Another example of the left’s ‘war on free speech’. Don’t argue the issue, rather attack the messenger. ====== By Jillian Kay Melchior [ as reported in WSJ 5/9/2017] Usually, when junior professors publish scholarly articles, they are lucky to elicit more than a yawn. But last week the philosophical musings of Rebecca Tuvel, an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., provoked... Read more
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
A Philosopher Gets Pilloried
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftLetters about “Evil White Men”
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, StupiditySome of the best letters I’ve read in a long time… ===== WSJ 4/28/2017 A ‘Snowflake’ Blizzard Buries Free Thought In “Those ‘Snowflakes’ Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus” (op-ed, April 22), Heather Mac Donald suggests the source of “snowflake” behavior among millennials on college campuses comes from a cultural orientation that is contra-Occidental and that students view themselves as victims of... Read more
Middlebury’s Principles Require Discipline – Letters
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftThese comments in Letters to the Editor, are very, very good. ========== WSJ Letters to the Editor, 3/14/2017 Jay Parini and Keegan Callanan, professors at Middlebury College, have set out principles for their institution following the campus mob action that prevented Charles Murray “from communicating with his audience.” (“Middlebury’s Statement of Principle,” op-ed, March 7). Setting out principles is the easy part. The challenge... Read more
McCarthyism At Middlebury
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI hope that Mr Henninger is correct, but I am not betting a lot of money on it. ===== Daniel Henniger, WSJ 3/11/2017 The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the... Read more
The Mob at Middlebury
March 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correct, The LeftAnd the coverage and outrage? ====== WSJ March 3, 2017 7:15 p.m. ET Once again a scholar invited to speak at a university has been shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually. On Thursday at Middlebury College, allegedly an institution of higher learning, a crowd of protesters tried to run Charles Murray off campus. Mr. Murray is the... Read more
