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"BAMN was founded by the Revolutionary Workers League, an openly Marxist organization, in 1995." --Peter Hasson |
A Snowflake Primer
I know, I know, I'm terrible. I use this same video in my next Civil War series...if you missed it, gather yon snowflakes around that Big Screen and educate the little scamps:
By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
Peter Hasson peels back the shrouds of mystery surrounding BAMN and reveals the role of public school teachers in the group:
By Any Means Necessary, which has played a key role in riots in Berkeley, Sacramento and elsewhere, has dozens of public school teachers among its members, including among its most prominent leaders....and...
BAMN is active within both the National Education Association — the nation’s largest teacher’s union — as well as with local and regional teacher’s unions in Michigan and California....and...
Last year, 17 different BAMN members ran for elected positions on the Detroit Federation of Teachers, according to a newsletter sent out by the DFT. BAMN also ran five candidates for different national leadership positions with the NEA in 2017.
Hasson also explains that teachers not only strive to indoctrinate their students with the hate-filled vomitus of communism, but attempt to get them involved in demonstrations, many of which can turn violent.
John Sexton has more on the impact student violence is having on those universities that tolerate it, pointing out that Evergreen State College enrollment has dropped by 5% since the college allowed their snowflakes to take control of the campus. Too bad the impact wasn't worse - Evergreen begins a new academic year with many of the same, overly-entitled, racist snowflakes that enabled the violent atmosphere in the first place. Worse yet, the same faculty will be returning...the teachers that indoctrinated the snowflakes by filling their heads with "social justice" mush. The Fox story adds some interesting numbers:
"...Evergreen State has experienced a decline in enrollment that has resulted in a $2.1 million budget shortfall, forcing the liberal arts school to announce layoffs."...while at Mizzou:
"...freshman enrollment has plunged by 35 percent, and donations to the athletic department have dropped 72 percent over the year before..."
Karma is indeed a bitch...when your own alumni quit filling the coffers, you might want to sit up and pay attention, Mizzou. It will be interesting to see how either organization handles student uprisings in the future.
Florida Snowflakes Demand Segregated Quarters!
To read Bryan Michalek's account of the sheer degree of dogged snowflakedness at the University of Florida is to drive home the inevitable result of the Democratic Party's corrosive use of vicious identity politics.
Black and Latino students at the University of Florida are protesting a plan to build a new building to house both of their student organizations, because it would allegedly "erase and marginalize their black and brown bodies" by forcing them to occupy a shared -- though enormous -- space, according to the College Fix.
Two old campus houses were razed in order to build a new U-shaped building that would house two organizations; the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture. The initial plan was to split the building into two wings that would only be connected by a walkway and an elevator, a project expected to cost the school upwards of $6.3 million.
"We demand segregated facilities!"
Two of the Marxicrats' trademarked victim groups are now whining about how hard-done-by they are because their university of choice had the gall to suggest that they share their wonderful new building and enjoy it.
God forbid these idiots learn to get along, and work together towards a common good.
Can't have that, now can we?
Heather MacDonald wrote an awesome story for National Review Online last week in, "Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior".
You guessed it, "Bourgeois Behavior" is any behavior Marxists don't like. Any suggestion that makes today's snowflakes uncomfortable - raising children with married parents of opposite sexes, for instance, or embuing children with a healthy work ethic (God forbid!).
Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility? Not so fast! According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is “hate speech.” The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the rapidly shrinking boundaries of acceptable thought on college campuses and the use of racial victimology to police those boundaries.
This is a fascinating tale of two professors facing accusations of racism, sexism and, of course, homophobia, for suggesting - and [GASP!] promoting - a return to the traditional values of an older decade.
Oh, the shame of it all.
On August 9, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax and University of San Diego law professor Larry Alexander published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for a revival of the bourgeois values that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority.
Respect for authority? How dare they? After all, telling snowflakes to challenge everything they believe about social responsibility is a step too far!
These two profs also had the temerity to say that ‘all cultures are not equal’!
You can color me shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - because these two gluttons for punishment not only praised the practices of decades gone by but verbally assaulted virtually every social justice warrior on the continent by insisting that unicorns were not real.
The result, of course, was that the professors' article was misquoted, lied about, and demeaned far and wide; its authors were attacked as hate mongers (insert your favorite liberal "ism" or "ist" here) throughout the dreaded Snowflake Pipeline.
MacDonald weaves a classic narrative which describes the price to be paid for not parroting the party line or the Outrage of the Day.
Update: Patrice calls for Amy Wax’s firing
For those who doubted that political correctness posed a threat to free speech on campus, Above the Law contributor Joe Patrice just gave you reason to believe. Patrice called for the firing of two tenured professors who coauthored an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for a return to “bourgeois values.”
Patrice characterized the article as racist and sexist, “This dynamic duo of dumb spend the op-ed concocting a theory as terrifying as it is bereft of factual support when they posit that all of America’s woes really do stem from failing to live up to the ideals of an era when (white) men were men and everyone else kept their goddamned mouths shut.”
Work Cited
- Fox: Colleges struggle over defending or curbing free speech
- Hasson, Peter: Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group
- MacDonald,, Heather: Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of Bourgeois’ Behavior
- Michalek, Bryan: Black and Latino Florida Students Protest After Refusing to Share Housing Space
- Sexton, John: Enrollment At Evergreen State College Drops 5%, Hiring Freeze To Follow
Background Reading
- 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
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