We recently discussed the apology of the New York Times for publishing a column from a leading United States Senator on the possible use of troops to quell rioting after the death of George Floyd. That decision, and the sacking of the opinion page editor, represented one of the lowest moments in American journalism. It made echo journalism the official policy of one of the oldest news organizations in the United States. The lesson was not, it appears, lost on young college journalists at Syracuse University who sacked a columnist because she questioned claims of “institutional racism.” Adrianna San Marco notably did not write her opinion in The Daily Orange but she was canned for challenging this widely held view. My greatest concern is the lack of specificity from the editors on the objections to her column beyond “reinforcing stereotypes.” Such actions demand a clarity in the standard being applied to writers.
As will come as no surprise to most on this blog, my interest in the controversy at Syracuse is not the merits of the underlying column or its research but the implications for free speech and the free press. In her piece published by LifeZette, she argued that institutional racism is a “myth” and that claimed statistics indicate that police do not target African-Americans. She discussed the findings of a study by the National Academy of Sciences that in late 2019 found “no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities” across police shootings.
There are ample arguments against such claims, including some referenced by San Marco in her column. It is the type of argument that once defined the intellectual discourse of higher education. Indeed, such topics were often raised precisely because they generated passionate and probing analysis.
This is not those times. Now, the New York Times apologizes for publishing opposing views and young journalists fire colleagues because they hold opposing views. Daily Orange editor-in-chief Casey Darnell seemed to rip a page out of the “new” New York Times:
“Dismissing the existence of racism, whether institutional or otherwise, dismisses the lived experiences of people of color, especially our black community members. San Marco’s article reinforces false and dangerous stereotypes of Black people as criminals, and dismisses that police officers kill black people at disproportionately higher rates than white people.”
Darnell insisted “[w]e aren’t afraid of controversial views, but we have a responsibility to avoid promoting harmful ones. We don’t censor conservative columnists. In fact, we have already hired a conservative columnist to replace San Marco.”
While I applaud the editors for their sensitivity to these issues, I respectfully believe that Darnell misses the point. The concern is the San Marco was sacked because she held an opposing view on “institutional racism.” The challenge is not to select a “conservative” but support writers in holding opposing views, including those expressed in other publications. The decision appears to be based entirely on this one column and San Marco contesting the widely held view of systemic and institutionalized racism. Rather than sack the writer, the question is whether a newspaper can still publish opposing and even upsetting columns as part of its contribution to the national debate. Otherwise, we are enforcing orthodox views or stipulating that only a narrow range of opinions will be tolerated.
I thought that the statement of the editors constitute an excellent and powerful rebuttal. They could go further in specifically addressing San Marco’s statistical arguments. That would make for an important and substantive exchange.
Again, I return to my admittedly fading “old school” view of free speech that, rather than silencing a columnist, a newspaper can be a forum for a variety of views, including those at the extremes of the debate. In the past, I have defended academics accused of anti-white or intolerant views from the left. I would rather have such views freely expressed than engage in selective censorship to silence those with whom we disagree.
Student journalists must decide how to meet the challenge of free speech and free press in an age of rage. They can either yield to calls for censorship (like the New York Times) or they can stand on the defining principle that the solution for anything deemed bad speech is more and better speech. Once again, they would be wise to heed the words of Louis Brandeis in his concurring opinion in Whitney v. California (1927) when he declared “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
Squeeky Fromm & Cindy Bragg — Paul C Schulte just Makes Stuff Up. Without a citation one shouldn’t believe him.
No. I have found PaulCS to be an honest and thoughtful person over the years. I like him.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-five citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, and his mental health professional certificate after eighty weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – David, would the above be you?
Paul, are you familiar with the expression “pot, meet kettle”?
If you want others to provide citations, you should do it yourself.
Committ – Benson does not get citations until he gets up to date on mine.
He’s not the only one you refuse to provide them to.
Benson…….You’re obsessed with Paul, for some reason.
Paul is an intelligent, normal human being. You could learn alot from him.
Today, Trump openly threatens protestors with his twitter rant with violence if they come to Tulsa. Will Turley write about that, highly doubtful. Instead he knows he can get 200 plus comments about how they feel right-wing ideology is being somehow suppressed. The highest office in our nation suppressed peaceful protestors June 1st, for a photo-op. But that was just fine with the white supremacists and neo-fascist and authoritarian types that are here on his page, and don’t kid yourself, they’re here. And they are very good at playing the victimization card. Turley professes to love the first amendment, then we all should protect it from toxic ideology coming from whatever direction it comes from. Truth isn’t truth is not the way to go. Alternative facts do not exist. Institutional racism does exist, the nation was built on it.
Fishy, don’t you think “neo-fascist and authoritarian types” describes the people who fired San Marco for daring to express an opinion that differed from theirs?
Plus, can you define “Institutional Racism” for me???
Thanks!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” MLK.
I wonder who MLK stole that quote from?
Young, are still awake after your nightshift at the gas station?
MLK also wrote, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
The left and BLM constantly look more to the color of one’s skin than to character.
I think he stole that one too.
Young, so I have heard, but we need to attach good thoughts to people and no one is perfect. That is one of the reason people shouldn’t be ideolized by building monuments to them, naming streets after them, etc. until at least 50 years have passed when one can look back and see if initial instincts were justified. Never the less I look at MLK as an image not necessarily the man. The image can dispense with a lot of the truth that surrounds the man.
Moses, “Folks, we’re gonna be out of Egypt before the ink dries on our release papers. I mean, we’re not stupid. We’re gonna get on ‘Old Paint’ and get the —- where we ain’t. We can’t trust these pesky Egyptians.”
That Moses was a brilliant slave leader. MLK, uh, not so much.
Lincoln was smart too. Lincoln proposed some great ideas regarding the ultimate and appropriate resolution of slavery and slaves and compassionate and appropriate repatriation for the benefit of the freed slaves but somebody changed his mind and his radical communist allies assumed control. Forcibly mixing oil and water through the employment of contrived political emulsifiers was not one of them.
Well look, there’s Abe now. Abe, would you like to say a few words?
Honestly I would.
Great! Go ahead, Honest Abe.
Ahem!
“If all earthly power were given me,” said Lincoln in a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, “I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.” After acknowledging that this plan’s “sudden execution is impossible,” he asked whether freed blacks should be made “politically and socially our equals?” “My own feelings will not admit of this,” he said, “and [even] if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not … We can not, then, make them equals.”5
One of Lincoln’s most representative public statements on the question of racial relations was given in a speech at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857.6 In this address, he explained why he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would have admitted Kansas into the Union as a slave state:
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races … A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas …
Racial separation, Lincoln went on to say, “must be effected by colonization” of the country’s blacks to a foreign land. “The enterprise is a difficult one,” he acknowledged,
but “where there is a will there is a way,” and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.
