“Engaging in Personalities”: Rep. Summer Lee’s Curious View of Free Speech

Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.) has long been a voice for censorship, attacking those who seek to restore free speech on social media. Lee’s curious view of free speech was on display this week when she attacked witnesses, including Riley Gaines, as hateful and transphobic but then tried to censor Gaines when she responded to Lee’s attack as misogynistic. Lee withdrew the demand to take down the comments, though it captured the essence of how many on the left insist that they have a right to attack others but seek to censor those same individuals when they respond in kind.

In the hearing on transgender students competing in sports, Rep. Lee launched into attacks of the witnesses: “Madam Chair, I ask that while we sit through this hearing and the hateful misinformation I’m sure is coming our way, let us not forget the children at the core of this issue.”

Gaines, who achieved fame as a college athlete after racing against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, responded to the attack. She testified:

“Of course, there is a place for everyone, regardless of gender identity, regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of race or what sports you play. There’s a place for everyone to play sports in this country. But unsafe, unfair and discriminatory practices towards women must stop. Inclusion cannot be prioritized over safety and fairness, and ranking member Lee, if my testimony makes me transphobic then I believe your opening monologue makes you a misogynist.”

Lee then pounced and demanded that Gaines’ remarks be struck for “engaging in personalities” rather than the substance of the debate: “I move to have the gentlewoman’s words taken down.”

What followed was hurried consultation and presumably a few explanations for Lee on why witnesses are allowed to respond to such attacks by a member. Lee then withdrew her demand.

Rule XVII, clause 1(b) prohibits Members from engaging in “personalities.” That is a rule cited to the Speaker or chair to bar personal attacks from other members that are deemed unparliamentary. There is no definition of what words are considered to be violative of the rule.

However, Lee was attempting to use this against a witness who was defending herself against her own personal attack. It is a dangerous extension. Members of Congress generally are protected under the “speech or debate” clause in Article I, Section 6, of the Constitution. The privilege protects legislative proceedings and generally does not apply to news releases, speeches and other public comments. This was the holding in Hutchinson v. Proxmire, when Sen. Proxmire was found to be acting outside of the clause in making media comments regarding his golden fleece award.

Members often knowingly make defamatory comments in congressional debates, but then decline to repeat those same words in public to avoid any legal accountability. I faced that tactic in representing Dr. Eric Foretich in the Elizabeth Morgan controversy. Members would make false and defamatory claims about my client on the floor, but would carefully avoid repeating those claims in interviews. My challenge to the Elizabeth Morgan Act took years before it was struck down as an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder.  However, we could not bring a defamation action due to members using the Speech and Debate Clause as a shield.

That would create a nightmarish combination if members are protected from actions in defaming witnesses but then can censor them when they defend themselves.

The fact that Lee’s immediate response was to censor a person who she had just attacked is telling. After labeling Gaines a hateful bigot, Lee did not believe that she should be allowed to denounce Lee’s own comments as an attack on women.

It shows the slippery slope of censorship. Democrats have embraced an anti-free speech agenda to silence opposing viewpoints. That desire becomes insatiable even as citizens seek to rebut personal attacks from members in a congressional hearing.

297 thoughts on ““Engaging in Personalities”: Rep. Summer Lee’s Curious View of Free Speech”

  1. Turley, have you read the comments from the Trump cult that you feed? Maybe you should, only then would you understand “the age of rage”

    1. The “age of taking the shaft with a smile” is over sweetheart, understand that?

    2. Typical coward. push and push and push and when the push back comes, you cry like a baby.

      PS: You knew this would happen, that is the point of all your antics. You’d better hope there are enough stupid, anti-depressant addled white suburbanites to get your votes or overlook your cheating, again. Because when the truth surfaces, and it will, there should be hell to pay – better gather your coins and hide now, baby.

      1. What an embarrassing Clown voters in Texas elected to send to the congress in the form of Ms. Lee. There had to be someone more intelligent than that lady.

    3. Too many American residents have no idea what it means to be a Civil Libertarian. All people who considered themselves honest intellectuals were Civil Libertarians. Now we have many Fish Wings who have only ever known, “My side, right or wrong”. That is why we may not be able to preserve the republic. They would pee in a Ming vase.

  2. “they stand a good chance of winning back the house and retaining the senate.”

    Svelass, with another demonstrably false statement that proves how out of touch with reality she is.

    Even if they won all three states that are a remote possibility, it would still be a 50/50 split, with Trumps VP holding the deciding vote.

    Or was Trump going to select a Democrat running mate in your wet dream???

  3. So Riley doesn’t want to see a man’s swingin dick in a girls locker room and that makes her transphobic. My suggestion is that we send a couple of guys with their swinging dicks into the women’s bathroom in the Capitol building and see how she likes it. Of coarse we should send in white guys into her bathroom so she can claim racism. Where is the Me Too Movement. Crickets because the Me Too Movement doesn’t want to do anything to hurt Biden’s chance at reelection. If a few girls need to be sacrificed for the cause so be it.

  4. Rep. Lee is way ahead of Trump when it comes to acting like a dictator. In fact, Rep. Lee can attack witnesses better than Trump can. File this under Nappy Headed Ho’s.

  5. I’d like to put it on the record, first thing this morning, that:

    The green anonymous poster, known as Elvis Bug (that is, when he isn’t denying his comments like a little kunt), is a booger eating pedophile with a strong affinity for licking little boys scrotums. He has daily (sometimes hourly) paranoid delusions that everyone posting on this site is the same person. He sits in his mom’s basement, in his pajamas, laughing out loud about the steaming piles of sh!t that he litters the comment section with every day. He’ll be along shortly to drop the turd “no, he isn’t”.

    Carry on

    PS…Dennis McInlyre is also a little kunt.

    1. REGARDING ABOVE:

      This Green Anonymous, who loves to shock us with filthy imagery, is undoubtedly Estovir. Therefore his denials of being the puppet master should be weighed with heavy skepticism.

      The truth is that Estovir is an obnoxious, online bully who is probably stuck in a wheelchair with no life outside this blog. So he is lashing out, like a cornered rat, because he fears his chokehold on this blog is threatened.

      1. I don’t see where I denied anything, Elvis the paranoid delusional, booger eating, kunt.

        There’s Estovir, up in my head
        Jimmy, Tommy under my bed
        You see I’m not going crazy, I’m just a bit sad
        Cuz there a man in me, gnawing me, tearing me, into two

        Why the new screen name? Finally saw the irony of the “green anonymous”?

        1. Clearly tommy estovir is melting down due to getting called out for working this blog like he’s on a Russian troll farm. At this point it’s not worth commenting on anything here due to the heckling. I mean, it’s like he’s having a tourettes episode, or rather multiple episodes all day long.

          Bug

          1. “At this point it’s not worth commenting on anything here due to the heckling”

            Exactly.

            You engaged in this exact same behavior for weeks. Now you’re whining about it like the booger eating little kunt that you are.

            You were banned from this website because of your spastic behavior, and got yourself a little VPN, so you could sidestep the ban and deposit your little steaming piles of sh!t every day. Darren would clean them up, and you’d be back for more. You’d avoid signing your name often times, so it would be harder for Darren to figure out which “green anonymous” you were and weed out your illicit comments.

            You were never a serious member of this community, only an active boil on it’s ass. Bug off.

            1. No. I wrote my comments to Turley and only responded with creative adjectives when attacked by magats…

              And if you don’t like the term magats, that’s because of your own judgements about it…, it stands for ‘make America great again trumpers’. Granted ‘cockriders’ may be a bit questionable I will admit that…, but commenters from the left get slammed with vile responses here, sometimes it’s good to come back at you guys with some of your own medicine…

              What’s awesome is how far up in your head I’ve gotten. You’ve become this hysterical troll, and it’s fun to see you degenerate…., you don’t know how to respond without taking it back to junior high. See, when I swear I do it jokingly. You’re not joking.

              In your last rant, I have to say the thought crossed my mind you might actually be Darren. That would be wildly funny.

              Anyway…, Onward toward your next debacle.

              1. I came to this website some time ago with no preconceptions. I engaged many people. I found the following.

                Dennis is a narcissistic jacka$$ who doesn’t really want to have a discussion, he just wants to drop his steaming pile of dung and move on, then do it all over again the next day. It became clear to me why over time, as I watched him flail and flounder when the discussion got deeper than his copied and pasted talking points. No big deal, that’s his prerogative to entertain himself. Truly mental masturbation.

                Gigi is a pathological liar, and when called out on it, and proven to be, she blames it on her sources and disavows knowledge of it. She used to be a regular visitor, but I stayed on her a$$ until she finally got the message apparently.

                Svelaz…not the worst, but definitely not too bright, so its sometimes hard to have a discussion. Gets his facts wrong a lot more than average. Runs and hides when the ice starts to tilt away from him. Cries “reading comprehension” when asked to his explain his indefensible remarks.
                Typical lefty, so ya get what ya get.

                ATS…learned, but a pompous a$$ of the highest order. When he’s losing a debate, it always becomes how “you’re not smart enough to comprehend what I’m saying”. Has never retracted his infamous “evidence has to be incontrovertible to be admissible in court”, yet wants to be taken seriously on legal matters.

