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"America is clearly undergoing a Cultural Revolution that is eerily similar to Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which took place in China in the 1960s. Maybe Karl Marx was right after all when he declared that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.'”--Helen Raleigh |
Helen Raleigh outlines the similarity between Chairman Mao's Red Guards and America's campus snowflakes, something I have commented upon in the past:
Like Mao’s Red Guards, some American college students and their supporters have been shouting down anyone who dares to disagree with them. These modern-day Red Guards demand that college campuses be an inclusive and safe place, but are bent on making sure the campus is an unwelcoming and unsafe place for anyone who doesn’t show unconditional support for students’ sanctioned orthodoxy.
Raleigh has done an outstanding job dissecting the issue; I hope you will read the article.
Speaking of snowflakes, Toni Airaksinen's article starts with a gem: Students at Stanford University can join a “Disrupting Whiteness” club in an effort to end the “white liberal apathy” and “white privilege” of their peers.. Stanford. Really.
Whenever you hear a snowflake condemning your “white privilege”, understand that what they are really saying is that you are somehow responsible for their shortcomings.
It's your fault they can't graduate from high school.
It's your fault they can't get into college.
It's your fault they can't join the military.
It's your fault they can't ...well, you get the picture - their problems, whatever there true cause, are always your fault - if you're white, that is.
You Will Be Made To Care - Even If You're Only Five
I often feature stories which illustrate the negative impact of Marxist control of our educational system, and I'm going to share another one.
This one, however, this one takes the bloody cake. Todd Starnes explains:
A first grader at a California charter school was sent to the principal’s office this week after she accidentally “mis-gendered” a transgender classmate in what’s being called a “pronoun mishap.”
The incident occurred at Rocklin Academy, a school rocked by controversy after a kindergarten teacher led an in-class discussion on transgenderism that included a “gender reveal” for a little boy who was transitioning to a little girl.
For kindergartners.
We're talking about a five-year-old child here. Worse yet, the parents were neither informed nor given the option of opting-out of the school's LGBT madness, and the "school", seemingly nothing more than "indoctrination ground for the LGBT agenda", clearly does not give a damn how many children they harm on their way to their Marxist Paradise.
As one commenter pointed out, this is flat-out child abuse.
Truly disgusting.
"This is not a day care. This is a university.”
Everett Piper (Twitter: @DrEverittPiper) is the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, and author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth,” now available on Amazon. This brief video demonstrates why progressives detest him:
"We don't have academic freedom any longer on our campuses. We have ideological fascism.”
The book's title is from the last line of a statement Piper wrote that was published on the OKWU website in August 2016. Faced with a student complaint about what one of the school's vice presidents said in a chapel sermon - the student felt "victimized" and “uncomfortable” by the talk, a Christian call to charity based on 1 Corinthians 13 - Piper posted an essay telling the student "you need to grow up” and closing with the line, "This is not a day care. This is a university.”...and...
To the charge that he is too political, Piper argues that the left, and even some Christian leaders, have ruled what were once common sense observations out of bounds: "Who decided that the definition of the human being is 'political'? Who decided that the definition of marriage is 'political'? Who decided that the definition of morality, sexual or otherwise, is 'political'? I refuse to allow somebody to co-opt the language and squeeze me out of the debate by saying 'Well, you shouldn't get 'political,' you should stay focused on the gospel.”
Piper's no nonsense approach to melting snowflakes also reared its head at the University of Chicago last year, when the Dean of Students told incoming freshmen, "Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called 'trigger warnings,' we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual 'safe spaces' where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own."
(Some 150 U of C faculty members took umbrage with Ellison's statement, and expressed a wide variety of opinions, but as far as I can determine, the policy has held.)
Image: Chicago Tribune
Given the mayhem we've seen on university campuses of late, one can only hope that the adults are starting to take notice, and will start acting like adults and demanding their students do likewise. Only time will tell.
"Oh, My GOD, the WHITENESS, the WHITENESS!"
- Airaksinen, Toni: Stanford students start ‘disrupting whiteness’ club
- Jasick, Scott: Chicago Professors Fire Back
- Judge, Mark: University President: ‘We Have Ideological Fascism on Our Campuses’
- Raleigh, Helen: How American Anarchy Parallels China’s Cultural Revolution
- Starnes, Todd: First Grader Sent to Office, Investigated, for “Pronoun Mishap”
- Leonor Vivanco & Dawn Rhodes: U. of C. tells incoming freshmen it does not support 'trigger warnings' or 'safe spaces'
- Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots: Index (0-34)
- The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals (Annoted)
- Protect Yourself From The Evil Patriarchy With The Brand New "Portable Safe Space" Available From Just $79.95
- "If fascism comes to America, it will be through our college and university system."
- : The surprising history of ‘snowflake’ as a political insult
 | @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 |  |