What the hell is going on at some colleges?

[Archae]

Is this "Spoiled Brat Week?"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/13/amherst-students-demand-no-free-speech-signs-or-else.html?ref=yfp

"Protests demand the school president apologize for signs that say “free speech” died at Mizzou. Then they want her to find the offenders and teach them tolerance."

"Going further, the students demand the people behind "free speech" fliers be required to go through a disciplinary process as well as “extensive training for racial and cultural competency.”"

This is what happens when the children of helicopter parents go to college.

[Shandris]

1. The Red Guard is still teething. They'll be up to full speed by next Christmas...

...don't you worry.

[Hortensis]

23. Very funny! :) But we have totalitarians right here on DU

who endorse our government closing down religions. (How they come to be attracted to the Democratic Party I don't know, but here they are.)

At least the Amherst students have the excuse of being at least several years away from adult brain development. IMO, adolescence is a form of insanity in comparison.

[earthside]

2. Also lack of history education.

It really looks like some of these college students have absolutely no idea what are real battles and struggles for freedom and rights.

I blame this on the Bush-Obama education policies that have put over-emphasis on STEM and made understanding of history almost an after thought. Understanding and knowing history and great literature is essential to higher critical thinking.

I sure hope this little dust-up of anti-free speech, hypersensitive whininess is short-lived.

[X_Digger]

3. Completely gobsmacked.

I can't even...

*shaking my head*

[Archae]

7. Except the "smallpox blankets" is an urban legend.

Back then they didn't even KNOW what caused disease, much less even try deliberately spread it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics#Disease_as_a_potential_weapon_against_Native_Americans

[Archae]

10. I don't know how he could have said that.

Because no one at that time knew how disease WAS spread.

They had guessed the basics, like how to stay away from someone with a disease.

[Rex]

13. That hoax has been retold by more than one person that knew better.

I believed it, until I read how it was impossible for them to know why and the steps they took to stop the desease from spreading. There were always preventative steps taken. However it is much easier to believe we used bio warfare knowingly, because that makes sense in this century.

'In this analysis of the genocide rhetoric employed over the years by Ward Churchill, an ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado, a "distressing" conclusion is reached: Churchill has habitually committed multiple counts of research misconduct—specifically, fabrication and falsification. While acknowledging the "politicization" of the topic and evidence of other outrages committed against Native American tribes in times past, this study examines the different versions of the "smallpox blankets" episode published by Churchill between 1994 and 2003. The "preponderance of evidence" standard of proof strongly indicates that Churchill fabricated events that never occurred—namely the U.S. Army's alleged distribution of smallpox infested blankets to the Mandan Indians in 1837. The analysis additionally reveals that Churchill falsified sources to support his fabricated version of events, and also concealed evidence in his cited sources that actually disconfirms, rather than substantiates, his allegations of genocide.'

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/--did-the-us-army-distribute-smallpox-blankets-to-indians?rgn=main;view=fulltext

[eridani]

16. Occam's Razor tells us if that a bunch of people exposed to nasty diseases for centuries--

--go to a place where people have never been exposed to those diseases, a lot of the latter are going to die.

[Rex]

22. True, but the story was embelished from blankets full of lice to blankets full of small pox.

And since pretty much everyone had to deal with lice in those days, that too was probably not done on purprose.

[KT2000]

27. Bio-terrorism goes back centuries

the dead bodies of disease infected people were launched over city walls to defeat the enemy. This was done with black plague and anthrax. They poisoned wells as they do now.
The blanket story could very well be a hoax but bio-terrorism has been an instrument of war for a long time. They may not have known the mechanism but they knew it worked.

[Prism]

6. People who grew up on the Internet are stupid

They were protected from different thought. Now different thought is upon them! And they panicked. And ran to the nearest authority figures to fix it.

Poor preciouses.

I like that the poop swastika was a hoax. I mean, that just sums that whole shit up. "I heard it on the internet. Parents (or university substitutes), fix!" And when they didn't fix fast enough, they resigned.

I guess I'm supposed to care that administrators are losing their jobs, but, uhm, this is the product of your own stupidity.

Enjoy!

[dlwickham]

9. for fuck's sake

shades of Mao and the re-education camps

[romanic]

11. The fuck is "Latinx"???

Is Latin@ not inclusive enough anymore?

[TransitJohn]

12. Well, obviously

pointing out gender is mysoginist or something. Sanitizing English is not enough, now it's Spanish, too!

[lancer78]

14. pc pricipal

Wow, south park is on the ball this season.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. I'm guessing this is why young people are not voting, the political process is traumatic.

They certainly can't watch the news with all the triggers to see what a bunch of fucking assholes the Republicans are, and how they need to be stopped from overrunning this nation. So we are fucked.

[Tipperary]

17. This kind of thing just makes me shake my head.

I guess critical thinking is no longer valued in college.

[GreatGazoo]

20. +1, fits the narrative

A different angle:

By Friday morning, the protests had garnered the attention of local and national media. Both the Daily Beast and the Washington Post ran negative pieces about the uprising. Like many campus movements in recent days, Amherst’s was criticized as opposing free speech and academic freedom, with the Daily Beast’s headline reading “Amherst Students Protest ‘Free Speech,’ Demand ‘Training’ for Offenders.”

But students say they aren’t interested in stifling free speech—rather, they want to expand it to marginalized groups who have been denied such freedom in the past.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18603/amherst-college-students-are-occupying-their-library-right-now-over-racial

[FLPanhandle]

19. This is a tiny yet vocal percentage of the college population

99% of their fellow students think they are bat shit loony too.

[Vinca]

21. You are exactly right.

These are the young adults who never did anything that wasn't wonderful as children. They got trophies when they lost a game, a hug when they shoplifted from a store and cookies for a failing grade. They were protected from crib to high school graduation and now they're meeting the real world. It's going to be tough going for some of them.

[Xithras]

24. So they're openly adocating a modernized version of the re-education camp?

Scary to know the brownshirt mentality is still alive and well among modern youth.

Totalitarianism must be resisted in ALL of its forms.

[romanic]

26. That along with the

self-segregation among some of these activists tell me that they have no learned from history. It'll be interesting to see where this will lead; though I fear it's not a good place for anyone.

[Initech]

25. Ah yes the old "intolerant bigots must be taught tolerance" argument.

Pass the butter.

[snooper2]

28. Like I have said before, this is what happens when SJW leave the intertubes "organize" LOL

Look at me! I'm part of a movement! Hold one, let me instagram this cool picture on my six hundred dollar phone LOL