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"What on earth is the use of sending your sons and daughters to universities if this is the bullshit that's being pumped into their heads?"--I said that. |
Hey, Social Justice Warriors, Listen Up
Bill Whittle just shreds SJW's in the sort of straight talk I respect. In this clip, Whittle outdoes himself in expressing his contempt for morons, and he issues a serious piece of advice: "Warrior is not just a name you put on a t-shirt, it's a state of mind, and you don't have it." Boom.
"White Privilege is the gift of not having someone else to blame."
You Can't Make This Sh*t Up Department
Beloit College recently published a “#GetWoke” syllabus in an effort to encourage students to familiarize themselves with the anti-Trump resistance movement.
Among the resources included in the syllabus are related syllabi on similar topics, such as a “Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves,” and another on how “All Monuments Must Fall.”
What on earth is the use of sending your sons and daughters to universities if this is the bullshit that's being pumped into their heads?
The syllabus, called “#GetWoke: Activism and Organizing During 45 Syllabus,” was created by the school’s diversity office for its upcoming “#GetWoke lecture series,” providing a “general overview of white supremacy, fascism, race and racism, and nation-state.”
Ah! The diversity office - now it all makes sense. Diversity, of course, doesn't mean diversity, it means "identity politics," and it means "exclusion" - anyone who disagrees with the snowflakes need not apply.
Back when I was a tadpole, My Grandfather, "Pal", required me to memorize a few historic documents, including Washington's first Inaugural address, of which this is but a small part:
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.
Those words tend to reflect poorly upon leftist wailing and gnashing of teeth over the spiritual beliefs of our Founding Fathers, but who pays attention to them these days?
The second speech I was required to memorize was Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which ended with these words:
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
"Under God"? Imagine that.
Why all this talk of giants? Because, as Kyle Oslen writes, New Jersey’s Camden County High School has removed a painting of Abraham Lincoln, even though the school's administration didn’t get any complaints about a student art piece featuring [Lincoln]. They called this silliness "being proactive" to eliminate the chance of giving potential offense to local snowflakes. I don't know about you, but if I had to choose between Abraham Lincoln and a random herd of social justice warriors, I'd have to go with Abe and tell the school's leadership to stuff it.
You'd think that UC Berkeley students would have had enough of Marxist/Anarchist violence by now, but that doesn't appear to be the case, at least not if Kassy Olsen's report is correct:
A flyer distributed by a group called Students for Social Change—ostentatiously titled “We Can Defend Ourselves!”—complains that “UC Berkeley continues to be the destination of choice for various expressions of the far-right’s bankrupt agenda,” citing the upcoming “Free Speech Week” program that Milo Yiannopoulos is slated to headline later this month.
“Instead of relying on off-campus activists or draconian police measures to shut down these events,” the group asks students to consider what they can do “to empower ourselves collectively to determine who we want to speak on campus.”
"Empower ourselves collectively"? Where have we heard that before? Right...Star Trek's dreaded Borg, who, like today's social justice warriors, insist we must all be "assimilated".
Sorry, snowflakes, but no.
These Students for Social Change, in short, are asking their contemporaries to disavow the First Amendment to the Constitution in order to effectively censor Evil Thinking, i.e. any thoughts or ideas they disagree with. Is that what our universities have become, bastions of Marxist tyranny? No longer should Berkeley students sit idly by while BAMN! and AntiFa thugs swarm the campus and beat up anyone who isn't them...no sirree Bob, now Mao's children must do the job themselves!
From what Katie Zehnder reports, sadly, it would appear that the Marxist indoctrination of our children has borne bitter fruit: "A recent survey conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University shows that fully half of the state’s residents believe protection from discrimination should take precedence over free speech."
Can the United States survive this assault upon our liberty?
Work Cited
- Airaksinen, Toni: College creates “#GetWoke syllabus” to fight Trump
- Dillon, Kassy: Berkeley students plot to 'shut down' conservative speakers
- Olsen, Kyle: NJ school removes Lincoln art piece ‘to avoid potentially offending anyone’
- Zehnder, Katie: POLL: Most Virginians support safe spaces over free speech
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- 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 | 
Hey, Social Justice Warriors, Listen UpBill Whittle just shreds SJW's in the sort of straight talk I respect. In this clip, Whittle outdoes himself in expressing his contempt for morons, and he issues a serious piece of advice: "Warrior is not just a name you put on a t-shirt, it's a state of mind, and you don't have it." Boom. "White Privilege is the gift of not having someone else to blame." You Can't Make This Sh*t Up DepartmentBeloit College recently published a “#GetWoke” syllabus in an effort to encourage students to familiarize themselves with the anti-Trump resistance movement. Among the resources included in the syllabus are related syllabi on similar topics, such as a “Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves,” and another on how “All Monuments Must Fall.” What on earth is the use of sending your sons and daughters to universities if this is the bullshit that's being pumped into their heads? The syllabus, called “#GetWoke: Activism and Organizing During 45 Syllabus,” was created by the school’s diversity office for its upcoming “#GetWoke lecture series,” providing a “general overview of white supremacy, fascism, race and racism, and nation-state.” Ah! The diversity office - now it all makes sense. Diversity, of course, doesn't mean diversity, it means "identity politics," and it means "exclusion" - anyone who disagrees with the snowflakes cannot benefit from "diversity". Back when I was a tadpole, My Grandfather, "Pal", required me to memorize a few historic documents, including Washington's first Inaugural address, of which this is but a small part: Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence. Those words tend to reflect poorly upon leftist wailing and gnashing of teeth over the spiritual beliefs of our Founding Fathers, but who pays attention to them these days? The second speech I was required to memorize was Lincoln's Gettysberg Address, which ended with these words: But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "Under God"? Imagine that. Why all this talk of giants? Because, as Kyle Oslen writes, New Jersey’s Camden County High School has removed a painting of Abraham Lincoln, even though the school's administration didn’t get any complaints about a student art piece featuring [Lincoln]. They called this silliness "being proactive" to eliminate the chance of giving potential offense to local snowflakes. I don't know about you, but if I had to choose between Abraham Lincoln and a random herd of social justice warriors, I'd have to go with Abe and tell the school's leadership to stuff it. You'd think that UC Berkeley students would have had enough of Marxist/Anarchist violence by now, but that doesn't appear to be the case, at least not if Kassy Olsen's report is correct: A flyer distributed by a group called Students for Social Change—ostentatiously titled “We Can Defend Ourselves!”—complains that “UC Berkeley continues to be the destination of choice for various expressions of the far-right’s bankrupt agenda,” citing the upcoming “Free Speech Week” program that Milo Yiannopoulos is slated to headline later this month. “Instead of relying on off-campus activists or draconian police measures to shut down these events,” the group asks students to consider what they can do “to empower ourselves collectively to determine who we want to speak on campus.” "Empower ourselves collectively"? Where have we heard that before? Right...Star Trek's dreaded Borg, who, like today's social justice warriors, insisted we would all be "assimmilated" into the Borg Collective. Sorry, snowflakes, but no. These Students for Social Change, in short, are asking their contemporaries to disavow the First Amendment to the Constitution in order to effectively censor Evil Thinking, i.e. any thoughts or ideas they disagree with. Is that what our universities have become, bastions of Marxist tyranny? From what Katie Zehnder reports, sadly, it would appear that the Marxist indoctrination of our children has borne bitter fruit: "A recent survey conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University shows that fully half of the state’s residents believe protection from discrimination should take precedence over free speech." Can the United States survive this relentless leftist assault upon our liberty? Work Cited
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