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Earlier this year DePaul University was given the first-ever "Lifetime Censorship Award" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for its long, inglorious history of punishing and suppressing mostly conservative speech.
The nation's largest Catholic university – which doesn't want students to hear about radical Islam's threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences – has appeared with regularity on FIRE's annual list of the worst colleges for free speech.
[...] DePaul is slashing dozens of staff positions to "place the university in a better long-term position to invest in strategic growth," according to a statement to staff Thursday obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The 62 full- and part-time staff members are mostly in administrative support roles, and they represent 3.5 percent of non-faculty workers. The statement didn't specify exact positions. The school avoided the ire of its faculty by sparing them any layoffs.
Source: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45753/
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:30AM (8 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:34PM (7 children)
I'll ask you the same question as I asked him. Can you give specific examples of the concepts of intersectionality being used in this way?
It seems hard to imagine how the mere understanding that people are often subject to multiple social issues that intersect with one another, and that therefore different issues arise and different solutions are needed, could be used for totalitarianism.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:59PM
I'll answer your question. And, I'll point to Bret. All those intersectional students assumed and/or presumed that their ideas were superior to any ideas that Bret may have, and they assumed the authority to corner him, shout him down, try to intimidate him, and to run him off campus. Authoritarian assholes, all of them.
Put the shoes on the opposite feet. Suppose some black student(s) were run off of campus because they didn't act white enough? Or, they failed to say "Yassuh" and "Nossuh" when a white addressed them?
While we are on the subject - let me express my contempt for each and every person who played along with the student's demands, without believing in them. Watch that video. Are all of those white kids self loathing whites, or are they contemptible little shits who are afraid to speak their own minds? Not that there is much difference in the value of the two groups.
Totalitarian leftism. The left announces it's agenda, refuses to hear any rebuttal, tells you bluntly that "this is going to happen, you can go along, or you can get out".
Left unchecked, it's only a matter of time until The Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht. Brownshirt bastards.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 15 2018, @07:15AM (5 children)
Go watch the front pages of Sargon or Thinkery vids, there will be a few hundred specific examples contained therein.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Friday June 15 2018, @07:31AM (4 children)
Really, Sargon is your recommended source for this?
Allow me to counter with https://youtu.be/l9E2iEi6vMY [youtu.be]
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 15 2018, @08:31AM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Friday June 15 2018, @08:41AM (1 child)
The problem is you can't take his summaries as accurate so they are worthless. If I were being unkind I'd suggest he does this to deliberately mislead you, but it really seems more like simply laziness.
In most cases it turns out that if you check the actual sources they say the opposite of what Sargon thinks they said, so if I'm not inclined to do my own research I tend to assume that if Sargon claimed it happened then it probably didn't.
Anyway, we have a bunch of students using some language that you feel is vaguely associated with intersectional feminism... Which proves nothing. You need to show that the concepts of intersectionality themselves are authoritarian.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 15 2018, @02:37PM
(And yes, when sargon mentions something stupid, I immediately google for the report he's looking at, and others reporting the same story. Often I find sources presenting an even more stupid version of events than the ones he's quoting. But, yes, he's very hit and miss, and I use him as a way of being by-name familiar with the half of the world I otherwise desperately try and avoid. I think he enjoys wallowing in shit, saying "this is shit!", too much.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 15 2018, @08:32AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves