We previously discussed the disgraceful attack on former swimmer Riley Gaines who was reportedly assaulted when she tried to speak about her views on transgender issues at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Gaines had to be removed to a locked room for hours by police for her own protection. It is now clear why students believed that they had license to engage in such disruptions. SFSU has issued a statement that was conspicuous in its failure to condemn the mob or promise accountability for these actions.
The event was only the latest example of protesters “deplatforming” speakers with opposing views by shouting them down. The mob, however, was so unruly that police had to rush Gaines to safety.
One would think that this would be an easy call for any institution of higher education. Denying free expression and threatening those with opposing views is the very antithesis of core principles.
Instead, SFSU issued a statement that seemed to express sympathy for the protesters and those who were exposed to her views.
After beginning by expressing concern for the transgender community, the statement of Jamillah Moore, Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, repeatedly commends students for their protest and says “Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event. It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space.” At no point does SFSU express concern for Gaines or the students who arranged for the event. At no point does SFSU promise to hold students responsible for shouting down the speaker or endangering her.
Gaines has objected to the notion that the protest was peaceful.
At best, the statement shows a lack of courage to stand firm in the face of this mob. At worst, it is complicit in the incident by enabling such conduct.
It is reminiscent of events at schools like Northwestern. A Sociology 201 class by Professor Beth Redbird was supposed to examine “inequality in American society with an emphasis on race, class and gender.” To that end, Redbird invited both an undocumented person and a spokesperson for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is the type of balance that is now considered verboten on campuses.
Members of MEChA de Northwestern, Black Lives Matter NU, the Immigrant Justice Project, the Asian Pacific American Coalition, NU Queer Trans Intersex People of Color and Rainbow Alliance organized to stop other students from hearing from the ICE representative. However, they could not have succeeded without the help of Northwestern administrators (including Dean of Students Todd Adams). The protesters were screaming “F**k ICE” outside of the hall. Adams and the other administrators then said that the protesters screaming profanities would be allowed into the class if they promised not to be disruptive.
Of course, that did not happen. As soon as the protesters were allowed into the classroom, they prevented the ICE representative from speaking. The ICE representatives eventually left and Redbird canceled the class to discuss the issue with the protesters that just prevented her students from hearing an opposing view.
SESP sophomore April Navarro publicly rejected that faculty should be allowed to invite such speakers to their classrooms for a “good, nice conversation with ICE.” She insisted such speakers needed to be silenced because they “terrorize communities” and profit from detainee labor:
“We’re not interested in having those types of conversations that would be like, ‘Oh, let’s listen to their side of it’ because that’s making them passive rule-followers rather than active proponents of violence. We’re not engaging in those kinds of things; it legitimizes ICE’s violence, it makes Northwestern complicit in this. There’s an unequal power balance that happens when you deal with state apparatuses.”
No students were ever punished. Similarly, in the outrageous shouting down of an appellate judge at Stanford Law School, the Dean voiced support for free speech but refused to sanction any of the students responsible for the disruption.
The message from these universities is clear: students will not be held accountable for the denial of free speech. That knowledge fuels the sense of license to bar opposing views.
The actions of the students will likely find equal support from many in the California legislature. However, it is the position of the university that will cause the most lasting damage.
Here is the statement:
Dear SF State community, Today, San Francisco State finds itself again at the center of a national discussion regarding freedom of speech and expression. Let me begin by saying clearly: the trans community is welcome and belongs at San Francisco State University. Further, our community fiercely believes in unity, connection, care and compassion, and we value different ideas, even when they are not our own. SF State is regularly noted as one of the most diverse campuses in the United States—this is what makes us Gators, and this is what makes us great. Diversity promotes critical discussions, new understandings and enriches the academic experience. But we may also find ourselves exposed to divergent views and even views we find personally abhorrent. These encounters have sometimes led to discord, anger, confrontation and fear. We must meet this moment and unite with a shared value of learning.
Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event. It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space. I am proud of the moments where we listened and asked insightful questions. I am also proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully. These issues do not go away, and these values are very much at our core.
This feels difficult because it is difficult. As you reflect, process, and begin to heal, please remember that there are people, resources and services available and ready to receive our Gator community, including faculty, staff members, coaches and mentors who are here to support you.
Campus resources are also available:
- Equity and Community Inclusion
- Counseling and Psychological Services
- Dean of Students Office
The well-being of the SF State campus community remains our priority.