                Larry, Fishwings, Sammy and the retarded Bob —provocateurs with nothing worthwhile to add to the discussion. Just swoop in, lay their steaming pile, and swoop out. Not useful but not harmful either.

                And then there was YOU. Something else altogether. You stood out like a, well, like a boil on an a$$. Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable to ANYONE who disagreed with you. I saw it long before I ever engaged you the first time. YOU are the one who is almost solely responsible for this site turning to sh!t. There were some really good discussions going on for several weeks, yet you were always there, interjecting your “heckling” and other nonsense where it didn’t belong. Some days I would come in and you would have already started your childish ways on a topic I hadn’t even weighed in on yet. Then I realized you weren’t even supposed to be here. Now you want a pass or to play the victim. Meanwhile you continue to promote yourself to some level of importance that quite simply isn’t there. I don’t give a sh!t about your name calling, like magat, except to show that I can be just as childish and immature as you can. You started it and drove it to the fevered pitch, and now you want to bow out. Fine. I can play nice. We’ll see if you can. While you’re at it, knock it off with the random “no, it isn’t” and the “Estovir is so and so” horsesh!t as well. Or this will continue.

                Tom

                1. Tell yourself whatever you need to, tommy. Glad I’ve been able to get up in your head. You’re actually quite easy. Party on.

                  1. “And for what it’s worth, the “no it isn’t” person isn’t me.”

                    I’ll take our word for it but don’t forget
                    You also denied being the one claiming over and over again that many commenters were the same person, obnoxiously interjecting it into other’s conversations time and again. You denied it more than once.

                    1. That person isn’t me either. I’ve only associated you with estovir in the last couple days since you’ve become so obnoxious and paranoid. Seemed like it made sense.

          1. ooooh, vile…like the phrase “magat cockriders” eh?

            What a little schizophrenic kunt.

        2. The parasite Brandrunner is Peter Shill (Hill). Hanging around WeHo toilets too long makes one paranoid.

  6. Jonathan: Speaking of “deplorables” DJT was on Fox town hall on Tuesday with Sean Hannity. It was the typical soft ball Qs from the Fox host. But Hannity did ask DJT whether he would become a “dictator” if re-elected. DJT couldn’t help himself–he let the cat of the bag.: “…only on day one. I want to close the borders and I want to drill, drill, drill. Other than that, I am not a dictator”.

    I am not sanguine that it would be “only on day one”. Have you read “2025, Mandate for Leadership, the Conservative Promise”? It’s written by 400 “scholars” and supporters of DJT who set out what a second term would look like. The “Policy Agenda” states bluntly: “Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct [i.e., destroy] the Administrative State”. A second DJT administration would purge many independent government agencies and make them subservient to the WH. The DOJ would be weaponized to shut down all the criminal prosecutions of the former president. DJT wants to “root out” his opponents who “live like vermin”.

    Kash Patel, a former Defense Dept. official under Trump and a possible acting AG in a second administration, was on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and promised: “We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media…We’re going to come after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly”. No one will in the media who might oppose DJT’s policies will be safe.

    DJT is taking a page from Hitler’s playbook when he took power in the 1930s. The Nazi regime purged the German government, academia and the press that opposed Hitler’s rule. Newspapers were shut down that did not support the Nazi agenda. As a “free speech” purist DJT’s plan to attack and prosecute the media should concern you. Apparently not.

    1. Jonathan: Speaking of “deplorables” as a scared little kunt, DJT was on Fox town hall on Tuesday with Sean Hannity.

      Fixed that for you, pedophile.

    2. Obama stuffed the Senior Executive Service with thousands of his marxist communist operatives, used the Executive law enforcement branches including the IRS to go after his political opponents, and when Trump won the 2016 election, the people your critters installed were already a tyranny, and have carried on, and carried their corruptions out to every state and some of their law enforcement branches, perhaps all with the democrat dark money players and defund the police drives and political DA operatives and Fanni screeching Trump hater types, who should be disbarred, disqualified, and cancelled, if we had real justice left in the USA.
      The demoncrat Hillary, obama and biden regime paid for and lied with the russia russia russia conspiracy theory, a total lie and a campaign tactic and illegal use of government from the beginning.
      You people are the dictators, the tyrants, the criminals, the liars, the malignant users of government power.

      When Trump is President again I doubt any of your criminal pigs of destruction of the USA will pay the price.

      In any case only your side is guilty, and guilty beyond belief, including collusion with foreign powers against the USA, collusion with big tech in spying on Americans illegally, silencing Americans illegally, and using the government as an illegal criminalized weapon against fair decent honest and innocent political opposition.
      You should be thoroughly ashamed, but I think instead, you revel in the criminal misconduct and lies.