“Today, Trump openly threatens protestors with his twitter rant with violence if they come to Tulsa.”
What a nut.
Violent protestors are coming to Tulsa. What does one do when violence rears its ugly head? Fishwings is supporting violent terrorists while Trump is supporting law and order where police try and prevent the violence from occurring.
When the violent protestors vurn down Fishwings house we can have a fish fry.
Violence reared it’s ugly head in Oakland. Underwood is black, the 2 accused white.
“An Air Force sergeant linked to an anti-government movement was charged with murder and attempted murder on Tuesday in the shooting death of a federal security officer outside a courthouse in Oakland, Calif., last month.
The sergeant had expressed his allegiance to the so-called boogaloo movement by writing with his own blood on the hood of a white Toyota Camry and had used the recent protests against racial injustice as a cover to attack law enforcement, according to the F.B.I.
Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, is accused of firing an assault rifle from the open back door of a moving vehicle and gunning down the federal officer, according to the criminal complaint.
The driver of the van, Robert Alvin Justus Jr., 30, who had met Sergeant Carrillo on Facebook, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, the officer killed in the shooting, the complaint said. Both men were also charged with the attempted murder of a second officer who was gravely wounded.”
What is your point? “charged with murder” that crazy was charged with murder.
Maybe you are telling us that everyone that was looting and violent at the protests should be arrested and charged. That is a good idea. Maybe you are telling us that the man who punched a 92 year old in the face should have been kept in jail on his 103 offense or maybe you are saying that he should have been kept in jail after just a few offenses proving he was a violent criminal. That would also have been a good idea. Maybe the blacks in Brooklyn that were knock out punching Jews should have been arrested and not let out so they could repeat the crime several times in one week. Another good idea.
You are full of good ideas today. Arrest violent people which unfortunately includes a lot of BLM and Antifa members. You are on the right track.
George Washington threatened the British with violence. And he wasn’t ——- around any more. There comes a time.
What action is appropriate when a nation’s Supreme, nay, Inferior Court goes rogue, goes corrupt, goes treasonous, goes “enemy?”
________
America is in a condition of hysteria, incoherence, chaos, anarchy and rebellion.
President Abraham Lincoln seized power, neutralized the legislative and judicial branches and ruled by executive order and proclamation to “Save the Union.”
President Donald Trump must now seize power, neutralize the legislative and judicial branches and rule by executive order and proclamation to “Save the Republic.”
Trump has decided to follow the law. I’m not sure what you are advocating.
Read the truth about “Crazy Abe” Lincoln in “Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics” by David Jefferies. America is illegitimate to this day because of Lincoln’s crimes during his “Reign of Terror” and the follow-on crimes of his criminal successors (do you really do a whole slew of amendments through coercion under duress during a brutal, oppressive, post-war military occupation?). The CSA must have seceded and that must have been the legal end of the story (Indeed, the CSA would have folded and resumed its status in the United States ultimately – it was bound for failure). Lincoln backed accidentally into the presidency and “fixed” 1864 with brute military force. Confiscation of private property, suspension of Habeas Corpus, repression of all political opposition, prosecuting an undeclared war, failure to deport illegal alien freed slaves who did not meet the legal requirement as “…free white men…,” nullifying the Constitution, etc., etc., etc., were all illegal and unconstitutional acts of a criminal. Slavery should have been ended through advocacy, boycotts, divestiture, etc. No other nation in history ever ended slavery by war. The whole Lincoln era was one big crime.
President Trump is in the same position as Lincoln in per-election 1864 and he must grab the bull by the horns as Obama has done in conducting his highly unconstitutional and illegal Coup D’etat in America. Lincoln and Obama can go criminal, treasonous and rogue but a patriot cannot? That dudn’t make any sense!
Fishstinksfromthehead……He fid NOT threaten them, you drama queen.
He said for them not to expect kid glove treatment if they riot at his rally.
Actually, when Trump tweeted “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!,” he clearly chose to include “Any protesters” as a category, without limiting it to people rioting.
Americans have a First Amendment right to protest peacefully, and I sure hope that peaceful protesters won’t be abused by law enforcement in Tulsa the way the people peacefully protesting in Lafayette Square in DC on June 1 were, to make way for Trump’s photo-op at St. John’s Church. Trump is already facing two lawsuits about that, and A.G. Barr (who is another defendant) lied about it on TV: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/08/william-barr/barr-says-federal-police-didnt-use-chemical-irrita/
I hope they both have to testify under oath.
Commit…….Have you ever had an original thought? Reading your comments is like reading what the DNC writes on the MSNBC teleprompters. So boring and void of any truth.
I honestly don’t care whether you find my comments boring or unoriginal. Have any opinion about that that you want, as will others.
You haven’t provided any evidence that anything I wrote is “void of any truth” (though perhaps you also meant that as opinion rather than fact, ironic though it would be in a claim about “truth”).
Just what are you suggesting is false? You think that Trump didn’t tweet what I quoted? that we don’t have a First Amendment right to protest peacefully? …
Commit…………I am finding that if I yawn through every comment of yours, I feel rested by the time I leave the blog.
Thank you!
In other words, you’re unwilling to either provide evidence for your claim of “void of any truth” or to retract it, and you instead resort to insult. I find that insults often reveal more about the speaker than the addressee.
His brain has little brain tissue. It is more of a pipe that goes from the DNC to the amplifier inside of his mouth.
“you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis.”
That is correct they won’t be treated like they were in those other places. They will have to follow the law and when violent people intermix with them they will have to move away or be pushed back just like the violent ones. The police cannot stand there trying to read minds in order to figure out who is violent and who is not.
Those protesters that follow the law and follow what they are told to do by the authorities will have the chance to protest if the violent ones don’t make that ability impossible.
One Needs to be Committed if they think that what happened on Madison Avenue should be a template for what happens elsewhere.
Lafayette Square is an example where peaceful protesters intermixed with some that were violent. In such cases all have to be moved and dispersed. Lafayette Square was not essential to Trump. It was the city officers that decided to move the people. You are one of those voyeurs that likes to see violence no matter who gets hurt. However, when your house gets destroyed you are one of the first to run to the police and yell at them for not being more aggressive.
http://www.appstate.edu/~stanovskydj/discourse.pdf
in this book Michel Foucault talked about “exclusion” which is to day, what we are not permitted to say
that is mostly how “censorship” operates today
you can try and keep americans mired in simplistic 18th century conceptions of liberty, but the world has dragged us along and defies our illusions more and more each day
soon, the tired old bromides will confine us no more. the pain we feel now, is the pain of rebirth, not of death
https://www.blacknews.com/news/black-lives-matters-collaborates-with-planned-parenthood-the-zenith-of-oxymorons/
Black Lives Matter Plus Planned Parenthood
Nationwide — The African American community was once viewed as the conscience of the nation but has now paid the Piper – wolves in sheep’s clothing – to facilitate the theft of our heritage and historic legacy. Never before in the African American experience has there been a time where the machinations of manipulative “House Negroes” and diabolical racists, can be seen so clearly.
