If Mort Divine ruled the world

[rms]

Some hope, from our Indiana crew.

http://www.purdue.edu/president/email/2015/JointResolution14-01-FIRE-policy-revisions.pdf

Feel like the President's statement is a little unclear compared to that document though;

http://www.purdue.edu/president/email/2015/151111-statement-of-values.html

 

[Dak]

Look at the names on that SC doc. Buncha fuckin privilege talkin. /mort

 

[SentinelSlain]

 

[CiG]

Kim Kardashian got peed on by a black man. Does that mean that Africa owes Armenia reparations?

 

[rms]

Look at the names on that SC doc. Buncha fuckin privilege talkin. /mort

SC?

 

[Dak]

Student Council/Student Government.

 

[Dak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyvRHrYYBA

Great video. Too bad Pat is on holiday

 

[Dak]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323894704578115440209134854

Related to that vid:

In his new book, "Unlearning Liberty," Mr. Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth. But that idealized university no longer exists. It was wiped out in the 1990s by administrators, diversity hustlers and liability-management professionals, who were often abetted by professors committed to political agendas.

"What's disappointing and rightfully scorned," Mr. Lukianoff says, "is that in some cases the very professors who were benefiting from the free-speech movement turned around to advocate speech codes and speech zones in the 1980s and '90s."

Today, university bureaucrats suppress debate with anti-harassment policies that function as de facto speech codes. FIRE maintains a database of such policies on its website, and Mr. Lukianoff's book offers an eye-opening sampling. What they share is a view of "harassment" so broad and so removed from its legal definition that, Mr. Lukianoff says, "literally every student on campus is already guilty."

 

[CiG]

It's a sad state of affairs.

 

[SentinelSlain]

My university days almost crushed my soul. I really do not like left wingers. I don't mind some of their ideas in principle, but as people they are some of the most insufferable pieces of shit. Reality means absolutely nothing to them. They're posers.

 

[rms]

My school is probably going to have a rally, one was already cancelled. STudents from a (real) class called "Whiteness Studies" did not do their best in getting black people to support their movement. This is insane.

Here's some reading, I wonder if Pat still thinks this mindset isn't invasive.

https://www.facebook.com/events/873918049393494/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/post.../?postshare=1421447353729455&tid=ss_tw-bottom

 

[CiG]

That facebook link alone made me want to do myself in.

 

[SentinelSlain]

Whiteness studies is beyond satire level bullshit. Basically if you go to uni, you either do STEM or you "study" being a self loathing white person. Learnt this the hard way. Fuck liberals. Also same goes to gormless old boomers that don't understand anything.

 

[no country for old wainds]

when i was at uni a girl kicked me in the stomach for saying her friend looked like she was pregnant with an AIDS baby, i mean talk about taking liberalism too far

 

[Baroque]

Basically if you go to uni, you either do STEM or you "study" being a self loathing white person. Learnt this the hard way.

What did you study?

 

[Baroque]

I read a quote somewhere that said something along the lines of "Men get jealous over women, and women get jealous over everything else", or something to that effect.

That quote can't be right. Women get jealous over women too

 

[Dak]

That quote can't be right. Women get jealous over women too

True.

 

[rms]

What are you guys opinions on this?

http://youtu.be/DpVOgYhriMk?t=1m56s

 

[CiG]

Laughing over suicide, business as usual, get over it white people I guess?

 

[rms]

Yeah, I find it pretty dumb that Maher cites "white people" having it all right because Fortune 500 companies are 97% white. What does that have to do with the average person? I honestly didn't really think he was a huge believer in white privilege thing, but I really didn't enjoy that bit. The whole "white people have this much wealth vs. minorities" thing is basically the same thing as citing the woman's pay "gap."