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Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"?

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-speak-out dept.

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."

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  1. 'Conservatism' is squelched due to its sad history by Burz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

  2. Problem isn't leftists, its righties who demonize by cybrthng · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.