Sincerely,
Jamillah Moore, Ed.D.
Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management
We know what child abuse is. We know what spousal abuse is. A more recent addition is, we know what elder abuse is. It’s time for a new kind of abuse to be recognized: speaker abuse.
It should be met by the government with the same type of punishment as child, spousal, and elder abuse. If anything it should be met with harsher punishment because its victims are not just the speakers, but those who wanted to hear what the speakers had to say. Society at large is also a victim because important issues can no longer be debated freely, without which civilization cannot survive, the proof of which is before our very eyes.
One thing that will come out of this – China will soon stop sending students to U. S. universities.
Negative —- they will be sending more to seal the Deal —- you have no comprehension of communist movements!
The SFSU is a communist cesspool—- this was to be expected —- SFSU has both American Maoists on their faculty AND Chicom professors! Like too many other colleges and universities across North America!
Sweden closed all the Confucius Institutes in that nation back in April of 2020 —- Trump could not even accomplish that and he was too terrified to pardon Abraham Bolden nor Julian Assange —- he will never drain the swamp as he’s to afraid to call the “swamp” the Deep State” —– America needs a champion, not a draft dodging Ted Nugent fan!!!!!
And where do you think such a hero would come from? Who would ever have the courage ?
Two equally qualified candidates compete for one job position. One is from SFSU. Who would the hiring manager choose?
How much of a problem is this candidate going to pose to the company, the manager asks himself. In his mind there are a few less neurons firing in the worry section of his brain about the non-SFSU candidate and without telling anyone as to why he then selects that candidate.
That is the slight but sufficient effect caused by these like-minded universities and their encouragement of violence and troublemaking.
This is beyond free speech – the conduct here is Criminal.
Gains was asualted. While the assult appears to be minor, it is still a crime.
It is still violence.
She was also forced into a space from which she could not safely leave where she was repeatedly threatened with violence.
That is kidnapping. A very serious crime.
These are all crimes of violence.
SFSU is more concerned about mythical crimes that real violent crimes.
This is deranged. These students are suffering from serious cognitive distortions.
We have Trans people murdering students at schools in Tennessee.
We have rioters disrupting the legistaure at the TN state capitol – the very same people who were arguing the J6 protests were an insurection. With few exceptions J6 protestors were peaceful and cooperative with law enforcement.
Those at TN were violent.
I support protests. I support those protests at the TN capitol. I beleive choices regarding children should be left to their parents in nearly all cases. Not Teachers, not government.
But the actions of the TN legislature – though I disagree with them – were not even close to a justification for violence.
At SFSU this was Violence. Gaines could have been a Nazi – this would not be justified.
There is no actual threat to minorities of any kind that justifies the violence of the left today.
Arguably there is little or no threat at all.
And the fact that those on the left do not see that is a huge problem.
The violence on the left is increasing – because they live in a dangerous world.
But that dangerous world – is in their head. It is not reality.
Well, duuuuuh!
While you’re at it, go back and enforce American immigration law which was never legally and constitutionally abrogated.
What the TN Guv and Congress shouls do is:
Ask for the DOJ and FBI to provide names and addresses of the protestors. (The FBI has these as demonstrated by J6).
Then, arrest the protestors at their homes at gunpoint, and imprison them for 1-2 years, ala J6, before trial.
Then. have kangaroo trials and convict and imprison them from 2-8 years, ala J6.
The precedent (J6) has already been set.
Asking the DOJ and FBI under their current leadership would be futile, as those institutions have become thoroughly corrupted and on the side of these very types of criminals. We’ll have to wait for a more honorable person than Biden to be POTUS, and those agencies will have to be rebuilt top down, bottom up, and inside out.
TN does not need FBI or DOJ.
The J6 protestors were tracked primarily using GeoFencing.
Tennesse law enforcement can subpeona apple and google for all cell phones that were inside the TN Capitol during the riot.
It can then subpeona the phone companies to get the names of the owners of those phones.
It can get warrants for the phones – collect video, and use security camera footage to identify those who were involved in the riot.
In my community a Black single mother who was leading a BLM protest that resulted in a dumpster being set on fire and windows at the police station being broken was charged tried and convicted of inciting a riot. She was sentenced to 5yrs.
Absolutely that was blowback for J6.
