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THE COLLEGE BLUEPRINT FOR A TOTALITARIAN AMERICA The battle over freedom on campus is the battle for freedom in America. May 12, 2017 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam There is a place in America where civil rights don’t exist. The First Amendment doesn’t apply. Neither does the Sixth Amendment. (Never mind the Second.) Not only Freedom of Speech, but Freedom of Association (NAACP v. Alabama) is under fire. Snowflakes. Oversensitive. We’ve all heard those accusations leveled at college students. Are millennial college students really an oversensitive generation? Or are they right to be oversensitive. Two types of people are sensitive; the entitled and the endangered. It’s reasonable to be paranoid about subtle social nuances if you live in a totalitarian state where the wrong word or look will be punished. Where someone is always watching for even the most minor acts of political incorrectness. College students are afraid. And they should be. The average college campus with its speech codes, thought policing, violent protests and kangaroo courts has no resemblance to anything else in the United States of America Colleges are totalitarian states. And they are the blueprints of the left’s plan for the entire country. Individuals have no rights on campus. Intersectional tribes do. The way that these tribes negotiate conflicting rights is a mix of Kafka and Orwell. In Orwell’s homeland, Oxford University’s Equality and Diversity Unit (a name that could easily have leaped from the pages of 1984) warned students that failing to make eye contact was a racist microaggression. The usual sensible responses accomplished nothing. Then autistic students complained that the microaggression guidelines were themselves a microaggression against students with disabilities. And the “Unit” quickly apologized and retreated. The absurdity of the situation reeks of old Soviet anecdotes. But the same system exists in the United States. An individual’s right to free speech on campus derives from his membership in a group. What might be dangerously offensive from a white man is fully legal when coming from a Latino woman or a Muslim man. Not just the speech, but the evidentiary process is fundamentally different based on group membership. Hysterical panics by favored minority activists lead to quick and illegal sanctions against students and faculty with no regard for the facts. Facts, like truth, are viewed as favoring white males. “The idea that there is a single truth–‘the Truth’–is a construct of the Euro-West," African-American students at Pomona College wrote. "This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples.” We used to ask who was afraid of the truth. Now we have the answer. Truth is a construct. The search for truth endangers minorities. That isn’t just true in the intellectual sense, but in the evidentiary one. If you try to determine whether a hate crime really happened or whether discrimination really exists, you are endangering their ability to exercise power through claims of oppression. Facts and truth create unsafe spaces for politically correct tyranny. Safe spaces are places where truth and civil rights don’t exist. The United States (not to mention capitalism and imperialism) were built on the notion that truth exists. So was our system of law. People are considered guilty until proven innocent because we believe that it is possible to find the truth. But if there is no objective truth, only subjective narratives, and social justice mandates to unpack our knapsacks and cast aside privileged narratives, then the privileged are guilty. And they can never be proven innocent without endangering the privileges of the oppressed. That’s not an abstraction. It means that if you are accused of a microaggression, you are guilty. If you made too little eye contact or too much eye contact, you are guilty. Your explanations don’t matter. Truth doesn’t matter. Campus kangaroo courts operate in this post-truth space. Accusations don’t depend on proof, but on membership in the right identity group. Accusations of oppression must always be treated as valid. But accusations by the privileged can and should be ignored. That is how social justice works. Crimes are collective. As are punishments. Individual guilt and innocence is a function of collective guilt and innocence. It doesn’t matter what you did. It only matters what group you belong to. On campus, as in prison, there is safety in an identity group. Only the group has the power to protect you. But even within the group there is never any true sense of security. Intersectional tribalism is always being negotiated and renegotiated. The microaggression you condemn might very well turn out to be your own. No matter how oppressed you are, someone is always more oppressed. The wrong joke, costume, idea, inference or even lack of eye contact can make you a criminal. Innocence is not an option. The very concept of white privilege indicts you for crimes that you had no idea you were even committing. At worst, your very existence is an affront. And ignorance is no excuse. Whiteness, masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality and even Americanism are pre-existing crimes that require an endless process of atonement which by its very nature will always be incomplete. You oppress by existing. To defend yourself is to further oppress your accusers by rejecting their pain. As in all totalitarian systems, your claims to innocence only deepen your guilt by challenging the moral authority of your accusers. The safest response is to confess and learn to love Big Intersectionality. Colleges have always been the training ground for the leaders of tomorrow. The blueprints for a new society begin there. If you wanted to know what leftist ideas would be going mainstream in a decade, you went to a fashionable college. The leftist idea that is going mainstream is a totalitarian state. Microaggressions, safe spaces, tone-policing, identity caste systems, no platforming and the end of truth aren’t just some silly campus nonsense. They are the blueprint