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The First Amendment Is Dying

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Submitted by David Harsanyi via Reason.com,

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

Unless we're talking about a white chocolate-paneled cake for a gay wedding or perpetual funding for "women's health" clinics because it's the "right thing to do."

"or abridging the freedom of speech;"

Unless that speech is used by boorish climate change denialists to peddle dirty fossil fuels and run capitalist death machines that wreck the Earth, by anyone engaging in upsetting hate speech or other forms of "aggression," by a wealthy person supporting candidates who undermine "progress," by a pro-life protester who makes people feel uncomfortable about their life decisions, by a cisnormative white male who displays insufficient appreciation for the "systematic oppression" that minorities experience in places of higher learning or by anyone who has a desire to undermine the state-protected union monopolies that help fund political parties.

"or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,"

Unless the press invades safe spaces designated by mobs or writes about incorrect topics at incorrect times.

"and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Unless someone is a member of a predesignated special interest group, he should report to the IRS before doing so.

That's pretty much the state of the First Amendment today. Climate change, abortion, gay marriage, race, taxes, what have you, even in mainstream political debate, these interests outweigh your piddling concerns about the First Amendment. So the notion that a bunch of students and leftist professors would agitate to shut down free expression in a public space in Missouri because they feel their special issue trumps your antiquated list of rules is not particularly surprising.

Now, we shouldn't overstate the problem. Most of us are able to freely engage in arguments and express ourselves without worrying about the state's interfering. This will not end tomorrow. But it is difficult to ignore how creeping illiberalism has infected our discourse and how not many people seem to care.

The thousands of other University of Missouri students, for example, could have held a counter-protest against dimwitted fascists cloistered in safe spaces. Where are those student groups? Why was there no pushback from those kids—and really, there was none as far as I can tell, at either Missouri or Yale—against the bullies who want administrators fired for thought crimes? It can mean that students are too intimidated, too uninterested or not very idealistic about these freedoms. None of those things bodes well for the future.

And where is the faculty, those brave souls who value the freedom to debate and champion sometimes-controversial ideas when mobs of students are making wild accusations against their school without any real evidence? Where are they when students shut down conservative, libertarian or not-progressive-enough Democrats from speaking at their schools?

In fact, the campus police—not the hissy-fitting communications professor or the would-be authoritarian student—asked students to call authorities and report "incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech" in detail. A school, the place where young people supposedly ponder challenging ideas, now has students reporting any instances of unsavory speech. What does "hurtful speech" entail anyway? Is it enough for someone to challenge your priggish worldview? Is it enough for someone to hurt your brittle feelings? And what is the consequence?

You may also remember when Chris Cuomo of CNN, a lawyer, tweeted (since deleted) that "hate speech is excluded from protection" under the First Amendment. He wasn't alone.

Not long ago, 51 percent of Democrats in a YouGov poll claimed to support criminalizing "hate speech." (A third of Republicans did so, as well.) Another study, by the First Amendment Center a few years back, found that nearly 40 percent of Americans said the First Amendment "goes too far" guaranteeing rights—a record high.

People are scared. They're scared to be accused of bigotry or racism, an ugly accusation that is easy to level but impossible to disprove. It's a lazy but effective method of intimidation.

So we can laugh at the confused millennial J-school major, but he is not alone. When the mayors of Chicago and Boston used their positions of power to keep Chick-fil-A out of their cities because of the CEO's thoughts on same-sex marriage, they were working under the same notion as kids who want to be in safe spaces where their worldviews remain unchallenged. (Using the state to punish a person or company for its beliefs is even worse.) When Bill Nye argues that climate change skeptics are nuts who hate science and should be ignored by any right-thinking person, he is attempting to convince you of something. When Nye contends that America needs to drum climate change skeptics completely "out of our discourse," he's no longer a liberal.

Because what's happening on college campuses hasn't happened in a vacuum.

 

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Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:18 | 6789819 Francis Marx
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Im not afraid to say I like you Tyler.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:31 | 6789906 Takeaction2
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I will NEVER be PC.

Transgender whatever...you are what you are...stay in your own fucking bathroom.  You can buy tits and cut off your dick your still a man fuck face.  

If a place of buisness doesn't want to serve somebody because what they believe...they should be able to do what they want.  Let the Free Market decide if they should stay or not.

And if your gay....so what...you have no SPECIAL rights.  You are weird in my book.  That is my opinion.  Offended?  Get over it.

And then we get into the stereo types...  Take your pick.  I have fun with it.  Get over it.

This country is really turning into a bunch of mushy pussies.  

It will be interesting how this race war, ISIS, people hating cops etc plays out.  Hell....these people hate cops....pull them out.  Chicago, Fergusen, etc.....Let them police themselves.