It was WRONG for my justice system to do that, just as it was wrong for DOJ and the DC courts.
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
We are at war —- THEY know it, many of us are slow to catch on . .
Sometimes the alarm doesn’t go off and you wake up late.
It’s clear that while we were asleep the commie coup elves have been very busy and quite successful at fomenting hatred, deception and seizing power within the government to the point that The United States is on the verge of Civil War. Yes, thinking people do not want to go through that door, but at this point that decision is probably out of everyone’s hands. At this point it looks like the country is being pushed through that door so the dissolution of The Constitutional Republic can get on to the next phase.
At this point, people probably need to think about choosing why they want to be on the other side of the door, who they want to be on the other side of the door with and which path they want to take once the door closes behind them. The goebbelist have done an excellent job of ginning up chaos. It’s a well crafted chaos making good into bad and bad into good and justifying any means necessary resulting in a socially engineered moral code based on single minded hatred. Hatred that values absolute power and absolute submission to that power and mandates the extermination of freedom, individuality, a moral code that respects the Rights of others and everything else the Constitution was created to be.
Everyday a new narrative is tossed into the mix, and a new card played. Racism, religious bigotry, inequality, poverty global warming, population control, environmental damage and of course “the children,” that blames the precepts set forth in the Constitution and The Rule of Law for all ills of the human condition and justifies reasons the Constitution should be “dismantled and abolished.” Everywhere revisionist accounts are being proselytized with ever growing urgency of sinister, terrifying scenarios and predictions of catastrophic consequences if The Constitution is left to stand as The Governing Document of The United States and not replaced by a single totalitarian government that rules with absolute single minded power to decide the destiny of its citizens. For the ones who embrace the absolute power doctrine, the sorting process has begun and the armbands are being handed out. The only thing left for most people who are used to living with freedom and are suddenly begining to realize they are being fundamentally transformed from a consenting People served by the state to silent property of the state, is to decide if they will take action to keep their Constitutional Rights and Constitutional Republic intact or sew on their new armband sit around and await their new, unknown fate.
Dawn, well said. You hit the nail on the head.
These are classic cult and mind control techniques used Soviet, Nazi, and CCP style. Destroy harmony, create chaos and danger, destroy institutions, belief systems, destroy the family, confuse and indoctrinate children and tear down functional government. When the victim is in a state of confusion and exhaustion, offer them a way back to a harmonious and safe lifestyle. Only, the new lifestyle of peace and harmony comes with a huge price tag–the victims personal freedom.
Totalitarianism is more dangerous than despotic communism, socialism or fascism because the victims are indoctrinated and brainwashed to accept the ideals of the movement. Whereas the other moments often die when their leader dies. The participants are on social intelligence level of the People’s Temple, Branch Davidian and Charlie Manson’s Family. Jim, David and Charlie would be proud! They cannot think. for themselves and do what they told and think the way they are told to think. This is why the zealots from this movement despise truth, debate and transparency. It threatens their narrative, their mission, their goals and objective.
These are the people who do not know how to build anything. They do not know how to create anything. They are set on a course for destroying what has taken centuries to build, cost sweat and tears, and in the case of many, their lives.
This has nothing to do with a person’s gender or their confusion of whether they are a boy or a girl. The world survived for thousands and thousands of year with little or not problem in this department. Then suddenly, “Eureka!” it has only been in the past 5 or 10 years this has become an issue? Horse Hockey! This has everything to do with menacing, radical social activism and it only one of the methods that have been coopted to attack the society. These are dangerous people who wake up in the morning thinking of new ways to destroy while the average person is having coffee and breakfast.
I re-read St Augustine’s City of God during Lent after having studied it in college. Along the way I nodded with astonishment how everything he described regarding the fall of the Roman Empire applies to the fall of the United States. Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of what has become of their budding nation. Clearly the Marxist Trans anarchists at SFSU, the Trans Nashville shooter and her enablers, Stanford Law students and their DEI apologists, Kamala Harris and Joseph Biden covering for the 2 Democrats who fomented an insurrection in the Tennessee legislature, et al, are the Visigoths that sacked Rome in 410 AD. St Augustine explains why.
