More Liberal Censorship

[Dos Equis]

My conservative page got blocked by Facebook
By  Todd Starnes 
Published May 16, 2016
FoxNews.com


I am the bad boy of Facebook.

I earned that badge of honor back in 2013 when Facebook blocked my page and removed a message I had posted that invoked Paula Deen, the National Rifle Association and Jesus Christ. Here’s what I wrote:

"I'm about as politically incorrect as you can get. I'm wearing an NRA ball cap, eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich, reading a Paula Deen cookbook and sipping a 20-ounce sweet tea while sitting in my Cracker Barrel rocking chair with the Gaither Vocal Band singing 'Jesus Saves' on the stereo and a Gideon's Bible in my pocket. Yes sir, I'm politically incorrect and happy as a June bug."

The folks over at Facebook took great offense to that message.

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"We removed this from Facebook because it violates our Community Standards," Facebook wrote me. "So you're temporarily blocked from using this feature."

I wasn't even allowed to post our daily Bible verse -- a popular feature called "Morning Glory -- Start Your Day Inspired."

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For the record, I really do have a Cracker Barrel rocking chair, I'm quite fond of sweet tea, I love Chick-fil-A, I'm a huge fan of Southern Gospel music, I own several Paula Deen cookbooks and I'm a proud member of the National Rifle Association.

Does that make me a bad person?

I was genuinely perplexed by Facebook's censors – befuddled even.

So I decided to investigate Facebook's community standards – which at best – are rather vague. Among its commandments were bans on nudity, bullying, harassment, graphic content, pornography and spam.

For the record, I require all of our followers to wear pants and Miss Paula was not doing anything unladylike with a stick of butter.

It is true that one of my daily postings included some spam – a delicious recipe for a fried spam sandwich.

It's even more puzzling that they would target a patriotic, conservative website like mine when they allow a host of vulgar, violent and pornographic sites to stay in business.

Among the sites I found just this morning:

“F*** Donald Trump”

“F*** Sarah Palin Hoe A** B****

“Tea Party Can Kiss My A**”

“Rush Limbaugh is an Abject A******”

Had I been reading Saul Alinsky's “Rules For Radicals,” wearing a Planned Parenthood ball cap and smoking a joint, Facebook would've left me alone.

Facebook's decision to block me generated quite a bit of outrage. Don't choke on your Fruit Loops, but even the folks over at The Washington Post came to my defense.

And a few hours after banning me, Facebook had a change of heart.

"A member of our team accidentally removed something you posted on Facebook," they told me in an email. "This was a mistake and we sincerely apologize for this error."

Since that fateful day, I’ve noticed that my page has been subjected to random censorship by the Facebook gods. I’ve received dozens of complaints from readers who tell me my content no longer appears on their pages. In some cases, Facebook won’t allow them to share my postings.

And I’ve lost count of the number of fellow conservative writers whose pages have been blocked, banned or censored.

So I wasn’t all that surprised when a group of former Facebook workers told the tech news website Gizmodo that they put a liberal spin on “Trending Topics” – and routinely censored conservative news.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the allegations.

“Facebook stands for giving everyone a voice,” he wrote in a Facebook posting. “We believe the world is better when people from different backgrounds and with different ideas all have the power to share their thoughts and experiences. That’s what makes social media unique.”

Mr. Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with some conservative newsmakers later this week to address the allegations that Facebook suppressed conservative content.

“The reason I care so much about this is that it gets to the core of everything Facebook is and everything I want it to be,” he wrote. “Every tool we build is designed to give more people a voice and bring our global community together. For as long as I'm leading this company this will always be our mission.”

I really want to believe that Mr. Zuckerberg’s social networking platform is a place where anyone can share anything –a place that gives people a voice -- including people who ascribe to traditional American values.

Because any community that frowns upon the Good Book and sweet tea is a community that violates my personal standards.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/05/16/my-conservative-page-got-blocked-by-facebook.html?intcmp=hplnws

[Dos Equis]

Speech by conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos shut down by protesters at DePaul — police and security don’t intervene
By Eugene Volokh May 25

Robby Soave (Reason’s Hit & Run) has more on the incident, with links. He also notes that DePaul demanded $1,000 for security from the College Republicans, who invited Yiannopoulos, as a condition of allowing him to speak. I think universities shouldn’t do that, but instead assure the safety of speakers and students as part of their own responsibility — but if they do charge the money, shouldn’t they at least give the organizers their money’s worth?

The student independent newspaper, DePaulia, has a similar story. One account by a participant (Michael Sitver, writing in an independent blog post at the Huffington Post) who says he talked to the police officers reports that the officers “wanted to do their job, and remove the protesters, but administrators demanded they stand passively and watch.”

The DePaulia article has this reaction from two DePaul student government officials, who suggest that Yiannopoulos should not have been allowed to speak in the first place, and that excluding him would have been “more neutral”:

Others like former Student Government Association senator and to-be EVP of Student Affairs Andrew Willett and to-be senator Michael Lynch said the university should have stepped in beforehand.

“I personally believe the university should not continue with events that are this controversial,” Willett said. “I think they should try to stay a little more neutral. This creates a hostile environment for learning, and our students are not in the best spots right now. Student safety is first and foremost, and this is not productive.”

DePaul University President Dennis H. Holtschneider issued this statement; I was not impressed by it, but you can decide for yourselves what you think:

I am writing from France, where Fr. Udovic and I are leading a mission trip to introduce our trustees to the life and legacy of St. Vincent de Paul. Because today is a free day, a number of us are spending the day in Normandy, touring the museum, walking the famous beaches of the D-Day landings and standing silent before the rows and rows of graves honoring the men and women who gave their lives so others might live in freedom.

I tell you this because I awoke this morning to the reports and online videos of yesterday’s speech by Milo Yiannopoulos and the accompanying protest. I was sorry to see it.

Mr. Yiannopoulos and I share very few opinions. He argues that there is no wage gap for women, a difficult position to maintain in light of government data. As a gay man, he has claimed that sexual preference is entirely a choice, something few if any LGTBQ individuals would claim as their own experience. He claims that white men have fewer privileges than women or people of color, whom he believes are unfairly privileged in modern society — a statement that is immediately suspect when white men continue to occupy the vast majority of top positions in nearly every major industry.

Generally, I do not respond to speakers of Mr. Yiannopoulos’ ilk, as I believe they are more entertainers and self-serving provocateurs than the public intellectuals they purport to be. Their shtick is to shock and incite a strong emotional response they can then use to discredit the moral high ground claimed by their opponents. This is unworthy of university discourse, but not unfamiliar across American higher education. There will always be speakers who exploit the differences within our human community to their own benefit, blissfully unconcerned with the damage they leave behind.

Now that our speaker has moved on to UC Santa Barbara and UCLA, we at DePaul have some reflecting and sorting out to do. Student Affairs will be inviting the organizers of both the event and the protest — as well as any others who wish — to meet with them for this purpose. I’ve asked them to reflect on how future events should be staffed so that they proceed without interruption; how protests are to be more effectively assisted and enabled; and how the underlying differences around race, gender and orientation that were made evident in yesterday’s events can be explored in depth in the coming academic year.

As this proceeds, I wish to make a few matters crystal clear.

Yesterday’s speaker was invited to speak at DePaul, and those who interrupted the speech were wrong to do so. Universities welcome speakers, give their ideas a respectful hearing, and then respond with additional speech countering the ideas. I was ashamed for DePaul University when I saw a student rip the microphone from the hands of the conference moderator and wave it in the face of our speaker.

I was alarmed when I watched individual students on both sides intentionally provoking the others with inflammatory language, but I was proud when I saw students — many students — working to calm each other, and at times, even hold people back from hasty decisions. Many of our students understood that protests only work when people conduct themselves honorably. I wish to thank all of them for self-monitoring the crowd’s behavior. The experience could have been a far worse experience had they not done so.

I wish to thank our Student Affairs staff, Public Safety team, Student Center employees, Chicago police and temporary contract safety personnel. They were thrust into an unexpected and challenging situation that we must examine for hard learned lessons. I am grateful that the situation was calmed and dispersed without serious injury to anyone’s person. I know the staff, too, are reflecting on these events and what might be learned for the future.

On behalf of the university, I apologize to the DePaul College Republicans. ​They deserved an opportunity to hear their speaker uninterrupted, and were denied it.

Here in Normandy, I expected to be moved by the generosity of those who gave their lives on the beaches early on June 6, 1944. I did not expect, however, to be shocked when I realized that most of the soldiers were the same ages as our students today. The rows on rows of white crosses in the American cemetery speak to the selflessness of the human spirit at early adulthood to lay down their lives for a better world.

I realize that many of yesterday’s protesters hold similarly noble goals for a more inclusive world for those traditionally held aside by our society. I realize also that these young soldiers died for all the freedoms enshrined in our Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech and assembly. ​We honor their sacrifice best if we, too, remember and honor all the rights of human freedom, even as we fight for more freedom and justice for all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/25/speech-by-conservative-speaker-milo-yiannopoulos-shut-down-by-protesters-at-depaul-police-and-security-dont-intervene/

[Soul Crusher]

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/06/20/justice-department-replaces-allah-with-god-in-censored-orlando-terrorist-transcript-n2181111


 

[Dos Equis]

Conservative Speaker Ben Shapiro: ‘This Is How Free Speech Dies’
Aug. 1, 2016    
Carly Hoilman

Another university has reportedly banned conservative pundit Ben Shapiro from speaking at a campus event.

The decision was announced Monday in a blog post published on Shapiro’s Daily Wire. In the post, John Minster, vice president of DePaul University’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter, lamented the collapse of free thought and discussion on the increasingly liberal American campus scene.

“Given the experiences and security concerns that some other schools have had with Ben Shapiro speaking on their campuses, DePaul cannot agree to allow him to speak on our campus at this time,” the university’s vice president of facilities operations reportedly told YAF in an email last week.

Following the announcement, both Shapiro and YAF provided statements to Minster.

“It’s both pathetic and predictable that the University is happy to grant a veto on speakers to snowflake leftists so long as the leftists threaten violence,” Shapiro said. “This is how free speech dies: when people in power cave to the bullies rather than standing up for basic rights.”

