Academic Liberal Progressive Fascism Threatens Conservative Paper for Satirizing Terr

[hobgoblin]

That native American iteration of fascism raises it's supremely unpreposessing head in Minnesota now...

You can't make fun of terrorists at the U. of Minnesota. http://tiny.iavian.net/4f7o

 

[CMPancake]

Re: Academic Liberal Progressive Fascism Threatens Conservative Paper for Satirizing

Nowhere in that article said the school is forbidding students from making fun of terrorists. The only issue here is the school had an issue with what a student-ran publication printed with the schools money. I don't see anything in that article that prevents students from shouting "Allah Snackbar!" Or whatever they want. But it's troubling to see you think colleges are "Liberal Progressive Fascists" if that is even a real thing.

 

[joG]

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Nowhere in that article said the school is forbidding students from making fun of terrorists. The only issue here is the school had an issue with what a student-ran publication printed with the schools money. I don't see anything in that article that prevents students from shouting "Allah Snackbar!" Or whatever they want. But it's troubling to see you think colleges are "Liberal Progressive Fascists" if that is even a real thing.

Colleges are real things.

 

[CMPancake]

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Colleges are real things.

Wonderful observation there, champ.

 

[joG]

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Wonderful observation there, champ.

I thought it quite useful knowledge.

 

[VanceMack]

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“After assessing this information, the Student Service Fee Committee would like to emphasize for the group the significance of culturally sensitive discourse on a campus like the University of Minnesota, which prides itself on being home to a wide range of values and beliefs held by members that originate from countless cultures across the globe,” the recommendation continued. “In the future, close attention may be paid to the content published by Students for a Conservative Voice to ensure that any material that is produced with student fee funds does not compromise the cultural harmony of the campus and to ensure that the material that is produced is not at odds with the criteria in place for receiving this funding.”

In other words, your publication will receive funds as will all others...provided you only post what WE deem 'culturally sensitive'.

But nah...thats not an attempt to censor.

 

[jet57]

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“After assessing this information, the Student Service Fee Committee would like to emphasize for the group the significance of culturally sensitive discourse on a campus like the University of Minnesota, which prides itself on being home to a wide range of values and beliefs held by members that originate from countless cultures across the globe,” the recommendation continued. “In the future, close attention may be paid to the content published by Students for a Conservative Voice to ensure that any material that is produced with student fee funds does not compromise the cultural harmony of the campus and to ensure that the material that is produced is not at odds with the criteria in place for receiving this funding.”

In other words, your publication will receive funds as will all others...provided you only post what WE deem 'culturally sensitive'.

But nah...thats not an attempt to censor.

I don't see it as censoring, anymore than a credible news agency would not allow op-ed pieces to do the same thing. The abrasiveness of conservative thought is often quite offensive to people and I think that's where the university is coming from and I would support that.

 

[hobgoblin]

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I don't see it as censoring, anymore than a credible news agency would not allow op-ed pieces to do the same thing. The abrasiveness of conservative thought is often quite offensive to people and I think that's where the university is coming from and I would support that.

You would agree with it because you are also fascist. I'm not using this as a personal insult, but as an objective description of anyone who would take such a position.

Conservative thought seems abrasive for the simple reason that truth is abrasive and uncomfortable to those who have spent a lifetime marinating in the lie that is liberal progressivism. Just as even a small light seems terribly harsh and painful to one who has spent years living in the dark.

Your feeling that conservative thought is abrasive is your conscience telling you that you shrink violently away from someone telling you the truth.

You should use that to excise away all trace of liberal progressivism within you. Then you won't find truth quite so...'abrasive'.:lol:

 

[jet57]

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You would agree with it because you are also fascist. I'm not using this as a personal insult, but as an objective description of anyone who would take such a position.

Conservative thought seems abrasive for the simple reason that truth is abrasive and uncomfortable to those who have spent a lifetime marinating in the lie that is liberal progressivism. Just as even a small light seems terribly harsh and painful to one who has spent years living in the dark.

Your feeling that conservative thought is abrasive is your conscience telling you that you shrink violently away from someone telling you the truth.

You should use that to excise away all trace of liberal progressivism within you. Then you won't find truth quite so...'abrasive'.:lol:

You don't know what a fascist is number one.

Conservative thought is abrasive because it's made up of callus egocentric, ethnocentric and religiocentric individuals who are angry at everything. With the conservative set is has never been about country but an agenda of Darwinism and hegemony. The U of M obviously doesn't want that agenda in its school or as a representative of its student media, and again I would support that. When I want the truth I read books and frequent credible journalism instead of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. The school is exactly right, the conservative bent is gone and that's it.

 

[hobgoblin]

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Can you express yourself without the use of dull, meaningless leftist clichés?

 

[hobgoblin]

Re: Academic Liberal Progressive Fascism Threatens Conservative Paper for Satirizing

Sure i know what a fascist is: you're clearly one. I'm surprised you don't have the courage and confidence to embrace the label rather than running from it.

You will not tolerate any voice, any point of view, that makes you feel uncomfortable and threatens to tear down the walls of self-delusion and sleepy complacency you have settled so cozily into. Any point of view that threatens your somnolent leftist daydream sends you into a panic. You cannot cope with them on the basis of logic and reason, so you must use FORCE to BAN it or risk a kind of ego death, which occurs when all those phoney preconception you've built your life upon comes crashing to the ground when confronted by 'abrasive' truth-tellers like me and other conservative voices.

The main mission in your life is to continue in your comforting daydream, and use brute force and authoritarian violence against anyone that challenges that.