For why in your calamities do you complain of Christianity, unless because you desire to enjoy your luxurious license unrestrained, and to lead an abandoned and profligate life without the interruption of any uneasiness or disaster? For certainly your desire for peace, and prosperity, and plenty is not prompted by any purpose of using these blessings honestly, that is to say, with moderation, sobriety, temperance, and piety; for your purpose rather is to run riot in an endless variety of sottish pleasures, and thus to generate from your prosperity a moral pestilence which will prove a thousandfold more disastrous than the fiercest enemies.
Book I, Chapter 30
City of God
Saint Augustine
Estovir. I see that you are a student of history. I think you would find “Dominion” by Tom Holland very worthwhile. A happy ending is provided. The book is very appropriate on this Easter Sunday.
Thanks for the suggestion. Tom Holland recently shared a stage with Bishop Robert Barron on a topic that is largely canceled and hence “forbidden” and detested by post-modernists: Christianity, History, and the Modern Age.
“St Augustine’s City of God”
Published in 426 A.D.
I wonder what became of history *after* that, and *because* of that.
Estovir,
Good to see you back!
Hope you had a good Easter!
Jonathan: One important issue you did not cover this week was a new controversy involving Justice Clarence Thomas’ violation of judicial ethical conduct rules. Pro Publica came out this week with a long article about Harlan Crow, a GOP real estate investor billionaire and megadonor to the GOP and other conservative organizations. He has been secretly funding lavish vacations for Clarence and Ginni Thomas. Flights, yacht cruises and other lavish trips to exotic destinations–all paid for by Crow. This has been going on for decades. The Thomas’ say they accepted these in-kind gifts only because Crow and his wife are their “dearest friends”. Crow issued a statement saying he and his wife “have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue”. That’s hard to believe unless you also believe in the tooth fairy! What Crow didn’t mention is that when Ginni launched “Liberty Central”, a conservative advocacy org in 2009, Crow made an “anonymous” donation of $500,000 to the new group. Thomas received an annual salary of $120,000.
Clarence Thomas says he did not report the gifts from Crow because he consulted with his colleagues on the Court and they agreed he did not have to. It would interesting to know who Thomas consulted with. Was it just Justice Alito? Did Thomas consult with Justices Sotomayor or Kagan also? Did Thomas consult with Chief Justice Roberts who is spending a lot of time trying to restore the “integrity” and public faith in the Supreme Court over Thomas’ ethical conflicts? Unlikely.
Thomas’ continuing conflicts of interest are now being investigated by the Senate and the DOJ. That’s because Thomas ignores the ethical conduct rules applied to the rest of the judiciary. Thomas is a walking conflict of interest! He refuses to recuse himself in cases involving Jan. 6–even when his wife was a direct participant in trying to overturn the 2020 election. Thomas should be impeached but that is not going to happen since the GOP temporarily controls the House.
For some time you have complained that the DOJ refuses to open a criminal investigation into what you claim is the “vast corruption inside the Biden family”. But you ignore the very real ethical corruption by the longest serving Justice of the Supreme Court. Why is that?
Dennis McIntyre, why is it that you ignore Nancy Pelosi’s trips home to California on military aircraft. One would think that you would get tired of the taste of nothing burgers.
@Denis
Seems you just don’t bother to look for answers.
Thomas addressed the accusations.
So why don’t you go and do some research?
-G
You say there is a violation of ethical rules that the supreme court was subject to.
Then you do not identify those rules.
You say there is a conflict of interests – what is that conflict ?
Has Harlan had a case before the Supreme Court ?
Do you have evidence that Thmas discussed cases with Harlan ?
You say that Thomas did not discuss this with colleagues – do you have evidence for this ?
The basis of your argument is that Thomas is not free to take gifts from friends.
I am prepared to listen – if you have evidence that Thomas was bribed.
I am prepeared to listen if you have evidence that Harlan received favorable treatment from government at Thomas’s behest.
But that does not appear to be the case.
No one cares that the Biden’s received millions from China or elsewhere.
The concern is that the chinese, Russians etc. Got something in return – something from Joe Biden Vice president, not Joe Biden private actor.
Is that proven ? Nope. But there is reason to investigate.
As for Thomas – it should be trivial to investigate whether Harlan received government value from Thomas.
And u ignore the Sotomayer’s and Kagan’s of the world.
Why is that?
Dennis — Did you catch this SNL skit about a new CNN meditation app….for you and the rest of the TDS sufferers…
“Clarence Thomas’ violation of judicial ethical conduct rules.”
