Newsletter on UCCS: 'Veterans should be banned from four-year universities'
So, this leads me to wonder, if this is free speech, how does it differ from a KKK ralley, or a BLM rally? All would be considered free speech yet only those they despise get castigated. Hate is obviously a one sided affair, which goes back to what philosophical roots got so screwed up in our past that bad is good and good is bad. and transference of characteristics is passed by one group to another. "All military are white supremacists and racists" seems so utterly false as to be babble. Yet they will ban them and allow their freeloading 18yo HS grads to come get a free ride on student loans they refuse to repay, and that is all moral and good. I am rapidly heading to Heinlein' philosophy of requiring 4 year service for citizenship and privileges like college....
Drafted Bama boy me will never forget my first Parris Island shower back in 1969. Due to my segregated schooling, being surrounded by so much naked black skin was a bit of a shock.
Maybe me dino should look some of those fellow Marines up because we were trained to only be the color green, ya know.
All of us green white supremacists could dress up in assorted white racist costumes, surround a Confederate statue to sing "Dixie" and then form up to goosestep around it while singing "Das Deutschlanied."
I'm sick of this time I'm living in.
"Second, many students are frightened by the presence of veterans in their classrooms. Veterans usually have an overwhelming presence in the classroom, which can distract other students. This is usually true for vulnerable individual such as LGBTQQI2SAA, who have been known to be the butt of insensitive jokes made by veterans."
The more I see this stuff the more I think it is just another brick in the wall of whoever is morphing our society into the complete useless corrupt mess it is heading too. The person can't be found and they sputter all the classic liberal BS and blame and use such precise language as "many", and "everyone", indicating they have no real clue at all to what they are saying, they are just encasing a propaganda message, to generate a response.
now much harder to get a job.
But I have a similar feeling to something Ayn Rand once said, that she was glad to be old, not to
have to be around to see certain things. And it is
tempting to get into the same mood, because of seeing the attitudes that are getting so widespread.
This pie chart presents the race of Active Duty and Selected Reserve members across the DoD. Members who report themselves as White represent the largest proportion of the total DoD force (70.7%), while Black or African American members represent 17.0 percent. Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander members make up 4.0 percent, 1.1 percent, and 0.9 percent, respectively. Over two percent (2.5%) of members report themselves as Multi-racial.
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The person who suggested it said that some of the kids came to him for more information. I imagine the "teacher" would not call on you more than once, but that once could be very interesting and helpful to others.
Not even part of the Vietnam conflict (I was a spook), as an Air Force officer I was accused of being a baby killer by long haired draft dodgers, who only dimly understood the American military. Going to an all volunteer military has only further distanced a largely inexperienced public from service members. We're more efficient, but at what social cost?
Nick, like you, I'm beginning to lean toward Heinlein's idea of mandatory service before voting rights are granted.
I'd started to wonder if the author got a Scrabble game for Christmas, but then I realized two things.
One, there's only one 'Q' and no numbers in a Scrabble set (although there are blank tiles).
Two, he couldn't have gotten it as a Christmas present because he probably is among those who sue people and companies when they wish the world a Merry Christmas.
(1) "In order to provide a safe place for all students, extremist right-wing groups must be suppressed on campus." Using the word "suppressed" gives it away, for me. The argument is normally phrased "intolerance will not be allowed," which leads to the criticism of "intolerant of intolerance" and the pushback against phrasing it even that way. The preferred artiulation of this perspective presents it as a negative or something good (like "not okay"
versus "bad") rather than "positive action taken to silence you" (which admits the use-force-to-silence reality that the supporters deny).
(2) Similarly, the sentence right before that one: "Finally, veterans usually are associated with extremists right-wing groups such as the tea party and the NRA." Take the point from (1) and expand it to include any member of the NRA or anyone who supports anything the NRA does, we'd get most republicans. Being generous, let's say it's not actually half but only a third of the voting citizens.... a THIRD? Surely this sentence is only highlighting the ridiculous logic seen at universities regarding the banning of "controversial" speakers (i.e., anyone who doesn't espouse the correct opinion, though that opinion may be vehemently opposed by ~50% of the population, including the banned speaker). It cannot be serious... can it?
(3)"LGBTQQI2SAA." I guess someone may be willing to type it out in a printed publication... but even the most long-winded and in-your-face Fa (aka "anti"fa) supporters I know would only say LGBTQIA.
(4) "Veterans should be allowed to attend trade schools, or maybe even community college." This doesn't make sense to me -- if the concern is the white supremacist culture that's the same in military culture, why allow any non-Fa to get any education (i.e., to allow those who have been "permanently tainted" to exist ANYWHERE would allow them to "taint" something)?
Anyway, if it is serious, at least we're seeing what's supposed to happen when bad ideas come to light: people rejecting the idea as horrible rather than physically attacking someone who dared to articulate a minority opinion but expressed it in a safe, unconfrontational, and constitutionally protected manner and forum.
The referenced reads like a typical Newsertainment story, using riot and racism to get the reader wound up and irate, and doing so hold you with their barbed hooks to addict you to their blather (and dump ads in front of you...)
To me, it's a symptom of the fatal disease that exposes the loss of intelligence and ability to critically discern that plagues the "first world" populace, and especially those here in the USA.
"The news station adds that every single student they interviewed disagreed with the flyer’s sentiments, and students have also been taking them down."
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