Re: cognitive functioning in extremists

[spudb...@aol.com]

We don't live in a free country, but a land that is increasingly menaced by an oligarchy funding democratic socialist (soviet) causes. For this reason the US seems head for a split. When all taxpayers fund Public Universities with taxpayer money, this does not conote that. University administrators get to over ride the US Bill of Rights.

No magic rules for progressives, alone.

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On Friday, February 26, 2021 smitra <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

On 26-02-2021 12:45, John Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:04 PM spudboy100 via Everything List
> <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> _> Seemingly the most totalitarian and anti-intellectual places in
>> the United States and Canada now are on university campuses_
>
> I grant you that political correctness has gone way overboard on some
> university campuses, but in a world where a mob of mindless Trump
> zombies can sack the capitol building while chanting "Hang Mike Pence"
> and QAnon members of Congress worry about Jewish space lasers starting
> wildfires in California and 40% of Americans think Evolution never
> happened and the Universe is less than 10,000 years old, saying
> universities are the most anti-intellectual places in the United
> States is a RIDICULOUS overstatement.
> John K Clark  See what's on my new list at  Extropolis [1]
>

It's more to do with it being left-wing political correctness. You would
have heard far less complaints if it were right-wing political
correctness. There would certainly be some complaints from left-wing
activists, but far less from the political establishment, it would not
be a big talking point. When the issue would come up, you would hear
people like spudboy point out that if you don't like what the
universities are doing, then because we live in a free country, you are
free to start your own university.

Saibal

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[Brent Meeker]

On 2/26/2021 1:49 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
>
> We don't live in a free country, but a land that is increasingly
> menaced by an oligarchy funding democratic socialist (soviet) causes.
>

The oligarchs funding tax cuts for the rich, voter suppression measures,
repealing the ACA, opposing net neutrality, permitting religions to
discriminate,...THOSE socialist causes?

What name to you go by in the Proud Bois?

Brent

[John Clark]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 4:49 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> University administrators get to over ride the US Bill of Rights.

 

Show me! Show me just one example of a university administration violating the Bill of Rights I dare you.  And don't tell me about them firing somebody for what they said because that may or may not have been a good idea depending on exactly what they said but it's certainly not a violation of the First Amendment which is about the government physically preventing someone from saying something. And I must say that mentioning the Bill of rights does not make one patriotic anymore than carrying the American flag does, especially if, on orders of the current fascist president, you use the flagpole to beat a policeman to death with it so you can invade the nation's capital building while they're counting the votes to determine who the next president will be.

John K Clark   See what's on my new list at  Extropolis

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