    3. Dennis – this is irresponsible scare-mongering. The “deconstruction” of the adminstrative state is decades overdue. The bureaucracy has become a fourth branch of government writing its own laws, controlled by no one. Under the Constituion, only Congress has the authority to write laws. A return to Constitutionalism is not “destruction” but “recovery”.

    4. Dennis, do you not see the Democrats coming after everyone MAGA while letting murderers, rapists, and pedophiles off the hook everywhere? A little payback is way overdue.

  7. Bill Ackman
    @BillAckman
    I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.

    The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an even more limited universe of DEI-eligible presidential candidates.

    Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities.

    And it is also not good for those awarded the office of president who find themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on the scale.

    I have been called brave for my tweets over the last few weeks. The same could be said for those called out Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

    I don’t think it will be long before we look back on the last few years of free speech suppression and the repeated career-ending accusations of racist for those who questioned the DEI movement.

    We are all shortly going to realize that the DEI era is the McCarthy era Part II.

    History rhymes, but it does not repeat.

    https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1732632488227303784

    1. Every college and every college activity must comply with “ in loco parentis” standards. No parent would want to hurt his/her child with words or deeds. Every parent must now worry about which colleges protect and guide their children,

  8. Lee “attacked witnesses, including Riley Gaines, as hateful and transphobic but then tried to censor Gaines . . .”

    Speaking of Leftist hypocrisy, and the spirit of tyranny.

    Some in corporate America (Disney, Target, et al.) use corporate resources to openly push Leftist causes. But when one of its actors supports Trump — well, we just can’t have that. Trump’s a “threat to democracy.” And the American public is too ignorant to see that. So we (your corporate Overlords) have to protect you from yourself.

    “Justin Webb, a journalist for BBC Radio 4, asked [Kelsey] Grammer whether he still considers himself a fan of the ex-president. ‘I am, and I’ll let that be the end of it,’ said Grammer. According to Webb, though, that was not really the end of it. ‘I have to say, actually, Kelsey Grammer himself was perfectly happy to go on talking about it,’ the journalist later said on air. ‘The Paramount+ PR people, less happy that he talked about it at some length so…they decided we’d had plenty of time for our interview.’”

    (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/12/kelsey-grammer-is-perfectly-happy-to-tell-the-bbc-why-he-still-supports-donald-trump)

  9. Bill Ackman

    @BillAckman
    The presidents of @Harvard @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:

    Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?

    The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.

    Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.

    In short, they said:

    It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.

    This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:

    “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”

    The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.

    Don’t take my word for it.

    You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.

    They must all resign in disgrace.

    If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.

    Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?

    Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.

    To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.

    On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.

    It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.

    If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.

    1. A couple things here.

      1. Genocide genocide genocide…saying it doesn’t make it so.
      2. “Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.” Frankly, F Congress. Seriously.
      3. “It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.” Really? What changed? It was a show hearing and nothing will change, including stephanik getting an Ivy post in her future.
      4. “Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world”. Because history repeats itself. Draw your own conclusion there.

      IMO, neither the iran’s hamas puppets backed by US interests or israeli backed by US interests are worthy of my support. I refuse to be drawn to a side until either can show me they are worthy, neither ever ever has.

    2. So they didn’t ask about the last decade plus of murder all the white people and do genocidal replacement which is ongoing and accelerating ?
      I guess not, in fact I know they didn’t, the jews would have a FIT if they did.

  10. I know JT doesn’t like to talk about this much. But, more 2020 election fraud is being prosecuted. Trump was correct, there was fraud in the 2020 election and the indictments are finally coming in. I know that JT likes to claim this all as free speech. But hey, you can say anything you want, indeed, anything at all. But sometimes what you say can be prosecuted, as 6 republicans just found out.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevada-grand-jury-indicts-6-fake-donald-trump-electors

      1. No, they submitted papers saying they were the legitimate representatives from Nevada to the National Archives and their votes should be counted instead of the votes for Biden. I’m pretty sure that counts as an act of fraud in an election. So indeed there was fraud as Trump kept yelling about. But it was fraud that was meant to keep him in office.

        1. “Attorney General Aaron Ford, who originally stated that investigation was beyond confines of state law”

          “..the first-term Democrat, who previously was quiet on whether he would investigate the fake electors before saying that state law would not allow him to do so.”

          Another criminal demoncrat illegally weaponizes the justice system. What else isn’t new. Another demoncrat tinpot dictator who already admitted his crime before he carried it out.

    1. so the idiot ag demoncrat said he couldn’t touch them it was beyond state law…
      then, with the demoncrats up his tutu, he caved in and went ahead and broke the law, went to a grand jury and pulled his crime

      That’s amazing, another criminal demoncrat using the law illegally, admittedly, he himself has admitted it.

