As go the universities, so goes the culture… ============= By SOHRAB AHMARI New York At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university—”a bizarre, parallel dimension,” as Greg Lukianoff, president of the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
How Free Speech Died on Campus
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctWhen the Arab Jews Fled
October 14 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Politically correct, Religious PersecutionI guess it depends on who writes the history books… =========== smaller Larger facebooktwittergoogle pluslinked ininShare.0EmailPrintSave ↓ More . . smaller Larger By LUCETTE LAGNADO Fortunée Abadie is still haunted by the day in 1947 when mobs stormed the Jewish Quarter of the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo, shortly after the United Nations vote that laid the groundwork for the creation of Israel. Aleppo, a city where... Read more
Benghazi Was Obamas 3 a.m. Call
October 5 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Politically correct, The LeftIf only Bush were present, we would hear more… =========== “…. The U.S. ignores warnings of a parlous security situation in Benghazi. Nothing happens because nobody is really paying attention, especially in an election year, and because Libya is supposed to be a foreign-policy success. When something does happen, the administration’s concerns for the safety of Americans are subordinated to considerations of Libyan... Read more
Tolerance and Disclosure
September 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, The LeftThis is what “tolerance” looks like. ============= Sometimes there comes along an idea so wrongheaded that even Michael Bloomberg and the American Civil Liberties Union can’t support it. So it was this summer, when the Democratic mayors of Boston and Chicago declared Chick-fil-A unwelcome in their cities because the mayors disagree with CEO Dan Cathy’s support for “biblical marriage.” New York Mayor Bloomberg... Read more
Exodus
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correct, Radical IslamI know the ‘news’ has been saturated with these stories, but indulge me just this one time… =========== As far as the media were concerned, the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse and a black teenager in Florida were the same story — literally: Angry white male opens fire on “the other,” his deeply ingrained racism inflamed by the tide of toxic... Read more
The Trayvon Martin Tragedies
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, The LeftHow long can you hold your breath? ================ By JUAN WILLIAMS The shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida has sparked national outrage, with civil rights leaders from San Francisco to Baltimore leading protests calling for a new investigation and the arrest of the shooter. But what about all the other young black murder victims? Nationally, nearly half of all murder victims are black.... Read more
