Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
To The Paranoid Missouri Crybaby Children Unable to Cope With The Crushing Effects Of Hurtful Speech: Call The Cops
by Eugene Volokh. Prof. Thom Lambert (Truth on the Market) passes along the following Missouri-University-wide e-mail: Subject: Reporting Hateful and/or Hurtful Speech. To
continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remains safe,
the MU Police Department (MUPD) is asking individuals who witness
incidents of hateful and/or hurtful ... MORE
This Is What A Social Justice Warrior Looks Like
by David French. Pitching a fit as a path toward power. The video below has been making the rounds on the internet. It shows a young woman screaming in the face of Yale professor Nicholas Christakis about the alleged plight of minority students. Why the hysterical shrieking? Because the professor’s wife (a Yale lecturer) had the audacity ... MORE
Brendan O'Neill: Contempt For Free Speech - Why Are Students Cheering About The Massacre At Charlie Hebdo?
The sad decline of American principles. I witnessed something genuinely
disturbing at Trinity College Dublin last night: trendy, middle-class,
liberal students cheering and whooping a man who had just given the
closest thing I have yet heard to a justification for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo. It was as part of a debate on the right
to offend. I was ... MORE
Political Correctness At Colleges Is A Real Problem
by Ana Kasparian. Obama gets it right. During a recent town hall in Iowa,
President Obama addressed the issue of political correctness on college
campuses. He specifically called out liberal students who have
protested or banned conservative speakers at commencement ceremonies. “I’ve heard some college campuses where they ... MORE
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college,
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indoctrination,
intolerance,
liberalism,
Obama,
political correctness,
students
Victimhood Has Become A Badge Of Honor On Campus
by Alex Pfeiffer. Weaklings now revered. A journal article by two sociologists suggests the rise of microaggressions stems from a culture of victimhood that celebrates the aggrieved and perceives them as virtuous martyrs – most notably on college campuses. Making matters worse, this perception is fostered by administrations that coddle and ... MORE
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college,
microagression,
minorities,
offend,
political correctness,
students,
victimhood,
women
Rachelle Peterson: Divesting From Free Speech
Environmentalists shut down debate on campus. Students campaigning to get universities to divest from fossil fuels are in two minds about free speech. They want it for themselves, but don’t seem keen on free speech for their opponents. The divestment movement didn’t invent free-speech hypocrisy, but divestment activists offer a range of ... MORE
How Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive Students
by Lenore Skenazy. Creating the scaredy cat generation. This is the article everyone’s talking about: “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic.
It discusses the idea taking root on college campuses that students
cannot be exposed to ideas, words, or phrases that ... MORE
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abuse,
children,
college,
happiness,
microagression,
political correctness,
schools,
sensitivity
Walter E Williams: Academic Fascism II
Anti-free speech and racist diversity policies. Last week's column highlighted college campus absurdities and the ongoing attack on free speech and plain common sense. As parents gear up to fork over $20,000 to $60,000 for college tuition, they might benefit from knowing what greets their youngsters. Deceitful college officials, who ... MORE
Political Correctness Makes College Students Mentally Ill
by Daniel Greenfield. The biggest emotional bully wins. First, complaints of emotional distress are way up. Nearly all of the campus mental-health directors surveyed in 2013 by the American College Counseling Association reported that the number of students with severe psychological problems was rising at their schools. The rate of ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Academic Fascism
Boogeymen everywhere. George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses. Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in ... MORE
College Codes Make 'Color Blindness' A Microaggression
Inciting hyper racial consciousness. There are many mad and worrying things about the speech codes
spreading across campuses like a contagious brain funk. There's their
treatment of even everyday words as "problematic" terms of abuse.
There's the branding of the most anodyne forms of friendly banter as
"aggressive" (apparently it is a ... MORE
Joshua Krause: Americans Embrace Debt As New Norm
7 in 10 believe that debt is necessary. America’s debt problem has been widely documented over past few years, and not just the public kind. The average American is swimming in trillions of dollars in medical fees, car payments, mortgage liabilities, as well as credit card statements and college tuitions. However, none of that is shocking ... MORE
How Student Loans Create Demand For Useless Degrees
by Josh Grossman. Last week, former Secretary of Education and US Senator Lamar Alexander wrote in the Wall Street Journal
that a college degree is both affordable and an excellent investment.
He repeated the usual talking point about how a college degree increases
lifetime earnings by a million dollars, “on average.” That part about
averages is ... MORE
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borrowing,
careers,
college,
economics,
education,
incentives,
loans,
student debt,
students
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