The problem of SJWs

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22 Mar 2017, 7:07 am

Telling white students they can't wear hoop earrings? So that's one rule for one race and one rule for another. Rules based on race.

It seems like when the SJWs attempt to reduce racism they end up increasing it.

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22 Mar 2017, 7:19 am

College students violently protesting conservative speakers tend to come from wealthy families, study finds

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The analysis of who on these campuses is making it increasingly difficult to invite conservatives comes shortly after a disturbing such instance at Middlebury College. Earlier this month, controversial libertarian social scientist Charles Murray arrived at the Vermont campus to deliver a guest lecture. But the intensity of the student protests forced Murray and those who had invited him to move to a different section of the campus to continue.

However, student protesters disrupted that venue, too. When a Middlebury faculty member attempted – for Murray’s physical safety -- to escort Murray to a vehicle, a student mob physically attacked them.

After a struggle, which left the faculty member injured, they were able to get inside a vehicle, at which point students began battering the vehicle and jumping on top of it.

Middlebury is not an isolated incident. A study from the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education found that the number of reported disinvitations and demands that speakers be disinvited has skyrocketed in recent years — from six in 2000 to 43 in 2016.

Those who predominantly engage in such violent protests generally fit an identifiable demographic profile, according to the study by the Brookings Institute’s Center on Children and Families. The analysis found that it is predominantly upscale students from liberal institutions who are demonstrating illiberal values by protesting, and at times rioting, to force their schools to disinvite or cancel events featuring conservative thinkers.

“The quintessentially liberal commitment to free and open dialogue is indispensable for building mutual understanding and respect in a diverse society,” Reeves wrote. “The spectacle of rich, ‘progressive’ protesters refusing to hear a lecture on the roots of their own privilege; well, it tells you how much work there is to do.”

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22 Mar 2017, 5:23 pm

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kraftiekortie wrote:

That's asinine.....but that's not what most "liberals" think.

Only the really kooky ones.

I have seen quite a few people not on this level, but saying white people cannot wear dreadlocks.

Only the kooks -- like these?

Pitzer College RA Tells White Girls to Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings: It’s Cultural Appropriation

A residential advisor at Pitzer College sent a campus-wide email informing students—white women, in particular—that they should stop wearing hoop earrings.

Hooped earrings "actually come from a historical background of oppression and exclusion," wrote Alegria Martinez, according to The Claremont Independent. "Why should white girls be able to take part in this culture?"

The email was intended to serve as an explanation for the appearance of a message, "White girl take off your hoops!! !" on Pitzer's free speech wall. In her email to campus, Martinez identified herself as one of the authors of the message....

Another student, Jacquelyn Aguilera, also took credit for the message, and sent her own email:

"If you didn't create the culture as a coping mechanism for marginalization, take off those hoops, if your feminism isn't intersectional take off those hoops, if you try to wear mi cultura when the creators can no longer afford it, take off those hoops, if you are incapable of using a search engine and expect other people to educate you, take off those hoops, if you can't pronounce my name or spell it … take off those hoops / I use "those" instead of "your" because hoops were never "yours" to begin with."

http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/10/pitze ... girls-to-s

I was more saying the violence is not as common, but the stupid ideas seem common.

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24 Mar 2017, 6:35 am

The SJWs sure do love exaggerating statistics.

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24 Mar 2017, 9:50 am

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The SJWs sure do love exaggerating statistics.

The SJW stuff really is like the seventeenth-century witch trials, complete with "spectral evidence."

Here's a review of a new book by two people who have done a lot to expose left-wing lies on American campuses:

Everything You Think You Know About Campus Sexual Assault Is Wrong: A Review Of The Campus Rape Frenzy

The most terrifying book you will read this year isn’t written by Stephen King. It’s written by a lawyer and a history professor, and it will blow your hair back.

The book is The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities, by KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor, Jr. I cannot recommend it highly enough....

There are too many things to praise about this book in this column, so I think I’ll just focus on my favorite part — what it does to the faulty, yet oft-repeated, statistics in this area.

By now, if you have followed this controversy at all over the last few years, you have heard of “one in five” — the idea that one in five women are sexually assaulted on college campuses....

When you actually sit down and do the math, common sense would tell you that “one in five” is false. But as Mark Twain famously said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. But Johnson and Taylor don’t just rely on common sense—they actually do the research and find out how false this is....

The book is much more than statistics, of course. Johnson and Taylor do a terrific job highlighting the terrible abuses of due process on college campuses across the country, the find-guilt-at-all-costs mentality of many Title IX coordinators, and the sheer hypocrisy of liberals who once claimed to care about due process.