Yet, many African Americans remain in denial, which is devastating to our young people, and depressing to our “True Elders.” Yes, there are those whom we can classify as True Elders, individuals such as: Bishop Bill Owens of COGIC; Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King; Dr. W. A. Merritt, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and civil rights activist, Clarence Henderson, who sat in on the “White Only” Woolworths lunch counters in Greensboro, NC; True Elders, individuals who have not been persuaded by “Political Correctness”; individuals who heard, responded to, and then deeply embraced the divinely inspired words of Dr. Martin Luther King; words which were spoken in a 1964 address at Drew University, “The American Dream”:
“But ever since the Founding Fathers of our nation dreamed this dream, America has been something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against herself. On the one hand we have proudly professed the great principles of democracy. On the other hand we have sadly practiced the very antithesis of those principles. Indeed, slavery and racial segregation are strange paradoxes in the nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal.”
Yet, there has never been a “stranger paradox” than the announcement that Planned Parenthood is in collaboration with “Black Lives Matters,” the epitome of oxymoronic examples. Now I say to all Americans, but especially and in particular to my African American Brothers and Sisters (of which I am one): Will you ever recognize this conspiracy against you? For the leading killer of innocent unarmed African Americans – whose hands were up, but given no choice nor chance at the American Dream their fellow African American, Dr. Martin Luther King preached about – is Planned Parenthood! Black Lives Matters has just teamed up with the most destructive racist machine in America and American history, whose founder, Margaret Sanger, was the most devout racist of her time! Paradoxically, and unbelievably, Black Lives Matters has linked itself to the abortion industry whose main target has always been Black Life and whose founder clearly had great disdain for Black Life, for in an almost Hitleresque way, Margaret Sanger stated:
“…They shouldn’t have been born, a menace to society, human weeds that need to be exterminated…!”
So let’s get this straight, my Black Brothers and Sisters: Black Lives Matters is partnering with an institution which was designed with the hope of completely eliminating African American people. Some would call this genocide, for this same organization is responsible for over twenty million (20,000,000) African Americans missing by sanctioned murder in America. And to add insult to injury, after brutally killing and dismembering these infants within the womb – in a nod to the bad old days of the Slave Block prior to 1865 – Planned Parenthood was caught in a sting selling these African American body parts for profit as determined by a US Congressional investigation and hearing last year. Black Lives Matters now becomes bait for unsuspecting Black women to be lured into Planned Parenthood’s killer clinics of Black Life.
Where is Kanye West when you need him? If George Bush hates Black People because of what happened in Katrina, where is your voice about the hypocrisy of Black Lives Matters and the millions of Black babies killed by Planned Parenthood in the womb? Does Planned Parenthood hate black people? There is far more evidence Planned Parenthood hates Blacks than George Bush. We were warned in the 60’s that Abortion would be a methodically designed system to deliberately slaughter primarily innocent Black babies. Sadly this is often endorsed by Blacks who lucratively benefit from innocent blood being shed. Their silence may have already been bought, yet their hypocrisy and greed can never be seen more clearly than now, all at the expense of Black Lives… by Black people… who claim Black Life… is supposed to matter!
Black Lives Matters needs to disavow any alliance with Planned Parenthood, just as Donald Trump did with David Dukes. Planned Parenthood has proven without question to be far more racist, and definitely more deadly, than David Dukes and his KKK activities could ever hope to be. Planned Parenthood kills more African Americans in a week than the Ku Klux Klan has in its entire lifetime. If this is really about Black Lives Mattering, and respect for Black Lives, then this alliance with an institution with such a clear radically racist agenda, should make even Steve Urkel question the true motives of Black Lives Matters. George Soros, their major source of funding, a man who wants to set American against American, isn’t about Black Babies and thus cannot be about upward mobility for African Americans. When you have Black Lives Matters leaders acting like privileged elitists… chasing down their Black mistresses… demanding them to abort their babies… intimidating them with their supposed ‘social status’ to comply with their demands… we really need to take a hard look at who is behind this and who directly benefits.
I am for social justice but the king of love – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King – showed us the way he had received from the King of Kings. African Americans need to step back, look, and ask for discernment. Here is what Doctor King said in his famous “I Have A Dream” speech:
“And that is something that I must say to my people who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not he guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.”
Is that Black Lives Matters?
http://www.BlackGenocide.org
So, if Black Lives Matter, why isn’t BLM calling for an end of black abortions at PP? Those abortions number well over 2 mil. every 5 years or so. But then again, it is the Christian right that has marched for stopping abortions – yes, even black mom’s to be abortions. Where in the hell are the rest of you dum’s?
Well guys, after watching the protest-riots, the looting, arson, and random attacks on white people the past few weeks,
I am now PRO CHOICE
I also want to increase funding for PP in the ghetto.
Margaret Sanger was thinking like Hera was about Hercules.
This is perhaps immoral of me as (lapsed) Catholic, but the Church-men are down on their knees idolizing the false gods, so, I’m not listening anymore.
Kurtz– I was thinking the same thing. More money for PP in the ghetto. Maybe more ammo too.
Black lives matters is collaborating with planned parenthood! Isn’t that like the Jewish Defence League collaborating with Nazis?
It sure is. Thanks for bring that to the discussion.
An embryo isn’t a person, and abortion isn’t genocide.
If you think embryos are people, you should lobby for all of the frozen embryos in the country to be counted in the census.
If you think embryos are people, you’d have to conclude that perhaps most “people” are never born, since an estimated 40-60% of embryos die of natural causes (most prior to implantation).
This is demographic warfare and I didn’t make it up, I just live in it.
& I know what will favor my side in the long run.
Pro choice now, regardless of what the theologians say
Out of all these Silicon Valley capos and their charitable schemes, I like Bill Gates’ the most
Commit thinks pregnancy is a disease and that the baby inside is only a few cells. He probably favors late term abortion where one can pull out one leg or arm at a time despite the fact that the baby could have survived outside of the womb.
Commit says “abortion isn’t genocide” but a simple check of any dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.” Born or not, is not included in the definition.
I guess he makes up his own facts – which we here already know.
