Thursday, November 12, 2015

The spread has begun

Debra Heine at PJ Media reports on the contagion:

Students at Ithaca College have started to protest their college president. His sins include not adequately “foster[ing] growth to [their] consciousness of oppression and privilege”:
The protest was organized by the group People of Color at Ithaca College to express their concerns about racism on campus. They called for a vote of no confidence against Ithaca President Tom Rochon, as well as for Rochon to step down.
During the protests earlier today, The Ithaca Journal reports, one student asked, “How can a campus dedicated to preparing us for the real world not actively foster growth to our consciousness of oppression and privilege?”
There was a die-in and a silent demonstration amid the day of protests, all to get administrators to take their concerns seriously.
Students at the University of Michigan rallied in “solidarity with Mizzou,” because they brought down the college president and that’s super empowering and stuff. 
In Michigan, a favorite protest sign reads, ""Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

At Vanderbilt, an online student petition is demanding the suspension of Professor of Law and Political Science Carol Swain for being “hateful” toward minorities. A fun twist in this particular purge? She herself is a minority:
The fact that Professor Swain is black is no insulation from these charges. Swain’s apostasy is that she has made politically incorrect statements about radical Islam and her traditional Christian beliefs, statements that the petitioners deem intolerant and which the University, therefore, must  not tolerate — tolerance, of course, being a one-way street. Without any apparent sense of irony, the petitioners make the inevitable demand that Swain be sent to diversity training camp (along with the rest of the faculty) so that she will think and speak in a manner approved by the commissars of political correctness. 
It's entirely accurate to call this Stalinism. That was the phase of Soviet Communism that featured show trials, where the insufficiently doctrinally pure were purged from the Party and often exterminated. I mean, the president of Ithaca, for crying out loud?


 

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