The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

[Foxx]

46 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

that's okay, walking in with a lightbulb up your behind is another matter, that could break...

 

wonder if they tried to do this.... but the other end of ya... Happy ***** Hallowe'en Charlie Brown

 

 

talk of a prostate is off limits with you but this is okay?

[/dev/null]

https://www.theblaze.com/news/facebook-claims-it-suspended-candace-owens-page-by-mistake

 

Yeah, "by mistake"

 

[B-Man]

Critical Race Theory is destroying our country

American Thinker, by Richard Jack Rail

 

Original Article

 

Critical Race Theory holds that American society is irredeemably racist in favor of the white majority. The thinking is that in a racially oppressive society, though you may also have in common with another your sex, your likes or dislikes, your religion, your political ideas, even your disposition, ethnic commonality or skin color matters beyond anything else. For this reason, only someone of your ethnicity can ever really understand you or grasp your deep-down motives for your actions.

 

More at the link:

 

 

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[Deranged Rhino]

 

[McGee Return TD]

 

[B-Man]

The War on History Comes for George Washington

by Jarrett Stepman

Original Article

 

 

They finally came for George Washington. The perpetual war on history now has the father of our country in its sights as the San Francisco Board of Education considers removing a mural of Washington from a local school. If the board succeeds in politicizing Washington, whose legacy was once so secured and uniting that his home at Mount Vernon was considered neutral ground during the Civil War, then we have clearly crossed the Rubicon of social division. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEFTISTS ALWAYS WANT TO SILENCE THEIR CLASS ENEMIES. ONLY THE EXCUSES AND METHODS CHANGE. 

 

To Fight ‘Extremism,’ Journalists Are Praising Online Censorship.

 

 

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[B-Man]

FRUITS OF A DECADES-LONG PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN: 

 

Disturbing number of students say hate speech is not free speech, report says.

 

 

[B-Man]

WASHINGTON POST WRITER SEES JUSTICE IN INJURY TO FOOTBALL PLAYER

There’s a disconnect between how leftists view the treatment of African-Americans by our criminal justice system and how they seem to want athletes who have brushes with the law to be treated. Consider the case of Reuben Foster.

 

Foster, a linebacker who starred at the University of Alabama, was drafted in the first round by the San Francisco 49ers a few years ago. As a pro, he has had his moments but on the whole hasn’t lived up to expectations. He’s also had off-the-field issues, including misdemeanor gun and marijuana charges.

 

In addition, his girlfriend accused Foster of assaulting her. However, she recanted.

 

Then, late last year, the same woman, now an ex-girlfriend, again accused Foster of assault. The 49ers promptly released him.

 

Almost as promptly, the Washington Redskins claimed Foster. They said they had reason to believe he was innocent. In addition, Redskins who played with Foster at Alabama vouched for his character.

 

However, the Redskins made Foster’s ability to take the field for the team conditional, pending the outcome of the criminal investigation and the NFL’s investigation, plus the Redskins view of how he conducted himself in the meantime. The team was clear that if Foster actually did assault the woman, he wouldn’t play for the team. However, as I understand it, he was allowed to come to the Redskins’ practice facility while the matter was sorted out.

 

Law enforcement did not charge Foster and the NFL cleared him of wrongdoing. Finding no problem with Foster’s post-acquisition behavior, the Redskins activated him and he reported for voluntary workouts with the team this week.

 

But on the third play of the team’s first 11 on 11 drill, a non-contact affair, Foster tore his ACL. It looks like he will be out for the season.

 

Barry Svrluga, a sports columnist for the Washington Post, seems pleased. He views Foster’s injury as “karma” — the Redskins’ just desert for employing Foster. He adds that “no one thinks a player deserves an injury,” but doesn’t seem fully convinced even of that. “The mind wanders and wonders,” he says.

 

I wonder how one can square Svrluga’s attitude towards the Redskins acquisition of Foster, an attitude shared by the liberal sports commentariat, with liberal disdain for how the criminal justice system treats African-Americans. Liberals complain about the rate at which Blacks are incarcerated, about the stiff sentences they receive, and about their inability to find jobs once they get out of prison. They favor the early release of prisoners and insist that once released, their criminal past not be held against them. They are all about giving criminals “a second chance.”

 

But none of this thinking seems to permeate the discussion of Reuben Foster, who is Black. Commentators like Svrluga condemn the Redskins for employing Foster following the 2018 allegation of domestic violence despite the fact that he was never criminally charged in connection with the incident and despite the fact that Foster’s employment was conditioned on him not being charged and not found by the NFL to have engaged in wrongdoing.

 

Apparently, liberals favor not letting Foster inside a football team’s facility unless and until his innocence is established. Never mind that the accuser has already once recanted a similar charge. Foster should be presumed guilty and denied the opportunity to work at his profession until he is proven innocent.

 

That position is too illiberal even for me.

 

More at the link:

 

.https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/washington-post-writer-sees-justice-in-injury-to-football-player.php

[B-Man]

THE PEOPLE RUNNING OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE STUPID: 

 

Chicago High School Falls for ‘OK Sign’ Hoax, Spends $53K Reprinting Yearbook.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

ROGER KIMBALL: Restoring The Lost Consensus.

Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s First Great Awokening.

