The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

[row_33]

8 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Yes, he called a "black beer" a "P.K. Subban". My advice would be to not post that on a public forum, but I don't get why ......Never mind. I reread it and had missed the word "vendor". I now see that he probably got fired for his stupidity.

 

 

and this is Canada as well, and everyone knows what Subban had put up with to get to where he is...

 

i guess the guy thought he was a real hoot, maybe had a few yes-men peeing their pants over every one of his dumb comments, not any more...

 

 

[DC Tom]

2 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

Are you kidding me?

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/football-exec-resigns-after-making-classless-joke-about-pk-subban/ar-AAxh8fd?ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

 

Just how pussified have we gotten?

 

Imagine how much time this guy's going to spend now, trying to figure out how that post was racist.

 

This is why it's just easier to be explicitly racist.  It's just as unpleasant an experience, but saves a hell of a lot of time.

[row_33]

2 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

Imagine how much time this guy's going to spend now, trying to figure out how that post was racist.

 

This is why it's just easier to be explicitly racist.  It's just as unpleasant an experience, but saves a hell of a lot of time.

 

maybe he can meet up with PK and tell him his witty little joke

 

[DC Tom]

Just now, row_33 said:

 

maybe he can meet up with PK and tell him his witty little joke

 

 

I'd buy a ticket to that event.

[row_33]

15 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

I'd buy a ticket to that event.

 

something tells me it won't be happening

 

 

[B-Man]

It was inevitable I guess;

 

 White Women Are Becoming The New White Men.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Kevbeau]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

It was inevitable I guess;

 

 White Women Are Becoming The New White Men.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I don’t have an emoji on my phone that can properly express my laughter

[Joe Miner]

8 hours ago, Kevbeau said:

I don’t have an emoji on my phone that can properly express my laughter

 

In light of the Tom Hortons incident, I'd like a poop throwing emoji.

[outsidethebox]

Next will be the white babies....

[3rdnlng]

22 minutes ago, Joe Miner said:

 

In light of the Tom Hortons incident, I'd like a poop throwing emoji.

She must have thought she was in a Tim Horton's.

[B-Man]

WHY THE FURY OVER JORDAN PETERSON ?  .....He's Restarting the Debates the Left Thought it Had Won

by David French

 

Rarely in my life have I read a more hostile or vicious takedown of a public figure than last week’s New York Times profile of Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson. Rarely have I witnessed a more bizarre and bad-faith interview of a public figure than journalist Cathy Newman’s January interrogation of Peterson on Britain’s Channel 4 News. Few public figures inspire more vitriol and mockery on Twitter than, you guessed it, Jordan Peterson. And never before have I seen vitriol so out of proportion to the “threat” of the man’s underlying message.

 

I don’t claim to be an expert on everything the man’s said, but I read and reviewed his most recent book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos, and I’ve watched many of his most popular YouTube videos — and the contrast between the actual content of his message and the rage and mockery it elicits never fails to surprise me. Have we really reached the point where the basic argument that men and women are different, or that free men and women will often make different choices in large part because they are different, or that religion and ancient traditions can inform and guide our lives today, are now so toxic that their advocates must and should face a relentless campaign to drive them from the public square?

 

Or, given the obvious crisis that young men face — with rising rates of suicide and drug overdose, and diminishing educational outcomes — why the extraordinary hostility to a man who is reaching those same young men with a message of hard work, personal responsibility, honor, and integrity?

 

After all, if you’re a theologically conservative Christian or Jew — a person who is Biblically literate and strives to live according to Biblical morality — the flaw of the Peterson message is that it feels a bit basic. As I wrote in my review, “readers who are already grounded in a Biblical worldview will find some of the counsel extraordinarily elementary.”

 

But that’s the issue. If Peterson were writing to a Christian audience, he’d be one voice among many. An interesting and quirky voice, to be sure, but his core message about men and women would be conventional, not revelatory. Instead, however, Peterson stands out because he is playing in the Left’s cultural sandbox. He’s disrupting an emerging secular cultural monopoly with arguments about history, tradition, and the deep truths about human nature that the cultural radicals had long thought they’d banished to the fringe.

 

That’s the reason for the fury. That’s the reason for the rage. When Peterson walks into a secular university or a secular television studio and addresses a secular audience by referencing ancient theological arguments, the effect is not unlike inviting a genderqueer women’s-studies professor to a Baptist Sunday-school class. Some things (in some places) are just not said.

 

Then, when people actually respond to that message, the shock is even more seismic. It’s difficult to overstate the extent to which the Left has long been (and, crucially, felt) culturally ascendant in America’s secular spaces. The academy, pop culture, mainstream media, corporate America — all of these spaces have drunk deeply of the Left’s cultural Kool-Aid, especially when it comes to matters of sex and gender. The holdouts are in the church and synagogue, and their borders are shrinking under relentless cultural assault.

 

That’s the arc of history, you see, and the only place where its ultimate triumph was in doubt (or, more precisely, delayed) was in politics — and those setbacks were transient and temporary until the “coalition of the ascendant” could claim its rightful place at the pinnacle of political power.

 

The problem, however, was a failure to thrive. The new culture left too many young men behind. The new, fractured family claimed too many lives. When “deaths of despair” are so prevalent that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation now faces declining life expectancies, it’s hard to argue for the unqualified success of the modern leftist cultural project.