for the future of the United States. Violence against free speech migrated from the campus to the city street. The rejection of truth and facts climaxed with rejecting the outcome of a presidential election. Imagine what tomorrow’s leaders would be like if they all got an education in North Korea. That’s the crisis we face today. The leaders of tomorrow are coming of age in the totalitarian campus states of today. When one of those polls emerge showing that 7 out of 10 college students want to ban offensive speech, it’s not a generational phenomenon so much as it is environmental indoctrination. The left’s experiment in college totalitarianism has normalized an environment in which free speech and individual rights don’t exist, in which truth and facts were invented by imperialists, and in which a single cultural misstep can have shattering consequences for anyone who isn’t part of the right identity clique. Today’s campus is unsafe for America. Taxpayers have invested enormous amounts of money into funding an educational system that rejects everything that makes our society work. If that does not change, then our society will be destroyed by the consequences. The battle over freedom on campus is the battle for freedom in America. Lick the lollipop of mediocrity once and you suck forever. | ||
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How scary must it be to not be able to tell the clowns from the cowboys, everyone has the trophies? I worked for a fellow who was really, really rich and had grown up that way. He was intelligent enough, but had never had to worry about making a decision, or rather the outcome of a decision. The consequence of this was he had no experience which is the foundation of judgment, and lacked the confidence that comes from makng good decisions, and learning from not so good ones. These students suffer from that, it looks like. Everyone has always won. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Link?? I have posted bits and pieces before, but from last year's college indoctrination for faculty/staff: - White males are privileged, and are guilty of microaggression, whether they know it or not - A victim's claim of mistreatment is deemed valid, does not need proof - Social Justice requires equal attainment for students, regardless of effort or actual achievement - It is more important for a college student to gain political power than to gain marketable skills - White culture is arrogant and humiliates minorities, White culture (America) needs to be humbled - Minority cultures are at least equal to, and often superior to, White culture - There is an inappropriate power imbalance between college professors and college students "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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Wow! Email sent. This sounds like a place to know and avoid... | |||
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Not sure if this is where the OP found it, but I found the article here: link RE: the indoctrination at your college. Hearing this, I wouldn't know whether to laugh or start involuntary commitment hearings for the speakers. The 'both of the above' option would be on the table as well. | |||
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| More persistent than capable |
Thank You Joel, found here also: http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...oggers/3552614/posts Lick the lollipop of mediocrity once and you suck forever. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Ironically, I just started wading through the chapters about the Inquisition(s) of the church in ~1100-1300 Europe. Lots of burning at the stake, hanging, and similar "correctives". Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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It may have started on college campuses but it's not something we can just laugh off. It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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What book are you reading? If you like medieval history Dungeon, Fire, & Sword is about the rise and fall of the Knights Templar. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
"The Complete Story of Civilization" by Will and Ariel Durant, 11 volumes, ~12000 pages, from earliest recorded history through the age of Napolean. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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That sounds like it is worth reading, thank you. | |||
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The more I see of violent irrational self righteous students in America today, the more worried I am if they ever get power/influence. They are more than just radicals. They are hysterical with the lies they have been taught. They are outraged by myths. They think they are educated and cannot be wrong. Others are wrong, not they. At some point their hysteria will combine with power and will. Then we will see teapot tyrants get dangerous. Some people cannot be convinced of truth. They must simply be defeated. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Campus is not the only place this happens as we all know. Per Scoutmaster: It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. It's a Blueprint For A Totalitarian America. | |||
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| No double standards |
A recent article in a Bay Area college student newspaper suggested (paraphrased) "while it is important for the gov't to allow First Amendment rights, it is appropriate for students to oppose those opinions through disruptive and violent protests . . . when people are oppressed, radical resistance sparks needed visibility . . ." In other words, if I claim to be oppressed, I have a right to beat the hell out of you. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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... and there are no objective standards of right and wrong. There can be no justice before the law when the law no longer applies equally to all. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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