Thanks for giving me the venue to rant.  

NOTE:All that I mentioned above are usually Democrat...Why?

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:37 | 6789942 A Lunatic
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Too many people fail to understand the difference between tolerance and acceptance......

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:54 | 6790033 Pure Evil
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I guess we should just be grateful they're anti-gun also.

Think what these raving lunatics would do if they weren't so afraid to fire a gun.

Right now they're just demanding we STFU.

Next, they'll be demanding we get bullets to the back of the brain.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:46 | 6790662 LowerSlowerDela...
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They are personally afraid to death of guns.  BUt they are more than happy to have a gubmint agency use their guns to enforce their thought crimes.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 01:53 | 6790790 McCormick No. 9
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My PC grade:

Speech                                                                    Grade

Gays =Faggots= abomination..............................................F

Abortion= murder..............................................................F

Transgender = Faggots = abomination.................................F

Feminists = bitches........................................................... F

Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, etc = human beings, created equal... C-

Climate Change = Lie.........................................................F

Whites = human beings, created equal.................................D-

Gay Marriage = fornication..................................................F

Holocaust = exaggerated propaganda...................................F-

9-11 = Mossad false flag.....................................................F --

micro-aggressions = angry pussies.......................................F

illegal aliens = job stealers..................................................F

 

 

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 14:26 | 6792771 Bananamerican
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Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, etc = human beings, created equal...but their cultures SUCK BALLS - F

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 21:23 | 6794353 Grimnir
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Look, I know it sucks saying that all races aren't equal and it would be nice to blame it all on culture, but there comes a time when we need to be honest with ourselves.

Different environments select for different traits. We accept this for other biological differences, so why is it so inconceivable that these differences can be neurological too?

Their cultures do suck balls, but culture isn't born in a vacuum.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:01 | 6790803 mkkby
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If someone calls you a racist, just say STOP LYING.  Put them on the defensive.

They don't really care about racism.  They just use name calling to stop all logical debate and put you on the defensive.  Turn it around.  Make them explain sheepishly how they are not lying.  It works.

Blacks call people racist to try to get money/handouts out of you.

The college kids doing it just want to bully the authority figures.

Don't give a fucking inch.  Unless she's hot -- then give her a big tip.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 07:04 | 6791106 DontWorry
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You have to defend your natural rights every day.  There will always be those trying to take them away.  Without people willing to defend their rights, the Constitution is just a piece of paper.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 07:33 | 6791142 Anonymous User
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Sheeple are stupid. And most of them like taking in up the ass:

Just like this:

http://www.thepornster.net/video/67/

 

 

 

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:34 | 6790212 TeamDepends
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The totalitarian left will tell you, to your face, that they are the very embodiment of tolerance. Then they will lock you up for "hate speech" or "climate change denial", or simply disagreeing with them. Which is why this can only end in bloodshed. If you want to incarcerate us for our beliefs, we have no choice but to put you in the ground.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:58 | 6790298 Shad_ow
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When were words, other than deadly threats, declared illegal.

How can one be arrested or punished for words without the real possibility of winning a law suit?

 

The 1st Amendment gives us the right to say what we want as long as we do not threaten anyone.  It isn't dying and it has not been abolished.  The words of protesters who want free sh*t are offensive to me but they have the right to use them even if they are false.  I have the right to call them lying fools.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:15 | 6790387 A Lunatic
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You have the right to threaten people too. Threats are harmless without the corresponding will and ability to act on them. If someone says they are going to fucking kill me I don't have any right to defend my life until they are actively pursuing their stated goal. Thought crime and pre-crime interventions have no legitimate place in a free society....

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:31 | 6790455 Escrava Isaura
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Article title: Constitution is Dying

Nonsense. It is working exactly as it is supposed.

 

Don't take my word for it:

James Madison, the Father of the US Constitution:

….. if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government (senate), to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, the people ought to have permanency and stability.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate#History

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:05 | 6790568 Pickleton
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Ummm, what does that have to do with "it is working exactly as it is supposed"?  The Senate isn't elected by landholders so what on Earth are you talking about?

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:20 | 6790604 Escrava Isaura
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Hello?!?!

 

Who pays for (buys) election?

 

"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." — Senator Mark Hanna, 1895 

 

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:36 | 6790849 A Nanny Moose
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You presume that elections are meant to actually give voters a choice. If you want choice, visit the cereal aisle at Walmart.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 08:27 | 6791249 Fukushima Fricassee
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You buy them sugar filled monsanto shits.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 09:19 | 6791420 rbg81
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According to the Internet, Bill Nye ("The Science Guy" [/snicker]), who wants to imprison climate change skeptics, is worth $6.5M.  Apparently, being a facist tool is a well paid gig.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:22 | 6790163 drendebe10
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Q:  How many progressive liberal democraps does it take to change a light bulb?

