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Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"?
The Nation has up a sobering article from its upcoming issue about how colleges and universities are being turned into homeland security campuses, in the name of preventing homegrown radicalization. Quoting: "From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention' — as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name — have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university."
2. What a waste of time for you to reference those quotes of his, then try to call him a conservative (as if that were a bad word), and then not use it to no means in your argument? Believe it or not, Universities are traditionally considered bastions OF free thought and speech - these are the tools of learning. Oh come now! You're making up definitions! The Compact Oxford English Dictionary provides this definition:
noun (pl. universities) a high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done.
First, a public or private university is a business. If business is being disrupted, that means other customers (students) aren't able to obtain their paid services.
Second, this whole thing about universities being a bastion for free thought and speech is some sort of whack job revisionist expectation that has only existed in the western nations in the last 50 years or so.
Please, your hopeless romanticism is only making you look like an ass.
How can you make anything more than a sham of 'free speech' when groups representing the largest demographic on campus have a deserved reputation for excluding people based on details like ethnicity, skin color, religious background, sexual orientation, and gender?
Having the acceptability one's ethnicity, sexuality or gender debated while trying to learn is itself extremely disruptive.
To maximize participation on campus and in society, good justifications are required for excluding people from campus and from debate: An ideology of arbitrary exclusivity is necessarily one of them.
It doesn't matter whether you identify this ethic with labels such as "liberal" to make it appear 'partisan'; That ethic is a core part of a pluralistic society, and an obtuse refusal to accept it is no more and no less part of the cryptofascist reflex being exercised among the "fair and balanced" set today.
The problem isn't all of the pretend stuff you just made but but the people like you who demonize everything they can't comprehend. You don't even know what a liberal, leftist, socialist, democrat, libertarian nor independent means anymore because you have demonized it so much that you hate it and create these aboritions of crap that doesn't happen.
When i went to school, the people you so demonize were the least of the problems. It was all the snobs, stuck up and rich people who felt they deserved to own everything who ruined it for those that may have to struggle and work a little bit more to get where they want to be. It was those students who were borne into a dynasty who mainly go to school as a right of passage to do what their family does best - tear down others that they want to demonize.
I can't believe a school would hire someone with so much hatred as yourself.
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Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
...that the only thing the current bunch of thugs learned from their Nixon days was how to do better on the coverup. I believe I was mistaken; they also seem to be getting better at trying to limit dissent.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
Wrong. It's meant to protect you from a society of idiots whom would systemically label you a jackass. There's a big difference. Any idiot can call you a jackass. Jackass.