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08 Oct 2019, 4:23 pm

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This doesn't appear to be leftist corruption per se, just good old fashioned corruption. If you think universities are some kind of distinctively honorable institutions full of superior people, think again.


It's good to see you finally discovered an actual scandal for once. :lol:


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09 Oct 2019, 10:14 am

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"In France you have an Arab Muslim population which is struggling to integrate. The unemployment is 20% for them. People like Marine Le Pen are gaining in support. Do the French people who back her have a legitimate grievance against them due to the increase in terror attacks and people lashing out?"


That sounded like racism there and that you were generalizing them so that is why people got upset with you. It would be like if someone asked:

"The unemployment rate for autism is 88 percent. They are gaining support, do the Americans who back it have a legitimate grievance against them due to the increase of school shootings." I bet that would offend you. Don't forget that we are always hearing in the media that the shooter has autism so if someone generalized us, we would also be upset with their question for even thinking that about us.


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09 Oct 2019, 10:19 am

I have noticed our American country has become split, us vs them.


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12 Oct 2019, 10:05 am

University program teaches faculty and staff how they ‘support racism and white supremacy’

Boise State University has rolled out a new “book circle” for faculty and staff focused on white privilege in an attempt to “dig deep into ourselves to explore the ways in which we all, as individuals, sometimes unknowingly, support racism and white supremacy,” the university’s website states.

The book circle is hosted by the Gender Equity Center and the Center for Teaching and Learning and is centered on the book “What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy” by Robin DiAngelo, a “white fragility” expert who speaks at college campuses nationwide.

While the program is open to “folks of all racial identities,” the website states, “the primary audience of this book [is] people who are interested in unpacking white identity and how white folks distance themselves from conversations about race, as well as learning how to engage white folks in recognizing their privilege.”


https://www.thecollegefix.com/universit ... supremacy/


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12 Oct 2019, 10:14 am

“White Identity” is only a concept to true white supremacists.

It is a concept which really doesn’t exist—except in the minds of white supremacists. They made all this crap up.



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13 Oct 2019, 5:34 am

Conservative politicians and parties generally aren't too friendly towards academics and academia. This, I would suggest, is the main reason why most people within academia are on the left or at least vote for parties and candidates of the left. It's not really about having a dastardly plan to take over the universe, it's merely about self-preservation.



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15 Oct 2019, 12:08 pm

Darmok wrote:
University program teaches faculty and staff how they ‘support racism and white supremacy’

Boise State University has rolled out a new “book circle” for faculty and staff focused on white privilege in an attempt to “dig deep into ourselves to explore the ways in which we all, as individuals, sometimes unknowingly, support racism and white supremacy,” the university’s website states.

The book circle is hosted by the Gender Equity Center and the Center for Teaching and Learning and is centered on the book “What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy” by Robin DiAngelo, a “white fragility” expert who speaks at college campuses nationwide.

While the program is open to “folks of all racial identities,” the website states, “the primary audience of this book [is] people who are interested in unpacking white identity and how white folks distance themselves from conversations about race, as well as learning how to engage white folks in recognizing their privilege.”


https://www.thecollegefix.com/universit ... supremacy/


White privilege is being discussed in Boise?!?!?! Idaho? (Or as I call it, Utah on Crack?)


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17 Oct 2019, 10:10 am

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SpongeBob' is a 'violent,' 'racist' colonizer, says University of Washington professor

Professor says SpongeBob SquarePants is a racist
SpongeBob’ is a ‘violent,’ ‘racist’ colonizer, says University of Washington professor.

"SpongeBob SquarePants," which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday, has millions of fans around the world, but one University of Washington professor is clearly not among them.

For a recently published academic journal, the professor, Holly M. Barker, wrote an article "Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom," in which she offers a different take on the affable sea sponge.

"SpongeBob Squarepants and his friends play a role in normalizing the settler colonial takings of indigenous lands while erasing the ancestral Bikinian people from their nonfictional homeland," the article reads.


https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/s ... -colonizer


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19 Oct 2019, 12:45 am

maybe .... it's postable here?

all my special points of interests,
or a lot of that
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i don't think it's all "left or right",
factions of religion(s) more so



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18 Nov 2019, 8:03 pm

From beyond the grave, the Democrat George Wallace and the Democrat Ku Klux Klan leaders smile.


Students demand ability to select roommate based on race during days-long sit-in

--Syracuse Students are demanding an option for selecting same race roommates in student housing, along with other demands.
--Students are occupying a campus building until these demands are met.

The Chancellor at Syracuse University has stated that he will actively work with a group of students who have issued several demands meant to address a racism issue at the school, including the institution of a new policy that would require students be offered an option to choose that their roommate share the same race.

The demand to allow "students of color" to elect not to room with students of other races was one of several such demands issued by a group of protesting students who aired their concerns about racism on campus during an ongoing sit-in. Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke at the sit-in in a live-streamed exchange.

