This week in fascist academia
Time for another update on the sad state of freedom on American campuses. As always, I make sure the university name is listed so you know where you don’t want to send your kids, or your money.
- Why Campus Rape Tribunals Hand Down So Many ‘Guilty’ Verdicts
- Florida State University suspends free speech and freedom of assembly until further notice
- Tufts University students say Ben Shapiro’s views put them in ‘danger’
- Duke University Professor Bars Student Newspaper Staff from Enrolling in Her Course
- Vandals repeatedly strike pro-life messages at University of Florida
- Knox College leaders defend decision to cancel play after students criticized it as ‘racist’
- Stanford University staff encourage students to tear down flyers for talk on radical Islam
- Stanford University Dean Caught On Film Engineering Disruption of Robert Spencer Event
The first story highlights how little college administrations respect, or even understand, the most basic legal rights of their students. Rather than follow the law, college administrators nationwide have been quite willing to set up kangaroo courts to punish students for sex crimes without the slightest due process. The result has been that many colleges find themselves being sued, and losing those suits. May many of them find themselves bankrupt for this abuse.
The last two stories are about the same event. Robert Spencer, a thoughtful and accurate scholar on Islam who is not afraid to talk about its violent traditions and history, was invited to give a speech at Stanford. The administration there did everything it could to squelch attendance. As he says, “It’s not a university anymore. It’s just an Antifa recruitment center.”
Not all the news is bad. At Macomb Community College in Michigan the college was forced to change its restrictive speech policy when it was sued by a conservative student organization.
In April, members of a campus chapter of Turning Point USA — a conservative organization whose website says it promotes “the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government” — wanted to tell students about the importance of fossil fuels. One member even donned a Tyrannosaurus rex costume for the occasion.
But while pointing out “the value of fossil fuels to human flourishing currently outweighs environmental concerns,” Turning Point was shut down by campus police “because at MCC public expressive activity is strictly prohibited without prior permission and a permit from the administration,” according to a federal lawsuit Turning Point filed against the school in August in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. “Public colleges, far from being immune to the obligations of the First Amendment, are supposed to be ‘the marketplace of ideas,’ where students can freely exchange ideas with one another, learning how to respectfully debate and dialogue with those whose views differ from their own,” the suit said.
On Wednesday, the college announced it would change its “expressive activity policy,” and the lawsuit would be dismissed.
Overall, the culture on today’s campuses remains oppressive, with the thuggish behavior coming from students, teachers, and administrators. What they are finding, however, is that this bad behavior is now being challenged, and since American culture and law is deeply hostile to such fascism, they are finding themselves increasingly on the losing side. To cite another example, the woman who stole a man’s “Make America Great Again” hat and whose ignorance and outright hate was highlighted by me in a previous report now faces serious criminal charges for her illegal actions.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Time for another update on the sad state of freedom on American campuses. As always, I make sure the university name is listed so you know where you don’t want to send your kids, or your money.
- Why Campus Rape Tribunals Hand Down So Many ‘Guilty’ Verdicts
- Florida State University suspends free speech and freedom of assembly until further notice
- Tufts University students say Ben Shapiro’s views put them in ‘danger’
- Duke University Professor Bars Student Newspaper Staff from Enrolling in Her Course
- Vandals repeatedly strike pro-life messages at University of Florida
- Knox College leaders defend decision to cancel play after students criticized it as ‘racist’
- Stanford University staff encourage students to tear down flyers for talk on radical Islam
- Stanford University Dean Caught On Film Engineering Disruption of Robert Spencer Event
The first story highlights how little college administrations respect, or even understand, the most basic legal rights of their students. Rather than follow the law, college administrators nationwide have been quite willing to set up kangaroo courts to punish students for sex crimes without the slightest due process. The result has been that many colleges find themselves being sued, and losing those suits. May many of them find themselves bankrupt for this abuse.
The last two stories are about the same event. Robert Spencer, a thoughtful and accurate scholar on Islam who is not afraid to talk about its violent traditions and history, was invited to give a speech at Stanford. The administration there did everything it could to squelch attendance. As he says, “It’s not a university anymore. It’s just an Antifa recruitment center.”
Not all the news is bad. At Macomb Community College in Michigan the college was forced to change its restrictive speech policy when it was sued by a conservative student organization.
In April, members of a campus chapter of Turning Point USA — a conservative organization whose website says it promotes “the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government” — wanted to tell students about the importance of fossil fuels. One member even donned a Tyrannosaurus rex costume for the occasion.
But while pointing out “the value of fossil fuels to human flourishing currently outweighs environmental concerns,” Turning Point was shut down by campus police “because at MCC public expressive activity is strictly prohibited without prior permission and a permit from the administration,” according to a federal lawsuit Turning Point filed against the school in August in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. “Public colleges, far from being immune to the obligations of the First Amendment, are supposed to be ‘the marketplace of ideas,’ where students can freely exchange ideas with one another, learning how to respectfully debate and dialogue with those whose views differ from their own,” the suit said.
On Wednesday, the college announced it would change its “expressive activity policy,” and the lawsuit would be dismissed.
Overall, the culture on today’s campuses remains oppressive, with the thuggish behavior coming from students, teachers, and administrators. What they are finding, however, is that this bad behavior is now being challenged, and since American culture and law is deeply hostile to such fascism, they are finding themselves increasingly on the losing side. To cite another example, the woman who stole a man’s “Make America Great Again” hat and whose ignorance and outright hate was highlighted by me in a previous report now faces serious criminal charges for her illegal actions.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
A new incident occurred at a Canadian institution, Wilfrid Laurier University, wherein student teacher assistant Lindsay Shepherd was hauled before a social justice tribunal. Reason? She committed a thought-crime by playing a video of Jordan Peterson speaking about personal pronouns. The tribunal was secretly recorded by Ms. Shepherd.
Raw Audio: https://soundcloud.com/tristin-john-hopper/recording-of-meeting-between-lindsay-shepherd-and-wilfrid-laurier-university-professors
The university was forced to apologize after the audio was leaked: http://torontosun.com/news/national/wilfrid-laurier-university-apologizes-to-ta-who-played-uoft-prof-jordan-peterson-the-agenda-gender-neutral-pronouns-debate
A prominent youtuber by the name of Sargon of Akkad (aka Carl Benjamin) has released an excellent video covering this event as well as other examples of fascist academia: https://youtu.be/HW5rdoqtTiQ
The raw audio and video will make you very, very angry.
Mark–
Interesting stuff.
-I do try to catch Sargon once in a while. (Tangentially, there is a recent, long-form “Joe Rogan Experience” interview with him available.)
It might surprise you that the Weinstein sex scandal has triggered havoc in Sweden. Several lawmakers and former party leaders and ministers and most popular journalists and media personalities have been accused of, and many have already confessed, sexual harassments. Of dependent employees at work! And there’s a very large volume of it below the top level. For example, in the last couple of weeks over 1,300 or 5% of all women employed by the 1,000 years old Swedish Church, have publicly reported that they have been sexually harassed by male colleagues at work!
And testaments emerge of how priests have groped parishioners in grief. Psychopaths seem to have systematically infiltrated the Church in order to take advantage of vulnerable women (and I suppose boys too) victims. Just like the same kind of psychopaths in politics and media have called themselves “feminists” and LGTBQX in order to fool naive girls to believe that they are harmless and trustworthy.
That’s one per congregation nationally who went public with such accusations. For reference, Sweden has the population of the state of Georgia (ten million) and a very low fraction of church goers.