“If DePaul cannot trust its delicate liberal snowflake students and administrators to allow Ben to speak his mind safely and freely, it has utterly failed in its mission to ‘[foster] a community that welcomes open discourse.’ Make no mistake, any security concerns we face on campuses are 100 percent incited by the censorious, intolerant Left,” YAF said.

Minster cited the decision to ban Shapiro as evidence that the fundamental American values listed in the First Amendment are “under attack” in the realm of higher education.

Shapiro’s former fellow Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was also banned from speaking at DePaul after the conservative provocateur spoke at an on-campus event earlier this year and drew angry crowds of student activists.

It’s not the first time a university tried to block Shapiro from sharing his perceived controversial political views with students. In February, he was banned from speaking at California State University Los Angeles after protesters pressured administrators by deeming Shapiro’s message to be one of racism and intolerance.

Minster concludes his post with a personal account of his first days at DePaul. He described the confidence he felt that “DePaul, while it was likely opposed to most conservative values, would still allow conservative speakers like Ben Shapiro to be heard just the same as they have other speakers like convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh; that DePaul, while undoubtedly liberal, would still uphold the founding values of freedom of speech and expression.”

“I hope I wasn’t wrong,” Minster writes.

The post ends with a plea from DePaul’s YAF chapter, urging the university “to reverse this disgraceful decision.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/08/01/depaul-university-reportedly-bans-conservative-speaker-ben-shapiro-this-is-how-free-speech-dies/

[Dos Equis]

More from the generation of thin-skinned sissies we are breeding at our colleges and universities.  It should be the marketplace of ideas, pro and con, not some place where "offensive" viewpoints get censored. 

Student body vice president writes a ‘forget Black Lives Matter’ post, and a university erupts
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
August 1, 2016

In the emotional hours after five police officers were shot and killed during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas last month, Rohini Sethi vented on Facebook.

“Forget #BlackLivesMatter;” wrote Sethi, the vice president of the Student Government Association at the University of Houston. “More like AllLivesMatter.”

The post was deleted shortly afterward, but not before word spread through the campus of nearly 43,000 students.

Minority student organizations denounced the post as hateful and inflammatory — unbecoming of a student leader elected to represent the entire student body and who receives a stipend from student fees.

In the ensuing days, minority student organizations would call for her to resign or be ousted from office. A hashtag was born: #RemoveRohini.

. . . .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/01/student-body-vice-president-writes-a-forget-black-lives-matter-post-and-a-university-erupts/?tid=sm_fb

[Dos Equis]

Student facing 50 day suspension for saying 'All Lives Matter'
By Todd Starnes 
Published August 03, 2016 
FoxNews.com

Politically correct tyranny is afoot at the University of Houston.

I was recently made aware of a student at the university who was suspended for 50 days by the student government association and ordered to attend diversity training over a reference she made about the Black Lives Matter crowd. (She can still go to class but she can't participate in student government activities.)

“#ForgetBlackLivesMatter; more like AllLivesMatter,” wrote Rohini Sethi, the vice president of the school’s student government association.

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Ms. Sethi wrote those words last month just a few hours after five Dallas police officers were assassinated.

Her belief that every life matters set off a firestorm of controversy among students – including the Black Student Union.

They were among several predominantly African-American groups who demanded that Ms. Sethi be punished for exercising her First Amendment rights.

“For her to say on her social media ‘forget black lives matter,’ it’s almost as if to say if all of us were to die tomorrow, she wouldn’t care,” BSU president Kadidja Kone told the Washington Post.

“Just for her to say, ‘forget Black Lives Matter,’ is a punch in the stomach, student Nala Hughes told ABC 13 News in Houston.

The 100 Collegiate Men, an organization for black students, also condemned the idea that all lives matter.

“As of today, African American students do not feel welcome, comfortable, represented, valued or even acknowledged at the University of Houston,” read a statement provided to the Post. “Students at the University of Houston want to feel adequately represented. They do not feel that this is being accomplished as long as Rohini Sethi is in office.”

In order to placate the torches and pitchfork mob, the student government association gave SGA President Shane Smith full authority to mete out a punishment.

And Mr. Smith was more than happy to oblige.

According to the Daily Cougar, Ms. Sethi was suspended from government activities for 50 days.

She was also ordered to attend three cultural events each month, write a letter of reflection on her Facebook posting and make a public presentation “detailing the knowledge she has gained about cultural issues facing our society.”

She was also ordered to attend mandatory diversity training – basically a form of ideological conversion therapy.

It’s ironic because I thought the academic lefties were opposed to conversion therapy.

"The First Amendment prevents a person from being jailed by the government for what they say,” Mr. Smith wrote in a statement. “The First Amendment does not prevent people from receiving other consequences for what they say, including workplace discipline."

I suspect had jail been an option, Mr. Smith would’ve tossed Ms. Sethi in county lockup – just to teach her a lesson.

“It is a fair point that one ignorant social media post alone may not warrant such sanctions,” he wrote. “However, serving in a public role means that we are held to a higher standard – and rightfully so.”

Oh, so Mr. Smith is a school yard bully. I’m certain he will grow up to be a fine community organizer.