Calling themselves “#NotAgainSU,” this group of protestors is calling for the chancellor to resign if he does not sign a document conceding to the list of demands by Wednesday.


https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14003


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19 Nov 2019, 3:31 am

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From beyond the grave, the Democrat George Wallace and the Democrat Ku Klux Klan leaders smile.


Students demand ability to select roommate based on race during days-long sit-in

--Syracuse Students are demanding an option for selecting same race roommates in student housing, along with other demands.
--Students are occupying a campus building until these demands are met.

The Chancellor at Syracuse University has stated that he will actively work with a group of students who have issued several demands meant to address a racism issue at the school, including the institution of a new policy that would require students be offered an option to choose that their roommate share the same race.

The demand to allow "students of color" to elect not to room with students of other races was one of several such demands issued by a group of protesting students who aired their concerns about racism on campus during an ongoing sit-in. Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke at the sit-in in a live-streamed exchange.

Calling themselves “#NotAgainSU,” this group of protestors is calling for the chancellor to resign if he does not sign a document conceding to the list of demands by Wednesday.


https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14003

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Chancellor Syverud responded, saying he spoke with students and learned that they had “good reason to fear” roommates who “harbor views of racism.”


We do not need to be reminded of what would happen if white students demanded to room with other whites and the chancellor said the white students “had good reason to fear” black students would rob them.

In fairness there has been a series of bigotry incidents mostly graffiti and one girl was accosted. A fraternity has been suspended but that does not change the fact the protests are racist and the chancellor is enabling them.


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19 Nov 2019, 10:28 am

Well, good, but it was only because of "backlash."


After backlash, UVA pres. says scrapping Veterans Day 21-gun salute was 'mistake'

--Shortly after announcing the removal of the 21-gun salute from its traditional Veterans Day ceremony, the University of Virginia is changing course.
--"Sometimes you make mistakes," university president Jim Ryan said.

Shortly after announcing that it would be doing away with its long-held tradition of incorporating a 21-gun salute on Veterans Day, the University of Virginia has changed course and will be reinstating the salute in next year's ceremony.

University president Jim Ryan stated Saturday that next year's ceremony will include the salute, calling the decision a "mistake" that was "motivated by good intentions."

"Sometimes you make mistakes. Although motivated by good intentions, I believe we made a mistake this year in excluding the 21-gun salute from our Veterans Day ceremony. Having attended the ceremony, and having consulted with the Commander in charge, I am confident that we can accommodate a 21-gun salute, which had been a meaningful feature of the ceremony in years past," Ryan wrote in a Facebook post.

"We will therefore reinstate the 21-gun salute next year, and we will make sure to minimize any disruptions to classes and communicate the details of the ceremony in advance. Thanks to all who shared their views about this topic, and my sincere apologies to any who may have doubted our commitment to honoring our veterans, whom we hold in the highest esteem and who deserve our gratitude," he added.

In his original Nov. 9 statement regarding the removal of the salute, Ryan reasoned that the gunfire could be "disruptive to classes" and that it may "cause a panic" among students who have been highly sensitized to "gun violence" in America.


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11 Dec 2019, 6:02 pm

Yale Prof Estimates Faculty Political Diversity At 0%

Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members is nearly complete.

Valerie Pavilonis and Matt Kristoffersen report in the Yale Daily News:

"According to computer science professor David Gelernter ‘76, faculty political diversity at Yale is low: “0%,” he wrote in an email. He added that while there are a “few conservatives, including prominent ones,” their numbers are not high enough to have a significant impact on campus culture."

Readers might assume that Mr. Gelernter, an occasional contributor to the Journal, is poking fun at the school’s overwhelming leftism rather than expressing mathematical precision. But via email, another Yale faculty member who chooses to remain anonymous tells this column, “I agree with the calculation.”

A third Yale faculty member, a self-described liberal, says the faculty is “moving further to the left” and has become increasingly intolerant of conservative viewpoints. This faculty member, who also requests anonymity, says that some faculty bias is subconscious: “They think people who agree with them are smarter than people who disagree with them.” This professor adds: “Universities are moving away from the search for truth” in favor of a search for “social justice.” ...

Ms. Pavilonis and Mr. Kristoffersen of the Yale Daily News also interviewed history professor Carlos Eire, another occasional contributor to the Journal. According to their report:

"Yale talks a lot of diversity, but basically all that diversity means here is skin color,” Eire said. “There’s definitely no diversity here when it comes to politics. The liberal point of view is taken to be objective — not an opinion, not a set of beliefs... There’s an assumption that goes unquestioned that if you’re not part of the herd groupthink there’s something wrong with you,” he said."


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14 Dec 2019, 11:39 am

Semester of violence: physical attacks on conservative college students keep piling up

It’s not safe to be openly conservative on campus

When a conservative activist with MAGA gear was hit in the face with a brutal haymaker at UC Berkeley earlier this year, it was caught on camera and became fodder for national headlines.

It was also no outlier....


https://www.thecollegefix.com/semester- ... piling-up/


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28 Dec 2019, 12:11 pm

A year of left-wing violence on college campuses:


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