  11. Kudos to Professor Turley for representing Dr. Eric Foretich in his fight for child visitation rights against his ex-wife, Elizabeth Morgan. I suspect that much of the madness of our time is traceable to the “child abuse hoax” in the early 1980’s, of which the Foretich-Morgan case was a prominent part. As with all left-wing hoasex, when almost everyone finally agreed that the MSM had gone overboard in promoting this hoax, no one paid a price for their actions. Conservatives have let hoaxes disappear without comment, grateful that they somehow petered out, whereas we should have kept alive the memory of each hoax as a reproach to the MSM.

  12. The Left Wing nut jobs are trying to ban the Bible in Florida schools.

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Deep concern was expressed to Broward County Schools over the use of the Bible in the classroom.

    Outside school board headquarters, about 20 people made it clear they want the religious book to stay after Local 10 News learned someone objected to the New Testament.

    Any objection to instructional material has to go before a committee.

    Late Wednesday afternoon, the superintendent’s review committee looked at the objection, which described graphic images in the Bible.

    In the end, all nine committee members agreed it should stay, with most agreeing the religious book does provide educational value.

    The state already had a law in place that allows the book to be used for educational purposes.

    https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/12/06/committee-votes-to-keep-bible-in-broward-classrooms-after-objection-raised/

  13. There’s a lot of talk about Republicans on this blog today so in response let me remind everyone that it has been the Democratic leftist Professors who have taught their students to hate Jews and declare that Jews should be gassed. These students have been indoctrinated by the American left encouraging them to call for the elimination of the Jewish people. Chief indoctrinator Senator Michael Goldman says that Israel is correct to attack Hamas but Israel should use restraint in stopping Hamas from shooting its children in the head. Just like all the other Democrats he refuses to condemn the anti semitic statements by Democratic members of the Democratic party. They refuse to name names. When Obama told us what they were going to teach our young people we should have believed him. They kept the white sheets in the closet for such a time as this.

  14. Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America

    Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism.

    America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has been added an outbreak of virulent antisemitism.

    Every one of these degradations can be traced wholly or in large part to a single source: the corruption of higher education by radical political activists.

    Children’s test scores have plummeted because college education departments train teachers to prioritize “social justice” over education. Censorship started with one-party campuses shutting down conservative voices. The coddling of criminals originated with academia’s devotion to Michel Foucault’s idea that criminals are victims, not victimizers. The drive to separate children from their parents begins in longstanding campus contempt for the suburban home and nuclear family. Radicalized college journalism departments promote far-left advocacy. Open borders reflect pro-globalism and anti-nation state sentiment among radical professors. DEI started as a campus ruse to justify racial quotas. Campus antisemitism grew out of ideologies like “anticolonialism,” “anticapitalism” and “intersectionality.”

    Never have college campuses exerted so great or so destructive an influence. Once an indispensable support of our advanced society, academia has become a cancer metastasizing through its vital organs. The radical left is the cause, most obviously through the one-party campuses having graduated an entire generation of young Americans indoctrinated with their ideas.

    And there are other ways. Academia has a monopoly on training for the most influential professions. The destructive influence of campus schools of education and journalism already noted is matched in the law, medicine, social work, etc. Academia’s suppression of the Constitution causes still more damage. Hostility to the Constitution leads to banana-republic shenanigans: suppression of antigovernment speech, the press’s acting as mouthpiece for government, law enforcement used to harass opponents of the government.

    Higher education by and for political radicals was foreseen and banned by the American Association of University Professors, which in a celebrated 1915 policy statement warned teachers “against taking unfair advantage of the student’s immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher’s own opinions.” The AAUP already understood that political indoctrination would stamp out opposing views, which means the end of rational analysis and debate, the essential core of higher education. The 1915 statement is still a recognized professional standard—except that almost everywhere it is ignored, at least until the public is looking.

    Optimists see signs of hope in growing public hostility to campus foolishness, but radical control of the campuses becomes more complete every day as older professors retire and are replaced by more radicals. A bellwether: The membership of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education—which represents the enforcers of radical orthodoxy—has tripled in the past three years.

    An advanced society can’t tolerate the capture of its educational system by a fringe political sect that despises its Constitution and way of life. We have no choice: We must take back control of higher education from cultural vandals who have learned nothing from the disastrous history of societies that have implemented their ideas.
    How can this be done? Not by the colleges themselves, which like things as they are. Not by governing boards, which ought to safeguard academia but have never had the backbone to do it. Not by superficial reforms: Even if we defund DEI, protect visiting speakers from shout-downs and outlaw political litmus tests for professorial appointments, hordes of radical activists will still be in the classrooms, doing as much damage as ever.

