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Some good news this time around -but first, why are University of Pennsylvania snowflakes being taught a theory that has no scientific basis? "...students will learn to fight their “denial and unconscious bias” through a number of tactics in the class, including through writing personal reflections about their own biases and talking to their classmates about them"? Toni Airaksinen covers this leftist claptrap.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on the suppression of First Amendment rights on college and university campuses. They got an earful from students who were concerned about the treatment they received after expressing conservative views, but the most damning testimony from - who else - Richard Cohen of Southern Poverty Law Center, who "said that students and universities 'should not give racists an audience.'" "Racists", of course, is fascist-speak for anyone that refuses to kneel before the Marxist Thought Police. Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, makes it clear that the students who expressed their concerns have been heard, writing, " those who would curtail free speech have been emboldened and those who disagree with the prevailing orthodoxy have been censored or chilled from speaking freely. There is no point in having a student body on campus if competing ideas are not exchanged and analyzed."
More welcome news: A lawsuit filed by SFSU Jewish students and the local Jewish community "...alleging that San Francisco State University has a long and extensive history of cultivating anti-Semitism and overt discrimination against Jewish students" has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California...lay in the popcorn, Martha, because the best way to expose the devastating impact of cultural Marxism is to expose it to a bright light, and this light's going to be a humdinger.
- Airaksinen, Toni: UPenn Students Study 'Denial and Unconscious Bias' in Summer Course
- Airaksinen, Toni: Brown University Teaching High School Kids to Be Social Justice Warriors
- Fenig, Ethel C.: A silent minority fights for its rights at San Francisco State U
- Grassley, Sen. Chuck: Free Speech Is Dying on the College Campus. How We Can Revive It.
- Johnson, Bridget: Defuse Some Political Tension by Allowing Campus Free Speech, Says Sanders
- Singman, Brooke: College students testify: Free speech under assault on campuses
- Google "Snowflakes are useful idiots"
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- "If fascism comes to America, it will be through our college and university system."
While decades of pop-psychology has argued that unconscious bias is a major influence on how white people treat black people, or how heterosexual people treat the gay community, new research has actually found scarce evidence to prove this link.
While some high-school students spend the summer playing video games or hanging out with friends, other teens are have different plans — and many of them are learning how to become social justice activists through college-sponsored summer programs.
Next month, Brown University will play host to one of these programs, a “Leadership and Social Justice” class geared towards students as young as 15.
The lawsuit details the long, sordid history of SFSU's administration allowing virulent, violent anti-Jewish, anti Zionist and Israel (and make no mistake: the latter is the former) activities to pervade the campus at all levels – while occasionally even participating in the bigotry. In addition, SFSU's administration also restricted pro-Israel and just Jewish gatherings on campus while permitting other groups. On a simple level, this is called racism. Discrimination.
At Kellogg Community College, administrators required prior approval for speech in public forums, a two-fold violation of the First Amendment. Amazingly, students there were arrested for distributing copies of the United States Constitution.
Their lawsuit against the college and against its administrators in their personal capacity is pending.
How thoughtful of our aging communist loon! After telling his minions to "take out their anger on the right people," Red Bernie insists that we should "allow" campus free speech - and we all know how free speech prospers in communist countries, right, Senator?
“Many administrators believe students should be shielded from hate speech, as an exception to the First Amendment,” Grassley said. “This anti-constitutional attitude is so pervasive that students are being socialized and possibly indoctrinated into favoring censorship at odds with the First Amendment.”
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