Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots #37: The Progressive obsession with exacerbating the racial divide

"...the Progressive obsession with exacerbating the racial divide in the country continues."--Mark Tapson

Lots of video today...I hope you won't find it overwhelming. First, a statement by Bret Weinstein, the Evergreen State College prof suing the college (and the State of Washington) for damages resulting from Evergreen's snowflake insurrection. Trey Sanchez has the full story (see below):

Next, testimony from comedian Adam Carolla and conservative activist Ben Shapiro, who is often the target of campus thugs, before a joint congressional hearing. I have provided two clips from Shapiro's testimony - the first is a statement of principle - the second, an exchange with Representative Stacey Plaskett about "white privilege."

"With school out for the summer, the House subcommittees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules held a joint hearing Thursday morning to address the challenges to freedom of speech on college campuses."

PJ Media's Karl Herchenroeder provides deep coverage of this segment of Shapiro's exchange with Plaskett:

WASHINGTON – Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire, said on Thursday that he would be happy to defend Taylor Dumpson, the first African-American student body president of American University, who faced bananas hanging from nooses tied up around campus the day she took office in May.

“I’m more than happy to stand alongside her and fight whatever group was responsible for this,” Shapiro said during a debate about free speech on college campuses before a House panel.

And now, Adam Carolla:

Carolla's pull quote absolutely nails it:

"We're talking a lot about kids, and I think they're just that—kids," Carolla said. "We are the adults and we need to act like it."

"These are 18- and 19-year-old kids that grew up dipped in Purell playing soccer games where they never kept score and watching Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, and we're asking them to be mature," he said. "We need the adults to start being the adults."

• Herchenroeder, Karl: Shapiro: ‘Happy to Stand Alongside’ Harassed Black Student Body President

Much of Thursday’s discussion concerned college administrations’ ability to censor controversial speakers or speeches at the cost of First Amendment rights. Shapiro, who has frequently spoken on controversial subjects on campuses, remains strongly opposed to any censorship, and argued that colleges should err on the side of allowing more speech. He added that administrations are free to disagree with the subject of the speech.

• Jashinsky, Emily: Ben Shapiro, Adam Carolla slam campus safe-space culture in congressional hearing

Right as the doors opened at 7:30, a crowd of young people anxious to hear from the witnesses gathered outside the room, eventually growing so large that an overflow space had to be opened. Students waiting to be let into the hearing broke into cheers as Ben Shapiro was ushered down the hallway with comedian Adam Carolla, both of whom were slated to testify before the committees, along with representatives from the Anti-Defamation League, New York University Law School, and a former provost from Evergreen State College.

• PJ Video: Adam Carolla Testifies Before Congress, Says We Must End Campus Safe Spaces

Comparing college students to astronauts who spend too much time without gravity and lose their bone structure, Adam Carolla testified before Congress about the need to end campus safe spaces. He said college students must be exposed to opposing viewpoints and honest discussion, otherwise, they will lose their mental acuity. As an example, he said that when he co-hosted Loveline with Dr. Drew Pinsky, he toured the nation speaking at campuses, but that when he tried to do a speaking tour with Dennis Prager, he was told he couldn't even speak at a local California State University campus. He argues that speakers should not need to get lawyers involved to allow for a marketplace of ideas for our students. He said, "We're the adults, and we need to act like it." Refreshing words from a Hollywood celebrity!

• O'Neil, Tyler: Ben Shapiro Stormed Congress and Blew the Left’s Argument Against Free Speech to Smithereens

"Free speech is under assault because of a three-step argument made by advocates and justifiers of violence," Shapiro declared in his opening remarks. "The first step is they say that the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identity of the person making the argument."

• Sanchez, Trey: Evergreen College Hit with $3.8 Million Lawsuit from Professor Mobbed by SJWs

Evidence for the case includes various e-mails and social media posts by students and faculty alike, chastising Weinstein. One message is from a faculty member that chided his appearance on Fox News. It reads in part: “Bret, I don't know what you were thinking. By describing yourself to Tucker [Carlson] as a ‘deeply progressive person’ you provided him ammunition for the claim that ‘the crazies are even going after progressives!!!’”

• Scher, Brent: Adam Carolla Goes to Congress, Says Adults Need to Take Back College Campuses

Comedian Adam Carolla was invited to testify before Congress on the state of free speech at American universities and said that it was time for the "adults" to take back control of campus.

Carolla, who has emerged as an active voice for free speech and is working on a new film that rails against "safe spaces," told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that university faculties are doing a disservice to students by letting them decide what speech is safe for them to hear.

• Tapson, Mark: University of So. Carolina Professors: Color-Blindness is 'Unethical"

Students were considered to be color-blind if they agreed with meritocratic statements such as “Everyone who works hard, no matter what race they are, has an equal chance to become rich” and “Race plays a major role in the type of social services that people receive in the United States.”

Priester and Pitner argued in the paper that racial color-blindness is the “denial or lack of awareness of race-based privilege, institutional racism, and/or racial discrimination,” and that “this lack of awareness has been identified as a barrier to developing therapeutic rapport with racially diverse populations.”

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Ken McVay OBC @dragon40, Certified Curmudgeon “The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”--Carlo M. Cipolla