If you’re interested in these issues on either side, I urge you to read this book. After The Campus Rape Frenzy, it will be hard to have a serious conversation about campus sexual assault if you haven’t read this book. It’s a quick read and a tremendously compelling one. Johnson and Taylor have done a tremendous service for both the lawyers who practice in this area and the people affected by the terrible abuses going on at college campuses across the country.

http://abovethelaw.com/2017/03/everythi ... ape-frenzy

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24 Mar 2017, 6:49 pm

Looks like there are some racists at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota who think "America is a White Nation":

Except ... the signs were posted by college diversity officials:

College ‘diversity council’ posts FAKE racist flyers

--The “Diversity Leadership Council” at Gustavus Adolphus College has admitted to posting racially offensive posters around campus after the school’s Bias Response Team received multiple reports on the matter.

--The signs urge “all white Americans” to report “any and all illegal aliens” because “they are criminals,” saying “America is a white nation” and it is the “civic duty” of such Americans to turn in illegal immigrants.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8965

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24 Mar 2017, 8:11 pm

^ That makes sense because only those overpaid college diversity councilman would be stupid enough to think other people think all legal immigrants are white. There are many non-white people who legally immigrate to the US every year.

Those lefties want to make college cheaper? Fine. How about make college cheaper by eliminating the $200,000 per year per member diversity council?

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24 Mar 2017, 8:29 pm

Camille Paglia weighs in
A 'Fractious' Feminist Decries the Ruthless Thought Police Stifling Free Speech on Campus

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In 1991, New York Newsday published my op-ed on date rape, which remains the most controversial thing I have ever written. In it, I argued that women today (then as now) were misusing the freedom that my generation had fought for, and won, by not accepting personal risk. I wrote at the time that young feminists are deluded: they come from a protected, white middle-class world and expect everything to be safe. Women infantilize themselves when they cede responsibility for sexual encounters to men or to after-the-fact grievance committees, parental proxies unworthy of true feminists. My baby-boom generation demanded and won an end to such parietal rules, and it is tragic indeed how so many of today's young women seem to long for a return of those hovering paternalistic safeguards.

The freedom to hate must be as protected as the freedom to love. It is only when hate crosses over into action that the law may properly intervene. How is it possible that today's academic left has supported rather than protested campus speech codes as well as the grotesque surveillance and over-regulation of student life? American colleges have abandoned their educational mission and become government colonies, ruled by officious bureaucrats enforcing federal dictates. This despotic imperialism has no place in a modern democracy.

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24 Mar 2017, 8:30 pm

Why on earth would autists support a political ideology (Trump Republicanism/conservativism) that wants to eliminate the social safety net for autistic people? Something like 80% of autistic people are unemployed ffs. And many of them lack full-time employment or have poorly paid jobs.

Is autistic support for the right or the alt-right have anything to do with autistic people lacking "theory of mind"?

I have an actual diagnosis for PDD since childhood. And I've always been a liberal/Democrat primarily because I know that an oppressed minority (autist) such as myself would be a sitting duck in a conservative society. I've always had a strong sense of self-preservation. Something that the NEETs on /pol/, /r9k/ and presumably wrongplanet lack.

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25 Mar 2017, 5:13 am

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Being against SJWs does not necessarily make one right or alt right. Myself for example, I am a liberal, but think the modern Democratic Party should be changed.

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25 Mar 2017, 11:04 am

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The alt right is a reaction to and in some ways an alter ego to SJW's in that they are trollish brats.

Since this is a SJW thread, why would Autistics support the anti free speech movement, a world view where there are certain truths and all others must be stamped out? Why would autistics support a movement defined by bullying and the peternalism and infantilization that Carmille Puglia spoke of in my prevoius post? Have not we been bullied and infintilized enough? It is a spectrum I would guess.

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25 Mar 2017, 5:49 pm

So are SJWs likely to help ASD people or will they vilify ASD people as being misogynist?

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25 Mar 2017, 6:55 pm

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So are SJWs likely to help ASD people or will they vilify ASD people as being misogynist?

If they turn their attention to us I do not think it would be good. They are into their own truths and everything else needs to be humiliated and silenced. I think they would not take kindly to the spectrum and a "different" ways of thinking.

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25 Mar 2017, 8:05 pm

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So are SJWs likely to help ASD people or will they vilify ASD people as being misogynist?

Yeah. I guess a herd of conformists wouldn't be open to helping people who think differently.

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25 Mar 2017, 8:07 pm

Here's a new short video about SJW's at Yale University. I could only bear to watch the first half, the behavior of the students was so repulsive.

These people are some of the most privileged young people in the history of Planet Earth. Yale tuition is something like $50,000/year, they live in dorms that are like royal palaces, they have gourmet food in every dining room, they have libraries and art collections that are like the dreams of medieval kings. And they can hardly stand to live because they are suffering so much oppression.

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25 Mar 2017, 8:07 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

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So are SJWs likely to help ASD people or will they vilify ASD people as being misogynist?

Yeah. I guess a herd of conformists wouldn't be open to helping people who think differently.

But their all about justice and helping the vulnerable.

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