Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
This is a pretty damning video from Breitbart.com:
The most damning part isn't the students happily signing a petition to reduce the airtime or eliminate altogether the Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck shows. They just seem pleasantly clueless and utterly out of it. Some don't even know what the First Amendment is.
The most infuriating part is when older folks -- administrators or teachers, I'm guessing -- cheerfully and eagerly sign a petition to eliminate the free speech rights of people they don't agree with.
Without shame. Without a second thought. Without even a tiny voice in the back of their heads saying "This isn't right." Without even a hesitation. Without a glance back at the school building in the background, which is only there in the first place because of the principles of free inquiry, free debate, and free speech.
American academia is a swamp. It needs draining.
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Jul '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Shut up, Rob.
Oct '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Good God, that's depressing. It's long past time that academia's Berlin Wall was torn down.
Jan '11
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Thanks for the video.
It's important to understand exactly how Democrats and proto-Democrats "think." This is a good illustration.
Once you understand that, ignoring all of their so-called arguments, and instead mocking them relentlessly is much easier.
Apr '11
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I'm speechless.
Aug '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Wow.
What amazes me is how it was such a simple pitch. I kind of expected it to be gussied up with some language about "the public airwaves" or "the fairness doctrine" and some Media Matters pull quotes or "civility" talk. But it was just bluntly, "wanna kick these guys off the radio?" and the interviewers even them reminded them about free speech and the 1st amendment.
Just wow.
Jul '10
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It becomes clear - from a reverse standpoint - why the Bolsheviks went after the intelligentsia first.
Come the Revolution, what else is a stalwart American Kulak to do?
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
I wonder if they would have also cheerfully signed a petition calling for a book burning, and if not, why not?
May '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Only if the book was Liberal Fascism. So many levels of irony I can't tell what's real any more. Like Scream 4.
May '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
If the public education system can't transmit the country's civic principles it is time for it to be scrapped.
May '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
A little hint: If it's easy, it ain't tolerance.
Mar '11
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Rob Long:
American academia is a swamp. It needs draining. ·
By whom?
Well, I guess Glenn Beck, after his show on Fox is finished and he has saved Israel, will move on to drain Academia, along with S.E. Cupp (hopefully dressed as a schoolgirl).
I wish I were a little more optimistic that they will succeed.
Oh, not to worry, tis the end of the World tomorrow, anyway...
Aug '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
This is just further proof that we are doing a poor job of educating our citizens to the ideals of democratic virtue and celebrating democratic vices. For a democracy to be virtuous, it must defend individual rights including property (Madison's defense of property is eloquent and excellent). A democracy that doesn't believe in individual rights quickly becomes tyranny. There is a reason that Plato and Aristotle both discuss it as one of the worst regimes.
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Kenneth: It becomes clear - from a reverse standpoint - why the Bolsheviks went after the intelligentsia first.
Come the Revolution, what else is a stalwart American Kulak to do? · May 20 at 11:53am
Exactly. It's the "intellectuals" who are the first to deny people their freedoms.
Sep '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
The self-righteous woman at 2:11--I meet so many like her. It's like what Rob says about Hollywood--the default assumption on campus is that you're leftist, so within its bounds they say what they really think.
Aug '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Man - that was depressing.
May '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
This doesn't surprise me in the least. It has long been clear that fascism permeates academia.
Apr '11
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
That was an eye opening video. How many students/faculty wouldn't sign the petition. I understand that you're going to find hypocrites if you want to, but I'd like to know what proportion of the school population they represent.
May '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Bolsheviks, fascists, what's the difference?
Our caring, humanitarian progs will always embrace fascism, as long as it's called "progressivism" or "liberalism".
Walter Berns, writing about the thoroughly fascistic nature of the student radicals who took over the Cornell University campus in 1969:Walter Berns, writing about the thoroughly fascistic nature of the student radicals who took over the Cornell University campus in 1969:
Edited on May 20, 2011 at 12:59pm"I proved this when to an American Government class at the height of the Cornell crisis I read some speeches analyzing the situation and calling for what ought to be done. The radicals in the class were enthusiastic until I revealed that the speeches were by Mussolini."
--Democracy and the Constitution, by Walter Berns, footnote 17 to I-failed-to-record-which-chapter
Sep '10
Re: Students Vote to Silence Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Everyone Else
Another point - and almost as depressing - how easy it was to get those people to sign a petition. I didn't notice anyone taking time to actually READ the petition. Or to engage in a little devil's advocate discussion before signing.
Where is the cynicism? No rhetorical combativeness? Only one guy challenged the concept of "limiting their airtime" and then folded immediately. Like, "I agree with you, so I'll just jettison my core principles for your petition."
May '10
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What's amazing is how easy it was: In the 1960's the intellectuals surrendered without a fight. So how much was this due to cowardice and how much to sympathy? I'm inclined to say about 50-50. First, most academics didn't have any moral principles that they were willing to fight for, and second, they differed with commies and fascists mostly in the labels they chose to describe themselves and in the tactics they preferred to use.