Of COURSE you're a fascist...jeez!! What else could you BE?!:lol:

 

[VanceMack]

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I don't see it as censoring, anymore than a credible news agency would not allow op-ed pieces to do the same thing. The abrasiveness of conservative thought is often quite offensive to people and I think that's where the university is coming from and I would support that.

Liberal/progressive thought is never 'abrasive'. :roll:

 

[jet57]

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Liberal/progressive thought is never 'abrasive'. :roll:

Oh sure it is, but not like right-wing rhetoric.

 

[jet57]

Re: Academic Liberal Progressive Fascism Threatens Conservative Paper for Satirizing

Sure i know what a fascist is: you're clearly one. I'm surprised you don't have the courage and confidence to embrace the label rather than running from it.

You will not tolerate any voice, any point of view, that makes you feel uncomfortable and threatens to tear down the walls of self-delusion and sleepy complacency you have settled so cozily into. Any point of view that threatens your somnolent leftist daydream sends you into a panic. You cannot cope with them on the basis of logic and reason, so you must use FORCE to BAN it or risk a kind of ego death, which occurs when all those phoney preconception you've built your life upon comes crashing to the ground when confronted by 'abrasive' truth-tellers like me and other conservative voices.

The main mission in your life is to continue in your comforting daydream, and use brute force and authoritarian violence against anyone that challenges that.

Of COURSE you're a fascist...jeez!! What else could you BE?!:lol:

Not quoting in the hope that I won't notice your nonsense eh?

Your post is just BS. You have no idea what you're talking about and in particular you have no idea what a fascist is that much is blatantly clear. So you're just here to spew right-wing nonsensical rhetoric.

right

 

[jet57]

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Can you express yourself without the use of dull, meaningless leftist clichés?

I would ask the same of you first.

 

[Unrepresented]

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[VanceMack]

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Oh sure it is, but not like right-wing rhetoric.

:lamo

Thats funny right there...

 

[Hari Seldon]

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Can you express yourself without the use of dull, meaningless leftist clichés?

Can you express yourself without using the term fascist in every post, pretty much used inappropriately?

 

[hobgoblin]

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Can you express yourself without using the term fascist in every post, pretty much used inappropriately?

Why, am i being too abrasive?:lamo

 

[jet57]

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Why, am i being too abrasive?:lamo

Actually you're just sounding uneducated.

 

[hobgoblin]

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Actually you're just sounding uneducated.

Oh thir, soh dats whad itt iz!

Happpi too aksept yer crektions on deez maturs!

 

[hobgoblin]

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Can you express yourself without using the term fascist in every post, pretty much used inappropriately?

There's a method to my madness here.

Incidents like these are ideal Rorschach tests. People who parade about as being all about liberty and freedom of expression are suddenly revealed to be the most ruthless, repressive secret policemen towards anything THEY don't approve of.

They're all for freedom...for those just like THEMSELVES.

So yes, my use of the term 'fascist' is neither meant as an insult nor applied randomly and thoughtlessly. The people i pin that on have earned it by their own words.

 

[Visbek]

Re: Academic Liberal Progressive Fascism Threatens Conservative Paper for Satirizing

That native American iteration of fascism raises it's supremely unpreposessing head in Minnesota now...

Fascism is a right-wing ideology. The better term, though still inapplicable to this situation, might be "totalitarian." Please learn some basic information about political ideologies, kthx.

You can't make fun of terrorists at the U. of Minnesota. You can't make fun of terrorists at the U. of Minnesota

No one is actually telling the SVC they can't publish what they want, or can't distribute materials on campus. Their funding has not actually been cut. However, if they offend the U M community, they should not be surprised if that community reacts by cutting their funding. Since all Arabs are not terrorists, and I might add not all terrorists are Arabs (*cough* Tim McVeigh *cough*), no one should be terribly surprised when the community takes offense.

Basically, their complaints are along the same lines as someone who gets booted from a web forum for violating posting rules, and screeches about how they've been "censored."

I might add, I'm quite confident that if an extreme left-wing rag advocated a terrorist attack on US soil, or defended Osama Bin Laden, or mandate teaching the Koran in elementary schools, you'd probably be screaming to cut their funding and expel the students immediately.

Last but not least, as per usual we're getting only one side of the story, and that side happens to be from the allegedly aggrieved party, and in a blatant attempt to gin up support from uninformed outsiders. All I can say is... yawn.

 

[hobgoblin]

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It's very curious indeed that satirizing terrorists 'offends the U. of M. Community', isn't it?

This is a 'community' that, like a great many university communities since the late 60s when, through college deferments, the New Left professoriate assumed power there and wrnt out of its WAY to get into the faces of and offend the feelings of patriots, Christians, Jews and every other unprotected group, all in the name of 'freedom of expression'. But i guess islamists who behead and burn alive are are protected victim group, and not NEARLY as awful as 'those people': Protestants and Catholics. It's open season on them.

Anyway, what YOU call 'the U. Of M. community' is actually a small cadre of liberal progressive activists enforcing ideological conformity. In short: fascists. ( a very progressive ideology in its day, especially in the 20s).

It offends against everything a university is supposed to be, an arena of free thought, not a hothouse of approved and allowed attitudes.

 

[hobgoblin]

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The more i look at it, i think that the most significant, exemplary and instructive line i've read from a leftist on this forum--or maybe ANY forum--has to be this one:

The abrasiveness of conservative thought is often quite offensive to people and I think that's where the university is coming from and I would support that.

This is a window into the dark unwholesome heart of liberal progressivism like few others i've come across. It's one o' them 'epiphanies'.