    Personnel is policy. Effective reform means only one thing: getting those political activists out of the classrooms and replacing them with academic thinkers and teachers. (No, that isn’t the same as replacing left with right.) Nothing less will do. Political activists have been converting money intended for higher education to an unauthorized use—advancing their goal of transforming America. That is tantamount to embezzlement. While we let it continue we are financing our own destruction as a society.
    But how can we stop them? State lawmakers can condition continued funding on the legitimate use of that money and install new campus leadership mandated to replace professors who are violating the terms of their employment. Though only possible in red states, this would bring about competition between corrupt institutions and sound ones. Employers would soon notice the difference between educated and indoctrinated young people. Legislatures in Florida, Texas and North Carolina have begun to take steps to reform their universities, but only at Florida’s New College is a crucial restructuring of the faculty under way.

    But the only real solution is for more Americans to grasp the depth of the problem and change their behavior accordingly. Most parents and students seem to be on autopilot: Young Jack is 18, so it’s time for college. His family still assumes that students will be taught by professors who are smart, well-informed and with broad sympathies. No longer. Professors are now predominantly closed-minded, ignorant and stupid enough to believe that Marxism works despite overwhelming historical evidence that it doesn’t. If enough parents and students gave serious thought to the question whether this ridiculous version of a college education is still worth four years of a young person’s life and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, corrupt institutions of higher education would collapse, creating the space for better ones to arise.

    The biggest threat to our future isn’t climate change, China or the national debt. It is the tyrannical grip that a hopelessly corrupt higher education now has on our national life. If we don’t stop it now, it will eventually destroy the most successful society in world history.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-ed-has-become-a-threat-to-america-antisemitism-dei-college-f52bb0b5

    1. @7;30
      I can’t add or disagree with anything you posted. Universities have always been liberal, but after more than 5 decades, the graduates have infected a large swath of our society.
      I agree a large part of the rot comes from the teachers in public schools working 24/7 to cleave the students from the family unit. I know back in the 70’s the young teachers with little to no classroom time, were only sure about parents, not being the best source of information or personal values. I was told more than once, that while they were sure my parents are fine people, they just don’t have a wide view of the world as it really is. (both WWII vets having served in Europe.) Academia is intent on displacing the power of the nuclear family. Unfortunately, they have made big strides

  15. Jonathan: Speaking of “engaging personalities” you missed the most important part of the House Oversight hearing . MTG was at it again trying to suppress the “free speech” rights of a fellow Congresswoman. Tex. Rep. Jasmine Crocett (who is also Black) got into an exchange with a rep of the right-wing Heritage Foundation over transgenders in sports. Crocett said: “The Heritage Foundation loves Texas. They always are sending is some nonsense bills that some how set this country on the wrong trajectory. They send them to Texas. They sent them to Florida. Every deplorable state that we can think about, they usually come out of y’all’s”. MTB immediately reacted: “Point of order. I move to strike her words, ‘deplorable states’!”

    After some consultation the temporary Chair, Republican Lisa McCain, told MTG “a ‘deplorable state’ is not a statement against a person, or it is engaging in personalities” and told Crocett to resume her questioning. Not the first time MTG has been slapped down during hearings. Remember the nude photos of Hunter Biden MTG displayed at a hearing? MTG doesn’t understand House rules–the kind of decorum required during House hearings.

    Apparently, MTG doesn’t like it when uppity Black Representatives speak their minds. So she tries to shut down their “free speech” rights. She’s also intimated by four-syllable words. Actually, calling red states, like Texas and Florida, “deplorable” is an understatement. So you attack Rep. Lee. I do you one better with Rep. Crocett!

    1. She called her own state deplorable. Sounds like projection to me. Or maybe just a diminished IQ.

      1. That uppity n*gger forgot she’s from Texas.

        And Dennis is a f*cking moron, who enjoys sucking off little boys.

    2. The rule against personalities in congress generally applies to attacks by congressmen on other congressmen.
      It does not apply to witnesses in either direction.

      Calling a state deplorable – is an insult to the people from that state.

      It is also something that all of us should be free to do.

      California IS deplorable.

      1. John Say: Rep. Crocett was not saying the PEOPLE of Texas and Florida are “deplorables”. She was saying the people that run those states–Govs. Abbott and DeSantis, are “deplorables”–and for good reason.

        You say “California IS deplorable”. Why? Because California gives every woman the right to choose? The vast majority of Americans support that right. So who are the real “deplorables”?

        1. Those deplorable people represent the people of their state, Dennis the Dumbass. I guess Hillary just meant the leaders too, eh? Those leaders were elected by very large majorities.