Yes, embryos are name used for the first 8 weeks or so after the sperm meets the egg. Then fetus.
Kindly enlighten us as to your definition of your birth?
“a simple check of any dictionary defines genocide as ‘the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.’”
See that word “people” in bold in your definition? It’s the plural of “person.”
Embryos are not people, no matter how much you personally believe that they are.
If embryos were people, the U.S. government would be required by our Constitution to count them in the census, as the Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration” of “the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”
Apparently you think that the government has been breaking the law all this time by not counting embryos and fetuses.
The majority of embryos never develop into people, and for those that do, a given embryo might develop into 1 person, or 2 persons, or 3 persons, or part of a person (when 2 embryos merge). Do you understand the science of this?
SPIN, SPIN, SPIN, the liars think they win. Never said that embryo were people. In fact, I steered away from that. So I guess your reading and comprehension skills leave a lot to be desired!
“Never said that embryo were people”
You quoted a definition of “genocide” that relies on the word “people.” If embryos are not people, then your definition of genocide — “the deliberate killing of a large group of people” — is irrelevant.
As for your last sentence, you’re projecting.
That depends on how it’s used.
TruthHertz001 — So-called race is a constantly recurring theme here @ Jonathan Turley’s.
Even more so is bad behavior.
So showing gene expression depends upon youthful environment is certainly too the point.
Not ‘depends on’ but influenced by. Gene expression depends on many things, including genes.
Edmee Chavannes tells BLM in CHAZ territory that Planned Parenthood is #1 black killer
‘Why don’t I see my brothers and my sisters outside Planned Parenthood?…Number one killer of the black population is Planned Parenthood”
This is SO true! It
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in 1942. # of abortions in the US: 2013 – 664,435, 2014 – 652,639, 2015 – 638,169, 2016 632,471 and the total for these years is (drum roll please) 2.5 million procedures – mostly black women.
So, are all you dum’s proud of this? Good for ya. Too bad the procedure wasn’t closer to home.
LATEST FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS TROUBLE FOR TRUMP; ESPECIALLY ON RACE!
Biden’s lead comes from the backing of black voters (+79 points over Trump), those under age 30 (+37), suburban areas (+22), women (+19), and voters ages 65+ (+10).
Trump, on the other hand, is underperforming his vote share among key groups, such as white evangelical Christians (+41 points) and rural voters (+9). In 2016, he won white evangelicals by 64 points and rural areas by 27.
Moreover, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests against police brutality, more voters see Biden as empathetic and respectful.
Forty-seven percent say the phrase “cares about people like me” describes Biden compared to 37 percent who say it fits Trump.
Fifty-three percent believe Biden respects racial minorities vs. 35 percent who say the same about the president.
Among black voters, most say Biden respects racial minorities (79 percent), while most think Trump does not (86 percent).
Over half of seniors (52 percent) and a plurality of women (46 percent) think “cares” describes Biden. Larger numbers of both groups say it does not apply to Trump (57 percent seniors and 60 percent women).
Suburban women, in particular, give Biden the edge on “cares” (48 vs. 30 percent for Trump) and respecting racial minorities (55 vs. 27 percent).
Plus, Biden is better liked. His favorable ratings are net positive by 9 points (53 favorable vs. 44 unfavorable), while Trump’s are net negative by 13 (43 favorable vs. 56 unfavorable).
Among voters extremely interested in the election, Biden tops Trump by 53-42 percent.
Trump’s overall job rating held steady, as 44 percent of voters approve and 55 percent disapprove. His best marks came in April, when views on his performance split 49-49 percent.
As protests continue since George Floyd’s death on May 25, a 61 percent majority disapproves of how Trump is handling race relations (32 percent approve).
That matters, as 81 percent are concerned about racism and another 64 percent perceive racism as a major threat to the stability of the country. That’s on par with the coronavirus pandemic (67 percent major threat) and unemployment (67 percent major threat).
Almost all blacks (87 percent) and most Hispanics (71 percent) see racism as a major threat to the country’s stability, compared to over half of whites (58 percent). Those numbers roughly match disapproval of Trump on race relations: 88 percent among blacks, 77 percent among Hispanics and 53 percent among whites.
Edited from: “Fox News Poll: Biden Widens Lead Over Trump”
Fox News, 6/18/20
Yes Seth, Trump doesn’t have a chance, I think I may have heard this before…
be careful with Seth. Cross her on this forum and she will go batsh!t crazy ala David Brocks, Joyless Reidd, Rachel Maddog and Mommy Dearest rolled up into a menacing wire hanger
REGARDING ABOVE:
TURLEY WRITES ABOUT FREE SPEECH..
WHILE FOLLOWERS SUPPRESS IT
The Trumpers on this blog are perfectly okay with squashing free speech by liberals. And Turley is remarkably passive about letting these stooges harass liberal commentators.
When Turley writes about the importance of ‘free speech’, he’s only talking about ‘free speech’ for the far-right.
Seth….Are you on drugs? Seek help.
But Seth will do your nails.
In October of 2016, wasn’t Hilary measuring the drapes in the White House?
Here’s the good news conservatives. “Free speech ‘was always a fantasy. Someone always guides the narrative. If not the church nor king, then it’s somebody like Jack Dorsey who owns Tweeter or Jeff Bezos who owns Amazon and Wapoo.
It’s time for conservatives to get past all the 18th century Enlightenment thinking. Feel free to toss some of these bromides on to the ashheap of history and go with what works and what wins.
The Democrats will shove your noses in the dirt until you figure it out. Try and break the mental chains confining you before they succeed in putting you in real ones.
Squeeky – those kente scarves worn by Nancy Pelosi and her minions come from the Ashanti tribe who sold black slaves to whites. Great cultural appropriation guys.
You gotta be kidding me!!! OH, bwahahahahahaha!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Paul C……..great find! Thank you!!
Paul, that is great! Thankfully I heard nothing about this in the MSM. I guess they were trying to protect the Speaker and her friends from embarrassment — you know, the same way they would have done it for President Trump. I have sent your post to many friends. I hope you don’t mind but it is too good to be left alone.
honestlawyer – it is the job of the MSM to get Democrats elected, not hung. Of course you didn’t hear anything. Remember those nooses they found in the park they got so upset about? Some black athlete had put them up as part of his training course. 😉
That sounds about right.
I gather the Asante are very warlike
https://answersafrica.com/so-what-do-you-know-about-ghanas-ashanti-tribe.html
I can’t imagine them bowing and scraping in front of their tribal enemies. I read they had a fierce war with the British and took a lot of losses but counted it a win. Impressive tribal resolve! Can you imagine them apologizing and miming their adversaries, perhaps wearing redcoats?