But while Mr. Smith’s actions are reprehensible, they are not nearly as reprehensible as the actions of the grownups who actually run the University of Houston.

They provided a statement to the Houston Press – trying to distance themselves from the actions of the student government association.

"The University of Houston continues to stand firm in support of free speech and does not discipline students for exercising their Constitutional rights,” the statement read.

That’s true. They just let power-hungry little fascists-in-training do their dirty work.

Such cowardice!

Ms. Sethi did not return messages seeking comment – but she did post a statement on Facebook.

“I disagree with the sanctions taken against me by my SGA because I believe I have done a great deal to better understand the controversy I caused,” she wrote. “I have also apologized for my words because no student should feel as though I do not have their best interests at heart. Even so, I will abide by the sanctions for as long as they are in place.

Ms. Sethi has done nothing to warrant an apology.

What happened to this young lady is despicable and detestable. She was publically shamed and verbally flogged because she believes every life has value.

But such an opinion is no longer allowed at the University of Houston -- where free speech has been strung up by a politically correct lynch mob.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/08/03/student-facing-50-day-suspension-for-saying-all-lives-matter.html

[Dos Equis]

University Program Director Forced to Resign for Pro-Trump Remark
BY: AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO
NOVEMBER 14, 2016

On Thursday, University of Rochester's Ted Pawlicki was pressured to step down as undergraduate program director of the Department of Computer Science after posting a pro-Trump remark in the school’s anti-Trump and anti-America protest Facebook page following the election. Pawlicki made the grave sin of not only having a differing view than the masses at the upstate New York school, but having the audacity to vocalize it. Moreover, seemingly all other dissent from professors, school officials and students—from the anti-Trump strain—were not only tolerated but encouraged.

On Wednesday, Professor Pawlicki rebutted the school’s anti-American protest with a joke administered via his personal Facebook account. The professor posted the following comment on the school’s “#NotMyAmerica” protest page: “A bus ticket from Rochester to Canada is $16. If this is not your America, then I will pay for your ticket if you promise to never come back.”



“I have reported this as a bias incident report,” wrote student Caleb Krieg.

Many other campus snowflakes were also gravely “offended.”

“Shocking, tone-deaf and insensitive to the students that you teach. Shame on you,” wrote another student, Julie DeLuca.

“This is why women and minorities don’t feel welcome in the computer science department,” wrote student Bethany Gardner, although Pawlicki made no connection to women or minorities…?

Perhaps these students should have never left their safe spaces and continued coloring, holding hands and blowing bubbles, or whatever it is that these frail folks do to avoid reality and dissent.

"It was intended to be humorous, actually," Pawlicki told The Democrat and Chronicle. "Moving to Canada (in reaction to presidential election outcomes) has been a joke since the Reagan administration. I didn't intend it to be malicious, certainly. I don't think there's anything malicious about it, either."

"Pawlicki said he had directed the undergraduate computer science program for 18 years and that, 'I love the job.' He said he would continue in his role as a senior lecturer, an untenured teaching faculty position," reports the D&C.

"It was suggested that I step down (as director) by my chair and my dean and I took their advice," said Pawlicki.

Of course, all the anti-Trump dissent at the university was oddly a-okay.

After the apparently devastating and emotionally crippling election loss of Hillary, the school exploded with grief and anti-Trump and anti-America protests. One student who spoke to the Daily Wire, and wished to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, told us that “liberal professors have been openly voicing their opinions in classrooms this entire week, and even pushing exams back for students who are ‘emotionally hurt’ [by the election].” The University of Rochester President Joe Seligman even sent out an email on Wednesday to assure students "we are a safe place" and the campus sent out notifications offering free counseling for anyone "struggling" with "last night's election."

Below is a screenshot of the hysterical #NotMyAmerica protest email invite sent to students on campus, which paints all Republicans as racist, sexist bigots.


Screenshot: Twitter

Pawlicki was compelled to repent for his act of blasphemy, issuing an apology letter and stepping down from his position as program director.

“These remarks were ill-considered,” Pawlicki wrote, “and I deeply regret any and all hurt they occasioned.”

“After reflecting on the impact my remarks have had on students, and following consultation with Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, Dean of Hajim School, and Dr. Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chair of Computer Science, I have decided to step down from the position of Undergraduate Program Director for Computer Science,” he said.


'Screenshot: Twitter

Students are now claiming that Pawlicki has previously made female students feel "unwelcome," although this is has never been brought to his attention before, Pawlicki says.

"His recent Facebook post was unprofessional and upset many students, but what it also did was prompt students to share similar instances in which Pawlicki has shown bias against women," said senior Lance Floto. "Female students have told me they do not feel comfortable in his class or visiting his office hours."

"Some students have claimed they dropped his classes in the past because of his online remarks," reports the Campus Times.

Pawlicki told the Campus Times "that he was unaware of any students who had dropped his classes for that reason."

