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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat the hell is going on at some colleges?
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
(3,447 posts)...don't you worry.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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
(6,960 posts)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
(18,585 posts)I can't even...
*shaking my head*
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Archae
(46,369 posts)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
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Archae
(46,369 posts)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
(65,616 posts)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 misconductspecifically, 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 occurrednamely 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
(51,907 posts)--go to a place where people have never been exposed to those diseases, a lot of the latter are going to die.
Rex
(65,616 posts)And since pretty much everyone had to deal with lice in those days, that too was probably not done on purprose.
KT2000
(20,601 posts)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
(5,815 posts)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
(3,316 posts)shades of Mao and the re-education camps
romanic
(2,841 posts)Is Latin@ not inclusive enough anymore?
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)pointing out gender is mysoginist or something. Sanitizing English is not enough, now it's Spanish, too!
lancer78
(1,495 posts)Wow, south park is on the ball this season.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)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
(6,930 posts)I guess critical thinking is no longer valued in college.
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GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)A different angle:
But students say they arent interested in stifling free speechrather, 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
(7,107 posts)99% of their fellow students think they are bat shit loony too.
Vinca
(50,323 posts)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
(16,191 posts)Scary to know the brownshirt mentality is still alive and well among modern youth.
Totalitarianism must be resisted in ALL of its forms.
romanic
(2,841 posts)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
(100,129 posts)Pass the butter.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Look at me! I'm part of a movement! Hold one, let me instagram this cool picture on my six hundred dollar phone LOL