What’s wrong with Pelosi? Better ask what’s wrong with US that we elected the likes of her.
Fake as they come– pretend apologies, feigning submission, bowing down literally like a slave herself– when she is the most powerful woman in America– what a fraud! nobody believes this not even the protesters, unless they are completely naive.
Asante are perhaps a good inspiration for white people who want to survive history. Apply the time proven methods of tribalism to your own tribe and quit apologizing for being lucky.
High Profile Black Resigns From State Department Citing Trump’s Image On Race
A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump’s recent handling of racial tensions across the country — saying that the president’s actions “cut sharply against my core values and convictions.”
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation Thursday. Taylor’s five-paragraph resignation letter, obtained by The Washington Post, serves as an indictment of Trump’s stewardship at a time of national unrest from one of the administration’s highest-ranking African Americans and an aide who was viewed as loyal and effective in serving his presidency.
“Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character. The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions,” Taylor wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “I must follow the dictates of my conscience and resign as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs.”
Taylor, 30, was unanimously confirmed to her position in October 2018 and is the youngest assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in history and the first black woman to serve in that post.
She has been a pivotal behind-the-scenes figure in the administration. Tapped for her legislative expertise and strong relationship with senators because of her work for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Taylor served as the White House’s deputy director for nominations before joining the State Department.
In her White House role, she helped shepherd more than 400 presidential appointments through the Senate, including those of Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, CIA Director Gina Haspel, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell and Pompeo.
Edited from: “Top State Department Official Resigns In Protest Of Trump’s Response To Racial Tensions In The Country”
The Washington Post, 6/17/20
“saying that the president’s actions “cut sharply against my core values and convictions.””
She’s entitled to her opinions, as is everyone. And if her “core values” affect her ability to carry out her duties, then she should resign.
Best of luck to her.
It would be helpful to know specifically what was said or done to “cut sharply” against Mary Elizabeth Taylor’s “core values and convictions”. She has served this administration admirably. Her resignation is very broad in nature and makes one wonder if pressure from people with nefarious agenda is really the cause.
J’ Syraccuse…!
Most people will not get that, but I do! Kudos!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Sad but true.
Darren……C’est magnifique, Dreyfuss!
But Zola said it.
Young…Mais oui, monsieur…I was trying to construct a sentence in Fr. with Dreyfus on receiving end of accusation…..but failed.
Loved Jose Ferrer in that role, btw.
Yes, Ferrer was great in that role. Excellent movie. Couldn’t be produced today. Not enough black nuclear physicists in it.
Here is a good response to people who wonder why JT talks sooo much about bad Democrat behavior:
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MM: What would you say to your critics who would claim that you unfairly focus on left-wing lunacy and give right-wing craziness a pass — thereby “normalizing” Donald Trump?
GS: I call that the, “But what about Israel, bruh?” position. So I can’t talk about Islamic craziness unless I grant equal airtime to criticizing Israel? That’s not how life works. We create a hierarchy of things that compel us. Some people fight for Tibetan freedom, others for Cypriot rights from Turkish occupation. So we don’t have to grant equal time to different issues.
I inhabit the ecosystem of academia. The ecosystem of academia is not run by Right-wing craziness. The academic setting, media elite, and the Hollywood elite are all part of the Left-wing lunacy. So everyday I don’t face the threat of the KKK or Right-wing fascism but I do see the extraordinary harm that is caused by what takes place in universities. That reality is caused by Left-wing lunacy. Hence as a person with a functioning brain I don’t need to provide equal amounts of criticism — that doesn’t mean I’m condoning Right-wing craziness. When I see some Republican senator who comes out with a position that is anti-science and evolution denying, I will be the first to typically criticize that. It’s not as if I exist to pick on the Left and grant cover to the Right. The reality is, in my daily life, I see a lot more danger coming from the Left.
MM: You’re one of the most outspoken academics who speaks about Islam and “Social Justice Warriors”. Are your views rare in academia or do you think there are other academics who support your message but are afraid to voice it. What motivates you to be a part of this debate and speak out?
GS: Yes it’s rare. If we were to estimate the number of people who hold positions similar to mine, it would be higher than those who are actually speaking out — because they’re afraid of voicing their opinions. I get personal communiqués from academics where they say, “I support what you’re doing” or “I’m behind your message” but they’re not comfortable speaking out. But they’re scared to even “like” one of my Facebook posts because someone would see it and that would mean they’re supporting supposedly “fascist” ideas such as freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, rights for Jews, and rights for gays. Those are supposedly all very “controversial” topics that they don’t want people to know they support because those are all “fascist” opinions. People with a “progressive” mindset don’t possess the correct moral compass in navigating these issues; they fear being accused of being a “racist bigot” for supporting freedom of speech and more generally foundational liberal values. It is astounding.
There is some change underway. Heterodox Academy is a collective organized by Jonathan Haidt precisely to recognize the fact we need to provide greater political diversity and more generally a greater diversity of opinions in academia.
Why do I do what I do? I think it’s my personhood; my unique constellation of genes that make me very angry and offended by un-truths. I get genuinely angered at profound bullsh!t. I feel I must give my voice to contribute to the debate and if everybody had that bent, bad ideas would not have as much airtime.
I think the loftiest pursuit in life is that of truth and therefore I try to honor that ideal at every opportunity.
https://areomagazine.com/2017/01/23/gad-saad-on-hysteria-and-collective-munchausen-around-donald-trump-speaking-out-as-an-academic-and-evolutionary-psychology-101/
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Trump Campaign Uses Nazi Symbols To Identify Enemies. Facebook Finally Says ‘Enough!’
Facebook on Thursday said it removed campaign posts and advertisements from the Trump campaign featuring an upside down red triangle symbol once used by Nazis to identify political opponents.
The posts, according to a Facebook spokesperson, violated the social network’s policy against hate.
“Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol,” the spokesperson told NPR.
One of the political advertisements claimed that “dangerous MOBS of far-left groups are running through our streets and causing absolute mayhem.” The ad went on to say protesters are destroying America’s cities by rioting. “It’s absolute madness,” the ad stated.
Some prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were identified with colored inverted triangles sewn onto uniforms in order to allow SS guards to identify the alleged grounds for being detained, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Nazis used the red triangle to mark political prisoners and people who rescued Jews.
The Trump campaign responded by drawing a lighthearted comparison to the red triangle symbol: “This is an emoji.”
The campaign also falsely claimed that the symbol is used by Antifa groups and noted that it is not in the Anti-Defamation League Hate Symbols Database.
Edited From: “Facebook Removes Trump Political Ads With Nazi Symbol. Campaign Calls It An ‘Emoji’.
