Has Yale Become a PC Joke?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the ivies are over-priced cesspools of leftist groupthink. Academic freedom doesn't exist there.

Ivies don't cost any more than any other private school; and mine (Princeton) costs 20% less than American University. And the few students you read about on Facebook do not define the school or represent it.

Orange and black lives matter!

Go Tigers!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's OK to protest, just don't get up in people's faces like that. They really shouldnt be allowed to protest in the library like that. It's a library, not the Washington Monument. Aren't there public spaces all over campus for demonstrations?

There is no way this would have been permitted if the races were reversed. College administrators do nothing because they are terrified of being called "racist."

This wasn't just getting in people's faces or innocent "protesting": that was f*cking assault right there and worthy of criminal charges. A bunch of white kids, better yet frat boys, calling black people n*gger and bitch in a study area? It wouldn't just be "not permitted", they'd be arrested and have their mugs all over every liberal and PC paper and cable news channels for the next 3 months. Oh, and let's not forget to pile in some hate crime charges in the holy name of progress and social justice.

Who needs enemies like ISIS when we have our own fellow citizens perverting the 1st amendment and common decency?

+1. ISIS abd Chinese leaders must be laughing so hard at the extent of our own stupidity.

They might not be laughing so hard if American universities stopped admitting so many of their children and those of their corrupt, oligarch friends.

[Anonymous]

PP, yuan talks, dollars walk. I don't see any of the princelings' progeny protesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, yuan talks, dollars walk. I don't see any of the princelings' progeny protesting.

And they certainly won't be protesting anything in Beijing if and when they go back home. Besides, they don't have a problem with restricting free speech on campus or anywhere else!

[Anonymous]

Wow. I just saw the original e-mail from Erika Christakis for the first time today, and it's clear that just about every article on the issue has quoted from it out of context to make it sound provocative when in fact it's an appeal to critical thinking and discourse (which evidently Yale is doing a very poor job of imparting to its students, and my guess is it's not just Yale).

http://www.businessinsider.com/yale-professor-erika-christakis-will-not-teach-next-year-due-to-racial-controversy-2015-12

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just saw the original e-mail from Erika Christakis for the first time today, and it's clear that just about every article on the issue has quoted from it out of context to make it sound provocative when in fact it's an appeal to critical thinking and discourse (which evidently Yale is doing a very poor job of imparting to its students, and my guess is it's not just Yale).

http://www.businessinsider.com/yale-professor-erika-christakis-will-not-teach-next-year-due-to-racial-controversy-2015-12

Ms. Christakis resigned from her post today. She said the atmosphere at Yale is not conducive to civil dialog. You are right PP, there was not a single thing wrong with her e-mail that should have kicked off that kind of vulgar response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's OK to protest, just don't get up in people's faces like that. They really shouldnt be allowed to protest in the library like that. It's a library, not the Washington Monument. Aren't there public spaces all over campus for demonstrations?

There is no way this would have been permitted if the races were reversed. College administrators do nothing because they are terrified of being called "racist."

This wasn't just getting in people's faces or innocent "protesting": that was f*cking assault right there and worthy of criminal charges. A bunch of white kids, better yet frat boys, calling black people n*gger and bitch in a study area? It wouldn't just be "not permitted", they'd be arrested and have their mugs all over every liberal and PC paper and cable news channels for the next 3 months. Oh, and let's not forget to pile in some hate crime charges in the holy name of progress and social justice.

Who needs enemies like ISIS when we have our own fellow citizens perverting the 1st amendment and common decency?

+1. ISIS abd Chinese leaders must be laughing so hard at the extent of our own stupidity.

They might not be laughing so hard if American universities stopped admitting so many of their children and those of their corrupt, oligarch friends.

They pay full freight, thus funding others, and get a credential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just saw the original e-mail from Erika Christakis for the first time today, and it's clear that just about every article on the issue has quoted from it out of context to make it sound provocative when in fact it's an appeal to critical thinking and discourse (which evidently Yale is doing a very poor job of imparting to its students, and my guess is it's not just Yale).

http://www.businessinsider.com/yale-professor-erika-christakis-will-not-teach-next-year-due-to-racial-controversy-2015-12

Ms. Christakis resigned from her post today. She said the atmosphere at Yale is not conducive to civil dialog. You are right PP, there was not a single thing wrong with her e-mail that should have kicked off that kind of vulgar response.

Very sad.

Yes, Yale has formally become a PC joke. I very much doubt any of my kids will go there, if we can avoid it.

[Anonymous]

Professor Christakis and his spouse are exactly the sort of leaders whom a major university should want. This whole episode is a black eye for Yale, although the petulant, self-centered group of students at Princeton are making it a contest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Professor Christakis and his spouse are exactly the sort of leaders whom a major university should want. This whole episode is a black eye for Yale, although the petulant, self-centered group of students at Princeton are making it a contest.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professor Christakis and his spouse are exactly the sort of leaders whom a major university should want. This whole episode is a black eye for Yale, although the petulant, self-centered group of students at Princeton are making it a contest.

+1

If this is a contest, Princeton is winning so far. The students were less vulgar, and no administrator or professor has yet been driven away for articulating common-sense views about the need to respect free speech and expression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professor Christakis and his spouse are exactly the sort of leaders whom a major university should want. This whole episode is a black eye for Yale, although the petulant, self-centered group of students at Princeton are making it a contest.

+1

If this is a contest, Princeton is winning so far. The students were less vulgar, and no administrator or professor has yet been driven away for articulating common-sense views about the need to respect free speech and expression.

I largely agree, except for one student's verbal screed directed at the university president ("You owe us everything. We owe you nothing!") and the group chanting slogans, as they left their sit-in, attributed to a convicted cop killer in NJ, who escaped jail and fled to Cuba some time ago.

[Anonymous]

I read the email a couple weeks ago, and I could not see anything wrong with it. In my opinion, schools like Yale are only really worth it if they promote respectful, but perhaps uncomfortable discourse. I think this resignation is unfortunate for Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just saw the original e-mail from Erika Christakis for the first time today, and it's clear that just about every article on the issue has quoted from it out of context to make it sound provocative when in fact it's an appeal to critical thinking and discourse (which evidently Yale is doing a very poor job of imparting to its students, and my guess is it's not just Yale).

http://www.businessinsider.com/yale-professor-erika-christakis-will-not-teach-next-year-due-to-racial-controversy-2015-12

Ms. Christakis resigned from her post today. She said the atmosphere at Yale is not conducive to civil dialog. You are right PP, there was not a single thing wrong with her e-mail that should have kicked off that kind of vulgar response.

Unfortunately it seems "journalists" aren't interested in actually doing real reporting anymore, so this is what we get. I lived in Raleigh when the whole Duke lacrosse debacle was going on, and most of us could tell from the get go there were some serious issues with the case. Had the media bothered to do a real investigation, they would have came to the same conclusion, but that was too much to ask. Oh well, deja vu all over again.....

[Anonymous]

It turns out that Yale's investigation of the fraternity that was accused of a "white girls only" party admissions practice determined that there was no evidence of racial bias or discrimination, only rudeness on the part of some students at a party.