          Further, you dont know wtf she meant.

          1. Dennis is still trying to figure out how democracy works. Give him time, he’ll get it.

        2. Dennis, if the world revolved around one issue and one issue only your point about abortion in CA would be valid. However, since other factors come into play your point is asinine, as it almost always is.

          CA, the most beautiful state in the union is losing people in droves. Why is that? You talk about abortion but what about having the Oakland school board allow, no, encourage, the teach-in that they had today where they told kindergartners that “I is for Intifada”. They taught that Israel was bullies and that they stole land…to 3rd grade children. They said that in WWII Jews were killed among with many other people.

          In CA they will take in CHILDREN from other states that want to be mutilated, or a state agency or shrink thinks they should be mutilated, even against the parents wishes.

          So I will tell you what Dennis, I will live where abortions are legal but with restrictions versus a state where children are told that Zionists are evil and that some Jews died in the 40s, along with chopping off body parts on a whim.

        3. She was saying the people that run those states–Govs. Abbott and DeSantis, are “deplorables”–and for good reason.

          Retard Dennis is clueless about government structure. “The People” through their elected representative run the states. Classic leftist pedantry trying to rescue the Representative from being called out demeaning the entire population of the state.

        4. The answer to your question is those women that murder their own babies and those that support such a thing. Those are the deplorables ! I add in extra deplorability to the demoncrats who make certain most black babies are murdered, rather than being born. Last time I checked they had murdered 53% of all black pregnancies with abortion that year, a couple of years ago. So Dennis the menace type demonrcats are racist murder supporters. Deplorable, indeed.

    3. Who is paying Chris Christie to be on the Repub debate stage to trash Trump and defend Niki Haley’s honor? Fat Chris is not forwarding his own case, instead he is bashing Trump and propping up establishment choice Neocon Nikki. Weird, huh?

      1. I pointed out from the jump, that Christie was on payroll to attack Trump. If you can fig ure out the Dark money, you mignt find its the chamber of commerce eGOP paying for the attack dog. But look at what they got for their money

        Never Trumpers have yet to learn that Trump is only Channeling 80 million voters

        Sort of along the same lines, Glenn Greenwald weighs in Liz Cheney.
        “Amazing yet so telling that the US politician who is one of the leading proponents of torture, secret CIA black sites, kidnapping, and sending everyone to an endless array of new wars except her own family ended up hated by her own voters but beloved by liberal corporate media.”

        I think this is a representation of what politicians with no core values find themselve upside down with voter.

        1. Iowan2,
          The idea of Liz Cheney being president . . . yeah, Glenn sums it up pretty well.

      2. I watched the 4th debate late and at 2x speed as usual. Fatso crispied himself over and over again. I now call the half indian Skeletor for good reason, and Vivek told the truth and destroyed her with it, over and over again. Vivek destroyed the whole room with the truth, over and over again. He’s therefore dangerous, like Trump.
        Vivek won the debate easily, and is just like Trump, only more so. Willing to breach the lies and open the unholy taboos up and tell the truth about them. He was 100% correct, and a big breath of fresh air.
        Desantis did well but I did disagreed with him several times, but he might be able to do the most of the four on stage since he does have a record of accomplishment in Florida. I think Vivek might do more and actually be better overall but the track record for governing isn’t available, and I haven’t heard how he ran his businesses from any employees.
        Desantis was nervous and fiddly.

        Fatso crispy can go suck down a dozen whoppers and never resurface that would be great. He doesn’t have the brainpower to be there.

    4. I lived and worked in Texas for 20+ years. It was a requirement to speak Spanish if you are in certain areas of business or in health care. Over 40% of Texans are hIspanics. If you live on the border, the percentage is in the 90+% range. So, the sterotypical Texan is not what many people thing, such as depicted in TV shows but the larger majority are Hispanic, other and now close to a white minority. I love the Hispanic culture, their love of family and their love of God. They are an amazing part of the fabric of the United States of America. It is one of the easiest states to exist as an independent business owner. I now live in a blue state and the government regulations are certainly make itdifficult to be a small business owner. It is a state of common sense.

      Regarding “transgender” athletes. They are not biological females who are entering male sports. They are a group of loser males who cannot make it in a male world and now are impinging on women’s rights. They are cowards and activist who despise women. They cannot compete in their own class of biological males and so, the dress up like a woman and say they are female but they are cowards. They are activists. They are not women. If they had any shame or any integrity, they would fight for an athletic class of “transgender” instead of defiling women’s sports. Women have fought hard for decades and centuries to gain rights and now men have come back around a desiccated these rights. Despicable.

      Texas and Florida are not despicable. They are states that actually have the guts to stand up to this bizarre madness.