The Daily Wire reached out to Mr. Pawlicki for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/10766/university-professor-steps-down-program-director-amanda-prestigiacomo#

[Soul Crusher]

Lol at Libfags.   What a bunch of losers and vaginas

[Dos Equis]

Confrontation/Marxist Anti-Free Speech Tactics start at 2:30

[mazrim]

University Program Director Forced to Resign for Pro-Trump Remark
BY: AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO
NOVEMBER 14, 2016

On Thursday, University of Rochester's Ted Pawlicki was pressured to step down as undergraduate program director of the Department of Computer Science after posting a pro-Trump remark in the school’s anti-Trump and anti-America protest Facebook page following the election. Pawlicki made the grave sin of not only having a differing view than the masses at the upstate New York school, but having the audacity to vocalize it. Moreover, seemingly all other dissent from professors, school officials and students—from the anti-Trump strain—were not only tolerated but encouraged.

On Wednesday, Professor Pawlicki rebutted the school’s anti-American protest with a joke administered via his personal Facebook account. The professor posted the following comment on the school’s “#NotMyAmerica” protest page: “A bus ticket from Rochester to Canada is $16. If this is not your America, then I will pay for your ticket if you promise to never come back.”



“I have reported this as a bias incident report,” wrote student Caleb Krieg.

Many other campus snowflakes were also gravely “offended.”

“Shocking, tone-deaf and insensitive to the students that you teach. Shame on you,” wrote another student, Julie DeLuca.

“This is why women and minorities don’t feel welcome in the computer science department,” wrote student Bethany Gardner, although Pawlicki made no connection to women or minorities…?

Perhaps these students should have never left their safe spaces and continued coloring, holding hands and blowing bubbles, or whatever it is that these frail folks do to avoid reality and dissent.

"It was intended to be humorous, actually," Pawlicki told The Democrat and Chronicle. "Moving to Canada (in reaction to presidential election outcomes) has been a joke since the Reagan administration. I didn't intend it to be malicious, certainly. I don't think there's anything malicious about it, either."

"Pawlicki said he had directed the undergraduate computer science program for 18 years and that, 'I love the job.' He said he would continue in his role as a senior lecturer, an untenured teaching faculty position," reports the D&C.

"It was suggested that I step down (as director) by my chair and my dean and I took their advice," said Pawlicki.

Of course, all the anti-Trump dissent at the university was oddly a-okay.

After the apparently devastating and emotionally crippling election loss of Hillary, the school exploded with grief and anti-Trump and anti-America protests. One student who spoke to the Daily Wire, and wished to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, told us that “liberal professors have been openly voicing their opinions in classrooms this entire week, and even pushing exams back for students who are ‘emotionally hurt’ [by the election].” The University of Rochester President Joe Seligman even sent out an email on Wednesday to assure students "we are a safe place" and the campus sent out notifications offering free counseling for anyone "struggling" with "last night's election."

Below is a screenshot of the hysterical #NotMyAmerica protest email invite sent to students on campus, which paints all Republicans as racist, sexist bigots.


Screenshot: Twitter

Pawlicki was compelled to repent for his act of blasphemy, issuing an apology letter and stepping down from his position as program director.

“These remarks were ill-considered,” Pawlicki wrote, “and I deeply regret any and all hurt they occasioned.”

“After reflecting on the impact my remarks have had on students, and following consultation with Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, Dean of Hajim School, and Dr. Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chair of Computer Science, I have decided to step down from the position of Undergraduate Program Director for Computer Science,” he said.


'Screenshot: Twitter

Students are now claiming that Pawlicki has previously made female students feel "unwelcome," although this is has never been brought to his attention before, Pawlicki says.

"His recent Facebook post was unprofessional and upset many students, but what it also did was prompt students to share similar instances in which Pawlicki has shown bias against women," said senior Lance Floto. "Female students have told me they do not feel comfortable in his class or visiting his office hours."

"Some students have claimed they dropped his classes in the past because of his online remarks," reports the Campus Times.

Pawlicki told the Campus Times "that he was unaware of any students who had dropped his classes for that reason."

The Daily Wire reached out to Mr. Pawlicki for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/10766/university-professor-steps-down-program-director-amanda-prestigiacomo#

How anyone can take a job at these places is beyond me. I couldn't live with the stupidity/hypocrisy.

[Yamcha]

Wonder why we don't here about this on our news outlets??? 

http://archive.is/cftNS

New Yorker charged in ’Nice-style Truck Attack in Times Square’ terrorism plot - report

A Brooklyn, New York resident has been charged by federal authorities for supporting terrorism, after making online postings supporting ISIS in plotting to commit an attack in Times Square similar to that in Nice, France.
The man has been identified as Mohammed Rafik Naji, 37, a legal US resident originally from Yemen, according to NBC News investigative reporter Tom Winter.
Naji made several online posts in support of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Winter said, citing the federal complaint.

[Irongrip400]

How anyone can take a job at these places is beyond me. I couldn't live with the stupidity/hypocrisy.

I was thinking the same thing. Pretty lame. I've got a book called "Liberal Facism" about this very thing.

[Yamcha]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/21/university-new-hampshire-professors-call-trump-supporters-expelled/

Professors want students suspended for silently protesting the anti-Trump protestors, while dressed as Nixon and Harambe.

[Dos Equis]

University of Oregon Professors Could Be Fired If They Offend Students

by TOM CICCOTTA
29 Dec 2016
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Last week, administrators at the University of Oregon made it clear to professors that they would be disciplined if they offended students on the subjects of race, gender, sexuality, or religion.