 

And so, as the secular Left pressed up against the church, it looked behind and saw the flames in its own camp. Peterson held the match, but the kindling was all around him. It’s not that men (and many women) failed to adjust to the new gender ideologies, it’s that the new gender ideologies too often fail to reckon with our deepest human longings and fail to recognize our fundamental human nature. As Peterson writes in 12 Rules, “We cannot invent our own values, because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls.”

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/jordan-peterson-new-york-times-hostility/

 

No one should believe that Peterson is always right, or that his every utterance is profound, but he has served a truly invaluable cultural service. His success and — critically — his method, which relies as much on scripture as it does on psychology, should serve as a clarion call for Biblical Christians and Jews. There is no need for the defensive crouch. In the spiritual wasteland of secularized America, the harvest is plentiful, and ancient truth can indeed provide the seed for new beginnings.

 

 

 

[B-Man]

"In Portland, Ore., organizers of the 'Reparations Happy Hour' invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived..."

 

"... a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.... 'It was only $10, but when I saw them I saw their eyes light up,' he said. 'What I saw there was that people felt like they were finally seen.'"

The NYT reports. 

So let's see... white people get off making black people "light up" by handing them money — a 10 dollar bill.



ADDED: What if men at a bar funded the practice of offering a $10 bill to women who would come in? I guess some women would step up to take the bill, but I assume a lot of women, like me, would scoff and think you are so pathetic and quit insulting me.

ALSO: This reminds me of those affirmative action bake sales where opponents of affirmative action offer cookies for sale for, say, $1 if you're black and $5 if you are white. Except liberals rankle at that.

 

Posted by Ann Althouse 

 

 

 

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[row_33]

The more $$$ i make, the less I want to eat crap sold at a bake sale

 

 

[B-Man]

Liberals = Universities = Lunacy

 

If you fell out of your chair upon realizing that the University of Michigan has a full-time diversity staff of nearly one hundred employees, one of whom earns more than the president of the United States, you can be forgiven. I nearly did too.

 

 

The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 Full-Time Employees

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/diversity-staff-university-michigan-nearly-100-full-time-employees

 

 

There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.   

There are various reasons for surging costs, but the primary one is the remarkable expansion of university administration in recent decades. As Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, wrote in the New York Times a few years ago:

“According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.

Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.”

Universities are large and require administrators to function, of course. The problem is there seems to be no end to the expansion. This point was recently illustrated by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Perry, who also is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, used the University of Michigan as an example to highlight the rise of “diversicrats” (diversity bureaucrats) on today’s campuses. The numbers are astonishing.

1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice-provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts, and coordinators.

[Kevbeau]

Not limited to academia. We have the same scale at the company I work for.

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice-provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts, and coordinators.

 

I can't decide which of those staff positions is silliest.  Sure, "diversity consultant" is the obvious choice, since anything sounds sillier with "consultant" after it.  But "diversity investigator" and "diversity analyst" really kind-of jump out at you with their sheer whatthe!@#$ery.

 

But ultimately I have to go with "diversity coordinator," because it's breathtakingly subtle in its irony.

[/dev/null]

12 hours ago, B-Man said:

Liberals = Universities = Lunacy

 

If you fell out of your chair upon realizing that the University of Michigan has a full-time diversity staff of nearly one hundred employees, one of whom earns more than the president of the United States, you can be forgiven. I nearly did too.

 

 

The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 Full-Time Employees

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/diversity-staff-university-michigan-nearly-100-full-time-employees

 

 

There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.   

There are various reasons for surging costs, but the primary one is the remarkable expansion of university administration in recent decades. As Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, wrote in the New York Times a few years ago:

“According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.

Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.”

Universities are large and require administrators to function, of course. The problem is there seems to be no end to the expansion. This point was recently illustrated by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Perry, who also is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, used the University of Michigan as an example to highlight the rise of “diversicrats” (diversity bureaucrats) on today’s campuses. The numbers are astonishing.

1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice-provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts, and coordinators.

 

Eisenhower alerted us of the peril of the Military Industrial Complex.

 

Somebody needs to pull the proverbial fire alarm to alert America of the peril of the Education Industrial Complex

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

On 5/26/2018 at 8:32 AM, B-Man said:

"In Portland, Ore., organizers of the 'Reparations Happy Hour' invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived..."

 

"... a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.... 'It was only $10, but when I saw them I saw their eyes light up,' he said. 'What I saw there was that people felt like they were finally seen.'"

The NYT reports. 

So let's see... white people get off making black people "light up" by handing them money — a 10 dollar bill.



ADDED: What if men at a bar funded the practice of offering a $10 bill to women who would come in? I guess some women would step up to take the bill, but I assume a lot of women, like me, would scoff and think you are so pathetic and quit insulting me.

ALSO: This reminds me of those affirmative action bake sales where opponents of affirmative action offer cookies for sale for, say, $1 if you're black and $5 if you are white. Except liberals rankle at that.

 

Posted by Ann Althouse 

 

 

 

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So it's "Drink first, riot second":

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/06/clashing_protesters_draw_blood.html

 

 

[B-Man]

30 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

So it's "Drink first, riot second":

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/06/clashing_protesters_draw_blood.html

 

 

 

 

Antifa and Patriot Prayer demonstrators clash in downtown Portland; 4 arrested The Oregonian [Portland], by Staff

Original Article

[Gary M]

56 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

So it's "Drink first, riot second":

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/06/clashing_protesters_draw_blood.html

 

 

FTA

 

" Police Chief Danielle Outlaw "  now that's ironic!  ?