15 Excerpts That Show How Radical, Weird And Out of Touch College Campuses Have Become
John Hawkins | Nov 28, 2015
How radical, weird and out of touch have liberals on college campuses gotten since Obama came into office? It’s worse than you ever thought and although there is an almost unlimited number of problematic incidents to choose from, these 15 are particularly effective at getting across how bad things have become.
1) “College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims.... The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offended.”
2) “Portland State University Offers Course Teaching How to 'Make Whiteness Strange'...According to Portland State University Professor Rachel Sanders’ 'White Privilege' course, 'whiteness' must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved. The course description states that 'whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States” and claims that 'to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.' Students taking the course will 'endeavor to make whiteness strange.' In order to make whiteness strange, the description says students must 'interrogate whiteness as an unstable legal, political, social, and cultural construction.'”
3) "A University in the San Francisco Area Actually Told Students To Call 911 if They Were Offended....Administrators at a Catholic university in the San Francisco Bay Area have rescinded an official school policy instructing students to clog up the regional 9-1-1 emergency reporting system to report 'bias incidents.'
The school is Santa Clara University, reports Campus Reform…Until this month, however, Santa Clara administrators have been instructing students to report 'bias incidents' using the emergency service reserved for dispatching police, firefighters and ambulances.
'If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY,' the Santa Clara website instructed students in fierce, all-capital letters."
4) “Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
…For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her – here’s a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr.”
5) “A Professor at Polk State College has allegedly failed a humanities student aftershe refused to concede that Jesus is a ‘myth’ or that Christianity oppresses women during a series of mandatory assignments at the Florida college. According to a press release from the Liberty Counsel, a non-profit public interest law firm, Humanities Professor Lance ‘Lj’ Russum gave a student a ‘zero’ on four separate papers because the 16-year-old did not ‘conform to his personal worldviews of Marxism, Atheism, Feminism, and homosexuality.’ The law firm has called for a full, private investigation of the professor and the course curriculum.”
6) “College Codes Make ‘Color Blindness’ a Microaggression…wait, what?.... UCLAsays "Color Blindness," the idea we shouldn't obsess over people's race, is a microaggression. If you refuse to treat an individual as a ‘racial/cultural being,’ then you're being aggressive.”
7) “The phrase 'politically correct' is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university’s 'Just Words' campaign is the work of UWM’s 'Inclusive Excellence Center' and aims to 'raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact'—microaggressions like 'politically correct' or 'PC.'”
8) ) "'American,' 'illegal alien,' 'foreigners,' 'mothering,' and 'fathering' are just a handful of words deemed 'problematic' by the University of New Hampshire’s Bias-Free Language Guide....Saying 'American' to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes 'U.S. citizen' or 'Resident of the U.S.' The guide also tries to get students to stop saying 'Caucasian,' 'illegal Immigrant,' 'mother,' 'father' and even the word 'healthy' is said to shame those who aren't healthy."
9) “Late yesterday afternoon, ACLJ filed a lawsuit on behalf of Brandon Jenkins against officials of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Maryland for denying Brandon admission to its Radiation Therapy Program in part due to his expression of religious beliefs. As one faculty member explained to Brandon, on behalf of CCBC, the ‘field [of radiation therapy] is not the place for religion.’”
10) “A California school co-founded by a firebrand who once called for an ‘intifada’ in the U.S. has become the nation's first accredited Muslim college.”
11) "According to Coastal Carolina University, sex is only consensual if both parties are completely sober and if consent is not only present, but also enthusiastic. This is a troubling standard that converts many ordinary, lawful sexual encounters into sexual assault, and it should frighten any student at CCU.”
12) "Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food...Students took to Twitter to call the event culturally insensitive and to question the school's efforts to promote diversity....Clemson Dining issued an apology to 'offended' students after hosting a 'Maximum Mexican' food day."
13) "All-Women’s College Cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ Because it Excludes Women Without Vaginas."
14) "The 'Black Lives Matter' leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale Universitydelivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party."