This is a concerning new development considering that this new warning from administrators suggests that professors can be disciplined based upon what students subjectively choose to find offensive. Discipline for remarks made by professors is not limited to bigoted remarks or deliberate racism, but rather any incident that a student may find offensive.

According to The Washington Post, a faculty member could be disciplined for something as innocuous as suggesting that there are biological differences in temperament or talents between men and women.

This time it involved someone making herself up as a black man at a costume party (as it happens, doing so in order to try to send an antiracist message). But according to the university’s logic, a faculty member could be disciplined for displaying the Mohammed cartoons, if it caused enough of a furor. Or a faculty member could be disciplined for suggesting that homosexuality may be immoral or dangerous. Or for stating that biological males who view themselves as female should be viewed as men, not as women. Or for suggesting that there are, on average, biological differences in temperament or talents between men and women.

The warning from administrators came as a result of an incident that occurred in the home a University of Oregon law school professor. The professor, Nancy Shurtz, hosted a Halloween party for some of her students and chose to dress up as a character from the recently acclaimed book, “Black Man in a White Coat.” Shurtz’s decision to dress in blackface, despite the book’s anti-racist message, obviously sparked controversy on campus.

According to Eugene Volokh of The Washington Post, the following acts of expression could be considered harassment under the University of Oregon’s new policy:

Sharp criticism of Islam.
Claims that homosexuality is immoral.
Claims that there are biological differences in aptitude and temperament, on average, between men and women.
Rejection of the view that gender identity can be defined by self-perception, as opposed to biology.
Harsh condemnation of soldiering (that would be harassment based on “service in the uniformed services” or “veteran status”).
Condemnation of people who have children out of wedlock (that would be harassment based on “marital … status” and “family status”).

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/29/5818857/

[Dos Equis]

Silence opposing viewpoints.  A liberal hallmark. 

Trump hints that federal funding could be cut after U.C. Berkeley riot
Published February 02, 2017 
FoxNews.com

President Trump tweeted early Thursday that if schools like University of California, Berkeley, do not allow free speech, it may cost them federal funding.

The tweet was in response to violent protests that were in response to a planned talk on campus Wednesday by Milo Yiannopoulos, a controversial Breitbart News editor. The talk was canceled due to the protests.

Donald J. Trump  ✔@realDonaldTrump
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
1:13 AM - 2 Feb 2017

The decision was made two hours before the event because a crowd of more than 1,500 had gathered outside the venue, the university said in a statement.

"Of paramount importance this evening was the campus's commitment to ensure the safety and security of those attending the event, the speaker, those who came to engage in lawful protest, as well as members of the public and the Berkeley campus community," it said.

The 32-year-old right-wing provocateur is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump and a self-proclaimed internet troll whose comments have been criticized as racist, misogynist, anti-Muslim and white supremacist. He was banned from Twitter after leading a harassment campaign against "Ghostbusters" actress Leslie Jones.

Yiannopoulos' visit to Berkeley was sponsored by the campus Republican club. The university has stressed it did not invite him and does not endorse his ideas but is committed to free speech and rejected calls to cancel the event.

Hundreds of peaceful demonstrators carrying signs that read "Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech" had been protesting for hours before the event.

In the evening, a small group dressed in black and in hooded sweatshirts used metal barricades to break windows, threw smoke bombs and flares, used a diesel generator to start a large bonfire outside the building.

"This was a group of agitators who were masked up, throwing rocks, commercial grade fireworks and Molotov cocktails at officers," said UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennet.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/02/trump-hints-that-federal-funding-could-be-cut-after-u-c-berkeley-riot.html

[Dos Equis]

And here is one of those tolerant liberals pepper spraying a young woman who had the nerve to show up wearing a MAGA hat.

[Yamcha]

And here is one of those tolerant liberals pepper spraying a young woman who had the nerve to show up wearing a MAGA hat.

I'm 85% sure that the hat says "make Bitcoin great again".

Still, she's going to a Milo/Breitbart event at Cal Berkeley. Should have taken her surroundings into account.

EDIT: Yes, Bitcoin

[Straw Man]

Wonder why we don't here about this on our news outlets??? 

http://archive.is/cftNS

New Yorker charged in ’Nice-style Truck Attack in Times Square’ terrorism plot - report

A Brooklyn, New York resident has been charged by federal authorities for supporting terrorism, after making online postings supporting ISIS in plotting to commit an attack in Times Square similar to that in Nice, France.
The man has been identified as Mohammed Rafik Naji, 37, a legal US resident originally from Yemen, according to NBC News investigative reporter Tom Winter.
Naji made several online posts in support of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Winter said, citing the federal complaint.

great question

http://nypost.com/2016/11/21/man-arrested-for-plotting-terror-attack-on-times-square/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fbi-arrests-brooklyn-man-joined-isis-hoped-attack-nyc-article-1.2882425

http://abc7ny.com/news/prosecutors-man-wanted-to-plan-france-style-attack-in-times-square/1618510/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/nyregion/brooklyn-man-arrested-isis.html?_r=0

[Dos Equis]

I had never heard of this Milo Yiannopoulos, but after watching this interview, I like him.  He really exposes how pervasive liberal censorship can be.  Great interview. 