A:  That's not funny and you're a racist.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:57 | 6790682 pickupthatcan
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"There is no racial bigotry in my beloved corp. I do not look down on niggers, Kykes,wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless".

Gunny Hartman for Mizzou president.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:26 | 6790177 free
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Anyone who has not seen the South Park episode "Safe Space" should see it now.

Eff'n hilarious!

 

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s19e05-safe-space#source=fba639b0-...!airdate

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:20 | 6790917 SixIsNinE
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dude - come on, GLAMOUR magazine ruled that  Bruce Jenner is the woman of the year .   Now, let's all just get with the program, and just because Bruce has a dick doesn't mean he can't be a woman if he says so, ok ?   He won Olympic gold medals 40 years ago, ok, he's a woman, got it?  good ....

now .... word is that "Fridge" football player is going to become a woman too ... a little on the plus size, but we can get over that... i'm sure he's already got the ManBoobs so he won't even have to wait a few years for the hormones to kick in .... what about Mike Ditka ?  would he be a good woman ?  

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 08:28 | 6791232 Fukushima Fricassee
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MOOCH = DICK

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:34 | 6789928 Bumpo
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Bitch slap the next pussy-faggot that gets in your face and tell them to get the fuck out of your 'Safe Zone'.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:49 | 6790670 LowerSlowerDela...
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And give her a swift kick to the balls as well.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:42 | 6789967 BlueViolet
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What George Washington said and no one paid attention >>> http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-3z

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:19 | 6789830 Francis Marx
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I hate stupid americans in office.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:19 | 6789831 One And Only
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Black Lives Matter.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:46 | 6789986 Tallest Skil
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Truth matters.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:34 | 6790213 One And Only
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Black Lives Matter.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:32 | 6790461 Buster Cherry
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Yard Jockeys matter

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:47 | 6790664 Tallest Skil
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Are you trying for, "No, they don't"? Because you're REALLY close to it.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:46 | 6790861 BarkingCat
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Depending on which ones.

Let's be honest and admit that some do not matter.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:23 | 6790834 Manic by Proxy
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If black lives matter, one would logically expect that these lives would matter most - to blacks. This irrefutable position is confounded by the data that clearly shows that pregnant black females abort unwanted pregnancies at a rate 5 times that of whites.Those black fetuses, I.e. lives don't matter to the prospective mothers. The vast majority of fathers are sight unseen, so we know they don't care and these potential black lives matter nothing to them.

Since 90% of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks, we are assured that black lives don't matter to the murderers.

Until the "black community" begins to value their own lives,black leaders should expend their energy preaching to their fellow blacks. The rest of us will concern ourselves with other issues until and unless black lives matter to blacks.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:52 | 6790290 War_is_Peace
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If that's so, then they should stop killing each other.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:31 | 6790454 Buster Cherry
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unless you're black....

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:23 | 6789851 Demdere
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Be serious.  That maybe is true in the old world of politics and PC-defending-oligarchy, but the universities and other such institutions are near-toast.

This is the end of an era, the world will be seen as pre-internet and post-interent, just like we now say pre-Renaissance and post-.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/why-not-presidential-debat...

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/dynamics-of-national-colla...

Everyone should read CHSmith's new book, also, he does the story of replacing the current failing system very well.

http://www.amazon.com/Radically-Beneficial-World-Automation-Technology-e...

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:27 | 6790088 Pure Evil
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Yep, the university/college paradigm will fall but not because of the internet.

It will collapse due to the inability of the state to pay for all the worthless shitheads that believe they're entitled to a free education.

Once the state takes full control higher education will be limited to only those in the inner party.

We already have 100s of thousands with advanced degrees working sub-par jobs or sitting at home collecting government entitlements.

Please explain why the state would continue to waste trillions of dollars on worthless degrees like Gender Studies when automation and robotics will be eliminating millions of middle class jobs within the next 20 years.

We have over 1 trillion in student loans, but how much does it cost to run all the college/university systems across the country? Billions? Trillions?

Does anyone really need an advanced degree to cut hair or bus tables?

The first world is not coming to the 3rd world. The 3rd world is coming to the first world and will swamp it.

Imagine living in Venezuela because that's our future.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:55 | 6790308 rejected
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An PrisonPlanet / InfoWars article but pretty good where Cavuto destroys a free education progressive on video. 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/neil-cavuto-embarrasses-student-who-wants-fr...