NPR, 6/16/20
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Professor Turley, and the Trumpers on these threads, love to play this game where they pretend liberal concerns about racism are totally overblown. Yet here the Trump campaign is engaged in yet another controversy regarding far-right sentiments.
So in your myopic us versus them worldview, anyone who disagrees with your views is a “Trumper”.
That’s what is known as binary thinking. Binary thinkers are incapable of critical thinking.
HA Ha, fake news. OR is it just a case of Smarts for us and NONE for THEE.
Delemarcer, we have never seen your name before. You just popped out of the blue to comment. Funny how that goes.
So,I will now demonstrate just how stupid you are. I have been on this blog for 6 or 7 years. And using the same name. Just because you are new here doesn’t mean anything to anybody here ‘cept urself.
Smarts for me, NONE for THEE
Delemarcer you’re a total liar. You are none other than Crazed Idiot.
So, now it is you who knows the truth? WOW, what a waste of carbon.
You are another stupid a**ho that has infiltrated this site.
I thought I was crazed idiot. Make up your mind. Or am I Estovir?
Again the poster who has posted under the greatest number of different aliases is complaining about a poster he never noticed before. Paint Chips do you think we are unaware of all your aliases including your other name of the day that has been posting for awhile? We let you do that type of thing without much mention because most aleady know you are crazy and TDS has eaten away most of your brain.
Rhodes, this part of your comment stands out:
“incapable of critical thinking”.
Rhodes, I’ve got to tell you, Trumpers on this blog use this cliche about 18 times per day in response to liberals.
It would seem that an element of critical thinking might be an ability to craft original criticisms.
Actually, it should be 81 times a day.
“they pretend liberal concerns about racism are totally overblown”
LOL I’m not pretending. I’m stating it unequivocally. Concerns about “racism” are absurdly overblown.
But if you are one of the moon-bats who has created your own self-serving definition of “racism”, in which a “racist” is a white, fire-breathing, white, genocidal lunatic…did I mention that he must be white??…who wants to exterminate any non-white members of the human race…then I understand your misplaced concerns.
Personally, in my 60+ years, I’ve never encountered a single person like that, so perhaps that why I’m amused at such fantasies. And perhaps you have close friends and family members who fit this description, and therefore you consider your concerns valid, because to you, it’s your reality…
Whether you like it or not, a swastika is a harmless symbol. It can represent different things to different people, but the symbol itself cannot hurt you. It is harmless. The fact that to some it is “offensive” is irrelevant.
Being offended is just another way of saying you got your feelings hurt.
The best cure is to grow up and be an adult.
Syracuse University celebrates its 150th Anniversary this year. In yesterday’s mail I received a request from the university to join the “1870 Society” by making a gift to ensure that in future years students at SU will continue to get a “personalized and academically rigorous experience [that] they can only get from Syracuse University. How ironic that I should receive this request just as I had been pondering what I believe to be an “institutional bias” in the media. I had come to the conclusion that the bias that we experience on a daily basis, especially in broadcast journalism, likely begins at the university level. Now, having learned about this unfortunate episode at SU, I believe that I am on the right track. I simply do not believe that an “academically rigorous experience” is possible in the absence of the “intellectual discourse” that Professor Turley mentions.
Syracuse University educates would-be journalists at its S.I. Newhouse School of Communications, one of the top-rated journalism programs in the US. The Newhouse School offers students numerous on campus opportunities to gain experience in their chosen field of study, including, among others, radio stations, television studios, and The Daily Orange, an independent student-run newspaper. Based on the facts as I understand them, I believe that the termination of Ms. San Marco from the staff of The Daily Orange is outrageous. I have three degrees from Syracuse University (BA, MA and JD). I will be writing a letter to Chancellor Syverud to express my dismay, and I hope that other alumni will do that as well.
Cassidy – I have already made sure my alma mater, ASU, gets nothing, nada, zip. They have crossed the line too many times for me to even consider it.
The quality of their thinking is poor and they themselves have little resistance to crowd culture. The young during the last 60 years have seldom been impressive. Today’s young are particularly distasteful and clownish. What’s puzzling is that their parents are people who voted Republican as youths (more often than not).
not all the youth are pathetic nutjobs. my young adult children are doing great
but they fully understand we are in a “RED GUARD” phase of history and so they are enjoined from speaking up, and running out front to “lead” and thereby consigning themselves to lower social outcomes once identified as dissenters from the corporate agenda
the big fault is less the youth than the “baby boomer” who now lead the incompetent Republican party infrastructure, if you can call it that, who failed to build a strong and popular Republican party at all levels, to genuinely care for the declining middle class, and always played the role of happily rich but publicly sorry losers to the aggressive and ever more well organized Democrat rackets
they had a chance with Don Trump’s leadership to get it right at the last minute, but so far, it’s not looking good, with the likes of John Bolton running lies out of his mouth, and where are his former rich Republican patrons to tell him to STFU?
Right now the country club silkstocking Republicans need a punch in the face from the red hat maga people, that’s my thought for the day. For being incompetents and selfish retards ever since they threw Nixon overboard.
In a narrowly demographic sense, the term ‘baby boom’ shouldn’t apply to people born at a time when the size of birth cohorts was declining. That would be anyone born after 1957. That aside, there probably are some between group differences comparing similarly situated people confronting certain phenomenon at different ages. Mitch McConnell might quality as a baby boomer, but that’s hardly what’s problematic about him. The others in the caucus leadership are drawn from younger cohorts. So have been the last three Republican national chairmen. So are the majority of Republican governors. The people who skew old are the congressional committee chairs and ranking minority members, several of whom are over 80.
What actually gets you about the Republican leadership is not their vintage. It’s how unremarkable their lives have been apart from electoral politics. John Boehner, Richard Armey, Newt Gingrich, Bill Frist, and Howard Baker had business and professional careers such that putting them aside could be seen as a sacrifice. Collectively, their time in the caucus leadership accounts for 20% of the total man-years in those positions over the last five decades.
Trump is not a leader,
Cripes.
PS The country club GOP got just what they wanted from Trump – another tax cuts that the MAGA dummies will be paying for for a decade. They got nothing that will last longer than the gallon of milk I just picked up..
Bad environments while young affect gene expression:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-adolescents-disadvantaged-neighborhoods-gene-differences.html
Study done in England and Wales so so-called race is not a factor.
David, please challenge yourself to stay on-topic.
I suspect drugs, obesity, alcoholism, and the like are also factors.
OH WOW!!! I have said for a whole that a lot of the Democratic Left has Munchausens Syndrome by Proxy and they need victims to feed their mental illness! This guy, a psychologist, agrees!
