This is America which really is far gone. But everything American eventually seems to get here too. So the most anti-American segments of our population will eventually pick up this all-too-American meme as well. It is not a good omen. It was this statement, however, that I found the most remarkable (at 4:24):
Those with the highest levels of education have the lowest exposure to people with conflicting points of view, while those who have not graduated from high school can claim the most diverse discussion mates. In other words, the most educated amongst us are also the most likely to live in the tightest echo chambers.
That is quite something to think about if it is actually true.
[Via Instapundit]
Calling the cops for teasing, being punished for reading an anti klan book because it offended idiots who’d hide the holocaust because it was “nasty”…
It isn’t just free speech. It is because they are being treated as children, and taught NOT to think.
Private institutions can engage in such stupidities (but usually don’t). State owned colleges cannot.
The upshot is that the definitions of racism are actually racist and everyone knows that there are silly rules they must follow – what people privately think or say may be different.
Popularity as a basis for scholarship is like Salem in 1592.
I got told off once for reading a book on Hitler at work. I countered with “well last week it was one on Stalin”
Seemed to shut them up.
Crap, I wouldn’t last 6 hours in the US.
What part of “Never forget” don’t they understand?
I have been saying for ages that Australian leftist anti-americans learn all their talking points from American leftists. I have also noted that the US is NOT the freedom loving country that rightists admire and leftists abhor.
For many years both sides in the US have led the world in Nanny state government. They, not the EUropeans invented the idea that the State must uphold leftists moralilty. The Europeans are/were old-world economic socialists, the Americans are new style moralistic folk-marxists who see everything through the prism of identity politics.
Anyone who doubts the American urge to statism that is just as bad as Europe’s only needs to read MArk Steyn’s work. He sums it up well here:
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/309276/street-sign-statism?pg=1
The section on racism reminded me that it was just the other day that I was talked at by a socialist about how racism is different to bigotry, because racism is the systemic institutionalisation of bigotry based on race, and so I was being racist by refusing to overthrow the capitalist hierarchy. Or something, I wasn’t listening very attentively.
Those university speech codes sound awful, and I agree with everything the video says, except the bit about the 1st amendment “principles”. That only applies to government, not private bodies like universities or workplaces. Maybe it would have been better to simply refer to “free speech principles”.
Universities: Islands of intolerance is a sea of indifference.
They will have remembered that he was a very bad man, remember broad strokes like “caused WW2″ and “the Holocaust”, but not details about how he did it: The restrictions on free speech, the violence against those who disagree with you, the abolition of existing society to make way for his own utopian excreted from his and others fevered brains etc.
Remembering that would embarrass them.
utopian society excreted
RL, you’ve convinced me.
America is now officially a toilet.
I’ve also been saying for a while now that America’s ‘law enforcement’ fetish has created what is – for all intents and purposes – a police state.
Worth reading Christopher Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites for some good insights into the origins and results of the lack of debate in the US, particularly inside the Beltway.
Most Colleges are publicly owned or funded. However you are right.
+1/2 to Jarrah, +1 to C.L.
“Most Colleges are publicly owned or funded.”
They surveyed 392 colleges. We don’t know how many of those were publicly owned or funded. Regardless, public funding is irrelevant to the First Amendment.
I am a Melbourne University creative writing student, the funniest tute I ever attended was in Fictional Short Stories where I was told by female tutor that the word ‘panties’ was inappropriate and that ‘women’s underwear’ was the way to write it.
I responded as simply as I could looking straight at her; that she was almost right. Many women in Australia do have to wear women’s underwear, however, my girlfriend wears panties and that is the way I will continue to write it.
Oooooooh only a P for that story.
Spot on, RL. Many are not aware that the US was Keynesian long before Keynes wrote the General Theory and the US was moving towards greater government involvement in the economy before FDR introduced the New Deal.
Herbert Hoover, FDR’s Republican predecessor, started the move towards Big Government. FDR just made it sound respectable.
What a hack. Those who can’t, teach!
FDR campaigned on laissez faire, which would have been great. He just continued the fail, unfortunately.
Yeah Positive, if you keep writing panties you might have written p#rn and made a gazillon bucks like that 50 shades of cr#p OR found your authentic voice what ever it might be then you’d be well ahead of your creative arts tutor and we can’t have THAT can we?