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:24 | 6789859 stant
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Fuck you who destroyed my beloved country. We paid a high price to get as good as we got. A son of the south

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:28 | 6790187 drendebe10
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I'm buying a VW TDI & putting a Confederate Flag on the roof and PC Police on the doors. Fukem.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 00:58 | 6803193 bluskyes
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I've had the stars and bars on my Jetts since it was new.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:51 | 6790284 rejected
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EX-South.

You have no culture left and now no flag and thus no first amendment.

Political Correctness is now the law.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:52 | 6790876 BarkingCat
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I have a friend who is not even from the US, is not white and talked about buying a Rebel flag just because of all the bullshit pressure against it.

There are some things worth not only fighting for but also offending other over.

Fuck it, I am going to find a t-shit with that flag on it right now and buy it. It is going to be awesome watching the looks I get in this statist shithole of fag infested Seattle.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:27 | 6789878 hannah
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only the weak are intimidated. stand up for your rights or let them piss on you. the fiat economy is dead anyway so what have you got to lose except your diginity.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:27 | 6790429 NoDebt
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You'll probably make it.  Once you learn to keep that shit all on the inside.

It may not sound like it right now but I just paid you one of the highest complements I've ever paid to anyone on ZH.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 13:50 | 6792617 hannah
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...make it...? you do realize that once fiat liquidity stops we are all one tooth abcess away from death. brother, we are approaching a massive die off and the people that think they can paln their way to safety are fools. prepping might keep you alive for a couple of years if your lucky but 20 years down the road do you want to be alive living a life circa 1800...

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:28 | 6789885 Buster Cherry
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 Well, what can I say?

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:28 | 6789888 Jack Burton
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Women moved into positions of power and political power, their first acts were to restrict speech in order than nobody be offended by anything on might say.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:54 | 6790031 Takeaction2
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Should have stuck with "Property Owners" only can vote.  Work your way through the ranks...get a house.  Then you can vote.  Offended?  Get over it...

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:08 | 6790100 Pure Evil
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I can't get over it.......I need my safe place (whimpering)!

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:26 | 6790926 SixIsNinE
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agree - i knew that when I was given the "vote" at 18, and I knew I didn't know jackshit, that there was something very wrong about it....

why should i have a stake at deciding something that i know very little,if anything about.... especially the prez spot ...  I was like, why would such a big, powerful country allow a reverse every 4 years if the populace decided?  Sounded far-fetched ... and now we know from Quigley about the strategy of a two-party system where the "voters" can give their opinion, as long as it doesn't change anything ... nobody gets up there on stage without the Owners approval, Donald Trump included. 

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 11:26 | 6791965 drendebe10
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Better to limit voting rights to only those who pay taxes. Fuk da FSA... Fukem5

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:34 | 6789925 A Lunatic
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I found this European 'immigration' video to be disturbing a hell. Worth the 20 mins. The entitlement mindset on the part of the 'refugees' and the propaganda campaign run by the politicians are both near fucking unbelievable. I truly fear for the future when I see this shit......

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vzMNG2fZc

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:15 | 6790133 Pure Evil
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Since the open borders crowd believes in endless immigration I always thought they should just build massive ships, load them up with 3rd world migrants, and then transport them by the millions to the West.

Watching the first few minutes of that video shows they were well ahead of me (I realize that's a ferry in the video), but just think if they built thousands of vessels like that and used them to bring millions of 3rd world retches from Africa, India, and China to the US, Europe, and Australia.

No system could withstand the strain no matter how much fiat the Central Banks printed.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:14 | 6790910 BarkingCat
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Let's do a swap. Let ALL the blacks come from Africa into Europe and let all the Whites move to Africa.

Then we wait 20 and see which one is thriving and which one is a shit hole.

 

My bet is that there would be millions of starving Negros in Europe and millions more dying in the winter.

The infrastructure would be decaying as would all the industry and housing.

 

Meanwhile Africa would be starting to prosper.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 07:28 | 6791132 Monetas
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Where ever prosperous, industrious people congregate .... socialists, niggahs and Muslims will infiltrate .... only permanent solution apartheid will fix it .... hee, hee ?

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:36 | 6789937 nnnnnn
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"Not long ago, 51 percent of Democrats in a YouGov poll claimed to support criminalizing "hate speech."

 

its their own childrens grave they are digging

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:43 | 6789971 malek
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If their children aren't digging with them, that is.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:39 | 6789956 insanelysane
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I'm in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.  The people here are offended if I get offended by something and then they are offended if I don't think they should be offended by something.  They have a monopoly on being offended.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:47 | 6789995 Mr.BlingBling
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I'm in the People's Republic of San Francisco, the denizens of which are tolerant of absolutely everything and anything, EXCEPT for those who disagree with their politics.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:19 | 6790916 BarkingCat
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I like to carry a small spray bottle full of sardines' juice. Clam juice works well too.