You weren’t paying attention. Those types of gifts were excluded from the list of gift giving that had to be reported. That you comment drawing conclusions before knowing what you are talking about, tells people you are not worthwhile listening to.
Politicians will not fix what’s broken. The only way this country’s problems will be fixed is that an event or series of events will force us to do what is right. When this happens just let events run their course.
Tucker Carlson is right: transgender activists, many of whom suffer from mental illness and are on mind-altering medication, comprise the most dangerous extremist group in the country today. And they are enabled by the Democrats and woke establishment.
Behind it all are the financial interests of the pharmaceutical companies and the practitioners of so-called affirmative care, which has infested the medical establishment, and the career interests of DEI bureaucrats, who have infested academia and corporate America.
The taxpayer-paid person to whom this nonsensical statement is attributed demonstrates that yet another institution of higher “education” or “learning” is a waste of taxpayer $$. When someone such as this does not recognize or acknowledge the difference between a “peaceful” whatever and a mob, there is little hope for providing students with a decent education.
At 1:28 PM today Dennis McIntyre gave us a diatribe about how our nation can never wash away the stain of discrimination. Dennis McIntyre doesn’t want you to know what the vote was to pass the 1964 civil rights bill. Lyndon Johnson took all the credit but he had more support from the Republicans than he had from the Democrats. From Wikipedia. Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%) Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%). Today Joe Biden says “Their going to put you all back in chains” when it was the Republicans who supported the end of discrimination more strongly than the Democrats. Oh Dennis, history once again rears it head to display that you are willfully and woefully misinformed.
@Think It Through…
The stain of discrimination?
Today they want ‘separate but equal’. Those who fought against racism in the 60’s must be rolling over in their graves because they fought against ‘separate but equal’.
-G
Why is discrimination a sin ? Discrimination is just another word for choice.
Slavery was a sin – committed by people long dead against people long dead.
No one living in the US today enslaved anyone.
No one living in the US today was enslaved.
As to discrimination – how are you harmed by the free choices of another ?
Are you entitled to have a cake baked by me ?
Are you entitled to a job from me ?
If I have done you actual harm. If I have taken from you something that is actually yours – then go to court,
you will win.
But if I have refused to give you something that is mine to give to whoever I please – that is my business not yours.
I do not personally discriminate on the basis of criteria such as race.
But I do discrtiminate all the time.
I have to. I rent apartments. I have 30 applicants for each available apartment.
I have to say no 29 times for some reason.
I often say no for almost stupid reasons – because I am not going to sit down with 30 different people to decide who should get an apartment.
My primary criteria:
Did you lie on your application ?
Have you committed a violent crime in the past 10 years ?
Do you owe the government money ?
Have you been evicted recently ?
After that ?
First come first served.
The first prosepect to come up with the security deposit and the first months rent gets the apartment.
Is that the best person ? Not likely. But every day an apartment is unrented I lose money.
I also hire people. Lost of applications for every job.
I can not interview them all.
After I have sorted out the clearly least qualiified.
Spelling errors, gramatical errors, all kinds of minor issues are used to get the list down to 3 people.
That is who i will interview.
Am I getting the best person for the job – certainly not.
But I do not have a lifetime to interview applicants.
And often I do not need the best person. I just need someone good enough now.
All of this is discrimination.
All of it is legal.
Variations are done by every single person who must select from many people for something.
It is life – get over it.
We’ve seen this kind of violence and shouting down throughout history. It is no different from what has occurred in the past. Some tell us that it’s no big deal but this no big deal has changed the course of history but not for the better. https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-peoples-republic-of-campus/. There should be no mistake. This is the direction that the left wants to take us in this nation.
Epic: Furious Dad Confronts School Board Over Teacher Grooming Students With Sex Game
by Jamie White
April 8th 2023, 10:42 am
School board superintendent had denied existence of ‘wheel of sex’ game but angry father brought receipts.
More… With a short video
https://www.infowars.com/posts/epic-furious-dad-confronts-school-board-over-teacher-playing-sex-game-with-students/
“If you build it, he will come.”
– Strange Whisper, Field of Dreams
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“If you demolish it, he will go.”
– Exhausted U.S. Taxpayers
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It is impossible to mix water and oil.