[Yamcha]

Yes, we have countless examples of liberal censorship and lame hurt feelings.

But as a man in the middle, I see plenty of close minded conservatives.
Anything Trump says or does is met with almost GOD like approval.

Objectivity and fair minded judgements are the real victims here.

You can leave or actually contribute something of value to this board (besides your opinions).

[Skeletor]

Yes, we have countless examples of liberal censorship and lame hurt feelings.

But as a man in the middle, I see plenty of close minded conservatives.
Anything Trump says or does is met with almost GOD like approval.

Objectivity and fair minded judgements are the real victims here.

Being close minded in itself is not much of a problem: someone worshiping Obama or Trump as god and ignoring their flaws does not cause much harm to others. The problem starts when people actively try to silence others for their views (real or perceived) and resort to violence and destruction.

[Dos Equis]

Hundreds of campuses encourage students to turn in fellow students for offensive speech
By ADAM STEINBAUGH • 2/21/17

Universities are the cradle of free speech, where ideologies and ideas clash, where academics and activists can agree, disagree, or be disagreeable. This is particularly true in the United States, where the First Amendment zealously guards against government surveillance and intrusion into free speech.

Yet at hundreds of campuses across the country, administrators encourage students to report one another, or their professors, for speech protected by the First Amendment, or even mere political disagreements. The so-called "Bias Response Teams" reviewing these (often anonymous) reports typically include police officers, student conduct administrators and public relations staff who scrutinize the speech of activists and academics.

This sounds like the stuff of Orwell, although even he might have found the name "Bias Response Team" to be over-the-top.

Over the past year, I surveyed more than 230 such reporting systems for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and asked dozens of schools for records about their Bias Response Teams. What I found is detailed in a new report describing how universities broadly define "bias" to include virtually any speech, protected or not, that subjectively offends anyone. On many campuses, administrators are called upon to referee whether speech is polite.

The threat to expressive rights isn't confined to speech from the Left or the Right. Bias reporting systems are being used to report all kinds of speech.

At Appalachian State University, students reported on one another for chalked messages that were pro-Trump as well as chalked messages calling Trump a "RACIST." The former were reported by students as "hate speech," the latter "politically biased slander" that was "unlawful."

While students at Ohio State University reported each other for comparing Hillary Clinton to Hitler, students at Texas Tech were whispering to administrators that the Black Student Union's tweets in support of the Black Lives Matter movement offended them. Meanwhile, the University of Oregon saw it fit to dictate "community expectations" to students who had the audacity to complain about oppression.

Yes, complaining about oppression may bring the Bias Response Team to your dorm room to explain why your views were insufficiently polite, decent, and non-controversial.

These are just a few of the examples we've published so far, and over the next several weeks we plan on publishing more on our website.

What happens when the Bias Response Team is alerted to subversive or offensive speech? Some teams have demonstrated an awareness that a public university cannot (and should not) act to chill protected speech, focusing their efforts instead on supporting students who encounter offensive speech. But others, such as the University of California, San Diego, call upon their lawyers to find "creative" ways to censor offensive speech: in that case, a student newspaper satirizing "safe spaces." (The university is now being sued for these "creative" efforts.)

Many Bias Response Teams respond with what they characterize as an "educational" response. This might sound like a faculty member visiting a student who was reported for racist speech and discussing the Civil Rights movement. But it's not. Rather, it's often an administrator, not an educator, summoning a student or faculty member to a meeting, reprimanding them, and "educating" them about how their words upset someone.

That was the case at the University of Northern Colorado, where an adjunct professor encouraged students to confront views with which they disagreed. When a student sparred with the professor over transgender rights, a debate raging both in the media media and legislative and judicial chambers, the professor was summoned to meet with an administrator, who warned the professor that discussing such issues might result in lengthy investigations.

How will students be able to defend their rights in the legislature or the courts if debating them in the classroom is to be discouraged?

Students face serious instances of harassment, true threats, and other conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment. Yet in asking students to report any and all offensive speech, universities risk undermining their commitment to free discourse and debate.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/students-rat-each-other-out-over-speech/article/2615405

[Dos Equis]

Protesters seek to disrupt Villanova lecture; 3 removed
Students gather outside the Garey Hall auditorium on the on campus of Villanova University to hear controversial social scientist Charles Murray speak on Thursday, March 30, 2017.
by Maria Panaritis, Staff Writer  @panaritism |  mpanaritis@phillynews.com

Villanova University public safety officers removed at least three protesters from a Thursday afternoon lecture by Charles Murray, the controversial social scientist accused of being a white nationalist over his writings about race, economic status and intelligence.

A fourth protester left on his own.

The ejections came amid a heavy police presence outside the law school on the Main Line campus, where Murray had been invited to deliver a lecture titled "What Does Trumpism Mean for Liberty in the Long Run?"

Though planned months ago, his visit comes three weeks after a similar talk at Middlebury College in Vermont sparked violence. Demonstrators there swarmed and rocked a car in which and a professor were riding; the professor with him suffered a concussion.

