Whatever is happening on college campuses today is just downright scary to me. The students of the Ivy League are supposed to be smarter than the average public university student. These are the students being groomed as the future guardians of our nation and Constitution. Here are two examples of this scary stuff that is happening now:
Example One from Yale: This is video by political satirist Ami Horowitz as he asks Yale students to sign a petition to appeal the 1st Amendment just to see if they would [Spoiler Alert: 50 students signed in 60 minutes]:
My only question: "Were there any students who didn't sign?" I would feel much more comfortable if Howowitz showed at least one student turning him down...
Example Two from Harvard: This is a placemat distributed by the Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to all of the freshman to take home with them. They call it the “Holiday Placemats for Social Justice”.
My first reacton was how infantile. My second was that maybe it should have been a baby bib or blankie.
There are dozens of examples like this, but these are the most recent. Just in case you missed it from last week, here is a LINK to a website that lists all of all the "social justice" demands being made at college campuses around the country. Let's discuss.
Example One from Yale: This is video by political satirist Ami Horowitz as he asks Yale students to sign a petition to appeal the 1st Amendment just to see if they would [Spoiler Alert: 50 students signed in 60 minutes]:
My only question: "Were there any students who didn't sign?" I would feel much more comfortable if Howowitz showed at least one student turning him down...
Example Two from Harvard: This is a placemat distributed by the Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to all of the freshman to take home with them. They call it the “Holiday Placemats for Social Justice”.
My first reacton was how infantile. My second was that maybe it should have been a baby bib or blankie.
There are dozens of examples like this, but these are the most recent. Just in case you missed it from last week, here is a LINK to a website that lists all of all the "social justice" demands being made at college campuses around the country. Let's discuss.
No one ever shows the students that didn't sign. Just like no one ever shows the men-on-the-street who get the "Who is Vice President/Speaker/Chief Justice" questions correct.
ReplyDeleteI hope the plan is to serve cherry pie on that place mat. The way the arguments are picked, it wouldn't make sense to serve anything else. (P.S. Here's one that's easier to read LINK)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link Tryanmax. My personal fave is the "Action" at the bottom. "...1024 people killed by the police in 2015...about 400 of those killed were Black. Many of them were unarmed." That undefined "many". I think I will set places for the cops shot because of #BlackLivesMatters rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteKit - I had that same thought about who didn't sign. However if he could get 50 people to sign on in an hour, that is in and of itself pretty damning. NO ONE should have signed that "petition".
ReplyDeleteGiven that the timeframe is known at one hour and assuming each interaction that lead to a signing took about a minute, assuming that refusals only take half the time, and assuming that, for the most part, the petitioner couldn't gather both simultaneously, the best case scenario for 1A at Yale is only around 30% support. There are, of course, a lot of other variables that could be considered, such as where on campus he conducted the petition. But in regards to what 1A protects, he should be able to conduct his petition right outside a #BLM Safe Space and still get shut down if Yale had any sort of academic admissions and teaching standards.
ReplyDeleteTalk about dumb and dumber.
ReplyDeleteThey go to one source on the number of people killed by police but 10 secs of googling and I found another that reports 368 this year. There were 118 police killed in the line of duty in 2015.
Koshcat - Technically speaking 368 is "about 400". But only 40% are Black and "many" are unarmed. If they will wildly overinflate the number of killed, I am sure the estimate for "many are unarmed" will be somewhat overinflated too.
ReplyDeleteTryanmax - Here's an interesting statistic about Harvard. 98% of the students admitted to Harvard graduate from Harvard. Why? First of all, they no longer give actual grades at Harvard undergrad. Because if the Admin figures if they are smart enough to accept a student, that student must already be smart enough to finish.
ReplyDeleteThis is from the Myths and Facts About Harvard - "98% of all students admitted to Harvard eventually graduate from Harvard; flunking out is rare. A student is not admitted unless the college is convinced that he or she can handle the work – in fact, close to 70% of recent graduating classes have received honors. A normal course load is four courses of three one-hour classes per week (12 hours of class each week). Most students spend one and a half to two hours in work outside of class for each hour of class.
There is something terribly wrong with the system if the system graduates 70% of their students "with honors".
Bev,
ReplyDeleteRe Harvard.
Cough - tuition bubble - cough
Personally, I want to wait on the Yale thing until it is verified that there are no Dick Gozinyas, Clint Torres, Hugh Jasses, and no Anita Wackoffs.
ReplyDeleteBev, I'm sorry, I thought I responded to this yesterday. :(
ReplyDeleteI tend to ignore these things because this stuff has always gone on, it's just a matter of finding where it is and highlighting it. I see no evidence that this kind of thinking exists anywhere in the public at large other than a small fringe.