To facilitate the impossible mixture, emulsifiers must be introduced. In America, the emulsifiers required for the pseudo mixture of political water and oil are irrefutably illicit and unconstitutional including, but not limited to, matriculation affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, HHS, HUD, EPA, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Congress has the power to tax for and fund only debt, defense and general welfare*, and the power to regulate only money, commerce and land and naval Forces, while only the owner may “claim and exercise” dominion over private property, per Article 1, Section 8, and the 5th Amendment right to private property.
* General Welfare – All Well Proceed (not one, some, a few, a segment) – Roads, Water, Internet, Post Office, Sewer, Electricity, Rubbish Collection, Courts, Police, Fire, etc.
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“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Unsurprising. The college runs no risk in California for such actions. This is what untrammeled Leftism looks like.
How about the police in the Riley Gaines assault? The fact that they assaulter and kept her captive is a sickening indictment of the police on campus. Riley should sue the you know what off of the school since lawsuits seem to be the only way these fascists pay for their crimes. REMEMBER OBERLIN!
Jonathan: This is getting monotonous! Conservative students invite a speaker. He gets heckled and prevented from speaking. Protesting students are not disciplined or expelled by administration that supports their cause while giving lip service to “free speech”. We’ve heard this lament from you for some time. Scott Walker, the former GOP governor of Wisconsin put his finger on the problem: “Younger voters are the issue. It comes from years of radical indoctrination –on campuses, in school, with social media and throughout culture”.
Walker has no real solution to “radical indoctrination” of students over the years. So what makes you think you have the answer? I mean it starts in grade school when kids read books about gay and lesbian couples raising their kids. Then they later learn that slaves were forced to build the nation’s Capitol. Even worse, the students see pictures in the school room showing Black people hanging from trees during the “Jim Crow” period. And the pictures show a crowd of white people surrounding the tree–all smiling. Then the students learn that Black people in the South were denied the right to vote until the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Then, when the students move on to universities they are exposed to Critical Race Theory where a professor reads a news article about 2 Black legislators who were expelled from the Tennessee capitol because they joined with their constituents in demanding gun control legislation after the massacre of young kids at a Nashville school. The professor explains this is an example of how racism is still embedded in our political culture.
So from about grade three kids are fed with what conservatives, like you, call “radical leftist ideology”. You and Don Quixote are tilting at windmills if you think you can change the trajectory of social change. In 2020 Trump issued an EO that prevented federal agencies and contractors from teaching CRT. Biden revoked the EO as one of his first acts. In Florida Gov. DeSantis is fighting back. If HB999 is enacted the state’s colleges and universities will be prohibited from offering majors or minors in queer theory, CRT, feminist theory and social justice. Gov. DeSantis is trying to stop the contagion that is “infecting” students. You should hope and pray that DeSantis becomes the GOP presidential nominee next year. He will expand his “anti-woke” agenda nationwide. It is unlikely that agenda will appeal to voters around the country. But that is your only hope to prevent what is happening at SFSU.
Dennis McIntyre refuses to see any good thing about our nation that has happened. Allow me to illustrate. Anti discrimination laws have passed. Lynching is no longer happening. Affirmative action has being employed to level the playing field. White people of both parties voted to bring such changes to fruition. It’s obvious that white people were at time a more privileged group the same white people voted against their best interest to end discrimination. With Dennis McIntyre their will be no amount of penance great enough to meet his requirements. In history it has been very unusual for one group of people to voluntarily give up its position of power but the United States has proven to be the exception in thousands of years of history. For Dennis McIntyre nothing will suffice short of the guillotine.
Thinkitthrough: I just love to point out the fallacies in your arguments. Actually, some progress has been made. No more lynchings of Black people in the South. And Black people have the legal right to vote. But in many states, particularly in the South, that right has been gerrymandered away. And in Georgia, under their new voting law, ballot drop boxes have been removed in Black neighborhoods. Is that progress? I suppose it’s progress that restrictive racial covenants can no long be enforced. But Black people are still discriminated against in mortgage and home improvement loans. I have cited several cases of such discrimination in my recent comments. That’s not progress. And it took 97 years for the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, a Black couple, to get back the two properties stolen from them by the city of Manhattan Beach. I suppose that’s progress–but a little late in coming.
