Where are the faculty? American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force, and sometimes criminal violence, to shut down ideas they don’t like. Yet when such travesties occur, the faculty are, with few exceptions, missing in action, though they have themselves been given the extraordinary privilege of tenure to protect their own liberty of thought and speech. It is time for them to take their heads out of the sand.
I was the target of such silencing tactics two days in a row last week, the more serious incident at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and a less virulent one at UCLA.
The Rose Institute for State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna had invited me to meet with students and to give a talk about my book, The War on Cops, on April 6. Several calls went out on Facebook to “shut down” this “notorious white supremacist fascist Heather Mac Donald.” A Facebook post from “we, students of color at the Claremont Colleges” announced grandiosely that “as a community, we CANNOT and WILL NOT allow fascism to have a platform. We stand against all forms of oppression and we refuse to have Mac Donald speak.”
A sample of protester interaction is below:
A black female asked whether “black victims killed by cops” mattered.
“Yes,” Mac Donald replied. “And do black children that are killed by other blacks matter to you?”
At that the room erupted in gasps and angry moans and furious snaps, and the young lady who asked the original question began to yell at Mac Donald, pointing her finger and repeating the original question. . . .
Read more of this article by Heather Mac Donald at City Journal
“from Oakland to Greece f.. the police?” who is writing this stuff for the BLM groups and their silly snowflake followers? The Guys from Fraggle Rock?
Our Educators adhere to the religious worldview of State Sanctioned so-called unbiased Secular Humanism. School teachers here lead our students in The Lord’s Prayer, and in 1957 The Ten Commandments were not only the majorities values, but also the box office champion.
Today adult school teachers, homosexual, transgender, promiscuous sex, and abortion activists teach them perversion, by Government Legislation, and Supreme Court Decree.
Almost all citizens profess to be shocked. Most of them are lying. At least for the moment Liberals and Democrats are not appointing rotten Supreme Court Justices.
Education in America from kindergarten through Ph.D. has been propagandized and manipulated to produce nonthinking voters programmed to view socialism in a favorable light.
That has been the left’s plan since the 1880s and 90s. Look up John Dewey, he spelled out the left’s intention of dumbing down the citizens because informed citizens would not buy into their socialist utopia.
Who they gonna call to help them when they need the only thing that stands between civilized society and anarchy, or when fathers are murdering their wives and children? Will they provide their own vigilantes?
In my opinion the cops would do well to black list ANY call for 911 assistance coming from ANY of these campuses.. If they hate cops there so much, let them police themselves!
The president of this college should be put in jail!
100%
I favor stoning myself.. why should we have to house and feed the ***?
And the head of campus security needs to be in that cell right along side the dean..
They should arrange to have their own crowds to shout these numbnuts down. Oh, and include a 4 foot in diameter bass drum with a heavy stick.
I say time to go after these anti american freaks… not just shout them down
I find it funny to read a student saying “We stand against all forms of oppression and we refuse to have MacDonald speak.” I guess in their Fascist, Liberal Minds oppressing someone’s Freedom of Speech because you disagree with them isn’t “Oppression”. These students, and faculty, need to spend a few years in a Fascist, Totalitarian environment and try their hate-filled violent protests. Upon their return to America, the survivors (if any) will hug the first police officer they see.
Those students have spent 12 to 16 years in a totalitarian fascist environment and that is the problem. They have been well programmed and fail to recognize that what they are doing and protesting are one and the same.
If these snowflakes spent even half a year in a proper totalitarian country like NK, or China, i say LET THEM STAY even if they BEG to be let back into the US…
What do you expect from students brought up on Howard Zinn’s book “A Proctologist’s View of the United States” (Bookstore title is “A People’s View of the United States.”) When the young people have been taught and always hear about how bad the US is, what do you expect? The students should have been arrested for disorderly conduct and be made to pay a fine before they were released. Enough of these young fascists keeping other people from talking.
Since Howard is already deceased we can use a cardboard cut out and burn it at the stake using his books as fuel.
No one under the age of twenty five should be granted access to his works. Ward Churchill is of the same caliber. That’s right Ward, you are a sniveling anti-American subversive. I pray you never get within a thousand yards of a young mind for the remainder of your life.
This fascist left is asking for violent confrontation that they are going to get !
Semper Fi!! Locked, loaded and waiting.
I agree.. I am thinking it is time to act… we need to stop allowing this stuff….
