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."

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Re:Not amazing at all

[riseoftheindividual]

"There were Young Republican types on those campuses as well."

True, but, in case you haven't been paying attention... so-called liberals are in on this stuff, people who were not young republicans. That generation has overwhelmingly embraced this type of stuff. The best and clearest example I can think of is, who backed the patriot act? Who voted for it? What are there backgrounds?

A whole generation is not a monobloc that thinks alike and I never implied they were. What is amazing is that a whole generation can live through watching freedom prevail over radicalism, and then grow up and forget what they witnessed first hand. I think that's amazing. I think it's amazing that they lived through a history of terrorism and radicalism being a thorn in the side of oppressive regimes around the world and in terms of acts of terror, hardly being a blip on the US soil by comparison.

But instead of paying attention to the history they lived through, they come into power and begin down the same path that the societies most plagued with terrorism have been on, apparently thinking we'll get different results.