The Good Kind of Blacklist

George Rebane

Well, our little union educated, progressive darlins have once more confirmed the longheld Rebane Doctrine tenet that the Left proscribes free speech wherever it can establish a beachhead of power.  You can feel visible hatred from these mobs of ‘university students’ against those who disagree with them, and more importantly, also those who don’t support their views with sufficient vigor.  They have no idea about the First Amendment simply because it and its place in American society has never been taught to them.

On college campuses in the 1960s, was it not their grandparents who relied on the First Amendment to support and protect their open protests against the government and university administrations?  It used to be that a university was anything but a safe place for any idea – there ideas were treated to rigorous intellectual enquiry and analysis, and discarded unmercifully when found wanting.

Now the little darlins even banish journalists from covering their rage against a society they deem insensitive to their own needs and demands.  In their public appearances they demonstrate both their ignorance and emotional fragility.  This is the generation that needs ‘trigger warnings’ on all things academic and otherwise that might fracture their brittle countenances.  They now need to set aside ‘safe spaces’ where politically incorrect speech and other communications are barred. 

They abhor violence to such a degree that they do not hesitate to use it against others in order to diminish it in society.  And, of course, they are against all forms of discrimination, stereotyping, and bias, as long as it all conforms to their own peculiar notions of goodness and light.  They rail against McCarthyism blacklisting communists during early cold war years, but today they have no problem blacklisting distinguished Americans from speaking or even setting foot on their campuses.  These young narcissists already know it all to an extent that they stand ready to remake their schools by vetting their own administrations and professors.

Our campuses have long been recognized as havens of collectivist thought.  But now we seem to be entering into a new era of what may at best be described as the lunatics running the asylum.  The progressive administrators and professors have a conundrum on their hands.  Their half-baked and mini-minded spawn are actually putting into practice the proletarian putsches they have been carefully taught.  Since they have been abandoned by their elders, the salvation of the American university now lies in the hands of the remaining serious cohort of students who are there for an education from institutions that can again be made to invite, nurture, and honor all ideas that illuminate and advance the human condition.  No more blacklists about who can and cannot speak about what on campus.

Here is what The Atlantic had to say about ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’.

Comments

[Bill Tozer]

That Atlantic Jounal link you posted should be required reading of all who post here....er...for all our institutions of higher learning. Too many favorite quotes to list them all. Here is but one.

"The presumption that students need to be protected rather than challenged in a classroom is at once infantilizing and anti-intellectual.”
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For me, it all gets down to the old haunting nemeses, lack of emotional soberity, aka, lack of maturity. I am talking to you, yes you, that guy in the mirror. .

[Walt]

This is turning into Berkeley East. But on steroids. These kids are demanding "offencive" speech be criminalized... OK,, so what will they say (or feel) when someone accuses them of what they are saying as "offensive and hurtful"? Or " they" are not giving people the respect they are owed? Let me guess... what they demand will never apply to them... Standard LIB logic.

[George Rebane]

Walt 144pm - I am convinced from a historical perspective that these kids would march us both to the wall in a heartbeat if they could.

[Walt]

No truer words have been written Dr. . Think they would even offer us a cigarett? ( Naa,, it would be harmful to our health and contribute to AGW) Think they would use those "green" bullets?

[fish]

Posted by: Walt | 29 November 2015 at 02:15 PM

Think they would use those "green" bullets

Arrows?

[Russ Steele]

What are these soft shelled snowflakes (SSS) going do when it is time to get a job? I cannot see the job interview going well when HR ask the SSS's some questions outside their safety zone. And, the job applicant starts defining the acceptable workplace standards should a job be offered. If by some fluke, i.e. daddy is on the board of directors, what happens when these little SSSs are given their first review and they have not performed up to company standards, due to a crippling education on how the world works. Where are they going to find a safe place to hide.

[Todd Juvinall]

They have the EEOC Russ. The worst department based on BS next ti the IRS. If you don't like your employer, whine to the EEOC. They will assist with the wall's construction.

[Bill Tozer]

Walt, ear plugs or nerf balls?

[Michael R. Kesti]

It seems that the FUE is PO'd because millennials are reading RR! I suppose he's also none too fond of Dr. Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, who has told his students that OWU is not a day care and that they can go elsewhere if that doesn't suit them.

[Bill Tozer]

What the college coddled are really demanding is respect. Not mutual respect, just that we respect their sensibilities to micro aggression phrases like "America is the land of opportunity." Opps, me bad. I did not include a trigger warning before uttering that banned phrase. Gawd, I wish this was a joke but it is not. How low can we go?

The college cuddled aren't the only ones demanding that respect be given, not earned. And, of course, that respect cannot be mutual. This poor guy can't get no respect either, despite a Nobel Peace Prize. Go figure.

https://www.facebook.com/DcGazette/photos/a.463856493716482.1073741826.463855417049923/717038451731617/?type=3&permPage=1

[Todd Juvinall]

The pictures of the babe pointing at the "intruder" from the press on the this post was a administrative person as I recall. She was a nasty bitch. I watched her on the news loop. My goodness, who would want to live with that?

[George Rebane]

ToddJ 808am - In the news clip I saw, the pictured "babe" was identified as a professor of journalism at the school. If true, that casts the story in a whole new light.

[Bill Tozer]

This true, it's true. But, I heard she was an assistant professor and....drum roll please....she worked for the school paper. Perhaps the babe will be paid compensation for being so wronged and injured by....by......by some group, probably the Privelged Powers that were, and are, and soon to meet their demise. Power to the People and no trespassing allowed.

