Survey: most students support campaigns to block "controversial" speakers from campus

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[–]ReeferMadness 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Group enforced ignorance. College has literally become a cult.

[–]jet199 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

People who accuse others of fragility are just projecting. Most young people have low self esteem and cry when they experience the slightest social exclusion, they think full grown adults in minority groups are the same.

[–]zyxzevn 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Survey question: "Do you want racist1 Nazis2 to come to our campus and start violence3 ?"

  1. white people.
  2. people with different sometimes controversial opinions
  3. speech that may insult people.

[–]Sw0rdofDam0cles 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Most students don't have to work jobs to keep a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, or food in their stomachs. Their campus communism typically comes to a close 90 days after the semester is completed and the feds start asking for their money back.

[–]denverkris 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Making campuses and echo chamber one day at a time.

[–]ANIKAHirsch 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Another curious fact is that, in the vast majority of cases, students of Democratic tendencies were much more reluctant to accept controversial speakers than those of Republican tendencies."

No suprises here.

[–]Porphyria 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Some years ago, on a well known liberal campus ( I think it was either Oberlin or wesleyan ) the weather turned unseasonably cold , and a female undergrad , her coats still boxed up, took a white blanket from her bed and wrapped herself up in it for warmth. A young woman wrapped in a white blanket wandering about campus turned into a ku klux klan rally. How did the college-age men and women, people as old as if not older than the soldiers of the revolution, of the civil war, of world war II, respond to that rumor-? By standing in circles, arms wrapped about each other's shoulders, sobbing. Grown-ass men and women confronted with the mere thought of people with differing and hence obnoxious opinions, and all these mental and emotional perpetual children can do is stand in a circle, helplessly sobbing. This happened in the last GWB-first BHO administration, 2005ish-2010ish, somewhere in there.

[–]asterias 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Most students would as well support partying instead of studying.

[–]horatioherbert 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This intolerance is promoted by campus faculty which is sad since college is supposed to be an institution of learning. So, what have they become? Cash businesses for the elite and breeding grounds for Cultural Marxism

[–]hennaojichan 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Even Nobel Prize winners have been rejected and as Anika says, it's often Democrats and Leftists who are eager to ban. That is a tenet of leftist education: if you don't agree don't go to see him/her speak and don't let anyone else. Mao said, "Let the thousand flowers bloom," and I'm assuming he is still considered to be on the left, so far he might fall off the edge.

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B2VaX_jOT8

Leftists attack James D. Watson in 2011. This happened at Patra University, Greece.

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thank You. I did not know of this incident. What was their disagreement with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson](Dr. Watson)? I am guessing that the problem was religious in nature. BTW until I read about him just now I did not even know he was an American. I always wrongly assumed that because Watson & Crick worked together at Cambridge, they were both from the U.K.

You might like to also read about William Shockley one of three scientists to be awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on semiconductors and transistors. The linked article explains his controversial later career, his opinions on eugenics and on alleged IQ differences among races. He had been a popular speaker on campuses but: "At the time of his death, he was almost completely estranged from most of his friends and family, except his second wife, the former Emmy Lanning (1913–2007)."

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I did not know of this incident. What was their disagreement with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson](Dr. Watson)? I am guessing that the problem was religious in nature.

Dr. Watson was invited to give a lecture, which should be a great honour for this third-rate university. However, leftist students claimed he was "racist" and organized this attack with wooden poles. If they hadn't been stopped, they would have probably injured him seriously or even worse.

This has been a routine in Greek "universities", with leftists terrorizing everyone. Yet, the state has done nothing to address the issue during the 50 years this is happening. It's similar to the Years of Lead in Italy.

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for that. How could a lecture on DNA (I suppose that was his subject) be racist? You don't have to explain since the logic of leftists nowadays is so twisted. Again, thanks.

[–]RandumbZer0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So, most 'students' are seemingly 'stoopid'..?

[–]Fitter_Happier 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

TIL most students are idiots. George Lincoln Rockwell was able to speak freely with a polite audience at top universities like UCLA.

[–]zephyranthes 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

All paid speakers should be banned from campus.

[–]SaidOverRed 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Including the professors. They can come, but not if they are paid to be there.