Let's All Laugh as Liberalism Commits Ritualistic Suicide on Campus

[LowDown]

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to read of the left's travails on campus without laughing.

It’s beautiful how this conflict divides the liberals between the establishment and the students, and how it further subdivides two of their main establishment constituencies, academics and mainstream media journalists. For too long, both of these groups of hapless losers have been able to pretend to support free speech. Well, suckers, now it’s getting real. The little monsters you spawned don’t much like free-speech, and they want you to shut up too, not just us conservatives. Being academics and journalists, and therefore presumptively without spines, most of you guys will submit. A few of you won’t, and it will weaken your coalition when some number of your members walk away because they just can’t swallow your catering to these Junior Red Guards.

Conservatives should be loving this fight. We’re sitting on the sidelines and watching our enemies beat each other to a fussy pulp. This is a classic wedge issue because it splits our enemy apart like Abe Lincoln split rails. Yeah, there’s another dead white cis-het male reference you Mizzou morons won’t get.

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So grab some popcorn and a bourbon. Sit back and watch. It's only going to get better.

In other news: Mizzou crybullies are angry at ISIS for stealing the spotlight with the Paris attack. link

 

[Gardener]

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to read of the left's travails on campus without laughing.

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So grab some popcorn and a bourbon. Sit back and watch. It's only going to get better.

In other news: Mizzou crybullies are angry at ISIS for stealing the spotlight with the Paris attack. link

I think we need to establish some new language, because "liberal" is one thing these idiots are most definitely not. In their authoritarianism, their intolerance of the free expression of ideas, their utterly dogmatic mind set and their demand for unquestioning conformity, they are really more like modern day totalitarians than anything else.

They share more in common with fascists than they do liberals.

 

[David_N]

"LOOK! College students doing some stupid stuff!"

 

[joG]

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to read of the left's travails on campus without laughing.

link

So grab some popcorn and a bourbon. Sit back and watch. It's only going to get better.

In other news: Mizzou crybullies are angry at ISIS for stealing the spotlight with the Paris attack. link

Nope. It is as good as it gets.

 

[cpwill]

I think we need to establish some new language, because "liberal" is one thing these idiots are most definitely not. In their authoritarianism, their intolerance of the free expression of ideas, their utterly dogmatic mind set and their demand for unquestioning conformity, they are really more like modern day totalitarians than anything else.

They share more in common with fascists than they do liberals.

One of the funnier reactions is the professor telling students they should stop acting like fascists, or else they might accidentally buttress conservative arguments that progressivism and fascism are related.

 

[pbrauer]

"LOOK! College students doing some stupid stuff!"

Yup, it's unreal. :lol:

 

[clownboy]

"LOOK! College students doing some stupid stuff!"

Nice try! It's professors too.

 

[Cephus]

Nice try! It's professors too.

That's because professors, like students, don't have to live in the real world. They don't have to actually perform, they have tenure and are almost impossible to fire so they can say what they want, do what they want and never have to justify it. It's no wonder our higher educational system is as awful as it is.

 

[Mr Person]

So grab some popcorn and a bourbon.

Odd combination. Not sure would work.

 

[nota bene]

That's because professors, like students, don't have to live in the real world.

Yes, they do. They marry and divorce and face parental challenges and take care of their yards same as everybody else.

 

[Cephus]

Yes, they do. They marry and divorce and face parental challenges and take care of their yards same as everybody else.

Not when it comes to their jobs they don't, which is what we're talking about.

 

[woodsman]

There are two things, one funny, one sad, well funny for me. That is, some nonsensical parents actually co-signed loans and monies for this nonsense indoctrination with a four year university. What a waste, the first two years are review of what a student should have learned in High school. The above is the funny part, the sad part is we are handing our kids over to liberal trash which rate below child molesters in my opinion.

 

[nota bene]

Not when it comes to their jobs they don't, which is what we're talking about.

This is also not necessarily so. There are annual performance reviews, but even more important, there is a wiggle clause in every academic contract I've ever seen. It's "...and other duties as assigned."

So while it might prove very difficult to fire a professor for other than a most grievous offense, it's fairly easy to "encourage" someone to quit. All you have to do is pull that prof out of classes/labs and assign him or her to assist the maintenance staff.

 

[Cephus]

This is also not necessarily so. There are annual performance reviews, but even more important, there is a wiggle clause in every academic contract I've ever seen. It's "...and other duties as assigned."

So while it might prove very difficult to fire a professor for other than a most grievous offense, it's fairly easy to "encourage" someone to quit. All you have to do is pull that prof out of classes/labs and assign him or her to assist the maintenance staff.

But so long as they are popular with the students, they're not going to be doing that and you know it. Therefore, any kind of far-left ideology being espoused by these professors will go on unabated because they don't have to really prove they're doing any good.

 

[nota bene]

But so long as they are popular with the students, they're not going to be doing that and you know it. Therefore, any kind of far-left ideology being espoused by these professors will go on unabated because they don't have to really prove they're doing any good.

I don’t understand the connection you’re trying to make between “popularity” with students and administrative decisions about profs but am guessing that you’re referring to student evals and their impact on an annual performance?

If so, they aren’t necessarily very important. They do factor in, but not nearly so heavily as publications, service to the institution and the department, and professional development.

I also don’t get the connection between ideology and not having to prove that you’re doing your academic job. The one doesn’t have anything to do with the other unless there is a violation of policy or law (generally Title IX and etc.).