15) "Assistant Dean (at Cornell) Tells a Project Veritas Investigative Journalist that the University Would Allow an ISIS Terrorist to Hold a 'Training Camp' on Campus, Saying: 'It Would be Like Bringing in a Coach to do a Training on a Sports Team.'"
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39 DIFFERENT THINGS: That Automatically Make You A Racist
November 28,2015
Here are some contemporary definitions of the term ‘Racist’ and examples to prove the point:
First, anyone who wins a debate with a Leftist, a Democrat, a Jihadist, a Communist or a person of color. Then...
- Anyone who disagrees with Obama.
- All those who oppose the implementation of Sharia Law.
- Anyone who thinks Islamic supremacists are a threat to Western civilization.
- Anyone who supports Israel’s right to exist.
- Republicans and White people and Tea Party people and NRA members.
- Anyone who thinks we should have border security.
- Anyone who supports the idea we enforce our immigration laws.
- Anyone who believes voter ID is required to insure free and fair elections.
- All people who think America is exceptional.
- Anyone living in a Southern State.
- People who support the 10th Amendment.
- Anyone with a Confederate flag.
- Middle Class Black people who do not speak with an accent.
- Asians and Hispanics and Arabs and Africans and others who obtain citizenship legally and go to work.
- Immigrants who love America and want to become American citizens, learning English and embracing patriotism.
- Those who object to the grievance industry, calling it fraudulent.
- All those who believe we should not tear down statues of Robert E. Lee.
- Anyone who denies the theory of white privilege.
- People who deny Michael Brown was a hero.
- People who support the police.
- Anyone who believes affirmative action is reverse discrimination.
- Anyone who opposes reparations for slavery.
- Anyone who thinks All Lives Matter.
- All those who believe the welfare state is bad for everyone.
- All people who think busing was a dumb idea.
- Citizens who believe in the Constitution, that it should be respected and applied as originally intended.
- People who oppose the theory of Social Justice promoted by Bill Ayers, Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Karl Marx and Michael Moore.
- Anyone who thinks Al Sharpton is a clown.
- People who dislike Hip Hop, Rap and the Gangsta culture.
- People who do not apologize for being white.
- People who do not condemn European colonialism.
- Anyone who thinks the Civil War paid for the sin of slavery, and that the Civil Rights movement paid for the sin of Jim Crow.
- Anyone who denies Lincoln was a racist.
- All those who say the central problem in the Black community is the destruction of the family thanks to liberal social policies and demoralization.
- Everybody opposed to amnesty, Obama’s illegal amnesty, welfare benefits for illegals.
- Anyone refusing to use the term “undocumented” immigrant.
- Anyone using these terms: Negro, Oriental, anchor baby, gang banger, thug, cut taxes, inner city, law and order, welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, watermelon, fried chicken, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Chicago Blackhawks, political correctness, Black on Black crime, entitlement, and many more.
- Anyone who thinks the notion of “micro-aggression” is just an excuse.
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The One Kind of Charity Doug Casey Supports
Louis James: Okay. So what happens when you run into literally starving orphan babies in Haiti, the way you did? Even if you allow wealth to accumulate, and society becomes 50 or 100 times wealthier, and that decreases poverty by 50 or 100 times - or maybe 1,000 times? There will still be some cases of people who, through genuinely no fault of their own, truly need a helping hand, and the consequences would be dire if they don’t get it. What would you advocate in those situations?
Doug: Well, in the first place, though I’m not a Christian, let me quote Jesus of Nazareth. He said, “The poor you will always have with you.” He had a different context in mind, but he was quite correct. That’s because in most cases, poverty is not a function of bad luck.
It can be, sometimes, of course. Perhaps if you’re born in a country with a brutal and repressive regime, or if you’re born with mental handicaps; there are all kinds of things that can happen. But generally, with a few such exceptions, poverty is simply a sign of bad habits. In a relatively free country, it’s a sign of an inability or unwillingness to save, which is to say, to produce more than you consume. It’s a sign of a lack of self-discipline. Sloth that afflicts those not willing to learn skills they can sell to other people. It can be a sign of having no self-respect, as among those who spend all their money on drugs and alcohol, which are debilitating, rather than strengthening.