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Any candidate you bring before me, I would have agreements and disagreements with.
The problem arises when you have a discourse fully detached from reality. It’s beyond satirical and grotesque in how much stupidity is exhibited. A typical comment on my social feed might state something to the following effect, “I’m a woman of color,” she’s attending some school in Maine and she’s saying, “I’m afraid. Can I still go to class?” Just work it through. What’s going to happen when Trump becomes president? He sets up roadblocks on every street corner whereby he whisks away all people of color to the designated gang-rape centers? What could explain that hysteria? The only thing that explains it is a departure from reality — and hence collective Munchausen syndrome.
Everyone who is suffering from collective Munchausen and mass hysteria are obviously of a particular political bent — the ultra-Left (who typically belong to the Democratic party). And these people have built their whole ethos, edifice, zeitgeist on Identity Politics. Identity Politics leads to victimology poker and the oppression olympics. These groups just end up competing to see who is more oppressed because it is the mechanism through which they attempt to solve problems. If you and I are having a genuine debate, I would present my evidence and you yours. The better evidence would win out.
That’s not what happens in an Identity Politics debate. My victimology card has to trump yours! (Laughter) therefore people have to come up with ever stronger cards and hands and end up falling into victim mindsets. This leads to people thinking absurd lines of thought like — and I’m being satirical here — : “How will I go to the store and feel safe buying tomatoes once Trump is in office?” or “What will happen to my children? Will Trump cause us to cannibalize our children?” “Will sex still be permitted?” When you’re getting into that kind of delusional discourse it seems extraordinary that this is viewed as reasonable discourse. These are professors, these are colleagues of mine who feel perfectly comfortable departing from reality in this way.
Hate Trump as much as you want. Hate specific policies by him but don’t engage in this grotesque discourse. Especially because it trivializes actual lived trauma. As somebody who escaped Lebanon and actually hid under desks to avoid death squads, I don’t take well to these idiots from Wellesley College who say, “I’m scared to go and buy my hamburgers now that Trump won,” because it trivializes what true trauma is.
https://areomagazine.com/2017/01/23/gad-saad-on-hysteria-and-collective-munchausen-around-donald-trump-speaking-out-as-an-academic-and-evolutionary-psychology-101/
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeaky, your article is from January of 2017 (when Trump first took office). How is it relevant now?
The truth is that Trump has been an even scarier president than most liberals ever dreaded.
It is relevant because the panic is still going on, and the identity politics. I have long been searching for an adequate psychological reason why the Democrat Left is basically just cray-cray. Evan Sayet in his book, Kindergarden of Eden, explained the process of the demented thinking, but not its psychological roots.
I have always thought there was some common psychological thread between todays Democrats (the non-cynical ones) and the Millerites, the W.C.T.U., the fervid Nazis, Daniel M’Naghten and the people who burned heretics at the stake. Something that goes beyond mere delusions.
Cognitive dissonance and Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy come close, but I think there is still something else. Maybe it is just sort of an animal response where a doggy wants a pat on the head. I am still searching for:
What is it that makes otherwise sane people believe insane and obviously false things?
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
SW,who the hell are you to determine what is and is not relevant? You have already shown your colors, and those colors are bigotry, racism, stupidity, fake news, social upheaval, getting everything for free like collage, housing, car, food, and everything else from using OPM. Your a fraud.
“SW,who the hell are you to determine what is and is not relevant?”
That is similar to what Professor Turley asked him awhile back.
Here is a Canadian with a great take on cancel culture. Particularly at about 3:50 into. He is Jewish, and he calls them fascists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lme_XVCsFHs&app=desktop
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Wow, awesome vid Squeeky! How ironic that a non-American knows and understands the concept of freedom so much better than millions of Americans.
“(Daily Orange editor-in-chief Casey) Darnell insisted “[w]e aren’t afraid of controversial views, but we have a responsibility to avoid promoting harmful ones.”
For me, this is the key sentence in the entire column, and it clearly illustrates the snowflake culture that we exist in.
Apparently, anything that may potentially and arbitrarily hurt someone’s feelings is now considered “harmful”. How pathetic.
The founders of this great nation, having sacrificed life and limb for the right to freedom of opinion and the corresponding freedom to voice that opinion, would roll over in their graves.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article San Marco referred to published a significant correction of its findings:
Note that the correction was published back in April 13th.
“published a significant correction of its findings”
If this is correct, and might ultimately serve to weaken San Marco’s argument, then it could have been used by those who disagree as a solid counter-argument.
But that’s the whole point here…whether she’s right or wrong, rather than actually debating her, and making their case…they just fired her.
San Marco did an interview with FOX:
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In an email interview with Fox News’ Media Angle, San Marco told her side of the story, explained why she feels The Daily Orange limits diversity of thought, and said cancel culture has become a “central pillar of social media.”
MEDIA ANGLE: Walk us through what happened with you and The Daily Orange when your column on institutional racism was published.
Adrianna San Marco: The opinion piece I wrote for LifeZette titled, “Why Institutional Racism is a Myth,” garnered a lot of attention early on. My peers began calling me horrible names and threatening me the day after it was published and within two days of the story being released I received an email from The Daily Orange terminating me. The editor in chief felt my writing included “racist undertones” and instead of engaging with a differing political opinion decided it was best to fire me.
MA: What kind of feedback have you received on the piece, aside from The Daily Orange terminating you over it?
San Marco: Since the story was published I have received an overwhelming response. I am grateful to have people who have supported me and come to my defense. I have been sent private messages that thank me for voicing my opinion and reporting the truth. Unfortunately, I have also been faced with a large amount of threatening and hateful messages. My peers and professors have celebrated me being fired with some calling for my expulsion. Most disturbingly, I have received countless physical threats to attack me once I am back on campus. I don’t foresee the upcoming semester being easy but I am hopeful no physical harm comes to me.
MA: Looking back, would you have done anything differently?
San Marco: After the piece was published and the hateful messages started pouring in, I did more research into institutional racism. Additionally, I read studies attempting to disprove my arguments that were sent to me by my peers and professors at Syracuse University. Now more than ever I feel confident in my views and research. There is nothing I would have done differently. I stand by my analysis.
MA: You said this wasn’t the first time a conservative voice was censored at Syracuse University. What are other examples?
San Marco: There have been conservative organizations as well as individual students that face discrimination at Syracuse University. SU’s chapter of College Republicans sought to bring Ben Shapiro to campus this fall as a speaker but received a formal condemnation from the Student Association who called Shapiro a “white supremacist.”