So progress never is a upward straight line. There are periods of progress and periods of reaction. We are now living in a period where those who control the levers of power are desperately trying to hold onto power. White men don’t like the fact that women have also moved into positions of power–even Black women. It’s ironic that DAs Alvin Bragg and and Fanni Willis down in Georgia are Black. Blacks in positions of power frighten White people.
To restrict the ability of women to succeed in their chosen professions Justice Alito gave men the Dobbs decision. That overturned an almost 50 yr precedent. That set back women’s rights for decades to come. Now in many states abortion has been banned along with the morning after pill. In some states, like mine, anyone who helps a woman or girl get an abortion in another state can be criminally prosecuted. This means that if one of my teenage daughters gets pregnant and I take her to California for an abortion I can end up in prison! Think about that! Is that good for the nation?
But there have been other areas of progress despite the setbacks. Trump tried to hold onto power through an insurrection. That happens a lot in South American countries like Argentina and Chile. In Chile in 1974 Gen. Pinochet accomplished his coup because he had the support of the military. Brazil’s Bolsonaro tried it there to overturn DaSilva’s election win with an insurrection. It failed–even with the aid of Trump. The Brazilian military refused to go along. Here, Trump also failed in his attempted coup. The Joint Chiefs also refused to go along. Their loyalty was to the Constitution. That’s progress.
What is exceptional in the current political climate is that a former president is under criminal indictment. Never happened in the entire history of this country. And the criminal cases against Trump are cascading. He also faces criminal charges of voter fraud and other possible RICO conspiracy crimes down in Georgia. Then there are the two DOJ criminal investigations by Special Counsel Jack Smith. This is progress because in our system of justice no person is above the law.
So you are dead wrong when you say I refuse to “see any good about our nation that has happened”. There will be real progress when Trump is held accountable for all his crimes! That will be good for our nation!
Dennis – you think Trump should held accountable for all his crime and I think you should be held accountable for helping your daughter to get and abortion. Seems fair to me.
” There will be real progress when Trump is held accountable for all his crimes! That will be good for our nation!”
Any thoughts about the current president’s corruption and how addressing his family crimes would be good for our nation?
Dennis has spoken, Turley. He’s bored with your unbridled defense of free speech principles. Just submit and prostrate yourself to the censorious, illiberal, intolerant mobs.
You truly have no idea what’s happening to this country. None.
That rumbling in the distance is the sound of millions swing of voters stampeding to vote Trump.
The protests, in 2020, at various universities, and in Tennessee, are most reminiscent of the ‘color revolutions’ which the CIA used to remove regimes from power abroad. You are seeing the same tactics used in the States, but the tactic can only work if the media are complicit and the politicians, police, and other people in authority go along with it.
“… now considered verboten on campuses.”
I enjoy the German language — Deutsch — as much as the next old timer born in the 1950s and raised on WWII movies. Plus, my grandparents on my dad’s side of the family were Germans — from Germany — and spoke fairly good English but for a few words that they apparently decided sounded better in German. But I also understand that when writing in one language, the proper course of action is to write EVERY word in that language UNLESS there is no word in that language that conveys the same meaning.
Thus, while reading something written in English one sometimes stumbles upon a German word such as “Weltschmerz” for which there is no English word that conveys the same meaning. And there are, of course, many German words that have been absorbed into the English language, such as “kindergarten.” But as far as “verboten” goes, there IS a corresponding common English word, and that word is “forbidden.” So in this instance, I cannot ascertain any reason for Turley to randomly employ Deutsch, as if breaking into an impression of Sgt Schultz in Stalag 17, and this oddity makes me wonder if maybe Turley ist heute krank.
I should probably also mention here that Turley is in rather illustrious company concerning this issue, because I have the same gripe about the writing of Henry Miller, and vivedly recall tossing either Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn in the trash after early in the book tripping over full sentences written in French for NO REASON that I could ascertain, when on a camping trip in New Hampshire once upon a time, and not having any ready means of translating the STUPID book while TRYING to read it.
That’s not to say that there aren’t differences between Henry Miller and Turley, as I expect only one of them got the chance to nail Marilyn Monroe, and for all I know getting that opportunity had a way of causing an Engilsh writer to spontaneously break into writing in a foreign language for no particular reason.
Of course, if this weren’t the most boring Easter EVER, I probably wouldn’t have mentioned any of this. Fröhliche Ostern an alle!
* Arthur MIller. I get the two names confused because I hate them both.