 

Evidence of our society’s wokeness—a false awakening sparked by political grievance—is all around. I’d like to begin with what the philosopher Nicholas of Cusa called the “coincidence of opposites.” Unpacking exactly what Cusa meant by that arresting phrase would take us into the thickets of metaphysical speculation. But we see pedestrian examples of that strange coincidence everywhere. Indeed, one of the great tests of our wokeness is the extent to which many things have mutated into their opposites—not awake but awoke. Inversion is a dominant principle of our social life.

 

Consider, to take just one example, the fate of our colleges and universities. Once upon a time, and it was not so long ago, they were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization. Today, most are dedicated to the repudiation of truth and the subversion of those values. In short, they are laboratories for the cultivation of wokeness. This is especially true, with only a handful of exceptions, of the most prestigious institutions. The tonier and more expensive the college, the more woke it is likely to be.

 

There are two central tenets of the woke philosophy. The first is feigned fragility. The second is angry intolerance. The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid, the crybully, a delicate yet venomous species that thrives chiefly in lush, pampered environments.

 

Read the whole thing.

 

[row_33]

The other is not having something constructive to do with your day, so you can fake indignation as if it's your full time job or study schedule.

 

 

[DC Tom]

54 minutes ago, B-Man said:

ROGER KIMBALL: Restoring The Lost Consensus.

Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s First Great Awokening.

 

Evidence of our society’s wokeness—a false awakening sparked by political grievance—is all around. I’d like to begin with what the philosopher Nicholas of Cusa called the “coincidence of opposites.” Unpacking exactly what Cusa meant by that arresting phrase would take us into the thickets of metaphysical speculation. But we see pedestrian examples of that strange coincidence everywhere. Indeed, one of the great tests of our wokeness is the extent to which many things have mutated into their opposites—not awake but awoke. Inversion is a dominant principle of our social life.

 

Consider, to take just one example, the fate of our colleges and universities. Once upon a time, and it was not so long ago, they were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization. Today, most are dedicated to the repudiation of truth and the subversion of those values. In short, they are laboratories for the cultivation of wokeness. This is especially true, with only a handful of exceptions, of the most prestigious institutions. The tonier and more expensive the college, the more woke it is likely to be.

 

There are two central tenets of the woke philosophy. The first is feigned fragility. The second is angry intolerance. The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid, the crybully, a delicate yet venomous species that thrives chiefly in lush, pampered environments.

 

Read the whole thing.

 

 

I would hereby like to posit what should be known as "DC Tom's Second Axiom:" nothing worth reading has ever been written that includes the phrase "eighteenth-century German aphorist G. C. Lichtenberg."  

 

I would also like to suggest the Paradox of G.C. Lichtenberg: DC Tom's Second Axiom is self-referentially true.

[row_33]

14 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

I would hereby like to posit what should be known as "DC Tom's Second Axiom:" nothing worth reading has ever been written that includes the phrase "eighteenth-century German aphorist G. C. Lichtenberg."  

 

I would also like to suggest the Paradox of G.C. Lichtenberg: DC Tom's Second Axiom is self-referentially true.

 

 

it wasn't just that field that was ruined in the 18th century?

 

(noted)

 

 

[3rdnlng]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

ROGER KIMBALL: Restoring The Lost Consensus.

Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s First Great Awokening.

 

Evidence of our society’s wokeness—a false awakening sparked by political grievance—is all around. I’d like to begin with what the philosopher Nicholas of Cusa called the “coincidence of opposites.” Unpacking exactly what Cusa meant by that arresting phrase would take us into the thickets of metaphysical speculation. But we see pedestrian examples of that strange coincidence everywhere. Indeed, one of the great tests of our wokeness is the extent to which many things have mutated into their opposites—not awake but awoke. Inversion is a dominant principle of our social life.

 

Consider, to take just one example, the fate of our colleges and universities. Once upon a time, and it was not so long ago, they were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization. Today, most are dedicated to the repudiation of truth and the subversion of those values. In short, they are laboratories for the cultivation of wokeness. This is especially true, with only a handful of exceptions, of the most prestigious institutions. The tonier and more expensive the college, the more woke it is likely to be.

 

There are two central tenets of the woke philosophy. The first is feigned fragility. The second is angry intolerance. The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid, the crybully, a delicate yet venomous species that thrives chiefly in lush, pampered environments.

 

Read the whole thing.

 

Crybully, I like it.

[B-Man]

 STUDY: White liberals’ sympathy for poor whites DECREASES after white privilege lessons, sympathy for blacks stays same.

 

 

So.............it's working as planned.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

What Bias? Facebook Suspends Conservative Raheem Kassam, Editor of Human Events, Over 11-Year-Old Post

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

Having Siri, Google Assistant & other intelligent assistants female by default is sexist, says UN.

 

 

I guess the UN has to find something to do, having secured world peace and all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Political Correctness Is a Tool for Socialist Censorship and Thought Control. 

And it was designed as such.

 

 

 

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Edited May 24, 2019 by B-Man

[LB3]

And my favorite reply...

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@MeatGoblet

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[B-Man]

Of Course....................

 

 

CAIR Slams Release of ‘Aladdin’ in Age of Trump.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

HE’S REALLY TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS: 

 

Cruz: Defund colleges that don’t support free speech.

 

 

 

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