      1. E.M.
        Well said.
        Never thought I would see the day of such a anti-women’s rights movement.

        1. Upstate, I don’t know where you lived or how old you are, but I lived in a hotbed of the women’s rights movement. From the rhetoric I was hearing and their actions (though in support of women’s rights), I said it was going to lead to disaster. The right to work became an “obligation” to work.

          Equal rights for women was essential, but our Constitution already demanded it. What the movement needed to do was make sure the law was upheld, but it was a political movement from the start.

          Today, we see a lot of women marrying men who do not fulfill their responsibilities. Thus, the woman, “obligated” to work, returns home to take care of the household, children and husband. Too many men are not living up to their potential.

          Women used to criticize my wife because she felt as I did. As an engineer (computer), she was in a man’s profession and as an executive for a major corporation in downtown Manhattan in charge of one floor of many employees and the computer system, she already fulfilled the woman’s rights desire. Yet that was different from what the women’s rights movement wanted to hear.

  16. “IT’S NOT OK TO BE WHITE”

    “THE LUNATICS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE ASYLUM”
    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    “The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.”

    – Richard A. Rowland
    ________________________

    America was rationally and inexorably established as a severely restricted-vote republic.

    The Founders deliberately DID NOT entertain the concept or otherwise allow the “lunatics to take charge of the asylum.”

    The Founders limited and restricted the “lunatics” from voting.
    ____________________________________________________________________

    “JUST GET THE F— AWAY”

    “THERE’S NO FIXING THIS”

    In a recent Rasmussen poll, Black respondents disagreed with the statement “It’s okay to be white.”

    Adams said, “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people … that’s a hate group.”

    “I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”

    “And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people … because there is no fixing this.”
    _____

    SCOTT ADAMS: As you know, I’ve been identifying as Black for a while – years now – because I like – you know, I like to be on the winning team.

    TSIOULCAS: He went on to call Black people, quote, “a hate group” and added…

    ADAMS: The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away. Wherever you have to go, just get away because there’s no fixing this.

    You just have to escape, so that’s what I did. I went to a neighborhood where, you know, I have a very low Black population.

    – Dilbert
    __________

    “There’s just some things that leave a man no choice”

    “Like a compass needle needing its true North”

    – Luke Combs
    ________________

    “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

    – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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    WAKE THE —- UP, AMERICA!

  17. Who bought Kevin “The Bumpkin From Bakersfield” McCarthy?

    How much did they pay?

    The Global Communist Deep Deep State “Swamp” has infinite reserves; it bought William “Mr. Deep Deep State” Barr and all the other depraved slough denizens.

  18. OT NEWSFLASH – THE COMMUNIST PRETZEL

    ARTIFICIAL COMMUNIST “INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY” JUST SELF-DESTRUCTED BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES

    ONCE AGAIN, THE SUPERIORITY OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM PREVAILS
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    Congresswoman Stefanik: Dr. Kornbluth, at MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT’s code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment? Yes or no?
    President Kornbluth: If targeted at individuals not making public statements.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: Yes or no, calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment?
    President Kornbluth: I have not heard calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: But you’ve heard chants for Intifada.
    President Kornbluth: I’ve heard chants which can be antisemitic depending on the context when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: So those would not be, according to the MIT’s code of conduct or rules.
    President Kornbluth: That would be investigated as harassment if pervasive and severe.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: Ms. Magill at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?
    President Magill: If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment. Yes.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: I am asking, specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?
    President Magill: If it is directed, and severe, pervasive, it is harassment.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: So the answer is yes.
    President Magill: It is a context dependent decision, Congresswoman.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: It’s a context dependent decision. That’s your testimony today, calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context, that is not bullying or harassment. This is the easiest question to answer. Yes, Ms. Magill. So is your testimony that you will not answer yes? Yes or no?
    President Magill: If the speech becomes conduct. It can be harassment, yes.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide. The speech is not harassment. This is unacceptable. Ms. Magill, I’m gonna give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s Code of Conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment? Yes or no?
    President Magill: It can be harassment.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: The answer is yes. And Dr. Gay at Harvard? Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no?
    President Gay: It can be depending on the context.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: What’s the context?
    President Gay: Targeted at an individual targeted, as at an individual?
    Congresswoman Stefanik: It’s targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals. Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them? Do you understand that dehumanization is part of antisemitism? I will ask you one more time. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no?
    President Gay: Antisemitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct, that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and we do take action.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: So the answer is yes. That calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct. Correct?
    President Gay: Again, it depends on the context.
    Congresswoman Stefanik: It does not depend on the context the answer is yes, and this is why you should resign. These are unacceptable answers across the board.

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