When I run across some obnoxious self righteous statist cunt in public, I spay her ass with it while she is not looking.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:44 | 6789976 diogenes23
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This site is a major proponent of hate speech. What fear? you thrive on it~

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:55 | 6790036 Takeaction2
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FUCK YOU!!!!

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:47 | 6790666 Tallest Skil
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Leave and never return. Your kind will die out soon enough.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:29 | 6790932 SixIsNinE
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 ^^^ Retard

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:25 | 6789985 scintillator9
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I would suggest that everyone go to used book stores, and buy the following books, with cash of course:

1984

Fahrenheit 451

Brave New World

Animal Farm

 

Many are familiar with 1984, Brave New World, and Animal Farm on here, but Fahrenheit 451 is often not mentioned enough.

With Wikipedia, and how pages can go 404 (Memory Hole from 1984), or be changed at a whim, it is always good to have the original source material.

Unfortunately, many libraries are going the Fahrenheit 451 way:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-another-book-burn...

http://www.fox9.com/archive/1425019-story

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-harper-government-has-trashed-and-bu...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-burns-thousands...

 

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:38 | 6790197 Nostradumbass
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I would suggest that everyone go to used book stores, and buy the following books, with cash of course

 

Or, just load all the books onto thumb drives and never insert to a USB port when online.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:46 | 6789994 pupdog1
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Hiring a rabid fascist junior communication professor who has no concept of--and total contempt for--the first ammendment would be like hiring a professor of theoretical physics who never made it past junior high algebra.

U. MO is looking like a very lightweight clown school.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:54 | 6790027 underman
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Watched some old Archie Bunker, Jeffersons, Sanford & Son, Three's Company videos.  Prime time, all-american tv shows fit for the whole family.  We all laughed.  How our freedom of speech, and the tolerance to accept everything it came with, has dwindled to a fine, coiled, explosive point.  Miss those good ol' carefree days, when we basked in the glory of freedom.  What happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?"  All kids knew this mantra.  Rise above, ignore it, words do no harm, walk away.         

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:55 | 6790042 Takeaction2
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Best shows ever....

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 12:43 | 6792327 BarkingCat
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Really??? I thought they sucked back then and still find them lame.

Three's Company was great as was MASH.

Unfortunately, with few exceptions, the best shows never lasted.

Some not even a season.

I remember watching one called "The Last Resort". It was hillarious but they only ran for 1 season.

It was basically Animal House in a high end resort hotel and college students working as kitchen staff and waiters..

Lots of fat jokes as the target was a really fat woman.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:06 | 6790093 22winmag
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Great shows.

 

An honorable mention goes to rock lyrics from the 70s and 80s.

 

Very un-PC!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:11 | 6790117 A Lunatic
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Overkill - Elimination.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svi6JiMe9c0

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 01:28 | 6790745 bluskyes
Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:32 | 6790934 SixIsNinE
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Luudes, Dude ....

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:54 | 6790032 ultraticum
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Red Guards. China. Late 1960's.

 

History is utterly lost on the ignorant.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:03 | 6790037 Himself
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"Stonewall" The Free Speech Apocalypse Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lT-rXr2bAU

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 21:58 | 6790053 Urban Redneck
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Lenny Bruce had a whole 9 words despite a single word being enough to land him behind bars, Carlin distilled the 9 to 7.  We've come a long way and thousands of words from FCC v Pacifica to the queer marriage of Tipper Gore and Susan Baker.  But remember, YOU begged them for those "sensible" regulations which allowed government to encroach upon statutory freedoms and privileges (rights), after all it was "for the children...

We are where we are because people want to drop names and chase boogeymen, while ignoring the legal evolution of regulated speech and the feedback loops which amplified that evolution, without which this insanity would simply NOT be possible.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:01 | 6790067 DOGGONE
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STOP WHORING for Wall Street! These instructive histories are kept unseen, to deceive the citizens!
http://showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:01 | 6790071 Bay Area Guy
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One man's hate speech is another's treasured opinion. If you're trying to have a real discussion of issues such as racism, immigration or abortion, you're going to have to at least be able to listen to disparate opinions. we've reached a point where we'll never be able to solve issues because we can't even talk about them for fear of offending someone. That means we'll turn into a static society and static societies can't improve.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 17:40 | 6797026 BarkingCat
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If what has happened over the last 30 years is improvement and we are going to get more of it, I vote for becoming static where we are.

