They just can't take the inconvenient truth. Among the many sad signs of our time are the current political and media attacks on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for speaking the plain truth on a subject where lies have been the norm for years. The case before the High Court is whether the use of race as a basis for admitting students ... MORE
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Showing posts with label students. Show all posts
How Hate Speech Laws Actually Work
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. The most baffling thing about the people—mostly liberals—who push for laws against "hate speech" is their apparent inability to imagine these bans backfiring. In their zeal to punish those who spread sexist, racist, transphobic, or otherwise unfashionable speech, they too often ignore the ways tools of censorship—including hate ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Squandering Resources On Education
Most college students do not belong in college. I am not by myself in this assessment. Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson said, "It's time to drop the college-for-all crusade," adding that "the college-for-all crusade has outlived its usefulness." Richard Vedder, professor emeritus of economics at Ohio University, reports that ... MORE
Terrorists Will Not Be Welcomed At One Christian College
No gun-free zone here. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. urged students, staff and faculty at his Christian school to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon on campus to counter any copycat attack like the deadly rampage in California just days ago. "Let's teach them a lesson if they ever show up here," Falwell told an estimated 10,000 of ... MORE
How To Rescue Free Speech In American Academia
by Nat Hentoff. In last week’s column, I described how the national anti-free speech movement poses an imminent threat to freedom of expression in American academia. Those advocating for the anti-free speech movement attempt to interpret the “language of free speech” to their advantage so that it applies only to them, but not to ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: A Resurgence Of Intolerance
Why do donors contribute to indoctrination centers? Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators — such as at the University of Missouri recently — bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember ... MORE
David S. D'Amato: The Most Liberal Value - Free Speech
A free society tolerates words that hurt. Current attacks on free speech reveal progressivism as a uniquely American iteration of fascism that shares many of its historical and ideological roots. Recent events on American college campuses have prompted a debate on where we should draw the line that divides permissible from impermissible ... MORE
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Stephen Moore: The Grievance Generation
Whiny college students protest hurt feelings. Remember the campus unrest in the 1960s? Whether you agreed with the
students or not, they were protesting about things of great consequence —
like civil rights, or the military draft, or the Vietnam War. They had
chants like “hell no, we won’t go.” Those were the good old days. Now
we are ... MORE
When Will They Ever Learn? The New Student Rebellion
by Walter Donway. When trespassers invade private property and refuse to leave until their “demands” are met, you call the police to have them evicted by all necessary means and arrested. That, of course, is what that Ivy League citadel of reasoned discourse, Princeton University should do, and do immediately, with the students who this week ... MORE
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Victor Davis Hanson: The University Gone Feral
Where PC intolerance trumps free speech. The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty. The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — call law enforcement if someone disparages ... MORE
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society,
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George Will: Freedom From Speech On American Campuses
The insulation of delicate snowflakes. Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the
Distressing E-mail about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you
would expect from someone who has risen to eminence in today’s academia.
He seems to be the kind of adult who has helped produce the kind of
students who are such ... MORE
Obama Administration Bankrolling Nonstop Protests
by Paul Sperry. Barack Obama’s presidency has been pockmarked by rioting, looting and
protests. That’s no coincidence. It’s what the former community
organizer sought from Day One. And it’s just going to get worse before
he leaves office. The senseless protests we’re seeing break out on the campuses of the University of Missouri,
Yale and other ... MORE
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To The Paranoid Missouri Crybaby Children Unable to Cope With The Crushing Effects Of Hurtful Speech: Call The Cops
by Eugene Volokh. Prof. Thom Lambert (Truth on the Market) passes along the following Missouri-University-wide e-mail: Subject: Reporting Hateful and/or Hurtful Speech. To
continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remains safe,
the MU Police Department (MUPD) is asking individuals who witness
incidents of hateful and/or hurtful ... MORE
This Is What A Social Justice Warrior Looks Like
by David French. Pitching a fit as a path toward power. The video below has been making the rounds on the internet. It shows a young woman screaming in the face of Yale professor Nicholas Christakis about the alleged plight of minority students. Why the hysterical shrieking? Because the professor’s wife (a Yale lecturer) had the audacity ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Ignoring The Obvious
To know and not to do is not to know. A recent, widely publicized incident in which a policeman was called
to a school classroom to deal with a disruptive student has provoked all
sorts of comments on whether the policeman used "excessive force." What has received far less attention, though it is a far larger
question, with more sweeping ... MORE
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academic,
behavior,
education,
political correctness,
public school,
schools,
students,
violence
Obama Executive Order Incentivizes Employers To Hire Alien College Graduates Over Native-Born Graduates
by Ali Meyer. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expanding a program that
awards businesses bonuses when they hire alien college graduates over
native-born graduates, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies. The optional practical training program (OPT) awards alien college
graduates a work permit to stay ... MORE
High School Journalism Teacher Gets Suspended After Standing Up For Student Reporters' Free Speech Rights
by Zach Weissmueller. Administrators at one California high school reacted in all the wrong
ways when student reporters tried to write a newspaper article about
the recent dismissal of a popular teacher and debate coach. San Gabriel High School principal Jim Schofield sent an email telling
newspaper adviser Jennifer Kim to kill the story ... MORE
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free speech,
intimidation,
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