In the vast majority of cases, those who suffer from poverty are not victims of anything other than their own bad habits.
L: Wow. Tough words.
Doug: It’s even worse than that. Think about it. Let’s say we’re looking at some place where there’s been a drought or some other serious natural disaster, and then organizations like the UN ship in thousands of tons of food. What happens when that food hits the local market?
L: Does it even get there? Doesn’t the local dictator usually take it and sell it in some other country where people can pay for it, and then stash the cash in a Swiss bank account?
Doug: Well, that’s the first thing that happens, of course. But even when it gets through to the intended recipients, such aid rarely helps them. In fact, it usually hurts them because, as I was saying, when all that free food hits the local market, it drives the price of food down so low the local farmers can’t produce profitably.
What happens when you drive the local farmers out of business? They stop planting, there’s no crop the next year, and the shortage of food becomes even worse. The very acts of these charities trying to help people in famine-stricken areas prolong the famines.
Now, I’m not saying that if you know someone who needs a helping hand, and you feel good about helping, which is different from feeling guilty about not helping, that you shouldn’t do it. It can be a good karma thing to do, and I do believe in karma, incidentally.
But when these things are institutionalized, they create distortions in the marketplace.
L: People may think it strange to hear you talking about markets in famine-stricken places or regions devastated by earthquakes, etc. But markets are everywhere. They are not physical places in New York and London, but are aspects of human psychology. They are patterns of human behavior created by people when they enter into voluntary transactions, as distinct from government action, which is always based on coercion. In today’s world, famine can still be caused by storms, drought, and other natural events. But it’s more often caused, and always aggravated, by distortions in the market: taxes, wars, idiotic regulation, runaway inflation, and the like.
Doug: And when a big charity intrudes on one of these weakened, distorted markets, it usually adds even more distortions, prolonging the problem.
Consider these charitable organizations going around the world treating diseases. The reason these countries have these terrible diseases that kill so many people is because they are economically undeveloped. Keeping people alive via extraordinary measures in such a place only results in more people competing for the same scarce resources. The answer to the problem is not to send in teams of doctors, so that you’ll have even more destitute people producing no wealth, but to free the local market so the people can become wealthy. The disease will go away as a consequence; this is the only permanent cure. What they are doing is the exact opposite of what they should be doing; they are making things worse.
L: Sounds pretty cold, Doug, to say, “Don’t send doctors...”
Doug: Well, don’t forget that a lot of people have supported the likes of Mugabe and deserve the economic ruin they are getting, and the diseases that are going to follow. Send doctors in if it makes you feel good, but it’s putting Band-Aids on smallpox. Don’t imagine that you’re actually helping solve the problem. People who do this kind of thing, I believe, do it because of feelings of guilt and shame they carry around inside. I understand them, but I don’t agree with them.
It does sound cold-blooded, and I’m sorry. I like kids and dogs and the same things most people like. But I’m not talking about whatever I or others might imagine is nice. I’m talking about the only real way to solve such a problem.
It’s disgusting to see hotshot yuppies self-righteously driving around the African bush in new Land Rovers, pretending they’re eliminating poverty. That’s where most of the money goes, in fact. High living and “administration.”
L: You didn’t let me finish. I was saying that it sounds cold-blooded, but who’s really more cold-blooded: The one who knowingly spends precious resources on measures they know won’t be effective and will lead to greater sorrow, or the one who has the courage to make the hard decision and reach for the real, long-term solution?
Doug: Yes. That’s the way I see it.
L: It occurs to me, reacting to the distinction you made earlier between individual charity and institutional charity, that perhaps it’s like religion. Whether we agree with their beliefs or not, it’s clear that many people derive value from those beliefs. But when religions become organizations and dogma sets in, they can get really destructive.