 

What I see on the horizon from the micro aggression generation is not something I want to be part of.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:07 | 6790095 red1chief
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The left aren't the only ones who have certain "PC". just try holding a good corporate job in today's right wing corporate world if you don't agree with them.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 17:42 | 6797031 BarkingCat
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If you think that today's corporate world is right wing you have no idea what right wing is.

All the corporations that I have experienced are flaming leftist.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:10 | 6790109 buzzsaw99
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i have been accused of being niggardly. i sed dat's rayciss.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:15 | 6790134 A Lunatic
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Next time try handing out free knuckle sandwiches as a demonstration of your generosity.....

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:43 | 6790257 rejected
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Ahhhh,,, another word (like gay) destroyed by PC and agenda's.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:54 | 6790304 restelle
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So don't use the word gay.  Call them faggots, queers, homos, etc. 

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 17:46 | 6797039 BarkingCat
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I call them slurpies and sing "it's slurpee, it's slurpee" to the old melody of the Slinky toy theme.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:11 | 6790110 directaction
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300,000 Jews died in labor camps of disease and old age during WWII. Saying otherwise is hate speech.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:08 | 6790577 Escrava Isaura
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No. It's not.

David Brooks

"Jews are a famously accomplished group," who, because they were "forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages... have been living off their wits ever since".

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_%28journalist%29#Political_views

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 10:48 | 6791781 shovelhead
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You have to admit that the Totenkopf Weight Watchers Program was a spectacular success.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:16 | 6790143 SgtShaftoe
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Fear is the most powerful motivator for control of a population. Fear is indeed the mind killer. Fear shuts off the reasoning parts of your brain so you can be easily directed down the chute. Just like what is currently happening in France. Getting the people to war is a tough proposition if everyone is behaving rationally. Terrify the population with a boogeyman or a false flag here or there works wonders, kinda like Paris. That's one of the biggest bullshit scenarios I've ever seen and clearly a military/intelligence false flag op. It seems so well coordinated I can hear the OPORD in my head as I watch the play-by-play. People from the ME don't think shit like that up.

The PC stuff has gone over-the-top and at some point will reverse, but it's certainly in the power structure's advantage to keep that going, just like keeping the populations in a state of panic.

These fuckers need to be tried and sentenced in an international war crimes court.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:17 | 6790147 Nostradumbass
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Criminalizing thought/speech is all the rage! C'mon, get on board the Sheeple Express and let's ride off to the soilent green fields.

President Putin signs law criminalizing nazi revisionist tactics

http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2014_05_07/President-Putin-signs-la...

Ursula Haverbeck verdict: Holocaust denial 'Nazi Grandma' gets 10 months in prison

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ursula-haverbeck-verdict-holocaust-denial-nazi-...


Read more: http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2014_05_07/President-Putin-signs-law-criminalizing-nazi-revisionist-tactics-4771/
Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:45 | 6790267 Skip
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Good links. You never see the FLAT EARTH SOCIETY being imprisoned, now do you? Or those who say we never went to the moon?

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2015/11/elderly-lady-imprisoned-fo...

Three Interesting Numbers
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=12960

The Holocaust may be the biggest single tool that the Jews have used to rob, roust and ruin the gentiles, but it is also the biggest single weapon that gentiles have to use against the Jews. What I mean is that the Holocaust is a provable lie, and the more that people become educated about this fact, the deeper it will dig the Jewish grave. The Jews will try to survive it, but they simply cannot. I say this not merely because it is such a powerful weapon, but also -- and especially -- because it cuts to the heart of what the Jews think of themselves. It absolutely kills the notion that they are morally superior, and it kills this notion in the very place where it does the most harm, namely, in the Jewish soul. Oscar Wilde said that each one kills the thing he loves, and we see that Jews are killing the thing they love most -- themselves. More power to them! --JBR Yant, Mortal Words v 12

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:01 | 6790550 Nostradumbass
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Three Interesting Numbers

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=12960

Link returned this:

Not Found

The requested document was not found on this server.

 

Web Server at ds9748.dedicated.turbodns.co.uk

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:27 | 6790180 TuPhat
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I've been banned from some web site's comment sections.  I think it must be because I am a global warming denier.  It has to be something like that, that I said in a comment.  I'm not crying about it just mentioning it.  I don't really need to read the garbage on those sites anyway.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:39 | 6790229 Pure Evil
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Don't worry, once the UN assumes full control of the internet only comments approved by the Peoples Proletariat will be permissible in the comments sections.

They're probably working on algorithms to run robots the will automatically post only politically correct comments to give the impression that everyone is on board the NWO agenda.

