I would like to understand why the actions of students on college campuses is always equated to "Democrats" or "Liberals." If you talk to these students they don't call themselves members of the Democratic party. It would be super helpful if people would stop framing them like they are Democrats.
I would like to understand why the actions of students on college campuses is always equated to "Democrats" or "Liberals." If you talk to these students they don't call themselves members of the Democratic party. It would be super helpful if people would stop framing them like they are Democrats.
I think its because they don't like aithoritarian/fascist speech. The current conservative stars are identified by what groups and ideas they dislike. I'm sometimes conservative in terms of economics, but I don't like the DiSantis style bully conservative.
Because the Right has managed to construct (and have accepted) a narrative that academic institutions of higher learning are hotbeds of liberalism/progressivism that are closely associated with the Democratic Party.
The framing and maintenance of that narrative are intentional.
I'd just like Charlie to apply something like an even standard to the other side in these blowups as he does the students. This is at least the second time that Charlie has explicitly dismissed Judge Duncan's own words and actions *at the event at Stanford* as "beside the point".
There's a related point that charlie misses: the choice to bring speaker x is also a choice not to bring speaker y, life being a zero sum. If I were a student and I saw a semi-fascist like charlie kirk invited, I would be infuriated.
I wouldn't shout him down but the idea that I must stand by idly when semi-fascist scum who themselves have no interest in free speech are brought to campus because I have an obligation to semi-fascists is a perversion.
Fwiw, I would protest loudly outside and I would work to get the people who misspent student funds to invite such scum removed from their ability to abuse the system.
I would like to understand why the actions of students on college campuses is always equated to "Democrats" or "Liberals." If you talk to these students they don't call themselves members of the Democratic party. It would be super helpful if people would stop framing them like they are Democrats.
I think its because they don't like aithoritarian/fascist speech. The current conservative stars are identified by what groups and ideas they dislike. I'm sometimes conservative in terms of economics, but I don't like the DiSantis style bully conservative.
Because the Right has managed to construct (and have accepted) a narrative that academic institutions of higher learning are hotbeds of liberalism/progressivism that are closely associated with the Democratic Party.
The framing and maintenance of that narrative are intentional.
I donтАЩt like describing the studentsтАЩ behavior as тАЬthuggish.тАЭ Maybe immature or heated, but thuggish? Did any violence occur?
Agreed. Did they throw poop or try beat the speaker with a flag pole?
I'd just like Charlie to apply something like an even standard to the other side in these blowups as he does the students. This is at least the second time that Charlie has explicitly dismissed Judge Duncan's own words and actions *at the event at Stanford* as "beside the point".
There's a related point that charlie misses: the choice to bring speaker x is also a choice not to bring speaker y, life being a zero sum. If I were a student and I saw a semi-fascist like charlie kirk invited, I would be infuriated.
I wouldn't shout him down but the idea that I must stand by idly when semi-fascist scum who themselves have no interest in free speech are brought to campus because I have an obligation to semi-fascists is a perversion.
Maybe the idea for semi-fascists is to semi-shout them down. Full-blown fascists get the full monty.
Fwiw, I would protest loudly outside and I would work to get the people who misspent student funds to invite such scum removed from their ability to abuse the system.
Indeed. The more loathsome the speakers, the more they are genuinely interested in *being* shouted down.
It's the same with school books. You can't afford them all, so....
Good point, JoyousMN