Drawing the Line, At Last
City Journal,
by
Heather MacDonald
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/23/2019 6:25:10 AM
To appreciate the significance of recent events at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and at the University of Arizona in Tucson, it helps to recall briefly some landmark moments in the College Administrator Hall of Shame. Claremont McKenna College, October 2015: a Hispanic student writes a lachrymose oped denouncing Claremont’s “western, white, cisheternormative upper- to upper-middle class values” that, she says, make her and other minority admits feel out of place. The dean of students thanks the student for her oped and asks if she would be willing to meet with Claremont’s administrators to help them “better serve students,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/23/2019 7:36:19 AM (No. 42567)
Not nearly enough pushback. Disruptive “students” should be expelled automatically without appeal wherever they do their damage. This has to be a serious fight. There should be no legitimacy granted to campus leftists.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mobyclik 4/23/2019 7:41:14 AM (No. 42566)
FTA: ´´Those graduates [the idiots in the article] regard any disagreement with their own political outlook as a manifestation of “hate,” and as such, fair game for suppression. Democratic politicians and the mainstream media have adopted the same tactic, defining political disagreement as “hate” rather than the product of a good-faith difference in world view.´´
No one can deny this, we see it every day and wait for consequences for the illegal actions, and it NEVER happens. So it only gets worse and worse. The pot is boiling.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/23/2019 7:57:36 AM (No. 42553)
These “students” should be dressed in black uniforms with a little SS emblem on the collar. This is what indoctrination from Pre-K forward looks like.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bythegates 4/23/2019 9:15:07 AM (No. 42558)
I wonder if Trump´s executive order to block federal funding for universities that do not protect free speech has anything to do with this turn of events. The author does not mention it, which is an unfortunate oversight. I hope she looks into it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/23/2019 9:31:39 AM (No. 42562)
It is certain that if President Trump´s decision to withhold funding had something to do with this, you´ll just have to dream about ever hearing it from the MSM.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/23/2019 10:01:55 AM (No. 42557)
It´s a free country. If a college wishes to provide “western, white, cisheternormative upper- to upper-middle class values”, that is their choice. YOUR choice is to go somewhere else. I don´t ´occupy´ Baskin and Robbins and demand chicken sandwiches! And, if I did, I would hope that B&R could have me arrested and publicize my idiocy for all the social disapproval (and judgement of my sanity) that could be mustered.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 4/23/2019 10:48:26 AM (No. 42560)
No one hates like the Left hates. No One.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/23/2019 10:55:12 AM (No. 42559)
How many of these Enfants Terribles are attending with government (our) tax money or receiving in-state tuition as immigrants - legal or otherwise?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/23/2019 11:00:45 AM (No. 42563)
Her primary premise is wrong. It is minority students themselves that make minority students feel out of place. In most cases they ARE out of place because they were awarded admission through means that bypass the standard application process thanks to government-imposed PC regulations.
Take a walk through the dining hall; Pakistani students sit in a closed group, Asian students in another, hispanic students in yet another and blacks take over an entire table whether they need it or not. The loudest and most obnoxious groups are usually those who end up at the bottom of the grading curve.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Edgelady 4/23/2019 11:49:12 AM (No. 42564)
This is what universities have turned into. Professors and administrators are reaping what they sowed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 4/23/2019 12:28:05 PM (No. 42552)
I was in grade school during the 60’s when the first wave of campus radicals began taking over the admin buildings in the Ivy League. Even as a child I wondered where were the adults in charge. The “sit-ins” would last for days as the ineffectual college presidents wrung their hands in dismay. Eventually the police had to bodily remove the protesters under the glare of TV cameras and “police brutality” was born. All those arrested were bailed out after processing and I can’t remember if any served jail time or were expelled from their schools.
Considering what we have learned about the communist slow march through our institutions, by the 60’s our colleges and universities were already being administered by the first red wave entering academia after WWII. That is why they never defended our culture against the chant, “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Western Civ has got to go.” Over the last 50 years the dysfunction of the Ivies has filtered down to community colleges, high schools and even grade schools.
MAGA – Its past time patriotic Americans began our own long march.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Arby 4/23/2019 12:44:13 PM (No. 42554)
Note the reference to how Ohio State handles these things. I believe that the president is an M.D. They don´t play that student activism game.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2019 1:53:07 PM (No. 42556)
Too effing bad if minorities somehow feel like they are ..... in the minority.
Just drop dead. We don´t care how you feel. We will NOT cater to your every childish tantrum.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
saguni 4/23/2019 2:05:56 PM (No. 42561)
Whenever I read about these "student protests" I´m reminded of Super Chicken´s theme:
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!
The University education´s purpose is a balanced set of knowledge, one can not be "balanced" without listening (and hearing) things that don´t agree with your personal opinions. The university is a place to "sample" other viewpoints and judge their veracity.
Students who try to stop any view point they don´t agree with should be expelled without a return of their tuition and without any grades or transcript to apply at any other institution.
Students who damage property or assault people should be in jail. Period!
Did they enroll (and pay tuition or get loans) without investigating the institution??
Did they suddenly wake up on campus without knowing how they got there??
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/23/2019 2:17:50 PM (No. 42568)
The line needs to be drawn not with counter-arguments from cowards who believe in appeasement but with billy clubs and firearms. Disrupt campus activities with violence and you will be beaten back under your rocks. That is the only solution that hate-filled extremists are going to understand.
Remember when several students were killed by the National Guard at Kent State in Ohio during a destructive riot in 1970? Although the action was not ordered by authorities and happened spontaneously in the heat of battle, it put a stop to violent riots for a long time. It´s called "learning by example."
If these student snakes are taught that whatever they do will be met with apologies they will continue to make ridiculous accusations and back them up with childish tantrums. It´s just one more reason why our institutions of higher learning are collapsing so maybe it´s only inevitable that this failing system is allowed to die.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/23/2019 2:26:52 PM (No. 42565)
I attended UArts back in the early 70’s when it was Philadelphia College of Art. I remember no interest at all in politics by the student body, even during the Watergate hearings. We were too busy with our work to pay attention.
Yager should start telling the students what they can and cannot paint, sculpt, draw, illustrate and design. That should give them a clue - throw it back in their faces and see how they like it.
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