Carson wants to monitor colleges for "Extreme Political Bias"

[Anonymous]

At a Texas Retreat convened last June by long-time neoconservative agitator David Horowitz, a baby-faced operative named Charlie Kirk outlined an “undercover, underground plan” to “control student funding,” “censor professors” and “get rid of free speech zones.” His plan focused on channeling right-wing money into a full-bore attack on the grassroots movement to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel as a means to pressure the country into respecting Palestinian human rights, known as BDS. The BDS movement has spread across US campuses and European capitals since it was devised by Palestinian civil society groups in 2005.

Described by the National Journal as “the future of the conservative movement,” the 21-year-old Kirk is rapidly emerging as one the most influential right-wing campus organizers. Speaking before an audience of hundreds of conservative activists in a hotel ballroom in Dallas, Kirk laid out a strikingly authoritarian vision to systematically eradicate progressive political culture from American universities.

“What we’re doing in states like California, Massachusetts and New York, is we’re starting...a rather undercover, underground operation that is designed for one purpose only,” Kirk explained. “And that is to run -- and win -- Student Government Association races the same way we look at Congressional campaigns. If we can successfully retake the student governments...on these really, really far left campuses such as UC-Irvine, UCLA, and we run the student government association races with the same money, time, energy and resources [as] we do a Congressional campaign, then we can start to see...an effective, neutralizing factor on these campuses. You can control student funding, you can censor professors, you can get rid of free speech zones, you can then balance the curriculum, you then can use your student government post as a bully pulpit.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/pro-israel-and-conservative-operatives-crush-free-speech-campus

It's the next big thing in conservative movements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THOUGHTCRIME!

To play devil's advocate, one could say that's what microaggressions are, and they're being enforced on college campuses.

What's happening on college campuses is insane, but having the government monitor colleges for biases is a whole 'nother level of insane.

and if they are taking fed and state money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THOUGHTCRIME!

To play devil's advocate, one could say that's what microaggressions are, and they're being enforced on college campuses.

What's happening on college campuses is insane, but having the government monitor colleges for biases is a whole 'nother level of insane.

Yeah, they're teaching Liberal Calculus and Communist Geology!

</sarcasm>

This whole "liberal colleges" stuff is so asinine. 98% of the curriculum is nonpartisan. If you have a problem with colleges and universities broadening kids' perspectives and critical thinking skills then maybe you don't really understand what colleges and universities are actually about.

I'm pretty liberal, but the lack of respect for any idea outside the proscribed accepted thoughts on most college campuses nowadays is crazy. They're not teaching critical thinking skills, that requires actually thinking about other viewpoints.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Ben Carson is an idiot savant.

[Anonymous]

Do posters here not understand the meaning of "devil's advocate". Carson is wrong here, I'm just pointing out that focusing on microaggressions is similar to what he is saying. Against both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do posters here not understand the meaning of "devil's advocate". Carson is wrong here, I'm just pointing out that focusing on microaggressions is similar to what he is saying. Against both.

And by the way, Carson's is an order of magnitude worse, they are similar though.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THOUGHTCRIME!

To play devil's advocate, one could say that's what microaggressions are, and they're being enforced on college campuses.

What's happening on college campuses is insane, but having the government monitor colleges for biases is a whole 'nother level of insane.

Yeah, they're teaching Liberal Calculus and Communist Geology!

</sarcasm>

This whole "liberal colleges" stuff is so asinine. 98% of the curriculum is nonpartisan. If you have a problem with colleges and universities broadening kids' perspectives and critical thinking skills then maybe you don't really understand what colleges and universities are actually about.

I'm pretty liberal, but the lack of respect for any idea outside the proscribed accepted thoughts on most college campuses nowadays is crazy. They're not teaching critical thinking skills, that requires actually thinking about other viewpoints.

I'm sure that Ben Carson putting the government in charge of regulating this will result in vast improvements.

No, as I said before that's even more insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
THOUGHTCRIME!

To play devil's advocate, one could say that's what microaggressions are, and they're being enforced on college campuses.


What's happening on college campuses is insane, but having the government monitor colleges for biases is a whole 'nother level of insane.


Yeah, they're teaching Liberal Calculus and Communist Geology!

</sarcasm>

This whole "liberal colleges" stuff is so asinine. 98% of the curriculum is nonpartisan. If you have a problem with colleges and universities broadening kids' perspectives and critical thinking skills then maybe you don't really understand what colleges and universities are actually about.


I'm pretty liberal, but the lack of respect for any idea outside the proscribed accepted thoughts on most college campuses nowadays is crazy. They're not teaching critical thinking skills, that requires actually thinking about other viewpoints.

Can you as a "liberal" give an example or two of thought outside of the proscribed accepted that are disallowed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THOUGHTCRIME!

To play devil's advocate, one could say that's what microaggressions are, and they're being enforced on college campuses.

What's happening on college campuses is insane, but having the government monitor colleges for biases is a whole 'nother level of insane.

Yeah, they're teaching Liberal Calculus and Communist Geology!

</sarcasm>

This whole "liberal colleges" stuff is so asinine. 98% of the curriculum is nonpartisan. If you have a problem with colleges and universities broadening kids' perspectives and critical thinking skills then maybe you don't really understand what colleges and universities are actually about.

I'm pretty liberal, but the lack of respect for any idea outside the proscribed accepted thoughts on most college campuses nowadays is crazy. They're not teaching critical thinking skills, that requires actually thinking about other viewpoints.

You're an idiot who apparently doesn't understand the difference between proscribed and prescribed.