Sorta like Hillary's twitter followers, with 95% of them all fake, along with her hairdo.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:37 | 6790852 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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... or climate 'coonsensus.'

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:28 | 6790190 Skip
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The Death Of First Amendment: More Legal Lynchings of White Men

Nick Bromwell recently engaged in the kind of unintentional parody Salon specializes in by calling for the simple display of the Confederate flag to be a Hate Crime [Let’s make the Confederate flag a hate crime, July 10, 2015]. Today comes news that in what The New York Times delicately called an “unusual legal maneuver,” the Southern Poverty Law Center has helped induce prosecution of 15 people who committed the crime of flying the Confederate flag in front of black people [Confrontation With Black Partygoers Leads to Gang Charges for White Group, by Richard Fausset, October 12, 2015].

It’s the latest example of how the noose is tightening around the neck of the historic American nation. The First Amendment is dying, and no one seems to care.

It is all explained here how we have come to this point:

Review of 'The Culture of Critique'

How Charles Lindbergh went OVERNIGHT from American Hero to Unmentionable:
Preface to the First Paperback Edition PDF
Preface to the First Paperback Edition HTML

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:30 | 6790196 Niall Of The Ni...
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Our masters have no objection to an establishment of religion, as long as it isn't Christianity or Judaism.

Islam is a far more useful faith for their purposes. A good slave-morality insists that slaves submit to God's will, and refrain from insitting that their overseers do the same. 

Failing that, Scientology is as profitable as it is entertaining. 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:15 | 6790384 man of Wool
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Islam is Christianity on steroids. Same old nonsense except in your face.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:39 | 6790239 rejected
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We are post constitutional rule of law now.

We are exceptional!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:17 | 6790393 JD59
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Molon Labe! There! The 1st amendment has been restored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:22 | 6790407 CHoward
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Political correctness is the biggest threat to the First Amendment.  FUCK ANYONE who employes political correctness - stick that up your ass!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 23:26 | 6790417 JD59
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What you do to these college isolationist who don't want to hear another point of view, and want to shut down discusson or any different point of view.

Is just walk away, they are hopeless sheeple brain washed by communist democrats. Leave them to the wolves, it is call the law of natrual selection. You can only help those with an open clear mind, and clear vision.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:35 | 6790644 Bill of Rights
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Fuck you , can't get any more free than that .

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 00:39 | 6790651 Karaio
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I was born in 1962 and, in my time, black was black, was fagot fagot, a Jew was a Jew and so on.

Anyone like me who am Brazilian and came to Disney was a wetback, that's fine with that.

Also you could smoke in avão within it!

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

These sons of bitches who want to change the world leaving everything the same as passing an 8 Kat hillside Fucking normal relations!

A woman is a woman, a man is a man, the same hole, distinct functions.

This deal will give shit, believe me.

I've done my two sons, both married to women, I want grandchildren.

hehe.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 01:32 | 6790750 newworldorder
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There is one topic of the current American experience that all White Americans on the job, at school in social situations and within their communities CANNOT TALK ABOUT. THE SUBJECT IS RACE AND DIFFERENCES IN HOW MINORITIES PERCEIVE RACE vs their white neighbors.IT IS A SOCIETAL TABOO SUBJECT, because for all Whites it has been made into an unsafe item of discussion.

Every minority as designated by the EEO, Labor and Census Departments of the US Government holds a RACE CARD which they can level at will, with or without justification, in any situation. That RACE CARD once leveled, makes the accused the equivalent of a leper and renders them socially and culturally unacceptable.

To be labeled a racist by any minority is the greatest non criminal social sin in our present society. This will not change, until the race card is removed from the hands of a potential accuser, and when NO ONE can play the racism card without justification and until the are forced to prove the charge or be themselves labeled as minority racists.

For those that disagree with me all you have to do is look at the current alleged accusations by minority students at the U of Mo and at Yale who ranted, lied  and accused  People of authority without fear of academic, social or financial punishment.

Our society has put in the hands of minorities a tool to destroy the lives of non minority citizens. The Use of the race card and accusations of racism have no standard of proof that must be presented other than the "eye of the beholder." It is almost always accepted that any minority is able to see, feel and hear racism, regardless of age, life experience or circumstances.

The sad part is that the majority of the minority communities do not begin to comprehend what I have just articulated and in almost all case vehemently deny this behavior.

 

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 02:35 | 6790848 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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"They're scared to be accused of bigotry or racism, an ugly accusation that is easy to level but impossible to disprove."

The burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused.

Sticks and stones...