Additionally, one of my peers, Justine Murray, attempted to start a chapter of Young Americans for Freedom at SU and was denied. The university argued that YAF’s support of the constitution is “exclusionary to international students.” It was not until the administration was pressured by media that the chapter was recognized. Additionally, Justine faced countless personal challenges for being a conservative student at SU. She has been physically intimidated by protesters on campus while reporting and even professors have harassed and targeted her for her reporting.
Censorship at Syracuse University is not uncommon. In fact, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranks SU as one of the top ten worst colleges for free speech.
MA: Is The Daily Orange limiting diversity of thought in general, or was it just this particular column that bothered them?
San Marco: The Daily Orange is guilty of limiting dissent. When I was introduced to the editorial editor I was quickly asked to confirm that I didn’t hold any “extreme” Republican views. He then cited other students he would refuse a platform to because of their opinions. This conversation is concerning considering there are only two conservative columnists at The Daily Orange. I question how many other columnists were privately fired or had applications rejected because of their political views.
MA: Do you feel there is a “cancel culture” in America, and if so, what should be done about it?
San Marco: There is absolutely is a cancel culture, in fact it has become a central pillar of social media. If your views don’t align with the progressive left they attempt to silence your voice. Several conservative speakers… have been “canceled” because they dare to defy the narrative written by the left. The solution for this could come from two sources, one being far more likely than the other. Either Twitter users mature overnight and stop the childish “cancel party” hashtags or those with power can stop listening. I doubt the mob will stop tweeting any time soon so the best solution is to ignore them. Media outlets shouldn’t be dictated by twitter hashtags nor should politicians. Cancel culture is only powerful if we give in to their ignorance.
Syracuse University did not respond to a request for comment.
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Thanks. Good interview. Federal funds should be stopped for Stalinist organizations such as this. I suppose they will still be funded by China, though.
Thanks for sharing that, Squeeky. Good to see someone so courageous to stand firm in the face of the bullies.
Thanks Young and FFS!!! I am glad you liked it!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky– Welcome back! Thank you for posting that interview. On the positive side, it is good to know there are young women and men in our universities who have not lost their capacity for free and independent thought and have the courage to speak the truth as they see it. Unfortunately, I was accused earlier of using hyperbole by comparing the massive propaganda efforts of today with Goebbels’ work in Germany. It seems to me that this young woman’s experience at Syracuse helps prove my point. Goebbels eliminated all opposing points of view so only his message could be heard. Is that not what the professors and students at Syracuse have tried to do?
Thank you! I am glad to be back. I think it was something messed up with my wordpress acct.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Sir, it is exactly what Goebbels did. It is far easier to sell a bad product when contrary information is not presented. I am curious what the next excuse for black failure will be when the Confederate monuments are gone. Nothing is going to change in the black community until blacks themselves begin behaving more responsibly. Integrated schools have not worked to any great degree. Busing failed. Voting rights failed. Free housing and welfare failed. Black Pride month failed. Affirmative action failed. In spite of all these failures, those blacks who married before having children, and finished school, seem to do all right. The answer for the other 75% should be obvious.
John Mosby– I heard something the other day that I think is very significant in a sociological way but I just can’t put my finger on why. Maybe you can. This person said that blacks are the only race or ethnic group in the US that riots when one of their criminals are killed by the police. I’ve thought about that statement a lot and I think he’s right. Whites have a history of rioting in this country but not over the police shooting of a convicted felon. I can’t recall widespread rioting by any other race or ethnic group when police shoot and kill one of their criminals. Why are blacks the only ones and why do they do it? I think the answer to that question might shed some light on a lot of things.
Honest, perhaps you missed this (Underwood is black, the accused both white):
“An Air Force sergeant linked to an anti-government movement was charged with murder and attempted murder on Tuesday in the shooting death of a federal security officer outside a courthouse in Oakland, Calif., last month.
The sergeant had expressed his allegiance to the so-called boogaloo movement by writing with his own blood on the hood of a white Toyota Camry and had used the recent protests against racial injustice as a cover to attack law enforcement, according to the F.B.I.
Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, is accused of firing an assault rifle from the open back door of a moving vehicle and gunning down the federal officer, according to the criminal complaint.
The driver of the van, Robert Alvin Justus Jr., 30, who had met Sergeant Carrillo on Facebook, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, the officer killed in the shooting, the complaint said. Both men were also charged with the attempted murder of a second officer who was gravely wounded….”
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Why are you fixated on a supposed black problem when the political killing is almost all by whites?
I don’t know what the killing of the federal officer had to do with my question. Can you answer it? And I didn’t call it a “black problem.” I simply want to know why blacks riot when one of their convicted felons is shot by the police and other races and ethnic groups don’t.
Honest, no, you did not call it a black problem but that was clearly your implication, as it is for most of the regular posters here on race. When it comes to the killings however, why are they almost always right wing white supremacists? We’ve been hearing about horrible Antifa now for weeks – I don’t like them either – and BLM, but they haven’t killed anybody.
“and BLM, but they haven’t killed anybody.”
“Black Lives Matter was formed in 2013 by three self-styled “Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries,” who selected as their movement icon convicted cop-killer and Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur.[4] Shakur had fled to Cuba after being convicted”
” Black Lives Matter activist speaking to a CNN reporter shouted: “The less white babies on this planet, the less of you we got! I hope they kill all the white babies! Kill ’em all right now! Kill ’em! Kill your grandkids! Kill yourself! Coffin, bitch! Go lay in a coffin! Kill yourself!””
“the other was the justifiable killing of a career criminal who was reaching for the officer’s gun. But like the lynch mobs they despised, Black Live Matters protesters were not interested in seeking remedies through the law.”
BLM is an organization. The organization doesn’t kill. It’s followers do.
I am not certain, but five possibilities come to mind:
1. Criminal sympathy – IIRC I read that half of blacks have a criminal record;
2. An excuse to loot;
3. They are egged on by the Main Stream Media;
4. That is the only place they can find where white people hurt black people; and
5. Cultural inertia.
John, why then over this nationwide, multi-week protesting was the only killing – not counting by white cops – by 2 white supremacists of black man?
You see the problem?
No.
No problem? SOP – white supremacists kill Jews and black and Mexicans like in El Paso and Pittsburgh and now Oakland?
And you worry about BLM and Antifa?
Anon – I worry about Antifa and the BLM because they follow the playbook of the Cultural Revolution.
The Sharfton’s have taken over too much of the leadership in the black community. That type of individual filled the vacuum that existed. The left and the Sharfton’s then worked together and our political leaders became afraid of their power. Overt racism at the time and earlier didn’t help things. Nor did the policies of the political elite.
Mosby……they act like a doomed society. Always negative.
Why not say ” hey…..this country elected a black man TWICE with all of these monuments standing!! So how bad could they be?”