Doug: Well, as an individual, if I come across a person who I have reason to believe is worthy of my charity and my trust, I might act individually. But yes, when things get organized, they get bureaucratized. It’s just the natural course of things; it seems almost universal that as organizations get older and more structured, they become counterproductive to their intended purposes.
Charity is especially prone to this problem because of the phony ethical notions that now pervade Western society. It’s gotten worse over the last 100 years. People have come to believe that an instrument of coercion, the state, has to take care of them. Perversely, when the state engages in charity, which isn’t charity, because tax-supported giving is not voluntary, it discourages true charity. People who have money taken from them by the taxman have less of it to give to those they might know who genuinely need help.
L: The Tragedy of American Compassion. Marvin Olasky.
Doug: Great book. I think the Chinese are much more intelligent than Westerners in this regard. The only charity you find in most Oriental societies is organized by beneficial societies that seem less pervious to squandering. Peer pressure and moral approbation keep them in line, unlike governments, which exist primarily to serve themselves. And taxes tend to be a lot lower in the Orient, so people have more money to give, if that’s their inclination.
In fact, one of the horrible aspects of this issue, in the United States, is that large amounts of money are stolen from estates in the form of death taxes. The idea seems to be that the government will deploy wealth more wisely than the children of its creators. But this is ridiculous. It’s part of the whole ethical morass that charity and taxation are tied up in, in the U.S.
Suppose you have a Chinese and an American, of equal intelligence, work ethic, education, skills, etc., and an equal amount of starting capital. The American who starts with a dollar might end up with a million. But the Chinese guy in the same circumstances will end up with 50 million. All because of the difference in taxes and regulations.
But it’s worse than that, because whatever amount of money the American is going to leave to his kids, half of it is going to disappear down the tax rat hole, while 100% of the money the Oriental guy leaves will go exactly where he wants it to go.
That has major implications for wealth accumulation. It’s another reason for the diversification of political risk we keep reminding people is so important.
But sadly, even if an American ends up with $100 million, odds are he won’t leave the bulk of it intact as an effective capital pool, to be expanded upon by his chosen heir. He’ll give it to some charity that will be run for the benefit of its board of directors. They get to be big shots with other people’s money, corrupting both themselves and the intended recipients.
L: So, the bottom line is that if you had a magic wand and could abolish all charitable institutions with a wave of it, you’d do it. And you would not replace them with anything. You’d use the wand to reduce taxes and regulations everywhere, to allow for more wealth creation. And for those few desperate cases clinging to the bottom rungs of the social ladder, you think individual conscience would suffice.
Doug: Exactly. To me, charity should be strictly an individual, one-on-one thing. That’s the only way you can know that it can really help, and even then it doesn’t always work. Once you have to hire somebody to run a charitable organization and have secretaries and assistant vice-presidents in charge of light bulb changing, it’s just another bureaucracy headed for disaster, dissipating wealth as it goes, and doing more harm than good even among the intended recipients of the charity.
L: I don’t see a lot of immediate investment implications here, but there’s certainly a lot of food for thought for those intent on wealth accumulation.
Doug: Let’s just say that your moral obligation to the rest of humanity, insofar as you have such an obligation, is to keep your capital intact. First, that means to deny it to the state, which will very likely use it in a destructive way. Second, to direct it to those who will use it to produce more - not to unproductive consumers. Third, to take some personal responsibility, and do it yourself - don’t devolve it upon some unknown board of worthies who will have their own ideas about what to do with your money.
L: Got it. Thanks.
Doug: You’re welcome. Till next week.
Doug Casey is a multimillionaire speculator and the founder of Casey Research. He literally wrote the book on profiting during economic turmoil. Doug’s book, Crisis Investing, spent multiple weeks as number one on the New York Times bestsellers list and was the best-selling financial book of 1980. Doug has been a regular guest on national television, including spots on CNN, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Regis Philbin, Phil Donahue, and NBC News.