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 03:39 | 6790938 neilhorn
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Your reading of the first amendment does not recognize that the rights witheld therein are against the powers of the day. There is no abolition of the first amendment, because those rights, the right to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion already exist with the people. There is no legitimate government right to prevent the people from expressing themselves. Even if the government tries to silence, or if the court holds that the freedom must be restricted: the right of the people of The United States, to say what they think, still exists.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 06:40 | 6791085 Phenomenon_Noumenon
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We need insurance coverage to protect us against racism charges or everyone should profess to be a misanthrope.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 07:32 | 6791141 Monetas
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Immigrants wouldn't be a problem .... if they had to survive on market wages .... they'd be a boon .... the problem is they get all the free shit .... and never even have to work one generation .... with the young Muslim invaders .... they get paid better than our veterans and retired workers .... when they step off the plane ?

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 14:43 | 6792860 Polymarkos
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The ellipses called. Said KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 08:13 | 6791219 FreeNewEnergy
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Somehow, this just slipped out one day in college (1971) and it stuck: "Jew bastard fucking nigger chink."

My friends and I used to greet each other that way. It was kind of a joke. Of course, we were all white, though a few were Jewish. They were not, however, adamantly Jewish. They pretty much were in the same camp as most white kids those days, rejecting everything.

Our safe space was anywhere we could drink, smoke and fuck that the cops couldn't see us.

College has gotten so weird, but, the truth of the matter is that, just as in the 70s - when we protested and burned stuff - it will pass. Students eventually have to face the reality of exams and tuition, and the shit settles down.

We should endeavor to ignore what happens on most college campuses by kids who range from 17 to 22 years of age. They're not adults, and their opinions aren't well-formed. Give them a few years. They'll change and all this shit will slide downhill.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 14:42 | 6792850 Polymarkos
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You need to go listen to a few of these professors before you write this behavior off.

 

This AIN'T the dope headed stupidity of the 70s. This AIN'T a replay of your youth.

 

This is vastly more savage and dangerous.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 08:46 | 6791298 tumblemore
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The elite's want free speech stopped because they have screwed up. They are using race etc as an excuse.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 09:25 | 6791453 Oquities
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personally, i am quite proud to be a racist homophobic bigot

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 10:14 | 6791627 Pumpkin
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I've turned all my hatred and condemnation towards politicians.  Most people like it.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 11:03 | 6791848 Catullus
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I just disengage. No social media. No voting. No talking someone down. Just walk away and not engage.

If you really want to do something, just laugh at people. It pisses them off more than anything. Especially the little Eichmans in your life that want to control your thoughts.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 14:39 | 6792836 Polymarkos
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Better to engage. At range, with small arms, mortars, and artillery.

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 11:29 | 6791912 shovelhead
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Coon cheese is still coon cheese to me.

"Why you upset? It ain't made from black folks.

I wouldn't eat it if it was."

The California Raccoons have petitioned the State to be officially identified only as Procyon lotor so as to not cause distress to minorities also sometimes identified as "coons". This appelation change sentiment may not be universal throughout the larger Raccoon community, as a number of New York Raccoons have been heard to express a less than sympathetic "Geddafuggaddaheer".

http://martincountytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/raccoon1.jpg

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 11:24 | 6791956 matinee55
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Maybe for you but not for me.  I just call them pc namecallers & then tell them to FO

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 11:26 | 6791963 matinee55
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Celebrate your "DIVERSITY" & then tell them to eat sheit & die!

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 14:37 | 6792827 Polymarkos
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All this is a direct result of communist indoctrination in skoolz. No longer do you see the US Constitution and Bill of Rights on the walls in classrooms, but Farakhan and MLK Jr. No longer do you see Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, but Malcolm X and Che Guevara.

I used to sub teach; this is literally what I saw.

 

Kids learn that Thanksgiving is about HATE because the English took Indians as slaves...not the colonists, mind you, but some English people somewhere. Kids learn that Columbus Day is about RAPE--yes, that is literally what the teacher I was taking control of her class told me...

 

WTF do we expect when we allow Marxist zealots to teach?

Sat, 11/14/2015 - 14:39 | 6792838 Brokenarrow
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i live in a wealthy hamlet where people hire illegals because they are willing to work cheap. They have put many us citizens out of work. when something doesnt go their way, their new approach is to call the cops and claim an assortment of violations, including going to the courts and asking for protection orders. Never mond that they are in the US illegally. The judge and half the cops have latin surnames. When will it be enough? It used to be mexican nationals. Now it is centrel americans, many of them working for US corporations, including kroeger, us banks, and even the city and county. Where does it end? I know grown men with falilies that cant get a job. The illegals work cheaper and send the money home while abusing the system. Its time too stop this before legal citizens take this into their own hands. Maybe this is what is needed.

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