Additionally, I know black folks who initially hated me because I'm white. We're now good friends. They stopped hating white people, their problems didn't go away. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid your a moron.

Well, according to Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, the only hope is to elect ultra conservative Republicans like Rand Paul.

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4989

I hate Missouri Nazis.

Sadly this is more common that let on. They did the right thing in this case, giving her the boot, but it's not the case across the board.

I'm not a Republican and I think this is wrong. Republicans and Democrats have the same major flaws rather they like to admit to it or not.

Limiting exposure to different types of thought is now mandatory in many colleges.

No, the term "Liberal Education" originally applied to the old definition of "Liberal" which encouraged independent thought, positive action, and a base of factual knowledge. The modern version follows the modern definition of liberal which is some blend of Marxist - punishing those who excel to benefit those who do not. The opposite of Darwinism, yet teaching Darwinism is very high on their agenda. I've yet to figure out why those who most adamantly demand the teaching of Darwinism are those most against it's implementation. The scientific method may be taught in the science classes, but outside of that enlightenment type classes have little to do with enlightenment and more often than not teach hate under the guise of the opposite.