About a dozen protestors gathered inside and outside the hall, and a few dozen students mulled about outside, but it was unclear if they were observing or participating.

At one point, the few outside protesters began shouting so loudly it disrupted Murray's remarks before 120 ticketed guests.

 "No Murray! No KKK! No fascist USA !" they chanted.

At one point, Murray grew exasperated.

"Okay folks," Murray said from a lectern, "I'm getting a little pissed at this point."

Murray, 74, is known for a 1994 book, The Bell Curve, that drew controversial lines between race, IQ and socio-economics. Critics have complained that it amounted to "scientific racism."

He forcefully defended himself against such claims at Villanova. He had been invited by the Ryan Center, which says it wants to promote civil, economic, and financial liberty; federalism; and the American Constitution. ​

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Murray-lecture-Villanova-protest.html

[TheGrinch]

Protesters seek to disrupt Villanova lecture; 3 removed
Students gather outside the Garey Hall auditorium on the on campus of Villanova University to hear controversial social scientist Charles Murray speak on Thursday, March 30, 2017.
by Maria Panaritis, Staff Writer  @panaritism |  mpanaritis@phillynews.com

Villanova University public safety officers removed at least three protesters from a Thursday afternoon lecture by Charles Murray, the controversial social scientist accused of being a white nationalist over his writings about race, economic status and intelligence.

A fourth protester left on his own.

The ejections came amid a heavy police presence outside the law school on the Main Line campus, where Murray had been invited to deliver a lecture titled "What Does Trumpism Mean for Liberty in the Long Run?"

Though planned months ago, his visit comes three weeks after a similar talk at Middlebury College in Vermont sparked violence. Demonstrators there swarmed and rocked a car in which and a professor were riding; the professor with him suffered a concussion.

About a dozen protestors gathered inside and outside the hall, and a few dozen students mulled about outside, but it was unclear if they were observing or participating.

At one point, the few outside protesters began shouting so loudly it disrupted Murray's remarks before 120 ticketed guests.

 "No Murray! No KKK! No fascist USA !" they chanted.

At one point, Murray grew exasperated.

"Okay folks," Murray said from a lectern, "I'm getting a little pissed at this point."

Murray, 74, is known for a 1994 book, The Bell Curve, that drew controversial lines between race, IQ and socio-economics. Critics have complained that it amounted to "scientific racism."

He forcefully defended himself against such claims at Villanova. He had been invited by the Ryan Center, which says it wants to promote civil, economic, and financial liberty; federalism; and the American Constitution. ​

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Murray-lecture-Villanova-protest.html

LOL @ "scientific racism"

hehe.. scientific facts are racist... amazing

[Dos Equis]

Ann Coulter rejects Berkeley's proposal to reschedule her speech
Published April 21, 2017
FoxNews.com

Ann Coulter said no to a proposal by the University of California, Berkeley, that would reschedule her planned speech on campus -- to a date when no formal classes are in session.

"You cannot impose arbitrary and harassing restrictions on the exercise of a constitutional right," Coulter told "Hannity" on Thursday night. "None of this has to do with security."

The conservative commentator initially agreed to speak at Berkeley on April 27 after college Republicans invited her, but the school canceled on Wednesday citing threats of rioting and other violence. Still, Coulter said she would show up anyway.

ANN COULTER VOWS TO SPEAK AT BERKELEY AFTER EVENT CALLED OFF
 
"What are they going to do? Arrest me?" she asked Tucker Carlson that evening.

By Thursday, the university announced it could round up the proper security to let her speak on May 2. The school's academic calendar shows that it falls in a "Reading/Review/Recitation Week" after the end of formal classes but before final exams.

"I'm speaking at Berkeley on April 27th, as I was invited to do and have a contract to do," Coulter tweeted. She also claimed she was unavailable May 2.

NY'S FREE-TUITION PROGRAM BLASTED BY BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT

It was the latest skirmish in a free-speech fight involving conservative voices on college campuses across the country, including at Berkeley. In February, masked rioters at the school smashed windows, set fires, and shut down an appearance by former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Last week, the Berkeley College Republicans said threats of violence forced them to cancel a speech by writer David Horowitz. Writer Charles Murray's appearance at Middlebury saw riots last month, and Heather Mac Donald's speech at Claremont McKenna College was streamed online earlier this month after protesters blocked the door to the venue.

Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks told a news conference that police had "very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker," her audience, and protesters if the event goes ahead next Thursday. He urged Coulter to speak at the later date instead, when the university can provide an "appropriate, protectable venue."

The Berkeley College Republicans invited Coulter to speak on the subject of illegal immigration.

Campus spokesman Dan Moguluf said Coulter's promise "to come to the campus come what may" prompted Dirks to launch an expanded search beyond the usual venues for high-profile speakers to find one where officials can ensure safety.

Berkeley has been the site of clashes between far-right and far-left protesters, most recently at a rally last weekend called in support of President Donald Trump in downtown Berkeley.

Mogulof said campus police learned that some of the groups that appeared to be responsible for the violence last weekend and at the Yiannopoulos event "planned to target the appearance of Ann Coulter on campus."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/21/ann-coulter-rejects-berkeleys-proposal-to-reschedule-her-speech.html