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mac · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:45 pm Post subject:

The hostility of the far right to education brings this quote to mind.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

He was not a snowflake—but some can’t tell the difference.

mat-ty · Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 7850

BOTOX ONE has been cancelled......what a great freaking day...

Laughing

vientomas · Joined: 25 Apr 2000 Posts: 2343

vientomas · Joined: 25 Apr 2000 Posts: 2343

mac · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:23 pm Post subject:

Really? Conservatives make threats? Hurl insults? Complain about being called out for it? The Trumpists only subscribe to some of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

vientomas · Joined: 25 Apr 2000 Posts: 2343

First there is Chelsea Manning (right), who served seven years in military prison for sharing classified documents with Wikileaks before President Obama commuted her sentence. Harvard on Friday morning rescinded her invitation to be a visiting fellow at its Institute of Politics. (While "visiting fellow" sounds like a visiting professorship, it is actually an extended speaking gig in which participants from the world of politics spend about a week interacting with Harvard students and faculty members.)

Reverend James MartinThen came news that the seminary affiliated with Catholic University of America had revoked an invitation to the Reverend James Martin (left) to speak on the campus. Father Martin is the author of several books and, most recently, of Building a Bridge, which argues that the Roman Catholic Church can find positive ways to interact with gay and lesbian Catholics. The book has been much praised by many church leaders, including by bishops. But some conservative Catholic groups have attacked the book.

In both the cases of Manning and of Father Martin, the decisions to revoke invitations followed outrage over the invitations being extended in the first place. Some Republican politicians went so far as to suggest that Harvard should lose all public funding for a decision to invite Manning.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/18/incidents-harvard-and-catholic-universities-run-counter-narrative-about-campus

vientomas · Joined: 25 Apr 2000 Posts: 2343

Last week, Whittier College — my alma mater — hosted California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, in a question-and-answer session organized by Ian Calderon, the Majority Leader of the California State Assembly.

They tried to, anyway.

The event ended early after pro-Trump hecklers, upset about Becerra’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over DACA, continuously shouted slogans and insults at Becerra and Calderon. A group affiliated with the hecklers later boasted that the speakers were “SHOUTED DOWN BY FED-UP CALIFORNIANS” and that the “meeting became so raucous that it ended about a half hour early.”

https://www.thefire.org/hecklers-shout-down-california-attorney-general-assembly-majority-leader-at-whittier-college/

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

I have yet to see ANYONE in the media even TRY to explain how Trump offering people (I think it was the Clemson football team) a SALAD is sexist, as the leftard media are howling. It just goes to show how meaningless all mac's and his entire fringe's stupid constant accusations of racism, homophobia, bigotry, etc. are.