You’re right. These bullies have bought so many of their own lies that they have no clue the people and whose culture they are assaulting truly is a silent majority that is perfectly willing and able to give them an a** whipping, if necessary.
Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and Usama Bin Laden all paid dearly for mistaking tolerance for weakness. Americans tend to be a forgiving lot, but when cornered, we always fight to win.
If we can’t make the left respect us, like all other enemies, we can damned sure make them fear us. That’s typically all you can expect from barbarians, but it’s generally effectively neutralized the threat.
[If we can’t make the left respect us, like all other enemies, we can damned sure make them fear us]
I don’t think they will EVER respect anyone on the right. EVER..
So since that is not an option, i guess the only recourse left IS to have them fear us..
Where is the faculty? They are cowards by not protecting free speech!
IMO the faculty are the ones outside ORGANIZING all this…
OK,let’s say just for the sake of argument that we “F#@$ the police from here to Greece” and just eliminate them. Who do they think will be the police then? I will tell you, it will be you and me and millions of other law abiding citizens armed to the teeth and more than willing to do away with the fascists, regardless of race, creed or religion. Fascism will not be tolerated, period. There will be order, and there will be an America, one way or the other. Better think about a no-rules police force, I really don’t think you want it.
We are already tolerating fascism – at least on our campuses. The Marxist professors are running a progressive madrasah in our campuses infecting young snowflakes with their fascist world view. These are the future business leaders and politicians. We can protect our patch and be armed to the teeth but it does no good if the furthest Right politician looks like Nancy Pelosi or Diane Feinstein.
I know. I live in this socialist madhouse. So goes California – so goes the nation. We seem to slow them down but I see few out and out reversals starting with Wilson, FDR, Johnson and finally Obama. They start programs, taxes, policies and departments that seem to never go away.
Fenster, that MIGHT have been the case in decades past, “How goes CA, so goes the nation”. BUT its no longer the case. Otherwise if it was, we would have Shillery in the white house.. not trump.
The overwhelming majority of these protestors are graduates from our government controlled K-12 indoctrination centers……Marxism is very much alive and well in the USA
have we had enough of these libby and snowflake *** yet? I have…. time to bash these libby/snowflake heads in…
These fascist students and faculty should be forced to do 5 years as a North Korean citizen. Then they would learn the difference between free speech and oppression.
As i keep saying. Someone needs to start putting out Decibel meters, to MEASURE the level of sound these “protests” create and start issuing Arrest warrants to ALL in the audience when they get beyond the LEGALLY recognized single/double hearing protection levels as per OSHA, maybe then they will start realizing, “HEY we can’t shout this loud”..
Either that or go in WITH hearing protection on, and use an airhorn to be EVEN LOUDER thena they are…
Brain washed liberal students have no future as they cannot think for themselves and will be lost on their own, stuck in their parent’s basements wondering how all the good things in life passed them by.
There is a difference between education and indoctrination. Education seeks knowledge even if it differs from one’s preconcieved ideas. Indoctrination dismisses an idea that does not conform to its agenda. The senior history class (1964) at my high sclool was ‘Problems of Democracy’ where The Constitution and law were the focus, I doubt few schools have that as a part of their curriculum. In college the second year requirement dealt with philosophy, I chose Logic which has served me well because I can question myself; ie. thesis (known belief), antithesis (opposing opinion), and synthesis (agreement). Rational thinking is not a priority but closing ones’ mind to any alternative idea is!
A generation of mindless idiots will soon come to power just as the protest generation of the 60s & 70s are now clueless how to govern because they are the target of the new protestors.
They won’t be lost. Unca govt has their back.. via the commucrats!
The tuition at CMC is around $67K per year now. But their financial aid packages are very good. The school used to provide a great education. Then they went PC. First with admitting women (the Claremont colleges have multiple campuses and this was the one for Men. Used to be Claremont Men’s College until the late 70’s when they admitted women (the all girls school is Scripps) and changed its name (but not the CMC moniker) in the early 80’s. It has been downhill ever since. Less emphasis on education and more on producing a politically correct adult. Obnoxious behavior is the result. The students and faculty seem to gravitate to the lowest common denominator as have all colleges since the 70’s when the Supreme court equated freedom of speech with accepting boorishness as the new normal.
Jabusse, is that all girls (scripps) still an all girls one??
They have an active group of students at the school that engage in significant fundraising efforts to get donations from alumni year after year. Sorry, that ship just sailed.