[Gregory]

No, she is an Ass't Professor of Mass Media with a "courtesy appointment" from the School of Journalism at Mizzou which was promptly dropped.

https://communication.missouri.edu/faculty/click

Easy A classes...if, I suspect, she likes your politics. Why she still has a job after calling for muscle to eject a student journalist doing his job is a mystery.

[Gregory]

Ms. Click:
Ph.D., February 2009 Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dissertation: It’s ‘a good thing’: The commodification of
femininity, affluence and whiteness in the Martha Stewart
phenomenon.
Certificate, May 2000 Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
M.A., February 2000 Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Thesis: Who dunnit?: The utility of theorizing (in)visible
identities in feminist action.
B.B.A., December 1993 Retail Marketing and Women’s Studies, James Madison
University.

[Walt]

Gregory. And not in ONE of those classes she took, did they even touch on the 1ST Amendment, or Bill of Rights. More along the lines of what "O" stated. " A Bill of negative rights".

[Bill Tozer]

Wow Gregory, she is a smart woman. Look at all those awards she done got herself and she even got herself a PHd in something.
What puzzles me is her pic on the faculty site. She seems so nice and welcoming. Then the other pic in Dr. Rebane's post. Is it the same woman, or did someone photoshop one of the two? Boy, them academia experts in something sure are an angry lot. Yep, Todd was right. Count your blessings that you don't have to wake up each morning to the good PHd non-professor. Oh, she knows a lot about editing campus papers and she got herself published!

Melissa A. Click also writes for the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Antenna and the University of Texas at Austin's Flow .

[fish]

Posted by: Michael R. Kesti | 30 November 2015 at 12:16 AM

It surprises you that the biggest narcissist in Nevada County identifies with the most precious snow flakes in academia?

[Gregory]

I'd say she cleans up nice were it not sexist, or that it was an older pic on her faculty page except that's ageist.

Maybe it's the anger...
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ae/43/8e/ae438e8a91e548fe31386f386709c121.jpg

[fish]

Posted by: Gregory | 30 November 2015 at 10:16 AM

You're evil.........and I dig that about you!

[Gregory]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo&app=desktop

It's better with sound and motion... a ringer for Click.

[Bill Tozer]

Wonder what the good non-professor thinks of comedy clubs. I reckon she may conclude this clip does not espouse her world view.
TRIGGER. WARNING

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oo2iBbFGja4

[Bill Tozer]

Ok, last one. To save interest, time and in the spirit of staying on point, please watch our good Advanced Femistist Studies guru starting at the 1:51 mark. It may explain why she gets sooo pissed off when confronted outside the classroom.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3JjyvQzSJI

[Michael R. Kesti]

fish 30Nov15 10:07 AM

No, I'm amused.

Bill Tozer 30Nov15 11:35 AM

Opinions vary but I think the '60's were cool.

[Bill Tozer]

Push back time at Yale. Say it isn't so. Read that some public schools in Rhode Island or somewhere in those parts have banned Halloween because it might offend Jevohah Witnesses. How can Yale keep those two "masters" who dared to cry out and say "lightened up you guys, it's just a Halloween costume." Those two evil doers (husband and wife) just don't get it. Don't they know that dressing up as a Injun or belly dancer or a big burrito demeans the minorities voices and sets us back. Off with their heads!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yale-faculty-members-rally-behind-183104470.html

[Bill Tozer]

Here is a "good kind of blacklist".

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/113015-782988-thomas-sowell-resurgence-of-intolerance-makes-it-vital-for-parents-to-carefully-vet-schools-for-their-kids.htm

[Bill Tozer]

Night night, Gentemen and Lady.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1058849770794923&set=a.150104988336077.28842.100000097305590&type=3&theater

[Bill Tozer]

Hmmm. This makes perfect sense: campus students, you have been had:

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/02/congratulations-student-protesters-you-just-got-used/

[George Rebane]

BillT 519pm - Mr Tozer, you are a keen observer of the human condition, an enjoyable wit, and an excellent writer. I humbly request that you might bring a compendium of these talents to supply a brief synopsis of the very relevant material your research produces and for which you provide the link(s). Readers would greatly benefit from such well crafted thumbnails, and thereby be more motivated to consume the expanded versions that you bring to us. Just a thought.

[Bill Tozer]

Oh Dr. Rebane, I don't even know what a thumbnail is. I did lose two fingernails dredging gold on the N. Fork of the American River back in the day. Flattered, but not quite sure what you are suggesting.
Back to campus speech, and by extension, free speech at home, at play, and in the public square.

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/39305

[George Rebane]

BillT 1052pm - In my 704pm context 'thumbnail' refers to an informative summary of a larger piece or short description of a more complex issue. Well crafted thumbnails embrace the three Cs of effective communication - clear, consistent, and compact. Adding the fourth C of 'compelling' helps, but not all communications need be compelling.

[Bill Tozer]

I will work on the compact part. :)

[Bill Tozer]

Think we have beat this one into the ground concerning free speech, aka, protected speech.
To prepare our middle school and high school students for "higher education", I humbly suggest we ban "The Grapes of Wrath", and any works by Emily Dickerson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Emerson, Emmanuel Kant, B.F. Skinner, Jack London, Dawkins, Hawkin, and Mitchnet. Plus all writings from our Founding Fathers, Abe Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stow, James Joyce, Lenin, Karl Marx....heck, all writings by White Devils. Yep, that is the solution and will lessen any anguish and unmanageable discomfort our students of higher learning may and do experience.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/20ya15/11/20/columbia-student-in-anguish-because-she-has-to-read-books-by-white-people