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Nnanji -> RE: Progressive Education (5/20/2016 9:39:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: crazyml
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
"UMass Amherst students throw temper tantrum at free speech event"
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Students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst set a new high for hysteria Monday night at an event featuring Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Steven Crowder
Protesters shouted obscenities in an effort to silence the speakers, saying they espouse "hate speech"
The event was intended to be a forum and discussion about the use of political correctness on campus, but degenerated into a shouting match as protesters sought to drown out the speakers with cries of “hate speech” and, less imaginatively, “fuck you.”
One of the protesters took it upon herself to pass out literature expressing her concern for the “triggering” event, claiming the speakers “all demonstrate either that you don’t give a shit about people’s trauma and pain and think it’s funny to thrust people into states of panic and distress OR that you fundamentally do not understand what a trigger is, what it means to be triggered, and what a trigger warning is meant to prevent.”...
As the speakers walked onto the stage they were greeted with boos and middle fingers from many audience members, to which Steven Crowder graciously responded with a middle finger of his own.
The speakers were constantly interrupted throughout the event by shouts from the audience to “go home” or that “we don’t want you here,”...
When the protester attempts to interrupt Yiannopoulos at the beginning of the video, Hoff Sommers tells her to “calm down, young lady.” Paying no heed, the protester responds with an impassioned “Fuck you! Fuck you!”
Later on, the young lady begins loudly asserting that “hate speech is not welcome here” and demanding that the speakers “keep your hate speech off this campus,” all while insisting that she is the true embodiment of free speech.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7528
Yes - This behaviour was deplorable. I believe that even drooling right-wing fuckwads should be free to spout their drivel.
That said, Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Steven Crowder are utter utter fuckwads and the fact that they were on a stage together seems pretty engineered to produce a reaction. The reaction was wrong, but you have to look at these people and the vile shit they spout.
Fuck they're almost as stupid as some of the droolers on this board!!
Oh yes, Hoff Sommers is a fuckwad:
Sommers was born in Petaluma, California, to Dolores and Kenneth Hoff.[7] She earned a BA at New York University in 1971, and a PhD in philosophy from Brandeis University in 1979.[7] From 1978 to 1980, Sommers was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. In 1980, she became an assistant professor of philosophy at Clark University, and was promoted to associate professor in 1986. Sommers remained at Clark until 1997, when she became the W.H Brady fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.[7]
Sommers describes "equity feminism" as the struggle based upon "Enlightenment principles of individual justice"[21] for equal legal and civil rights and many of the original goals of the early feminists, as in the first wave of the women's movement. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy categorizes equity feminism as libertarian or classically liberal.[4] She characterizes "gender feminism" as having "transcended the liberalism" of early feminists so that instead of focusing on rights for all, gender feminists view society through the "sex/gender prism" and focus on recruiting women to join the "struggle against patriarchy".[22] Reason reviewed Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women and characterized gender feminism as the action of accenting the differences of genders in order to create what Sommers believes is privilege for women in academia, government, industry, or the advancement of personal agendas.[23][24]
She believes in individual justice and not in gender feminism that creates privilege for women. How deplorable is that? So deplorable we use our "smart" words, like fuckwad, when we discuss her. We certainly shouldn't allow her to speak to students or they might not feel safe.
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